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Originally Posted by clf

A potential cause for replacement (am not saying that it happened in this case), would be the shoes sticking to the drum, and then delaminating when released. One of mine is missing about 10 mm at the end of one of my shoes due to this. I park on a level (and have an auto so I can use P quite safely) so when parked up at night, at home, I would leave the handbrake off. If you plan to leave the car parked up for any amount of time, for this reason I would suggest leaving the handbrake off and use wheel chocks instead to stop it moving.

I am lucky to park on a level surface. I never park with the hand brake on. I just use first gear.

Hand brakes, in very cold weather, have been known to freeze on.

Be it the shoes are moist or there is an ingress of water into the cables.

This ice is quickly removed as warm air from the engine and also heat from the discs starts to appear. ( only needs a degree or so of heat to unstick things. )