Because automatic is more common than manual. They put the car in P and get out. Also most new cars come with electric parking brakes that engage automatically. My old car (2019) required the driver to disengage the electric parking brake every time the car was started. Much prefer my new older car. Ripping the parking brake and pulling 180s in an empty lot is fun.
Low cognitive functioning individuals bully the slightly higher functioning ones into doing it the wrong way and they develop some sort of pride in being ignorant.
its cute when anons "set up" the thread for the responses they want to get. its like a two man comedy skit. this is the only context where you could ever be considered a "straight man" OP, haha
>>28972781 >put thing that's dick shaped in car >expect me to touch it yeah no thanks. not sure how you fags do things over there in fruity euro land, but here in america we aren't homos.
>>28972781 >put transmission in "Park" - car goes nowhere >put transmission in 1st gear - car goes nowhere Why do retards, like OP, use the E-brake when parking?
>>28973597 >implying every single parking spot is perfectly flat Leaving your manual car in gear on a hill without the parking brake is fucking stupid as is trusting a little metal french fry to hold your 5000lb vehicle in palce on a hill.
>>28973712 I'm North American... Parking pawls have failed and killed people. Transmissions occasionally slip out of park. I've had it happen multiple times. That has also killed people. Just use the fucking parking brake so you don't get filtered by gravity.
>>28973725 > The 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee Yelchin drove was subject to a massive recall due to a confusing electronic gearshift design. The shifter would return to its center position after being moved, making it incredibly difficult for drivers to tell if the car was actually in "Park" or "Neutral". > Yelchin got out of his vehicle to check his mail when the 5,000-pound SUV slipped into neutral, rolled backward down his steep drive, and fatally crushed him.
>>28973728 nta, but while that was definitely a known issue, he was a drunk and had some ALS-type disease that was fucking up his motor skills. my brothers were in some of the same circles he was at the time, and they told me that anton didn't really think twice about driving drunk/stoned/etc, and dropped stuff and fell all the time due to issues with his coordination. not saying it wasn't purely the jeep's faulty parking brake, but there's a chance it was user error too.
>>28973735 That's definitely not the only "park to reverse" fatality. Plenty of these were 100% the transmissions fault. Ford's trannies killed almost 100 people in the 80's. If you people don't believe me go to the GM section of the junkyard and try shifting the column shifters. A sloppy linkage will make it pretty hard to click it into park. That can happen to any mechanically shifted automatic. You shouldn't be trusting a button and some actuators to do it either.
>>28973605 A broken parking pawl is like a once in a career occurrence for most mechanics. If you live somewhere like San Francisco and constantly roll onto it hard parking on steep hills you might wear it out eventually
>>28973741 >Ford's trannies killed almost 100 people in the 80's. What were the usual problems?
All the parking brakes in my old automatic cars eventually stopped working. It's like, if you never use it often, it breaks. I only used them once in a while parking on hills, so the transmission didn't need to suffer when taking it out of park and hearing a thud. Other few times were fucking around in snowy parking lots. One day I pulled it and heard a "snap" and I knew the cable broke. Still broke to this day, I aint ripping apart the interior.
Yeah you have to use the parking brake frequently or it will seize up. I use mine all the time and it doesn't seize. Funny how that works. One of the cardinal rules of being a mechanic is to never apply the parking brake for that reason.
>>28973228 Nice. I have more old Ferdz than I can shake a stick at. The older drum brake rears usually only need cables in order to get them functioning properly again. The superduties have that shitty parking brake/e-brake inside the rotor. Probably still only needs cables, but fuck it, I'm not even going to bother.
>>28972781 >Why don't Americans Oh look another incompetent troll thread trying to bait replies by pretending people in America don't use the emergency brake
>>28972781 Most 2014+ cars have electric parking brake. On case of manual parking brake, most people dont undestand its importance on additional security against vehicle rolling away situation. People just rely on P setting from automatic transmission. What people dont realize is that manual parking brake(with an actual metal wire) will seize if its left unused for 8+ months because of dirt, corrosion build up to the parking brake mechanism at the brake calibers. In states with periodic safety inspections cars with seized parking brake will fail the inspection.
>>28978068 Yes. Its much cheaper to replace brake discs, brake pads(or shoes if its older car with drum brakes) multiple times than a single replacement of a broken parking pawl.
>>28978291 I can't imagine a parking brake puts any meaningful wear on your pads and rotors compared to the hundreds or thousands of stops from highway speeds they'll make in their life.