Thankfully I have a [proper!] good old fashion handbrake on my 987.2 CS rather than the 'parking brake' as it's now referred to in the American fashion. In their quest for cleaner centre consoles the interior designers have deigned that the mechanical lever-actuated system is far too big and clumsy and has to be replaced by a non-tactile button, or similar - a bad move in my opinion, but that's just the way things are now that auto 'boxes have become the norm, accompanied by the annoying adoption of foot brake use when stationary in traffic. [I appreciate that's commonly-taught practice these days but I'm old-school and still follow the 'handbrake-on-out-of-gear' procedure on my manual car, which means at least I'm not dazzling the driver immediately behind me].
Although many manufacturers have chosen to place the parking brake switch/button at an ergonomic location on the centre console where it's close to hand, Porsche seem to have chosen about the most inconvenient and non-ergonomic location possible down by your right knee and compounded the error by making its operation totally counter-intuitive - push for on; pull for off! Back-to-front obviously, but then the same could be said for the original Tiptronic/PDK stick operation - push to change-up; pull to change-down - now corrected in the latest models, so Porsche's track record isn't great in that respect. In fact I've long thought that when visiting the Stuttgart design centre you'd be able to pick out the person responsible for switch design - they'd be walking backwards everywhere.!!
Jeff
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Apparently, when they get old, they throw up a variety of errors. Including this one.
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