okay so i bought my coupe used with 4k miles on it. anyways the right front has been wrecked but fixed the middle console is a little crooked (a flaw only the owner of the car could notice) anyways hell its fixed now but my ebrake doesnt work that well even when i part on a slight hill and pull it all the way out. is this normal? and does it hurt to park the car using 1st gear? thats what I have been doing. maybe i need to go get my ebrake fixed? or no?

 

You can adjust from the rear wheels. See if that works.

 

adjust.... the ebrake?

 

You're supposed to be parking it in gear anyway.

 

Search threads I've created. Brake swap thread. I have a post regarding how to adjust the rear e-brakes.

 

What he said. I changed the rotors on my 6MT and adjusting the e-brakes is easy. All you have to do is take the wheels off, pop off a rubber plug and use a screw driver through the hole.

 

+1000

Never park any Manual Transmission car and just rely on the E-brake alone. Most E-brakes are not that strong, and it's always good to get into the habit of both parking with the car in gear and the E-brake engaged, that way if you forget to use one or the other when parking, you'll always have a backup mechanism of holding the car in place and your car won't roll away and get damaged or injure someone.

If, for some strange reason, you had to pick between using the E-brake or parking in gear(instead of using both as you should)... you would want to park it in gear because that is a more reliable mechanism of holding the car in place(provided that your clutch is not completely worn out).

Plain and simple though... get in the habit of always, always, ALWAYS parking in with both your E-Brake on and the car in Gear.