OT: Anyone still put it in Park ?

[beyeg]

I just learned the truck did this last night by accident. It blew my mind.

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[Chris GTO TT]

The auto park feature seems poorly executed in the F150 to me. On rotary dial shifters or push button shifters the feature makes sense, but when the shifter has to move back to park it's weird to me. That and the electric motor on the shifter is very unrefined.

 

[themcmercslr]

Once I did that and the next time I turned the truck on (2 hours later in the cold), it would not leave park. I had to cycle the ignition a few times until P stopped blinking, and allowed itself to shift into gear again.

 

[tbinmd]

I don’t have confidence the shifter gearing will survive day to day use. So, I’m not lazy and shift to park. Been doing for a long time.

 

[HammaMan]

I remove the seatbelt before parking, if the door is opened before the key is shutoff, ebrake applies and it goes into park. Both the F150 and MME behave this way. The open-door-in-gear-ebrake-applies trick is quite handy since the ebrake isn't in a convenient location. Despite the speed of the shifter itself, park is engaged right away -- the shifter is drive by wire and its position not absolute. It will lock the parking pawl before the vehicle is stationary so opening the door while still rolling is bad (that was its behavior last year anyway).

 

[Bryan Simon]

Hard for me to be judgemental on this topic.
My 21 is the first pickup I’ve ever owned with an automatic trans.
Driving standards forevever, I had been in the habit of shutting the down before actually stopping.
Whatever gear it was in when I got out would be the gear it was in when I got back in.
Has that habit bit me in the ass once or twice?
Couple times inched away on a grade if in 3rd. 1st, 2nd or reverse, It would stay put (except maybe in San Francisco)

I’ve gotten better about stopping before shutting down, but occasionally forget to “Park” it.

 

[Murrk847]

I keep my foot on the brake, put it in Park, engage the ebrake, remove my foot from the brake pedal and push the stop button.

My driveway is uphill and I don't like it rocking back on the transmission. Ok, I'm getting old and I just like doing it that way lol

I have a slight hill. The amount of play in the park always makes me think the truck is going to keep rolling lol. I hate having to use my ebrake every day but it is what it is.

 

[22Platinum]

I use the feature quite regularly and intend to incorporate this:

I remove the seatbelt before parking, if the door is opened before the key is shutoff, ebrake applies and it goes into park.

 

[Dakar09]

This truck with all its driver safety already has me getting complacent. (Auto brake hold, front facing cameras and parking assist, etc). Not adding another bad habit. The second I get into a base model rental car I’m probably going to hit something lol

^This is my thought process on this as well.

My wife's Defender has the Auto Brake Hold at stop lights, etc. I couldn't turn it off fast enough. I have been trained from day one behind the wheel to always look for cars not stopping in time behind me and slamming on the gas (if possible) to get out of the way...and have done it a few times in my almost 40 years of driving. That feature is downright dangerous to me, along with Start/Stop.

Auto park? I agree I wouldn't trust it not to brake. My current car has it but the shifter is more "sequential" and doesn't move much. But I did it once without realizing it and was shocked at my bad behaivor, lol

 

[HDT05]

When we were taught to drive, if you didn't put in park and set the (e) brake then you failed your test... no questions asked and on a hill a stick shift left in reverse/wheels angled in... so we've grown up with always putting the brake on and it's second nature...

I've seen how small a parking pawl is and IMHO it's madness to rely upon it, yet that is exactly what each and every one of our friends does.... so much so that when my son washed a few neighbors cars and returned them they actually couldn't figure out why they couldn't drive them until they were told/figured out to release the brake...

 

[DEEPDOWN]

This truck with all its driver safety already has me getting complacent. (Auto brake hold, front facing cameras and parking assist, etc). Not adding another bad habit. The second I get into a base model rental car I’m probably going to hit something lol

I remember almost hitting another car in the dealers loaner (Ecosport ?), Thinking it had adaptive cruise!

 

[zx6roclet]

I come to full stop. Throw it in neutral, throw on parking brake then throw it in park. The weight of the vehicle is then sitting on the axle /parking brake not the trans parking pawl.

 

[Shane150]

I keep my foot on the brake, put it in Park, engage the ebrake, remove my foot from the brake pedal and push the stop button.

My driveway is uphill and I don't like it rocking back on the transmission. Ok, I'm getting old and I just like doing it that way lol

Some instagram video is going around that shows it is better to place in neutral first, engage ebrake and then place in park. I don't know if that is beneficial or not but I do exactly what you do as I have a sloped driveway and I hate for the transmission gears to prevent 6000lbs from rolling.

 

[My 2ND Ford]

Some instagram video is going around that shows it is better to place in neutral first, engage ebrake and then place in park. I don't know if that is beneficial or not but I do exactly what you do as I have a sloped driveway and I hate for the transmission gears to prevent 6000lbs from rolling.

As I understand , the park pawl is quite robust. However a problem can arise when too much pressure in the form of the vehicles weight prevents the park pawl from disengaging. That is why it would be a good idea to engage the e-brake before shifting to park. Not that I do it, but it's a good idea.

 

[SomebodyInGNV]

I come to full stop. Throw it in neutral, throw on parking brake then throw it in park. The weight of the vehicle is then sitting on the axle /parking brake not the trans parking pawl.

+1. I've been in situations where it was really hard to get the transmission out of park because the weight of the car was on the park pin (pawl?) in the transmission.

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