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re: "...I am aware of two roll backs because of this. One car rolled back into a parked trailer and trashed the rear window and upper frame. Another, a co-workers car, rolled from a bank parking lot into a brick storefront across the street...."
I'm just wondering -- has the notion of putting on the parking brake been lost to U.S. drivers?
I see, all the time, people pulling into a parking spot and just throwing it in Park -- and I see the car jerk as it settles against the transmission's Parking pawl, held in place by this tiny, merely spring-loaded, piece of metal. I never hear the tell-tale ratchety sound of a parking brake being applied anymore.
I've always taught my wife and daughter to step on the service brake, put the tranny in neutral, then apply the parking brake, then lift your foot off the service brake pedal and wait that fraction of a second to let the car's suspension settle or shift (more so on a hill), and then shift into Park -- Park is only a backup to the parking brake, and it's best to let the weight of the car bear against the parking brake, rather than the transmission pawl.
Anyway else use the parking brake?
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