Toyota Camry: How to use parking brake?

"nick" <com> wrote in message
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If you have an automatic transmission and put the car in park, you don't
need to apply the parking brake. Some experts will tell you otherwise, but
99% of the population don't use it, and never have a problem. Plus, if your
parking break is deployed and your car is towed with the parking break on,
it will cause some damage to the rear breaks.

However, you need to use your parking break every once in a while since that
is how you rear breaks get adjusted. But you can just deploy the parking
brake several times in a row and then release it to adjust the rear breaks.
Do this at least once a month.

In news:com,
nick <com> being of bellicose mind posted: 

Apply Parking brake first.

For example, let's say you park on an incline. If you place the
transmission in PARK and let the weight of the car settle against the
parking lock and then.... apply the Parking Brake, you are placing
and holding a stress on the Park pawl lock in the transmission. If
sufficient, you may have a hard time getting the selector out of PARK
the next time you wish to drive the car.

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-Philip

"Whatever is a choice will become chosen"

My 2002 Camry doesn't have automatically adjusted parking brake, it is manually adjusted by using a screw driver and contracting the adjuster 8 notches from a fully expended position.

Jack.

"Mark A" <net> wrote in message newsFKIb.72$uswest.net... 

"Jack" <net> wrote in message
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My 2002 Camry doesn't have automatically adjusted parking brake, it is
manually adjusted by using a screw driver and contracting the adjuster 8
notches from a fully expended position.

Jack.

No. Listen carefully. I am not talking about adjusting the parking brake. I
am talking about adjusting the rear breaks (where the parking brake applies
breaking pressure). Using the parking brake manually every once in a while
will adjust your rear brakes (the ones that get used when apply the brake
pedal). If you don't do this periodically, your front brakes will do all the
work without the rear brakes being used.

I know you don't understand this, but just do it.

How do you know this? Is it in the manual? Thanks

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 21:20:23 -0700, "Mark A" <net>
wrote:
 

Ho, I am sorry, the rear brakes on my 2002 Camry are disk brakes and they don't have any mechanical adjustment.

Jack.

"Mark A" <net> wrote in message news:_dNIb.80$uswest.net... 

In newsFKIb.72$uswest.net,
Mark A <net> being of bellicose mind posted: 

mark... what you have posted above is a half truth. There are cities
that require the Parking BRAKE being set as a municipal ordinance.
San Francisco is but one example that may still have such an
ordinance that does not distinguish between manual or automatic
transmissions. If you car rolls from it's original parked location
and inflicts property damage, you get an extra fine. Parking on flat
ground is not an issue, obviously. If your car is towed with the
Parking BRAKE applied, you obviously didn't have them applied
securely.
--

-Philip

"Whatever is a choice will become chosen"

"Philip®" <net.invalid> wrote in message
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My response was for the situation stated: when parking on flat terrain.
Obviously, when parking on a step incline the parking brake should be used.

A car can and will be towed with the parking brake applied.