I disagree, I think it’s better to use the e-brake to hold the car on the slope while you’re engaging first gear. And when you’re in gear you lower the e-brake.
Whether this is possible depends on your parking/e-brake configuration. Pretty much have to have a hand lever controlled brake (hand brake) to do it effectively.
The only manual vehicles I’ve ever owned have been light trucks, none of which had a hand operated brake. Trying to operate four pedals at once is just not practical.
I disagree, I think it’s better to use the e-brake to hold the car on the slope while you’re engaging first gear. And when you’re in gear you lower the e-brake.
Whether this is possible depends on your parking/e-brake configuration. Pretty much have to have a hand lever controlled brake (hand brake) to do it effectively. The only manual vehicles I’ve ever owned have been light trucks, none of which had a hand operated brake. Trying to operate four pedals at once is just not practical.
That makes sense. I didn’t imagine a manual vehicle not having a hand brake.
What’s an e-brake?
It’s the fast way of saying emergency brake, aka hand brake.
It’s NOT an emergency brake though. It’s a parking brake
Here it’s know as a e brake, and for me at some point forn a few days was my main brake after my brake pedal broke but I still needed to get to work.
Was fun learning how to use it on how to stop on a highway.
Yeah you use it when you park, but it’s still called an e-brake or emergency brake around here.
Oh I know that’s what we call it, we all call it that it seems, but it’s a parking brake. For parking.
Very bad to use in an emergency situation.
Just seemed to be a good technicality to point out in a thread about someone getting a manual transmission car and asking newbie advice.