Name five things you like about the Type R and five things you would change...

[Sporky McGeuschky]

[QUOTE="Sporky McGeuschky, post: 935796, member: 463
- The push button parking brake that REQUIRES a foot on the regular brake in order Engage OR Disengage! Why?!?!? I just want my manual parking brake!

Don’t disagree. Not a fan of the push/pull button for parking brake. BUT
You do know if you put your seatbelt on, you don’t have to disengage the brake at all, right? That’s the only thing that keeps me sane.
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Hi Nanook.
Believe it or not, I do always wear my seatbelt, even when just going around the block to the mailbox. It's one of my few good habits in life.

I tried the "just driving off" thing to disengage parking brake but it seems inconsistent and feels like a gimmick. It's one of those "the car thinking for itself" things where it has no business at all even being "a thing". If something goes wrong, I may or may not be able to tell what happened. Who is allowed to design this crap?
An electronic parking brake is just newfangled tech for the sake of it. Now an electronic sensor to monitor a manual analog parking brake would be possibly the ideal scenario. Maybe have a sensor near each end of the cable to measure tension and let the owner know when the cable is stretched or worn.
This is a Honda, not a Tesla.

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[Nanook]

Don’t disagree. Not a fan of the push/pull button for parking brake. BUT
You do know if you put your seatbelt on, you don’t have to disengage the brake at all, right? That’s the only thing that keeps me sane.

Hi Nanook.
Believe it or not, I do always wear my seatbelt, even when just going around the block to the mailbox. It's one of my few good habits in life.

I tried the "just driving off" thing to disengage parking brake but it seems inconsistent and feels like a gimmick. It's one of those "the car thinking for itself" things where it has no business at all even being "a thing". If something goes wrong, I may or may not be able to tell what happened. Who is allowed to design this crap?
An electronic parking brake is just newfangled tech for the sake of it. Now an electronic sensor to monitor a manual analog parking brake would be possibly the ideal scenario. Maybe have a sensor near each end of the cable to measure tension and let the owner know when the cable is stretched or worn.
This is a Honda, not a Tesla.
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Hehe. I wasn’t bashing the seatbelt wearing…I just know (backing out of the garage), if you don’t have your seatbelt on it won’t work.

Agree that it does feel inconsistent and gimmicky in the FL5. Was very reliable and felt well thought out in my FK8. I made that comment to my wife just the other day, that I don’t like the way it disengages without releasing it first now. I do like the fact that it does work, and I don’t have to release the parking break. Just my thing.

Now that you mention it though…I hate the hill assist feature. On my old Jeep I could completely disable it. I’ve not figure out how to do that in the FL5.