Automatic Parking Brake Applied

[Tbone289]

I always put the parking brake on before I shift to park, that way it's the parking brake holding the vehicle still instead of the transmission.

This is good practice, but if you come to a stop and keep your foot on the brake, it doesn't matter which order you do it in, (brake vs. park), the tension will remain on the brakes rather than the transmission. Tension would only be applied to the transmission parking pawl if you let your foot off the brake in park and it rolls slightly before you apply the parking brake.

My brother used to launch his boat and put his truck into park on the ramp without applying the brake, putting tremendous tension on the parking pawl. It drove me crazy.

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[Deleted member 35678]

Honestly they may know less about your vehicle than you do.

I think you might be right.

 

[Deleted member 35678]

Good grief, are we so lazy that we can't manually apply a parking brake? A handle has been provided for your convenience. Select park, parking brake, exit. There, that wasn't so hard.

Too many steps.

 

[OneAlienBoi]

I've literally never heard of someone turning their vehicle off and opening the door while it's still in drive, that's wild. The normal sequence of events is pull up, stop, with the foot on the brake, shift the vehicle into Park, turn the vehicle off, undo the seatbelt, open the door. That's how literally every single driver I've ever seen does it.

If you tried to open the door and turn the car off while it was still in drive during a drivers test, you would immediately fail the exam.

 

[OneAlienBoi]

Why are you opening the door before you take off the seatbelt and turn off the engine? Yes, it’s normal for to go into park and at least on hills to apply the parking brake.

For hills yes, but mechanics have told me if you're parking on mostly level ground, leave the parking brake off. I don't like the little rock back and forth a car does without the parking brake, but apparently that doesn't hurt anything. Whereas using the e-brake every time you park can wear out the parking brake cable and other components prematurely.

 

[Mr Pibb]

For hills yes, but mechanics have told me if you're parking on mostly level ground, leave the parking brake off. I don't like the little rock back and forth a car does without the parking brake, but apparently that doesn't hurt anything. Whereas using the e-brake every time you park can wear out the parking brake cable and other components prematurely.

We don't have a parking break cable in the traditional sense, it's electronic. Though you could run into issues in the past with people who never used the ebrake and needed to.

 

[AlsMaverick]

Only a fool would purposely open the door of a running vehicle while in drive and then turn off said vehicle. What if the fail safe failed?
Not smart.

 

[Ozarkbeard]

That’s the only way I can get the ebrake to auto engage on flat land.

Pull up on the lever.

 

[Ozarkbeard]

I've literally never heard of someone turning their vehicle off and opening the door while it's still in drive, that's wild. The normal sequence of events is pull up, stop, with the foot on the brake, shift the vehicle into Park, turn the vehicle off, undo the seatbelt, open the door. That's how literally every single driver I've ever seen does it.

If you tried to open the door and turn the car off while it was still in drive during a drivers test, you would immediately fail the exam.

You left out, set the Parking Brake (before you put the vehicle in Park).

 

[Ryom]

I've never heard of a parking pawl snapping outside of abuse (routinely slamming it into park before the vehicle has come to a complete stop) or a manufacturing defect. Modern vehicles mostly won't let you break the transmission components by being stupid. I wouldn't mind the parking brake being a more tactile thing than a little pull lever though, I like yanking on the handbrake. It's still not any more trouble to finger the parking lever than it is to open your door while seat-belted.

 

[Bigfoot7262]

While I don't see anything in OPs routine that could do damage, AlsMaverick has a point that IF something were to fail, say the truck doesn't recognize the door being open, that could defeat the auto-park & auto-brake.
I've tried leaving the vehicle in D and just setting the brake and shutting it off but some habits die hard

 

[Deleted member 35678]

I've literally never heard of someone turning their vehicle off and opening the door while it's still in drive, that's wild. The normal sequence of events is pull up, stop, with the foot on the brake, shift the vehicle into Park, turn the vehicle off, undo the seatbelt, open the door. That's how literally every single driver I've ever seen does it.

If you tried to open the door and turn the car off while it was still in drive during a drivers test, you would immediately fail the exam.

Do they still make you look behi

I've literally never heard of someone turning their vehicle off and opening the door while it's still in drive, that's wild. The normal sequence of events is pull up, stop, with the foot on the brake, shift the vehicle into Park, turn the vehicle off, undo the seatbelt, open the door. That's how literally every single driver I've ever seen does it.

If you tried to open the door and turn the car off while it was still in drive during a drivers test, you would immediately fail the exam.

You left out, set the Parking Brake (before you put the vehicle in Park).

I've never heard of a parking pawl snapping outside of abuse (routinely slamming it into park before the vehicle has come to a complete stop) or a manufacturing defect. Modern vehicles mostly won't let you break the transmission components by being stupid. I wouldn't mind the parking brake being a more tactile thing than a little pull lever though, I like yanking on the handbrake. It's still not any more trouble to finger the parking lever than it is to open your door while seat-belted.

not so much the trouble but more remembering to do it.

 

[HeyBales]

not so much the trouble but more remembering to do it.

So you are going to try to remember and make a habit of a whole routine to cause an effect you want, rather than just try to remember 1 step?

Because frankly if remembering is difficult on the parking brake to make into a habit - then you'll probably have some bad news on remembering this multi-step little dance, and you'll be dancing under the tire someday or forcing someone else to.

 

[Deleted member 35678]

this is it. 1-800 Ford said it's designed to work this way as a normal exit procedure. Done. No more telling me about what's safe or habits with other vehicles or some boomer muscle memory steps you have been doing since the 70s! I just thought I could get an answer about if doing that was bad for the vehicle. Turns out it's not...I should have just started by calling the 1800 number.

 

[Bluestreak57]

And apparently also if you are stopped, buckled in on flat land and then open the door.

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