Poll: Do you leave it in gear when you park your Type S?

[STi from DSM]

I can't change. It is engrained in my DNA to put it in neutral and pull the parking brake. I will leave it in gear on steep inclines, but for 99.9% of my time that is how I park.

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[Spart]

I can't change. It is engrained in my DNA to put it in neutral and pull the parking brake. I will leave it in gear on steep inclines, but for 99.9% of my time that is how I park.

Well I mean if it helps your insanity, this is taken from page 608 of the owner's manual:

You'll find something similar in the owner's manual of basically any vehicle that has a manual option from multiple manufacturers.

If you want to go even more insane, watch this video I made about the electronic parking brake in the Supra:



The parking brake in that car literally has a mind of it's own. I eventually figured out how to work around it, but I had to learn the hard way after the car tried to roll away on me (while running and in neutral) and after that, I always made sure to turn the wheel such that the car would roll a safe direction any time I left it parked and running.

If no safe option existed, I would simply not leave it parked without being in gear.

Toyota never did anything about that, either. They never even followed up with me. I think they use the same formula that Tyler Durden does and they're waiting for lawsuits to pile up before they fix it.

 

[s219]

Am I the only one who uses wheel chocks?

 

[Victorofhavoc]

Am I the only one who uses wheel chocks?

I drive over them when I use them, does that count?

 

[Scambini]

Interesting thread since I recently have been re-evaluating my "parking" procedures after a brake incident. I have alway just left any manual transmission vehicle (I've had many being old) in neutral and set the parking brake - not sure why other than habit. This is the first vehicle I've had with a ebrake versus manual.

Anyway out the other day parked the car and I am almost positive I set the brake. I will say I was rushing around so I am questioning if I did because when I come out of the store 10 minutes later my Integra has decided to move a couple of hundred feet (luckily I parked in a fair flat wide open parking are). I go over everything is okay, other than the "new" unintended location (I did look and see the parking lot did have a very slight incline to where the car ended up).

I start the car and the Ebrake light is not on so I am assuming I was a dumb shit for not verifying it was set (light on) so from now on I am going to leave it in 1st or R and set the ebrake as the manual recommends. At least I didn't learn this the hard way with the car running into something.

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