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06-08-2012, 11:10 AM | #15 |
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I always park in gear, even still I use the parking brake as an added precaution.
I would say that balancing the car uphill using the clutch/feather throttle is bad compared to simply using the brakes, which is perhaps what Sastexan was referring to.
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06-08-2012, 11:25 AM | #16 |
Pretty sure he understood the context. Ironically the cable actuated e-brake would have harder time of immobilizing the car then loading first or reverse gear with the vehicle. But doing both would not hurt anything in normal road use daily parking.
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06-08-2012, 11:44 AM | #18 |
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Huh that's interesting! Cool info!
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06-08-2012, 11:57 AM | #19 |
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yeah good stuff. I only just found out what daytime running lights really are and how they work as I looked it up on wiki yesterday
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I've never driven a car that doesn't shut off the DRL's when the park brake is engaged.
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I should have put in context; you are correct. I'm thinking less in your driveway / garage and more in a parking lot or on the street, where the car is likely to get bumped. Or on a hill. Transmissions can be fragile (had to replace syncros in my old car) and brakes are relatively cheap. Just being over cautious.
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It just looks better. Someone told me bmw has a feature when the lights light up they do it in a circular motion, instead of plain on and off. I haven't seen in action though
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I felt so stupid because I couldn't figure out why the DRLs where on sometimes and not I parked to look t them. I recently did the diy blacked out reflectors, and was curious how bright they where with the black gloss. When I found out what was causing them to not turn on I started looking for a way to cancel that out and just leave them on with the break engaged. Mainly because I got the multicolored led running lights from diode dynamic and I wanted to be able to show them off at car meets ( with the poring break on)
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I had the dealer turn the DRL's off as soon as I got mine. Can't stand them.
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