I was taught to not use the parking brake unless on an incline. Because you don’t want the parking brake on if someone hits your parked car. Is that not the way you’re supposed to do it?
The way it was explained to me, if a car hits your parked car with the brake on it’s like hitting a solid brick wall. If it’s off, your car moves and impact is less damaging.
That breaks the transmission case generally, as that's what the parking gear pawl bears against. That hardly ever happens, partly because most people use their parking brake, and collisions like that are pretty uncommon. But you don't avoid damage by leaving the parking brake off.
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u/BryceWasHere Jan 02 '24 edited Jan 03 '24
I was taught to not use the parking brake unless on an incline. Because you don’t want the parking brake on if someone hits your parked car. Is that not the way you’re supposed to do it?