Parking Brake Sucks?

spearfish25

I'm not a big drifter, but this ebrake is completely unreliable for holding the car on a hill by itself.

As for the "leave it in gear" vs ebrake when parking...you guys don't live in a cold climate. Anyone in a freezing climate can tell you about a story when their ebrake froze. Most people here just leave a manual transmission in gear without a parking brake engaged.

As for the idea of straining your transmission by leaving it in gear...which do you think has higher load on the transmission cogs: 1) parking a car and leaving it in gear while resting against a cog or 2) driving away under heavy acceleration? As another person posted, I've been leaving my MTs in gear without an ebrake engaged for the better part of a decade with no problems.

+1 for wanting to upgrade our POS Flintstone ebrakes. I could stop my car faster by dragging my foot out the driver's door.

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