Do you ever start to get out of your truck without turning it off?

[mikeru82]

All the time, if you live on a farm you are in and out of it all the time. I wish I could back up and drive through gates with the door open. That e brake thing is stupid.

You can turn of the auto parking brake feature in the Uconnect menu. As for auto park, just get a seat belt extender and keep it buckled in. I have had one of those in every truck I've owned since they added that "safety feature" to protect us from ourselves. I don't even notice it's there, and has the added benefit of making it a little easier to buckle up. This link is just for the picture. I'm aware it's for a 2001 Dodge Ram 1500. I'm just too lazy right now to look up the correct one LOL

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[Richard320]

You can turn of the auto parking brake feature in the Uconnect menu. As for auto park, just get a seat belt extender and keep it buckled in. I have had one of those in every truck I've owned since they added that "safety feature" to protect us from ourselves. I don't even notice it's there, and has the added benefit of making it a little easier to buckle up. This link is just for the picture. I'm aware it's for a 2001 Dodge Ram 1500. I'm just too lazy right now to look up the correct one LOL

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That is brilliant in its simplicity.

 

[834k3r]

No.

But I've lost count of how many times I've shut it off in Drive and got the nasty message on the cluster,

 

[jessed1]

Yep - definitely left my bighorn running. But I've also walked off leaving the snow-blower running in the shed... so not a matter of it being too quite for me.

 

[NWRogue]

Only once so far. Parked in the Lowe's parking lot, went inside, got my stuff, back to the truck and yep, truck is still running.
Thought it was interesting it let me get that far away and keep running. At least I did remember to lock it.

My wife keeps leaving it unlocked. Unintentionally I believe as she grabs the handle when she pushes the button to lock the doors. Wonderful "feature" that is.

 

[Scap]

Same here. But one day it somehow unclipped and fell in between the seat and console. Took me almost an hour to find it. Now it's on a carabiner and a lanyard

Belt AND suspenders....I like it.

 

[theeuroguy]

I just left mine running at Kroger! Luckily someone noticed it

 

[TReX-RAM]

I turn it off, I just forget to put it in park sometimes. I got too comfortable in a couple of euro cars that all you needed to do was push the ignition off button and it shifted automatically into park.

 

[HandyCruiser]

Not the Ram. But I did leave one of our Chrysler 300s cars running a couple of times. Once I came out of the grocery store after shopping almost an hour and there it was running. That one convinced me to start paying closer attention and making sure it was shut off. I didn't have this problem with the Charger R/T or Scat Pack because those cars had active exhaust and were fairly loud at idle.

I will admit, our new Laramie is a bit too quiet at idle. After driving it a while, I really do want louder exhaust on it. But I'm not sure the cost is justified. The quality bolt-on kits are fairly expensive and I'm not sure what a cut and weld performance muffler would sound like. Plus, cutting on a new $65K vehicle just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

 

[BNeal]

My wife and I went to lunch a couple months back and when we returned to the truck, it was still running. Wife never noticed... I didn't say a thing!

 

[Gipraw]

Nope. One benefit of running a Borla ATAK.
I do understand how it can happen, though. I have a 2015 Fusion Hybrid, and I can’t count the number of times I have gotten out of it without turning it off. Thank god it honks at you when the key leaves the car and it is still on. It also turns itself off after 20 minutes of you don’t go back and do it.

 

[nc_beagle]

I've not done it but only because I'm conditioned to let the turbo cool down after driving (I have another thread on that topic) so I sort of have a "shut down ritual" that I go through while I let it idle for a few moments.

 

[yankeefan31569]

i
went
into walmart came
out
truck was
running
last month forgot
to turn it off.

 

[SD Rebel]

No.

But I've lost count of how many times I've shut it off in Drive and got the nasty message on the cluster,

I do that all the time because I like to set the parking brake first, let the truck settle in neutral before putting it in park. Sometimes I turn it off before putting in park, luckily the truck is smart enough to fix that by doing it for me.

 

[Mountain Whiskey]

No.

 

[Mountain Whiskey]

I do that all the time because I like to set the parking brake first, let the truck settle in neutral before putting it in park. Sometimes I turn it off before putting in park, luckily the truck is smart enough to fix that by doing it for me.

You know it has feature that automatically sets the parking brake when you put it in park? Why do you set it before hand? The automatic feature happens in a second. Makes it hard to forget to set the brake too.

 

[SD Rebel]

You know it has feature that automatically sets the parking brake when you put it in park? Why do you set it before hand? The automatic feature happens in a second. Makes it hard to forget to set the brake too.

I actually have it set, but it still allows too much movement after I release the brake pedal. The whole point of neutral, set parking brake, allow to settle and then park is to avoid any stress on the parking pawl.

The auto parking brake doesn't do it that well, especially since the locations I have to park are typically on hilly terrain. On a flat surface it works ok, often times I don't bother to do the parking brake in neutral step if I'm parking on a flat surface.

In the scheme of things does it matter how much stress you put on the pawl? Not sure, but I rather not let the truck rest on it while on a hill.

 

[popcenator]

I actually have it set, but it still allows too much movement after I release the brake pedal. The whole point of neutral, set parking brake, allow to settle and then park is to avoid any stress on the parking pawl.

The auto parking brake doesn't do it that well, especially since the locations I have to park are typically on hilly terrain. On a flat surface it works ok, often times I don't bother to do the parking brake in neutral step if I'm parking on a flat surface.

In the scheme of things does it matter how much stress you put on the pawl? Not sure, but I rather not let the truck rest on it while on a hill.

I do the same thing, but I utilize the auto parking brake feature. If you wait a few seconds before releasing the brake after putting the truck into park, you can feel the parking brake catch the truck. There's no movement when I release the brake. We all have our routines though so I get the steps you take.

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[SD Rebel]

I do the same thing, but I utilize the auto parking brake feature. If you wait a few seconds before releasing the brake after putting the truck into park, you can feel the parking brake catch the truck. There's no movement when I release the brake. We all have our routines though so I get the steps you take.

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I have my auto lock engaged as well, even if I wait after putting it in park, it does move and make contact with the pawl. But most of my parking is on inclines/hills, which is why I manually engage the parking brake first in neutral and let it settle.

On flat parking, I just put it in park, the auto parking brake works well enough in those situations.

 

[SBrentnall]

Just did it for the first time today. Got out, locked the doors, picked up my mobile order from Starbucks, and came back to find the truck still running.