12-15-2009, 10:00 PM
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Originally Posted by spearfish25
I'm not a big drifter, but this ebrake is completely unreliable for holding the car on a hill by itself.
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 You really have to pull the ebrake all the way for it to work little.
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Originally Posted by spearfish25
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.
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,again. And this also goes for when you park a car when the brakes are hot, the rotors can warp or worse... few years ago I picked up our company loaner car for a business trip. The previous user obviously lived by the slogan "Don't be gentle, it's a rental", as he or she parked the car with glowing hot rear brakes and put the ebrakes on "firmly". When I tried to drive the car a few days later, the brakes were stuck, so I rocked the car back and forth until the brakes "released". However, after driving a few feet I realized that only part of the brakes released, as about half of the brake pad was still stuck to the rotor...
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Originally Posted by spearfish25
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.
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And again. I have driven manuals for the past 15+ years and always parked them in 1st gear, never had any problems. I can't imagine that a parked car can put more strain on the gearbox then a 3.7LV6 at WOT...
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Originally Posted by spearfish25
+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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