07-01-2015, 01:13 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
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Do you park in gear?
I ran this poll a while back and was surprised by how few use only the e-brake.
Maybe this result will be a little different with newer forum members included.
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07-01-2015, 01:20 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Kuna Idaho
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Yes and the parking brake.
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07-01-2015, 01:23 PM
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Hawaiian Driver
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Maui
Posts: 58
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No my parking brake is in perfect adjustment, so I never place the car in gear unless I'm on a hill.
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07-01-2015, 01:28 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Greenville, S.C.
Posts: 2,670
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Gear and parking brake, regardless of a hill.
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07-01-2015, 01:37 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: LB, Germany
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Because my Box isn't a daily driver i always only park in gear and don't use parking brakes. Brakes tend to block if the car is stored for a longer time.
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07-01-2015, 01:46 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Ft. Leonard Wood
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No. Never.
If on a hill, e-brake and wheels cranked toward the curb.
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07-01-2015, 01:48 PM
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1998 Boxster Owner
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Alviso, CA
Posts: 231
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E-Brake only
I may start parking in gear now 
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07-01-2015, 02:01 PM
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: Oklahoma City
Posts: 856
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Anything can happen, so for me: e-brake, in gear, and wheels turned if next to a curb.
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07-01-2015, 02:10 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 1,466
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I use both 1st gear and the e-brake. Even in my garage force of habit.
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07-01-2015, 02:18 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Eastern NC
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E Brake, In Gear, Wheels in a safe direction. I had one in-explicitly roll on me. Call it suspenders and belt if you must.
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07-01-2015, 02:38 PM
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On the slippery slope
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Austin and Palm Springs
Posts: 3,797
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In gear all the time
sometimes E-brake as well, such as on a hill or not flat
Wheels always turned to the curb
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07-01-2015, 03:08 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: pa
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ebrake only in driveway, but anywhere outside my house, ebrake with gear.
Last edited by embryoguy@mac.com; 07-01-2015 at 07:52 PM.
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07-01-2015, 03:15 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: California Central Coast
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E brake and in gear. Steep hill, wheels to curb and in Reverse.
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07-01-2015, 03:44 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: BC
Posts: 1,331
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E-brake and in 1st. Steep uphill, add: wheels to curb. Steep downhill add again: shifter in reverse.
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07-01-2015, 03:13 PM
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Miami florida
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Its flat here in Miami, so in gear only. I had a VW that I left outside, unused during an entire Wisconsin winter, with the parking brake on. If I remember correctly, it took hammers and torches to get it free.
The only good argument I have heard for using the parking brake only, is that if you leave it in first for example and the car gets hit from the front, the motor can get ruined (timing will be thrown off) because the motor will be turning backwards, which is a no-no.
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07-02-2015, 11:47 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Fort Worth TX USA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by san rensho
The only good argument I have heard for using the parking brake only, is that if you leave it in first for example and the car gets hit from the front, the motor can get ruined (timing will be thrown off) because the motor will be turning backwards, which is a no-no.
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Why would that be a problem? Doesn't the engine turn backwards when in reverse? 
(Sorry, that was from a really old post on another car forum.)
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Last edited by randy7601; 07-04-2015 at 07:03 PM.
Reason: typo
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07-01-2015, 04:00 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
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in the garage i park in reverse always now ( parked it in N with no ebrake one and it pumped into the pull up handle on the garage door 
when I'm out somewhere reverse / e brake
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07-01-2015, 05:04 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: SW Okla
Posts: 1,115
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E-brake and either 1st or 2nd gear. My driveway has enough of a slope I don't want to find my car/s across the street.
And I'm getting old... If I forget one, hopefully I'll remember the other! 
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07-01-2015, 05:40 PM
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Certified Boxster Addict
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Los Angeles
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E-brake and 1st gear. Always.
Don't be this guy...
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07-02-2015, 05:44 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: SF Bay Area
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Quote:
Originally Posted by thstone
E-brake and 1st gear. Always.
Don't be this guy...
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I was that guy, several months ago. She only moved about 5 feet before I could get to the brakes.
Only problem was, my Boxster rolled under a passing 'big' truck, and the trucks' tail gate lift frame dragged across the hood and frame. End story. my insurance totaled her, thank God that 'replacement value' has become the norm...
Use your parking brake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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