Tonight I was at my friends house, and I parked behind his car, and it was a very extreme incline. I mean the exaust tips to the group we're only inches away. Luckily, I didn't scrap anything when backing out, but it looked pretty awesome. It looked like my car was dropped 5" in the rear...lol. This was the only spot I could park in since the parking situation there.

Anyways...I parked the car, pushed the e-brake down with my leg (incline) and got out. When I left about a hour ago...I got into the car with my foot on the brake, pushed down the e-brake and went into reverse. Then all I heard was a loud "badunkkkkkkk" like the transmission slamming into place. There was nothing wrong after that, just the sound kinda scared me as if I hurt it/damaged it.

Why does it make this sound? And did I cause any long term damage? This has happened once or twice before, but much worse this time. It just didnt sound pretty/normal.

Thanks.

 

its fine.

next time put the ebrake on while still in gear then put in P, and when leaving put it in rev then take the ebrake off.

 

Thanks man, I've never had a car with a foot e-brake...I've always had a hand brake, I wonder why they used a foot e-brake? Is that more common these days? My older car was a 01...Another weird question...does it matter how far the e-brake is pushed down, or is pretty much an on/off type of thing. Seems like you can push it in real hard down, or just sorta tap it.

 

Yep what Stoof said.

 

for some reason, it seems that the newer higher end cars are using the foot e-brake, like Mercedes, Infiniti, etc etc.

Or maybe just all newer cars are switching to the foot e-brake... But, it works fine for me, haha

 

foot ebrake unclutters the center console, that's it.

Most people are right handed, therefore a right sided hand brake would be more effective in an emergency, rather than a foot pedal you'd have to pump with your left foot (and it's really awkward to lift your foot high enough to push down on this in an emergency)

it's simply to unclutter.

 

Call me crazy...but i like my foot brake. I came from a 6sp Altima so I was totally used to using the handbrake...but I just don't mind using my foot.

 

Of course for the manual version the parking brake is back on the center console, costing you the rear vents and the better cup holder.

 

A better way to use the e-brake on an incline (or anytime) is to follow this sequence:

- foot on regular brake holding the car
- place tranny in N
- set e-brake
- slowly remove foot off of regular brake while making sure that the e-brake is holding the car
- adjust e-brake if needed to hold the car
- set tranny to P.

By following this practice you are making sure that the e-brake is holding the car and not the tranny parking pawl. I've never done this in a car with a foot e-brake as all my cars/trucks have hand brake (much preferred). As you can guess, I still haven't bought a G37 yet.... still dreaming.

BTW - this is just part of the shut down procedure that I've tried to instill in my family. Other aspects include:

- turning off the AC about 5 minutes from getting home to allow the AC to dry out and avoid moisture from building up in the inside AC unit (creates mold ect).

- turning off the wipers to avoid a dry sweep of the windshield and scratching the glass

- when parking in the garage (which we do with most of the "fleet"), open the windows a bit to allow the cars to breath.

 

Exactly how my father taught me to park. )

 

PERFECTO - I would just add
- turn steering wheel to poisition wheels toward curb so that if brake fails, the car rolls into the curb and stops instead of rolling up/down the hill.

 

that's a given in an auto or manual..... I assumed everyone already did that...