<VV> Park and parking brakes(No Corvair)
Sethracer at aol.com
Sethracer at aol.com
Fri Oct 21 14:49:34 EDT 2005
In a message dated 10/21/2005 10:00:55 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
Corvair at fnader.com writes:
The VAST majority of modern drivers never use the parking brakes on their
modern automatic cars... "that's what 'park' is for"...
Bill
I am actually being converted slowly. My wife's Intrigue and the Avalanche
are both automatics. I have always been lazy in the driveway, never setting the
parking brake. The truck will, for want of a term, "Take a set" against the
parking pawl in the automatic, when I let off the foot brake, making it hard
and noisy to pull it out of park. (as in "clank!") My solution to this is to
keep my foot on the brake, put the truck in park, apply the parking brake,
then let off the foot brake. This works in both the Avalanche and the Intrigue.
It makes it easier to take the car out of park when it is time to go.
If you think that is a bother, my 6-speed Corvette will not let you out of
the car, until you put it in Reverse gear, even if you put on the parking
brake! It does become second nature, but it is still a pain - and a "feature" that
they have dropped for 2006! I am hoping for a retrofit! - Seth
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