Why don't Americans use this when parking their cars for?
>>28972781They lack the grip strength to use it plus its called an "e-brake" so they think it's for emergencies only
>>28972781Parking is not an emergency. You just put the car in P.
the cable doesnt work
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.
>>28972781They're allergic to everything uncircumcised.
>electric parking brake
>>28972822KEK
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.
>>28972781muricans mostly can't drive stick and therefore just put it in park because they think that's sufficient
>>28972781wait what? you guys use the emergency brake to put the car in park? does your transmission handle thingy not have a P on it?
>>28972987Manual transmission cars do not have a P gear.
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 ityeah no thanks. not sure how you fags do things over there in fruity euro land, but here in america we aren't homos.
>>28972781i do
I just kill it and leave it in gear. My emergency brakes don't work. T. 2000 Superduty owner.
>>28972987In real countries you use it even on an auto
>>28973120samet. 1990 7.3 owner.
>>28972781>put transmission in "Park" - car goes nowhere>put transmission in 1st gear - car goes nowhereWhy do retards, like OP, use the E-brake when parking?
>>28973597>implying every single parking spot is perfectly flatLeaving 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.
>>28973597I'd hate to park anywhere near you on a slight incline.
>>28973605>It's stupid to trust the 50,000lb tensile strength of hardened steelEuropean education everyone.
>>28973712I'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.
>>28973719No, they don't. And no, you haven't. Do you think I'm 8 years old, lmao?
>>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.Shut the fuck up, busrider.
>>28972781I use mine always but nobody I know does because here in the rust belt most of them are broken or seized
>>28973728nta, 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.
>>28973735That'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.
>>28973605A 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
>>28972781Not even joking here.....Had the son-in-law in the car one day and he said "why do you use the parking brake when you park?"I just opened the door and walked away.
>>28973820Using it to park won't wear it out but slamming your shit into park while you're still moving will. Yes people are retarded and do that.
>>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.
>>28973841https://www.autosafety.org/ford-transmissions-failure-hold-park/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.
>>28972781Is there any point to it when the car is on level ground?
>>28973991Do you want someone to push your car away?
>>28973993How did they get in my garage?
>>28974050someone forgot to engage the door chain thingy
>>28974055HE'S GETTING MARRIED?
>>28973823>retarded son in lawYou gotta take him out back
When in automatics. I throw it in neutral, set the parking brake, let it rest on that and then throw it into park.
>>28973228Nice. 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 AmericansOh look another incompetent troll thread trying to bait replies by pretending people in America don't use the emergency brake
