On other manual transmission vehicles I had, I never use the mechanical hand pulled parking brake because leaving it in gear such as 1st or reverse is enough to hold the vehicle in place. Also I heard stories about parking brake being stuck after rain or snow.
It might be my personal phobia, but every time I see someone park an automatic trans car without using a parking brake, and the vehicle just rocks back and forth, really painful to watch.
My sequence for parking the SC is:
How reliable is the E parking brake then? Is it okay to use all the time? Will the mechanism last the life time of the vehicle or using it all the time will drastically reduce the life span of the solenoid?
It might be my personal phobia, but every time I see someone park an automatic trans car without using a parking brake, and the vehicle just rocks back and forth, really painful to watch.
My sequence for parking the SC is:
- come to a full stop using foot brake
- put the vehicle in N
- let go of foot brake releasing any potential stress due to slight inclination where I park
- ignore step 3 if I know I park on an incline
- engage the E parking brake
- put the vehicle in P
How reliable is the E parking brake then? Is it okay to use all the time? Will the mechanism last the life time of the vehicle or using it all the time will drastically reduce the life span of the solenoid?