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Robfrmny21 said:
I came from a stick shift car so parking brake has been something I used since day one.
Also lack of use will lead to the parking brake eventually not work down the road .
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Same here, plus using the parking break doesn't put stress on the parking paw.
 
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there isnt so much as a hill within 100 miles from where I live, aside from "Mount Trashmore", the local landfill.
 
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there is some chatter about this on JG..

Seems to me the one time I started to get out of the '14 with the transmission not in park it yelled at me, but that doesn't happen often..

The '14 has always been where I (thought I had) left it, which was often not the case with my vehicle back in my college days :)
 
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Robfrmny21 said:
I came from a stick shift car so parking brake has been something I used since day one.
Also lack of use will lead to the parking brake eventually not work down the road .
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^^ This. Hopefully this isn't an issue though and if it is that they have a fix quickly.
 
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Being honest as I've seen it from the service end.
People simply do strange and abusive stuff to cars.
not saying this issue is not real just that it's not always the car but the end user.
 
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My Jeep GC had a recall done for this. N23 the transfer case they said would jump into neutral if you remote started your truck. FCAs fix was to disable the transfer case. No more 4low or neutral. They have new P73 that's suppose to give you 4low back, but I haven't done that yet.
 
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My Dad taught me to use the parking brake not only for extra piece of mind, but also to reduce stress and wear on the parking pawl as well. Way I see it, almost 30 years of driving and not one parking pawl failure. I'll take it.
 
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Durangutan said:
My Dad taught me to use the parking brake not only for extra piece of mind, but also to reduce stress and wear on the parking pawl as well. Way I see it, almost 30 years of driving and not one parking pawl failure. I'll take it.
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I'm on the other hand, I rarely use parking brake, unless I work on my car, Or I feel like doing a quick shoe self adjustment by stepping on the E-brake a couple times, and I've never had a pawl break either. I DO Use the E-brake if parked on a hill, though. 99.3504% of my parking is flat land.
 
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For me it isn't just to reduce stress on the parking pawl; it's also just for added piece of mind.

One time, probably the ONLY time, my Dad didn't use his e-brake, he was warming the car up and it slipped into reverse somehow and rolled across the street into a Hyundai. That little car sure wished he'd used the aptly named 'emergency brake'.
 
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Reminds me when I was 4 or 5 and my dads olds delta 77 or 78 I was pretending to race while parked in garage. I move the column shift and the car started rolling out of garage, since I was not tall enough, let alone experienced, the car rolled out of garage, when door was down, rolled down driveway and across street into neighbors mailbox. Funny that neighbors daughter was in passenger seat!
Back in time when no safety transmission locks!
 
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Which is why I like our rotary shifter knob.
It has clear detents so I know its in Park.
The rubber shifter in the JGC does not have any detents and one could easily not actually put it in park or if it was and then during spring back it could possibly come out.
I could see if being more operator error than anything.
But as its been said, always set the parking brake!
 
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