Never - own an Audi where the rear caliper is $600 a piece and it freezes up on you due to using the parking brake. Reverse is just fine.

 

Always... Except when I have it jacked up and need to turn the rear axle.

 

I've always used it especially since a teenage girl hit my car long ago while it was parked on the side of the road in a neighborhood. The cop said "If the e-brake hadn't been on the car would have been 4 houses down the street through their front door". Good enough for me.

 

Doesnt using the e brake on an incline take some of the pressure off the tranny? All that weight pushing against the tranny gear cant be good for it. Maybe it is all in my mind.

 

This is great, I thought I was on the wrong side of things by religiously using my brake.

Alright, I gotta know who picked the last one...anyone have stories about e-brake slides? I doubt seriously that it would lock up the rears under power, but I'm not willing to test the theory.

 

I use it all the time in my cars, and in other cars if it's a handbrake. In cars (generally the crappy American type) that have pedal parking brakes, I never use it.

 

Only when working on the beast

 

All the time in a 5spd, almost never in an auto.

 

I use it all the time now in my automatic, since I broke or jammed the "park" function so it doesn't activate. And right after the transmission had been reinstalled following a rebuild.

I also used it all the time when I got a hit on my V-1 so the front of the car would not drop. But not anymore. Now I stomp on the brakes immediately and convincingly. Think about it for awhile for the reason why.

 

Don't you just hate it when the throttle sticks like that...

 

Using the parking brake is one of my religions. Except in the garage, which is level (as far as I can tell).

Ron: You need to preserve your parking brake now that you depend on it. Therefore you don't want to wear it out braking from the cops. Also, you get much better deceleration by using all four disk brakes, so your speed is reduced more quickly. Maybe you also installed a switch that turns off your brake lights in such situations...

 

HA! HA! HA!

In the old 911s, there was a hand throttle to warm up the car. Get spotted by the bears in rapid transit mode and the trick is to immediately pull to the side of the road with the hand throttle up, jump out and run back to the back of the car, raise the engine cover and attempt to pull the throttle linkage just as the bear drives up. Then say you had a jammed throttle. Of course I never did anything like that......but I heard about it. The risk of course is that you get nailed for not properly maintaining your vehicle, but that is a lessor offense unless you have actually damaged something/someone, than speed violations.

 

I have always found it strange to leave a manual car in gear when parked (on non-incline of course). If left in neutral, and an idiot rear ends your parked car, you will probably be looking at ZERO transmission damage. Leave in gear..... dunno, but I would imagine there are lots of expensive crunchy parts at risk.

If you use the emergency/parking brake, it mitigates the risk doesn't it?

 

I leave mine in gear because I do not place full trust in my parking brake.

The few times that I do NOT use the parking brake are

1) at AX and track events
2) after braking hard without adequate cool down (predominantly #1)

 

No hills in New Orleans, however I still always use it.