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You should always set your parking brake, even in non-Chrysler vehicles. Not using it, or using it only sparingly, allow the cables to corrode faster, which can cause it not tighten as well and/or snap the cable. Pretty much everything I've read or heard says it is a very good safety practice, as we see the Park position in an automatic transmission doesn't always mean the car isn't going to move.
Okay, I'm not a car guy by any stretch of the imagination (or parking brake cable!) but how does that make any sense, exactly?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonlainy
Metal corrodes when exposed to the elements that cause corrosion, not when left un-stretched.
Please enlighten me.
If you're using it regularly, the stretching/constricting breaks up rust on the cable. If you aren't, it can build up, and that buildup is what causes problems.
From the latest reports, it may not be a Chrysler transmission issue, though. The Jeep in question has an electronic transmission, and one of the problems that prompted the recall is it can be unclear to the user that the car isn't in Park. I find it a little difficult to believe that he could get out of a car on an incline and not notice immediately that it was moving (or get between it and the gate before it hit the gate), but the investigation should find out the exact circumstances.
Delores beat me to it, so I won't rehash.Quote:
Originally Posted by Merrick ap'Milandra
They even suggest especially on a hill that you shift to park, apply parking brake and then release the normal brakes so that at no time does the car come to rest on the transmission's locking system.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonlainy
That's what I do on inclines.Quote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
Thanks for the explanation, Delores. That makes sense.
I lived in SF for a year, just after getting my drivers license.
Using the parking brake becomes ingrained into the very fiber of your being when you start your "car career" on the slopes of the bay.
Very sad end for him, indeed :(
So, I learned that you should turn your tires into the curb to prevent rolling when parallel parking in addition to using the parking brakes. People usually do that, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawlin
In SF they do. Not really in use here in Denmark, but we don't have any elevation worth mentioning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Merkus
It depends on how you are parking. If you are parking facing down the hill, turn your steering wheel to the right so that they rest against the curb and, if for some reason your car's brakes fail or transmission engages, you'll stick to the curb.Quote:
Originally Posted by Merkus
If you are facing up the hill, turn your wheel to the left, and let your car reverse slowly into the curb from the front tires. Same idea, but this way the carried moment of a failed transmission won't first allow your car to rise over the curb form the back tires as your front tires turn the front of the car away from the curb.
And yes, always use the parking brake.
Here's the lawsuit! http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/23/news...ler/index.html
The money line:
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Originally Posted by Article excerpt
That could hit them hard in a court room. A warning when honestly the problem this well known should have had a full and proper recall in progress. Naturally as with many industries it usually takes a death or three to kick a company into gear.
Yeoch. Not good.
A buddy of mine spent decades working as an engineer in the auto industry (R.I.P Mr.C) and every, EVERY model of car made at every manufacturer he had worked for (5 of them, I believe) automatically had money put aside for this shit.
They were *not* saving money by not putting out a recall notice. The CAPEX had already been allocated and locked away to cover these costs. Putting the money aside was the only way to ensure that things missed in testing didn't affect the profit margin in a given year. If the money was already "spent", they could get more accurate trending metrics.
The only thing they stood to not lose is the slight, SLIGHT possibility that a recall *might* given them some short term bad press, which is absolutely nothing compared to a suit like this.
Ridiculous.
Returning to our regularly scheduled thread topic:
Ralph Stanley, father/popularizer of bluegrass music.
89, no details.
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Originally Posted by Mileron
Likely cause of death was being 89
Since I do not really know BlueGrass I am not sure who that is. But holy fuck this year is bad in general for music.
Carlo Pedersoli, italian olympic swimmer, 86.
😞
RIP two sports legends - Pat Summitt and Buddy Ryan. Summitt probably belongs on a coaching Rushmore somewhere.
RIP Benghazi Investigation ....
But where does Buddy belong?Quote:
Originally Posted by Grindel