Parking on a slope Driveway - Makes a thud noise when shift to Drive or reverse gear

Which is why you use the cheap parking brake instead of increasing wear on parts in the transmission that are more expensive to replace......

 

LoL

you're probably right

 

if the mechanic is not familiar with the vehicle, it's the wrong mechanic. I blame the owner for taking their car to the wrong shop.

 

On my Gen2 I stomp the parking brake pedal hard enough when I apply it that the car really won't move in drive. I don't want it to be possible to be "accidently" left on. Learned that during the first month of Prius ownership when the CM failed (bad capacitor) so I didn't have a warning light to tell my that I had left the brake partly applied.

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mush?

 

You are welcome!

 

Hmm, our driveway is seriously sloped. I leave the car in drive and then apply the Park Brake and the car does not move an inch when I turn it off. And when I turn it on, if the Parking is still engaged?

It might go backwards without much effort? But it certainly won't go forward without you knowing something was not right?

Our 2003 Denali, the Parking Brake was a joke. It would not the thing on a slope and certainly did not care if you left it on in drive. It seemed to be a GM thing ie they all do that.

 

no brakes applied?

 

Then they're adjusted too loose from the factory. Plenty of surface area on those brakes to hold the vehicle back if you put enough pressure on them. Adjusters seizing up so you can't back them off to pull the rotor off is another issue

 

Well I thought that (Brakes first) was implied?

But, Ok on flat level ground. I brake to a stop, foot on brake. Hit the park button and apply the foot parking brake and then turn it off.

At home I can crawl up the driveway and it is steep enough that with no throttle, the car just stops. Foot on brake, I hit the Park Button then the foot brake and then turn it off. It might roll back a half an inch depending on how much pressure (was) on the foot brake? But usually it doesn't roll backwards at all. And no noise when going from park to reverse?

 

If you USE the parking brake, it's very unlikely it will seize up or you'll have problems with it.
It's the ones that are never used that have the problems....

 

LOL, yeah you would think so?

I did that as well as changed the brake shoes. They were worn out though I don't know why as they did nothing? I think the cables system stretches or something? It had 150,000 miles on it when my wife got in a wreck it, she was Ok but the Denali not so much.

It's a well known issue on the Chevy/Tahoe Forum. But I never got the chance to fix it for real. It was the SUV and I know they can be driven by obnoxious/tailgating A-Holes, the driver not the machine. They can be wicked fast on back roads. It was lot's of fun but ... "Brutal on MPG."

The instant mpg, was uh exciting? If you opened her up it would drop from 18 or low 20 to 12 mpg in a blink, and then click down from there fast! Usually when it hit 6 mpg, I'd let up. I'd be over whatever the speed limit was anyway.

I think it would actually register negative MPG, if you did not lift off the gas? I was a regular at our local Maverick Gas Station. Which was fortunately a block away.

It was a fill me now thing when I left for work or a fill me later when I came home. It was a silly expense really, especially with a 70 mile round trip a couple day's a week for work. I didn't tow anything, it was just a cool toy.

But life moves on and with the Gen 2 ( a gas hog by Gen 3 standard's?) I
go to Maverick's, maybe once a month? If more than that it's usually to buy a bottle of Diet Soda. I drive by the pumps and pickups and SUV's getting there fix of fuel. these days

It was a cool vehicle, but really if you don't tow, don't haul seven people or loads of stuff and don't "need," AWD? It's just kind of silly and pointless? I luv'd it because it could also beat down "tool's," on back road's driving "Ricer's," who thought. they were fast? The letters STI, come to mind ... that was "Priceless," freaking tool!