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When Driving
Brake
CAUTION
      Do not drive with your foot held on the
clutch pedal or brake pedal, or hold
the clutch pedal depressed halfway
unnecessarily. Doing so could result in
the following:
     
The clutch and brake parts will wear
out more quickly.
     
The brakes can overheat and
adversely aff ect brake performance.
      Always depress the brake pedal with
the right foot. Applying the brakes with
the unaccustomed left foot could slow
your reaction time to an emergency
situation resulting in insuffi
cient braking
operation.
     
Wear shoes appropriate for driving in
order to avoid your shoe contacting
the brake pedal when depressing the
accelerator pedal.
Parking Brake
CAUTION
Driving with the parking brake on
will cause excessive wear of the brake
parts.
NOTE
For parking in snow, refer to Winter
Driving (page 3-49 ) regarding parking
brake use.
Setting the parking brake
Depress the brake pedal and then
fi
rmly
pull the parking brake lever fully upwards
with suf
fi
cient force to hold the vehicle in
a stationary position.
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