I just got my new Dodge Durango and parked it in my driveway which has a slight downgrade and I park it facing away, which means I back in all the time to park at my residence.
I engage the foot emergency brake to the normal resistance that should be pushed as I am a male, and am a strong guy, and I know how much pressure to put on a foot-break, where it takes only some momentum and a little push-jerk with my leg muscle. I don't force it all the way down like a muscle maniac, nor do I give it a sissy toe touch. I've been driving for about 30 years. I know how to engage a brake.
So, my right foot on the brake while I'm parked; shut off the vehicle; engage emergency parking break with left foot; release right foot from brake. This is a normal procedure. But, then the vehicles rolls and stops. I chalked it up as a normal action of this Dodge SUV with new technology.
The new Dodge is very electronically capable, it's brand spanking new, it has a disk for changing gears (not in the tree and not in the box with a hand-shifter), and it has 8 gears! It's high tech and has a million and one diagnostics that only another computer can comprehend.
Some Tires are now sensitive to direction also, and can't be traditionally rotated. There are all new types of technologies for automobiles. Why wouldn't a slight roll be one of them? However, I did test the roll on the Durango by engaging the emergency brake and pushing the vehicle and it's didn't move; so the brake was engaged. I tested this several times the first month I had the Durango on different inclines to see if the emergency break was actually engaging (because it rolled and stopped each time I engaged the break). So how did I test the break? I kept the Durango running, in Neutral, engaged the emergency break and it never rolled after the initial small roll after engaging the emergency break.
So it's a big paragraph, but in engineering we try to cover the basic concepts, fully and completely, so I think I covered it.
A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
I just got my new Dodge Durango and parked it in my driveway which has a slight downgrade and I park it facing away, which means I back in all the time to park at my residence.
I engage the foot emergency brake to the normal resistance that should be pushed as I am a male, and am a strong guy, and I know how much pressure to put on a foot-break, where it takes only some momentum and a little push-jerk with my leg muscle. I don't force it all the way down like a muscle maniac, nor do I give it a sissy toe touch. I've been driving for about 30 years. I know how to engage a brake.
So, my right foot on the brake while I'm parked; shut off the vehicle; engage emergency parking break with left foot; release right foot from brake. This is a normal procedure. But, then the vehicles rolls and stops. I chalked it up as a normal action of this Dodge SUV with new technology.
The new Dodge is very electronically capable, it's brand spanking new, it has a disk for changing gears (not in the tree and not in the box with a hand-shifter), and it has 8 gears! It's high tech and has a million and one diagnostics that only another computer can comprehend.
Some Tires are now sensitive to direction also, and can't be traditionally rotated. There are all new types of technologies for automobiles. Why wouldn't a slight roll be one of them? However, I did test the roll on the Durango by engaging the emergency brake and pushing the vehicle and it's didn't move; so the brake was engaged. I tested this several times the first month I had the Durango on different inclines to see if the emergency break was actually engaging (because it rolled and stopped each time I engaged the break). So how did I test the break? I kept the Durango running, in Neutral, engaged the emergency break and it never rolled after the initial small roll after engaging the emergency break.
So it's a big paragraph, but in engineering we try to cover the basic concepts, fully and completely, so I think I covered it.
- sd_durango, San Diego, US