Why do American cars rock back when you put handbrake on & why don't they have a normal handbrake?
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My 340i does it a little bit.
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Every automatic does it if left in park. It has nothing to do with country of.origin.
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[TW]Fox;30432664 said:
With the handbrake engaged?
Pretty much any car will move forward a bit if you apply the handbrake and then release the footbrake on a hill.
This is a really odd thread. Will there be a follow-up about cars that move when you use the throttle?
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Did you know the wider the throttle opens, the faster it goes*. The engine will even scream along with you on the ride. 
*if the thread can be this simple, that statement can be too.
*if the thread can be this simple, that statement can be too.
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On flat ground it makes no difference, I use the handbrake on a hill though, the thud of taking it out of Park isn't nice
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I use the handbrake everywhere, because I don't want the car rolling off if it drops out of park - or if someone shunts it and smashes the parking pawl. Unlikely, but I'd rather do everything I can to prevent an accident or issue.
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Go to 10:40 on this video.
This is why...
This is why...
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First few times I drove the wife's Merc, having come from a manual car, I went to use the 'clutch' and nearly applied the parking brake!!
You get used to it, though and pulling the hand lever to release it felt like casting off the docking clamps on a spaceship.... which n that huge great boat of a Merc wasn't so far from the truth!
And ^that is why I hate driving the wife's new CR-V - I go to turn on teh lights and wonder why it ain't workin'.... until I realise I'm trying to twiddle the shifter.Makes it fun when switching between a VW and a Ford, you have to reconfigure your brain each time, or you turn the windscreen wipers on when trying to put it in drive...
Stupid thing also blocks the central air vent in Drive, so my left hand stays freezing cold while the right burns!!
Except in England again, because we change up the gears, because... you know... mechanical sympathy.The engine will even scream along with you on the ride.
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