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I'm pretty sure you can ruin something if you don't use it, so I use it everytime I park. I can rock the car when it's not on and I know that's bad. CRV's and Accords had problems that led to a major recall if I'm correct concerning the parking brake issue.
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i use the parking brake everytime....force of habit...i got my gf doing it too...
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i always use it.. i hate that "lung forward" thing after u put it in park and let off the brake. what i do is hold the brake, put it in park, then ease off the brake so i dont get that lunging affect and then put the E-brake on
I always use mine. If you think about the part of an AT tranny thats holding the car in park, its only a small-ish pin. I wouldn't trust that to hold my car.
My mom puts her MDX into park on our driveway w. no e-brake, then into reverse, every time I hear that unhappy grind of the gears I shudder, the sound of cars in pain irks me.
it keeps ur shifter from getting stuck on P when u park on an incline. who cares u know, just use it, its better for ur transmission. or if u refuse to, it dont matter either, its just like turning a standard off in first gear.
I use it all the time. My dad uses it, but he complains that i pull it up too high and when he pulls it up, he only does it for a few clicks... It's there, why not use it? it does relieve the stress on the transmission.
I use my parking brake all the time. It pisses me off when my dad drives the car after I drove it and I set the parking brake and he starts driving without releasing it because he never sets it himself.
Well one time i drove my mom's Altima and I set the parking brake. I probably pulled it too high and the next morning my mom drives the car and she couldn't release it, while the transmission was in reverse. So my dad sat in there to release it while the door was open. Then the car shot backwards and the door was wrecked against the garage pillar.
When you put it on P without using the e-brake, the car moves slightly forwards/backwards. When you then start the car later to pull it out of P, you find that it takes a little more force to get it out of P and you'll hear some slight grinding.
When you use the e-brake, none of this happens. So I always use it.
i use mine too cause i don't know bout ya'll but when i put my car into park it like rocks back and forth slightly and i read somewhere on the forum that it caused a problem for this guy that had to be fixed. when i go to park i stop, put it in neutral, put the ebrake on, and then put it in park.
