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My 2 cents...(rather argumentative in tone, I'm afraid)
Posted by Micah in NC [Email] (more from Micah in NC) on Wed, 24 Jul 2002 17:03:58
In Reply to: stupid handbrake question, Mark, Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:43:53
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Mark,
I know this is a generic SAAB question, so I'll chip in my 2 cents (even though you have a 9000, and this is the 900 board), so here goes:
My sister, who drives a 5 speed Ford Contour (V-6), and I had this same argument. I said it was better to use handbrake all the time, she says use it only on hills.
My opinion (that's all it is) is that use of handbrakes never hurt. Repeated use may stretch cables (over years and years), but that's cheaper than having your car crash itself because it slipped out of gear and rolled down a seemingly "flat" parking lot, etc. Cables are cheaper than a new (old) SAAB.
Non-SAAB related story: My grandpa, a few years back, parked his restored 1966 Jeep CJ-5, engine off and in gear, without parking brake on, in the woods while clearing a dirt trail. His dog was inside. While Papaw was away from the Jeep, the dog somehow bumped the thing into neutral. The Jeep rolled away, climbed a bank, flipped over, and came to a stop. The dog escaped unscathed, but the Jeep fared much worse. It crushed in the windshield frame, ruined a fender, and multi-perforated the ragtop. Papaw spent quite a while getting the Jeep back into restored shape.
Micah in NC
'84 900S, 216K mi.
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