KevCarver
Senior Member
- First Name
- Kevin
- Joined
- Feb 6, 2017
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- Location
- Knoxville, TN
- Vehicle(s)
- '22 Civic Si
I only touch the parking brake button when I move the car to park and don't put on my seatbelt. With seatbelt on, it automatically engages (using brake hold) and disengages. I only move the car without the seatbelt after I stop at work by my work truck, then move the truck to park my car in the same space. Yeah, occasionally I don't push the brake enough to disengage it. I just like that the parking brake is engaged almost every time I park automatically. (I also don't drift)It is more about what I dislike about electronic e-brakes. You have to depress the brake pedal and push down on the e-brake button to disengage it, if you don't press down on the brake pedal hard enough the e-brake will not disengage, that happens to me every so often and is just one more delay. With a handle it is lowered that is it, the car doesn't have to be on to disengage the parking brake. I also worry about reliability of the motor that controls the electronic brake, mine gets used 10-20 times a day. If I was a drifter I would probably like a parking brake handle , but I am not a drifter. I just like simple things.
I did regularly use the foot parking brake on my old Dakota 5 speed, and could feel the cable stretched over time. I don't know how the electronic brake works, but I parked next to a friend one time and he saw my car lower in the rear as it engaged and asked me what I did. I said it's just the automatic parking brake.
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