Do you use your parking brake?
By whywiki
@whywiki (6066)
Canada
March 17, 2008 3:09pm CST
I never use my parking brake unless I am parked on a really really steep incline. Other than that I never use it. My dad however always puts his parking brake on. I have been known over the course of my life to destroy his parking brakes! I think when I bought my first car and stopped using his was the best day of his life! How about you? Do you use yours?
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17 responses
@vicki2876 (5636)
• Canada
19 Mar 08
I never use my parking brake. The only time it actually does work is when we fix it for inspection yearly. Then I don't use it and it gets tightened or something and won't work. I never had any problem not using it though. I don't know anyone who does use theirs either.
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@whittby (3072)
• United States
18 Mar 08
Oh one of our cars is a stick shift and I have this compulsion to use the parking brake on any kind of incline with it. I've tried to get underway with that darn brake on more than a few times. Think I would get the idea. Every time I put the brake on, I say to myself now remember the brake is on!
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@luvingmygirls (493)
• United States
18 Mar 08
I don't ever use my parking brake either. We did used to have a manual transmission car and had to use it then but on our automatic I can not remember one time we have ever used it.
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@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
18 Mar 08
I drive a 5-speed so will usually leave it in gear when parked, so no need to use the parking brake.
If I've started the car and leaving it (to warm up in cold weather, etc), I will pull the parking break so my car doesn't wander off!
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@jules1977 (48)
• Qatar
18 Mar 08
I use parking brake, whenever theres a heavy traffic on the road, and if my car is in a little inclined position, to avoid, for the car to move backward.
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@whywiki (6066)
• Canada
18 Mar 08
I remember having to do that one of the first times I drove a car. I was learning in a manual transmission and came to a stop on a steep hill when the guy behind me came right up on my bumper. I learned that day how to use the parking brake for the good!
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@bcote212 (1112)
• United States
18 Mar 08
I almost never use the parking break unless if I am parked at an angle. My parents use it all the time. When I was 17 my parents bought me a Mustang Convertable. Once in a while my mother would use my car if she wanted to drive with the top down. I remember one day getting into the car, and driving down the road. For some reason the car felt like it had a lot of drag. I was going like 40 mph but the car seemed really heavy. Then I started to smell the burnt rubber. My mother had parked the car with the parking break on. Since I had never used it I failed to check to see if it was on, and I destroyed the break. Lesson learned. Always check your car after someone drives it. Even mom. 2 people like this
@quiltedblessings (1066)
• United States
17 Mar 08
I didn't used to. But recently (like a year ago) I witnessed someone's car roll out of his driveway (a very slight incline, not steep at all) and into traffic where it was totalled. I always use my parking brake now, no matter where I am.
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@zigzagbuddha (4601)
• United States
18 Mar 08
I once drove across the country with my emergency brake on. Not all the way on, but I saw the light when we first set off, and I released the brake but apparently it didn't release all the way. The brake light stayed on but I couldn't get it to go off. When I got to California my brother is the one who found out that the brake had been on the whole 3000 or so miles. I hate emergency brakes and the only time I will use them is if I'm parked on a hill... in San Francisco a good emergency brake is essential.
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@queenofarms (1659)
• United States
17 Mar 08
I use mine if I'm on a hill,if grandson comes over(he likes to play in car)with supervision,or someone working on the car.
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@MsEddie86 (234)
• United States
18 Mar 08
yes i always use my parking break its a habit . i jus havent stopped using it because m very first car was a five speed and my second car was one too and now i have an automatic so its jus a habit i have. but now that i have an auto matic i have forgotten to put it down at times.
@MsEddie86 (234)
• United States
18 Mar 08
yeah those were my good old days before i had an injury and now my knees cant take hardly and manual driving but it does give u a burst of energy and it does entertain whil driving well it did for me with the rolling at lights and things of that nature
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