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Mr_Mofu@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• sartalon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I was going to say, I always had my e-brake on when I parked my car and so I always started the car with it on.

  Does he mean slowly let off the clutch while releasing the e-brake? Does he put on his e-brake if he stops on a hill, in traffic too!

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  • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve had to use the ebrake method before for a hill that was wayyyy too steep and a fence gate closed behind me.

    You basically just let off the clutch and press on the gas until the car wants to move forward, then you let off the e brake and go without going backwards.

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    • exasperation@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      There are some steep stop sign intersections in San Francisco that I’ve had to use the e brake for.

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      • thebigslime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Seattle, too. VW Vanagon Westphalia with the kitchenette and poptop. Heavy, gutless, and steep roads are a tricky combo.

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    • sartalon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s when you are supposed to use Mr_Mofu’s technique!

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      • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        that’s mr mr.mofu to you, kind sir.

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  • jimmux@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you’re on a steep hill, yes sometimes you need to use the handbrake to get moving. This had to be demonstrated when I got my licence, but to be fair some manual vehicles now have automatic hill start. Still a good technique to learn because it doesn’t always activate.

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We’d park my buddies Mustang on a hill wherever we went in case it wouldn’t start. LOL, everyone made fun of him saying it was a Pinto.

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  • thebigslime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ah the Mustang II. What a historically bad letdown.

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