Stupid Thing read...

[Krisekca]

I left my car in D gear with Emergency Brake ON for 2 minutes....
Car was ON ....


ahh i dnt know how i dided im glad that my Emergency brake didnt went off ...

could i broke anything ? like tranny or somenthing ?

[Cardinal Fang]

So you drove around for two minutes with your emergency brake on?

[RemaerdLacidar]

I think he's saying that he stopped the car, applied the E brake, and left it like that for 2 mins or so.

If I'm understanding his post correctly then, no you probably didn't cause any damage as that would be similar to parking the car and holding the break down with your foot for 2 minutes.

[Wild Weasel]

Yeah. No problem.

[Cardinal Fang]

I thought that's what he said but I couldn't be sure because that sounds odd to me.

[Krisekca]

Yeah thank u guys and sorry for my bad English :( im still in school for it .... learning.


And yes i left car on emergency brake ... and i step out ... and car was running on D gear.

thank u all :)

[Cardinal Fang]

I'm glad you found the car there when you got back.

[JiNuWiNe]

I'm glad you found the car there when you got back.

You figure that might be the bigger problem... :whoa

[FLIPDADY]

As long as you don't drive to Montreal with the e-brake up you're fine.

[Cardinal Fang]

Who did that?

[LockOut]

To quote the late, great Mitch Hedberg,


They shouldn't call it the emergency brake. They should call it the make the car smell funny lever.
:chuckle

[b3GS]

you got out of the car when it was still in drive and only the ebrake was holding it?

dangerous dude.

[Noisy Crow]

Who did that?

My father-in-law drove his Dodge Caravan on trip somewhere with some friends. At some point they switched drivers. His friend got in the drivers seat, released the hood latch, and off they went. End result was new rear drums, shoes, brake cylinders.......

Yes, on the Caravans made in the early 2000's the hood release is in the same place every other car puts the brake release :bang.

For some reason they put the brake release back to the "normal" location on the next model revision.......

[huyzel]

sounds like you want to drive a 5speed.

[Fuman]

what if someone drive around with it e-brake on for two minutes?
(one of my family members did this to my car)

[x_o_k_x]

what if someone drive around with it e-brake on for two minutes?
(one of my family members did this to my car)

just your break pads will wear out quicker if it was 2 min

[Wilson]

If you're flooring it and not moving and there's a funny burning smell it's probably not a good thing :chuckle Fortunately most people notice this pretty quickly (unless you're going for a driving test and the ministry guy is sitting next to you, that was embarrassing :blush).

[Fuman]

just your break pads will wear out quicker if it was 2 min
k cool. Guess I won't have to hunt the person down, lol

[sp3GT]

I've done it before, it's quite the smell lol. I did it longer then 2 minutes and everything was still good.