Well, for one thing, the parking brake mechanism adjusts the rear brakes on most vehicles. If you don’t use the parking brake, the rear brakes wear and get out of adjustment, and then some slippery evening you find yourself going around in circles when you stomp on the brakes. :eek:
and make sure that little pine tree is new.
Habit. I drive an automatic transmission car here in the US, but learnt to drive in England on stick shift car. When driving a stick shift, the parking brake had to be engaged when you park. Since that’s how I learnt, that’s what I do, even now. It feels weird to me to not have my parking brake engaged when my car’s parked.
Actually, my parents’ Lincoln Town Cars don’t have the fuel door button labeled. At all. Seriously. It’s just a gray button like every other gray button in the car. So I wouldn’t assume anything in a car is labeled unless I saw it myself.
There was another button there I didn’t recognize. It was red, had red and yellow stripes around it, and had a big red arrow pointing up on it. It was the next one I was going to try.
(Small hijack: Do they make stick shift minivans?)
That’s the Eject button. You would have gone flying through the roof.