How often do you find yourself yankin that e-brake? I think I do to much

 

Never. I only use it for parking and holding the car at stoplights on inclines/declines.

 

only when I park...

 

Hell no, I got a s2000 for that

 

a combo of the 2, ocassionaly when im bored and it happens to be wet out. (usually evening)

 

+1 to that.

 

Only when it is wet out.
That is horrible on your brakes/tires/car!

 

Not a riceboy wannabe drifter, so I'm going to have to go with only when I park the car.

 

c'mon no one spins around in parking lots? On snow only of coarse... I guess at 19 I'm young and crazy.

 

Bruce - whats bad for your car - using it only when its wet out? or using it when you park

 

when i dont have enough braking room in sudden stops i use it to help me slow down, cuz my front pads are dying. also use it in park.
no point in trying to "drift" a fwd car. it just doesnt work that way. plus i think its kinda lame but hey, do what you want.

 

Since I'm a 5spd, I've gotta use this thing everyday. And occasionally I'll use it to drift in and out of turns.

 

10char

 

Parking only! OK......occasionally on snow too.

 

in the rain and when i got to the snow and sometimes when i need to make a quick u-turn. always puts a smile on my face

 

just for parking; not drifting or anything.

 

Ive owned my car for close to 8 yrs. I have never used the e brake while driving.
I do use when I park though. It keeps the car from rolling after I shut it off.

 

never, im not an idiot

 

While it can be fun at first pulling your ebrake to slide is a bad habbit it puts way too much stress on the front tires and from expiernce it sucks because now my 3rd gen has a ripped cv boot and my ebrake cable is cause the rears to stay on a lil and grind when I drive....I shoulda just got a 240sx and saved myself this trouble. fwd cars aren't ment to spin.

 

i use the ebrake sometimes.. when im lonely... and its late and summer time in the college parking lot...and its raining.. there are not parking bumps so its fun to spin around a few 4 or 5 times goin 45 haha...

but then again i like to go 130 b4 rush hour just to weave on the freeway.. and NO im not racing anyone.. just driving

im a nut...but one thing to keep in mind with the max is that sometimes the rear pads re adjust themselves too tightly when you ebrake slide alot.. and you will get noisy rear brakes...you can fix this by just screwing the caliper piston back in on the rear a bit.. and yankin up and down on the ebrake a few times to re adjust itself properly...

thats what i had to do...

 

Ask Clee how well that works.

It's not an "emergency brake." It's a "parking brake."

It's there to hold the car when parked, not slow the car in an emergency.

 

hahaha, weeeeeeee

 

i only use it when i park and sometime if im on a steep incline i put it into gear with e brake on then when i start movin i take it off

 

I usually don't use it but I used it a lot for a few days when my car was in for repair........hihihi thats because I had a replacement car (sentra 04) for these days and lets say I had a lot of fun with it. E-brake was almost applied at every turn and it was in winter time so I couldn't keep myself from doing it.

 

i was going to say that it is a parking brake because it wont even help during a emergency.

 

When I was a kid we used to do this all the time in a wide open parking lot. We used to call it tray sliding. Follow these instructions are you can have alot of fun without damaging your rear tires.

1st, Collect several service trays from various fast food places. "In & Out burger trays seem to last the longest"

2nd, Use a glue or epoxy to glue atleast 3 trays together for each tire. 6 trays total.
"Stack the trays so they are thicker"

3rd, Find a open parking lot & drive your vehicle so your rear tires are up on the trays & set your parking brake.

4th, Have fun!

P.S.
No snow required with this set up!!!

 

I'm a Winter ONLY dooooriiiiifter

 

I may be wrong, but if the master cylinder decided to totally crap out on you, the emergency brake would help you come to a stop quicker than coasting, you could lock your rear wheels if you pull it up high enough.

That said, I use my ebrake everytime I park, and once in a while when the road is snowcovered ill play around in a a well paved parking lot. Never just when driving around the neighborhood.

 

you don't need the PARKING BRAKE (correct name) in the snow.

this winter my friends and I got a townhouse at bretton woods for 3 days and all of no. conway was under tons of snow. It was so much fun driving around up there, I volunteered to drive to the stores/restaraunts everytime we left. I would do reverse 180's everytime I pulled out of a space.

gotta love having a 5 speed in northern NH

 

the only time i've used my parking brake while driving was in the 04 camry rental i had when my max was in the body shop. it was fun... WEEEEEEEEEEE!

i'm a very responsible driver, but when you have a rental, there is an unwritten law that states you have to beat the crap out of it. by the way, i am a very skilled fwd drifter

 

i yank on the ebrake when the car is parked and im getting out !

 

those quick u-turns in snow are ****ing NICE !

 

Never! I don't even pull the E-Brake when I park. Stuff like that could phuk your car up.

 

yeah thats true. ive only done it once tho. real hard. locked the rears pretty well. that was one crazy stop. didnt know what else to do so i pulled it. oh well.

 

WTF i have a new video of my car doing some stuff. Die hard Nissan fan right here. So i am in the process of releasing my video of my car, its not gonna be boring. So check it out in couple weeks.

 

I use my E-brake every day when I park (5 speed) I used to live in Maryland so I would hit up the snow covered lots whenever possible, and I have used it to drift around tight corneres, and it works, so all you haters can eat my brake dust. biatch. I used to do some serious brake checks going 45 on rental cars. Economy tires are loud and smokey! Gotta love 'em for that.

 

sigh, it never snows in so cal. ya, so i just use the brake when i park.

 

That's not true, e-brake is meant to be used like that and if you don't use it daily, I heard your e-brake might have problems after a while so use it!

 

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Sorry...that was a misplaced modifier...ha ha

I was saying that it is hard on your car to be jolted to a stop by the "parking brake." Also, when you let off of the brake, and you have gotten sideways, it is hard on your suspension when it jerks back to the grip of the tire.

That is why I only do it when it rains.
You just slide....no jerking....(kind of like in the snow).

**NOTE: I pay too much for my tires. Mommy & Daddy don't buy my stuff. For that reason, I cannot justify ruining a set of tires by putting bald spots on them.