Just wondering today when I got to class I saw a sick new corvette on rims parked next to me and I pulled up the ebrake to park ( I always do jus a habit) but i left the car in d4! It was like this for a minute while i was gathering all my stuff together for class. Does this damage the tranny, brakes, ebrake at all?

 

i wouldnt think so ... i used to do it all the time ... it could possibly damage it over time if you did it like all the time ... like left it in drive and used the ebrake quickly to jolt the car and such .... but i dont think it would do much to it ... but then again im not expert ... just going off of previous experiences

 

E-brake is the same as any other brake, it won't hurt it, i still wouldn't reccomend just sitting there like that though. It is the same as stopping for a stop light

 

actually it;s different than stopping at a stop light becasue the ebrake is brakeing the rear tires while hte foot brake is braking the front tires which are attached to the drivetrain. the two different brakes will have different effects on the tranny, but what they are i don' tknow.

 

nah that wont mess up anything but dont make it a habbit cuz one of these day u might forget about it.

 

ghost man, actually that's wrong: when you apply the brake pedal it applies all the brakes at once, hydraulically, when you ise the e-brake it used a screw like device to apply solely the rears mechanically, but either way it has the same effect on the drivetrain, ie the wheels are not moving. When you are stopped you are stopped, short of putting the tranny in park, there is no difference what so ever.

 

one more part to that...i'm thinkin the ebrake's on a cable...so eventually you'd stretch the cable way out and possibly break it

 

i pull my parking break up everytime i park.

 

What is this, the GED forum? Some of you guys are not even new and you are spewing some BS. The cable will not stretch and if it ever did by some act of god it takes all of 15 minutes to adjust, there will be no effects at all that are different than sitting at a stoplight or in traffic, none, it's not even open for debate.

 

nah the cable never stretch, its a steel cable. :duh: what will mess up if pulling the parking break too hard or way too offen is the part behide the handle. i've seen these thing break and bent on a lot of cars.

 

damage the tranny? wtf

stopping is stopping....god damn

btw ghost, the pedal uses all 4 wheels, since all 4 wheels have brakes, just majority of stopping power is on the front.

 

ahh.. thanks for the info guys, I guess I was misinformed in another thread about the foot brake thing.

but I wasn't implying it would cause any damage to use just eh ebrake, I was saying that it's not locking up the wheels attached to the drivetrain adn if you were to go WOT like that your rear tires would drag... IF your ebrake was really tight.

 

Wow yeah, if i stole my CL, i still prob wouldn't drive WOT with the e-brake on, that's something i might not even do to a rental.

 

my ebrake is totally shot, but its not from putting the ebrake on while stopped. Its from being a douchebag