When you power off the car in an inclined driveway for example, does the "park" breaks stay on? Or would i have to set blocks behind the wheels?
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Power off and parking breaks
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Dolemite
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You have to chock the wheels otherwise it’ll roll away. Happened to a friend of mine in the middle of the night - he ended up finding his car 3 neighborhoods away. Decent wheel chocks from Harbor Freight are like $7 - it’s small investment for peace of mind.
UncertainTimes
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Do you mean when you disconnect the 12V and open the contactors? The parking brake will not disengage if it was already engaged. It isn't constantly powered to hold the car, it is just powered when either clamping or unclamping the rotors.
lUtriaNt
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A little slow and was wondering what "parking breaks" meant and had to click?Is that click bait?
I should have more explicit. I installed the OBD2 add-on cable connecter at the back of the center console. You obviously have to have the power off. I was asking if the park breaks stays on when you power off. I did press the park button with foot on brake for 4 secs.
It stays, but I put blocks also just in case...
P.S. parking breaks to me meant what is called "hand break" on other cars.
It stays, but I put blocks also just in case...
P.S. parking breaks to me meant what is called "hand break" on other cars.
I should have more explicit. I installed the OBD2 add-on cable connecter at the back of the center console. You obviously have to have the power off. I was asking if the park breaks stays on when you power off. I did press the park button with foot on brake for 4 secs.
It stays, but I put blocks also just in case...
P.S. parking breaks to me meant what is called "hand break" on other cars.
They are teasing you because you typed "parking breaks" and just now typed "hand breaks" when its "parking brake", and "hand brake".
When I see this, I usually assume (yeah I know, for those of you who are about to talk about assumptions, lol) that either the person was ina hurry typing, or english is not their native language (or they speak multiple languages).
Break / Brake is one of those annoying english words that is pronounced the exact same in either instance, but means something completely different.
Occhis
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There is a secondary parking brake that can be activated by holding down the park button after you shift to Park. You can try it yourself, the manual is technically wrong. Yes is automatically go in to Park but that's not really the "handbrake"
It is not a secondary brake. It just applies maximum pressure to the same parking brake mechanism when you normally put the car in PARK.
So you're saying that the normal P is just applying just enough pressure on the brakes to stop the car from moving and if it was on a hill it could possibly roll away? Why would the normal park not be "maximum pressure"? Why does the engaging the "handbrake" cause a secondary action that makes a mechanical sound?
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