Johnny-wonk said:
Its not ignoring the Issue. Its avoiding having to deal with it when you wake up and its cold.
To some people, there's no difference between the two. You know someone's going to see your post and think it's ok to just not use their handbrake every winter.
Johnny-wonk said:
Driving your car and dropping the clutch from High RPM's puts WAY more stress on a clutch and drivetrain than leaving it in gear when its cold would. NIssan trannys arent the greatest. But I have NEVER heard of somebody messing up first gear by leaving it in gear...
The logic you're trying to use here is extremely flawed. First you're trying to say it's ok because it puts less wear on the drivetrain than dumping the clutch from high revs. All this says is that dumping the clutch from high revs will put a lot of stress on your clutch (which is true). However, this says nothing about the amount or kind of wear that parking the car in gear without the parking brake causes.
Then you go to say that because you've never heard of someone screwing up their drivetrain that way, it isn't a common problem and is something you don't have to worry about. I don't think I need to explain to you why this is absolute nonsense.
I can understand why you've never heard of this happening though, and I can explain part of it. Leaving your car in 1st gear and putting static load on it while it's parked causes a different wear pattern on the clutch disc than the occasional drag race or excessive clutch slippage during daily driving.
A clutch disc which has been worn down by static loads while parked ends up with uneven spot wear similar to that on an overheated clutch disc (discolored spots on the disc). This results in slippage at weird times (which results in weirdities like jolting while gently accelerating in low gears), which makes drivers misdiagnose the problem. Mechanics apparently tend to miss this, because unlike the usual spot wear caused by overheating and such, there is little discoloration or scouring of the clutch surface. The former mechanic I lived with last year said that it is actually a lot more common than people think. It's just that very few people take notice.