explain this to me

[SteveCZ28]

i like to look around at cars, but have always wondered wtf is up with this trait umong a4 guys...the a4 guys park their cars but still yank up on the parking brake like their a m6? cmon wtf is up with that? i have a a4 and have NEVER yanked on the parking brake to park my car..thats just retarded..its not like your car is magically gonna come out of park and go rolling away at a high amount of speed....jeez, this just bothers me is all

[cammed goat]

I always use my e-brake. I have heard that leaving an auto in "P" but not using the e-brake puts stress on the driveline.

[86 IROC-Z]

I have an auto. My ebrake doesn't work.

Last time I went to pick up my car from the tire shop, the ebrake and been pulled. It made me lol.

[Too Fast]

It is recommended procedure. This way the car is held in place with the brakes and not the parking pawl in the auto transmission. Sometimes the parking pawl can be very hard to dis-engage, like when parked on a steep hill.

Or it could just be a case of manual transmission envy LOL!

[Hi-Po]

The fact is, that when you are parked on a hill, its nice to not have your entire cars weight sitting on the parking paw. The paw is what catchs and holds your auto tranny when you put it in Park. Thats why they do, and why they should do it.

[Hi-Po]

Great minds think alike ^^^

[SteveCZ28]

well yeah i can see on a steep hill or something...but flat ground in a parking lot at wal-mart???

[SeVeReDiStOrTiOn]

maybe they like to sit on it...everyone lieks a hard rod once in a while right?? right guys??

[86 IROC-Z]

maybe they like to sit on it...everyone lieks a hard rod once in a while right?? right guys??

Reminds me of the video of the girl and the shifter

[Hi-Po]

Reminds me of the video of the girl and the shifter

umm, send that to me.

[Hi-Po]

Was it an auto shifter? With the "T" bar handle at the top? If she got that inside her... I need to see that.

[SteveCZ28]

i think it was a 5 speed ball she got in there haha

[ss~zoso~ss]

yea, pulling your auto out of park on a hill and feeling / hearing that loud clunk of the paul releasing is not pleasant, this happens when im using my work vehicles...

[allbaugh_04]

I never use to, but I do it on any sort of incline. It's just extra insurance, it's also kind of a habit. Any miliatary vehicle has to have it's parking break enganged.

There's no harm in doing it, so get over it.

[Hi-Po]

On hill parking auto's

Stop
Pull parking brake
Then set tranny to 'Park'.

You wont here that loud pop when you take it out next time.

[Tide]

well yeah i can see on a steep hill or something...but flat ground in a parking lot at wal-mart???

Force of habit from driving a manual for many many years. It's not like I think "I'm on flat ground. I don't need my emergency brake". It's a conditioned response: "put in park (or reverse in my GTO), pull up emergency brake, turn off car/suv/whatever, open door, close door, lock".

Honestly, this really is the stupidest fucking thing to worry about what other people do. Why do you care?

[SteveCZ28]

honestly just calm the fuck down folks

[Tide]

We're not the ones making a retarded ass post about something that really shouldn't bother someone in the least.

[SteveCZ28]

im not the one making stupid ass responses bashing people either..it was just simple curiousity...

[allbaugh_04]

sounded like you were bashing..you called me retarded