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Rant: Took me 5 years to realize I was setting my parking brake wrong
I always thought you just yank the handle and that's it. Then my neighbor Carl, who runs a shop over in Springfield, saw me park my 2005 Camry on a slight hill and laughed. He told me you gotta push the brake pedal down hard first, THEN pull the parking brake, or you're just relying on the pawl. I tried his way and my car stopped rolling those extra 3 inches every time. Anybody else grow up never learning basic stuff like this?
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ruby_rivera762d ago
Yeah, that one got me too. Spent years yanking the handle and wondering why my car still crept a bit on hills. Made me feel pretty dumb when a buddy finally explained the brake pedal trick. Such a simple thing that nobody ever told us.
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emmaj332d ago
@ruby_rivera76 you're so right about the brake pedal trick. The handbrake alone never fully held on steep grades for me either. Little stuff like that makes driving way less stressful.
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