How strongly do you apply your parking brake?

Is this for real?

 

Shouldn’t be.

 

I use precisely 5nm of torque when I lift my parking brake. Just imagine dr.zeus pulling up on the handle.

Are people just running out of questions to ask?

 

It won't do bugger all in an emergency except make you crash.

 

I have to admit that I never knew about the procedure to first set the parking brake then put the truck into park.

I've always set the parking brake after putting a vehicle into park. But just tried the other way the other day and it kind of makes sense. I think coincidently someone else posted similar steps on another forum as well.

What's the proper procedure in releasing the brakes? I tried just reversing the order, where I first put the truck into drive than released the parking brake. But wasn't sure if those were the proper steps becauseI think the truck jerked a bit more than I would've liked it too.

 

If you have an automatic, why are you using the cable brake at all?

 

It's just something that I got in the habit of doing whenever I park on steep hills.

Saw this thread when it was first posted and made a mental note of it.

But didn't have a chance/need to use the parking brake until yesterday when I was parking on a steep hill and tried changing the steps to the way that others described in first set the parking brake then shift into park.

Most of the time I don't use the parking brake in automatics.