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When you park on the driveway or park in the garage, you leave the parking brake ON or OFF?

And one more thing-
When you park on the parking lot of any store or company, you leave it ON or OFF?


Thanks.
 
Ok, the reason I ask this is I've seen several people I know choose to leave the parking brake OFF at the driveway or garage. They said that it is not necessary.

What's the purpose is for?
 
It depends on where you park. Once I let a friend drive my car across Kansas, and he put the parking brakes on in the parking lot of a restaurant, unknown to me. I drove from there and discovered that the brakes got completely burnt out. Dang, I really had choice words about his need to use parking brakes on pancake surface areas. :lol:
 
always on when parking.

Vehicles with drum brakes will adjust automatic when apply parking brake pedal or handle on. Many times, I see excessive clearance between shoes and drum surfaces that indicates the motorists who didn't use the parking brakes and can cause excessive brake pedal travel. Also can harm the automatic transmission for break the transmission case. For manual tranny, it can harm the clutch plate.
 
Beowulf said:
It depends on where you park. Once I let a friend drive my car across Kansas, and he put the parking brakes on, unknown to me. I drove from there and discovered that the brakes got completely burnt out. Dang, I really had choice words about his need to use parking brakes on pancake surface areas. :lol:
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Wow. That sucks.

Where I came from is everyone always leaves it on. But when I moved to Texas, some do leave it off. I guess, it is flat here..?
 
deafsmogtech said:
always on when parking.

Vehicles with drum brakes will adjust automatic when apply parking brake pedal or handle on. Many times, I see excessive clearance between shoes and drum surfaces that indicates the motorists who didn't use the parking brakes and can cause excessive brake pedal travel. Also can harm the automatic transmission for break the transmission case. For manual tranny, it can harm the clutch plate.
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Thanks for the lesson! I didn't know that it can put stress on the automatic transmission.
 
Barbaro said:
When you park on the driveway or park in the garage, you leave the parking brake ON or OFF?

And one more thing-
When you park on the parking lot of any store or company, you leave it ON or OFF?


Thanks.
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on. because I drive stick.

but even for automatic - it's good idea to pull the parking brake on. why? so that cop can't tow your car LOL!
 
Barbaro said:
Wow. That sucks.

Where I came from is everyone always leaves it on. But when I moved to Texas, some do leave it off. I guess, it is flat here..?
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yea probably. people keep it on because the car's brake will eventually fail and roll down the hill. Pulling parking brake on is a good extra safety feature for redundancy reason.
 
A transmission (automatic or manual) is not primarily designed to hold a vehicle stopped.

Stopping or holding a vehicle is better done with the brake.

And for most vehicles, brakes are much cheaper than transmissions to repair or replace.
 
Hard to shift to R or D position from P when the vehicle parked on steep street without apply parking brake on. Bad idea but good news for transmission mechanic.
 
Glenn said:
A transmission (automatic or manual) is not primarily designed to hold a vehicle stopped.

Stopping or holding a vehicle is better done with the brake.

And for most vehicles, brakes are much cheaper than transmissions to repair or replace.
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Disappoint me. I want money money money on transmission repairs:P
 
Be ware of the service writer/mechanic can rip you off for replace a new brake master cylinder that is not cause excessive brake pedal travel (like floor brake pedal) because the rear brake shoes in the drums need to be adjust or replace adjusters BEFORE verify the thickness of shoe linings and measure drum diameter to make sure there is no oversize. Most experienced mechanics will clamp the hydraulic brake hose(s) in the rear to check if the brake pedal is firm effort, indicates M/C is good but mechanics can sell a customer a new master cylinder and bleeding brake fluid. Service writer or mechanic will not tell a customer about excessive clearance in the rear brakes. If a customer ok to new master cylinder then mechanic will clean and adjust the rear brake shoes then replace a new master cylinder and bleed brake fluid. REPAIR RIP OFF!!!.
BUT if the front /rear brakes are sound excellent, no sign of external fluid leaks, then replace master cylinder, is normal, NOT repair rip off.
 
I always check whether the parking brake pedal/handle is ON or OFF position before pull the customer's vehicle into the service bay. After repair done, apply parking brake ON or leave OFF as this vehicle brought in, the reason for leave parking brake OFF is elder motorist who can't pull the release handle or can't depress the parking brake pedal or easy forget the parking brake ON while driving. If you see the parking brake ON (when you pick up for services) , do same thing after the repair completed.
 
deafsmogtech said:
Be ware of the service writer/mechanic can rip you off for replace a new brake master cylinder that is not cause excessive brake pedal travel (like floor brake pedal) because the rear brake shoes in the drums need to be adjust or replace adjusters BEFORE verify the thickness of shoe linings and measure drum diameter to make sure there is no oversize. Most experienced mechanics will clamp the hydraulic brake hose(s) in the rear to check if the brake pedal is firm effort, indicates M/C is good but mechanics can sell a customer a new master cylinder and bleeding brake fluid. Service writer or mechanic will not tell a customer about excessive clearance in the rear brakes. If a customer ok to new master cylinder then mechanic will clean and adjust the rear brake shoes then replace a new master cylinder and bleed brake fluid. REPAIR RIP OFF!!!.
BUT if the front /rear brakes are sound excellent, no sign of external fluid leaks, then replace master cylinder, is normal, NOT repair rip off.
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good to know :thumb:
 
I live in Chicago and often go to Michigan to visit my girlfriend. When I had shift stick, I always used parking brake. Now, I have automatic. I never use parking brake. I'm sure that if I lived in Oregon or Washington, I'll be using parking brake regardless.
 
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