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So several tips on parking on an incline, how to make your car safer, how to avoid any problems.
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The first thing, before you even put your shifter to park, you need to apply the parking brake.
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So here is my parking brake. I want to apply it firmly. If you have the electronic parking brake,
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it will apply firmly on its own, and only after that, I want to put my car in park,
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and only after that, I want to release the brake pedal. Now I'm sure that my car will not move even
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an inch after I release the brake pedal. And if it moves even several inches, your parking
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pole in the transmission will be lower. Yeah, and it's not designed to hold the weight of your car,
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so you need to make sure that after you release the brake pedal, your car doesn't move an inch
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on an incline. Then what else you want to do is to turn your steering wheel towards
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the curb. So let's imagine the curb is on the right side. In any case, whether your car is nose
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up or nose down, you just turn the steering wheel towards the curb so that the front wheels would
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look directly at the curb. In this case, even if something happens and your car rolls back because
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the electronic parking brake is bad or something like that, your car will not roll back and hit
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another car, another car, or some other object on the road. It will just roll back or forward a
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little till the front tires or rear tires reach the curb, and you will not damage anything.
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Now remember that after that, when you get into your vehicle and your steering wheel is turned,
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very likely your steering wheel will be locked, and if you try to just turn the key, you will
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understand that the steering wheel is locked, the key is locked, and you don't know what to do. So
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in this case, wiggle the steering wheel a little bit, wiggle your key simultaneously, and you will
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get the steering wheel out of the lock, and you will be able to turn the key. And the last thing,
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avoid parking on hills for a very long time anyway. Anyway when you're parking on the hill,
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you will need to apply your parking brake, and if it's for a very long time, your brake discs
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are going to get some rust, and when the parking pads apply to this rusty rotor, nothing good is
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going to happen. So your parking brake may stop holding your vehicle after some time,
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or when you eventually want to drive your car, you will not be able to disengage this parking brake.
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So if you're parking your car for more than a month or something like that, you should find
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some flat surface, not apply the parking brake, apply only the park position of the shifter,
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and in this case, your car will be probably okay to go after you decide to drive it again.
