Well...this would suck
- Thread starter Evoex
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Just like in every movie, it's always the brother that takes the first casualty.
Racism.
It's real...
Racism.
It's real...
Jeebus. Those two guys almost got really f'd up. There legs would have been hamburger. Run.
The car was in gear my ass. It was in neutral and ebrake was off. I guess the impact could have popped it into gear.
All I'm gonna say is that when you park a car, especially when you park on an incline, you must engage the parking brake AND park the transmission. With a manual that means first gear.
Also:
As my kid was taught at driving lessons, turn the wheel all the way to the right if there is no curb. 9/10 neighbors of my don't do this part.
Never jump in front of a moving car. It has the right of weight.
He wasn't on much of an incline. Car started in the garage which should be reasonably flat with a small slope for drainage. Agree about the rest though.
Do you turn your wheel when you park in the garage? Seems like that would cause more issues than it solved.
Maybe not much of an incline! I think it was objectively enough in this case
Mine is flat, but I turn it slightly. If it rolls, it will hit the part between the doors first, then down the driveway and into a tree or the neighbor's car.
Kid learned this the hard way. I need to get him some rubbing compound to take the house paint off of the side of the car. He just got his G2, so he's still too hard on the gas/soft on the brake, when doing slow maneuvers.
Hah, sure about that? What kind of damage could a car rolling out a garage and down an incline into the street do? Imagine if there was a park across the street or kids playing ball hockey. I'd say they were maybe lucky it hit the parked car.
At least with the wheels turned you potentially only inflict self damage.
Long ago, a friend of ours had her kid take her keys, hop in the car, and shift it into neutral, on a steep driveway, when he was little. He traveled across Gerrard St. and crashed into the house across the street.
If you already have it in park or in gear and the parking brake on the odds are astronomically small that it could roll. If your wife jumps in your car and tries to go straight out (as my wife would), the wheels being turned a bunch would definitely screw her up.
Well...i get it. But I believe there's a little self responsibility we should excercise before we take off. Maybe wheel chocks?
I've thought about it. Basically bolt a speed hump to the garage floor. Back over it, let the car roll back to the hump and you are parked in the perfect spot everytime with no chance of rolling away (should still leave it in parked properly in case someone pushes it).
Almost got hit by a car doing that near my parents house. 50kph road with inclined driveways. Some grandma left the car in park and went in the house. I saw the car rolling so I slowed down the the thing rolled across the road.
Thankfully wasn’t going too fast and it ended up being stopped by the curb across the street.
Thankfully wasn’t going too fast and it ended up being stopped by the curb across the street.
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Now the next interesting point is they were talking about the owner of the M3 having a cage he was going to install in it. Although insurance company totalled it, for a track toy, it seems like a decent starting point. I wonder what they wanted for the buyback.
