Carole wrote:

> Our 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee is parked on an incline so my son pulled the
> parking brake and now I cannot get it off I am unable to push in the
> button therefore the lever will not go down.I am not a mechanic and
> neither is my son can I call AAA it is my only car.
>

Try pushing the brake pedal as hard as you can while releasing the parking
brake - that will releive some of the pressure on the latch. You may also
have some luck pulling up on the leaver while pushing the button as that may
(if you pull hard enough) get the pawl out of the notch it is in as it tries
to move to the next notch. I recall having to use a long 2x4 to pry the
lever up when some gorilla set the brake really hard.

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Will Honea