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Beware of parking on a slope!

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  • Lemonade_Pockets
    Lemonade_Pockets Posts: 1,162 Forumite
    DGJsaver wrote: »
    You cant out a car in reverse when it`s not started.......can you ????

    Yes...........
  • scheming_gypsy
    scheming_gypsy Posts: 18,410 Forumite
    wallacebob wrote: »
    In very cold weather, don't use hand brake at all, as it may freeze on! Don't hold me liable for that one tho'.

    tis true.. i bust my handbrake last february, got up to take the car for the MOT, handbrake had frozen and i heard a loud doink and cloink as i took it off and, yep, failed on the handbrake.
  • pulliptears
    pulliptears Posts: 14,583 Forumite
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    Lorian wrote: »
    OP said it was in gear though. Either very strange thawing effect or maybe someone could have given it a help?

    mine was in gear as well :o
    Very very slow slippage, but scary stuff.

    A few years ago it snowed really heavily we were crawling up our hill of a street, when a car parked on a fairly steep drive suddenly slid out of the drive and across the road in front of us. It came to rest by a wall. Never seen anything like it before, very strange to just see it come out of the drive like that.
  • postmanpat68
    postmanpat68 Posts: 154 Forumite
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    scheming_gypsy wrote: »
    tis true.. i bust my handbrake last february, got up to take the car for the MOT, handbrake had frozen and i heard a loud doink and cloink as i took it off and, yep, failed on the handbrake.
    My handbrake on my pug 307 has been frozen on while at work for the past few days and on a pug forum apparently its very common. time to just leave the handbrake off and in gear.
    EX POSTIE.
  • rictus123
    rictus123 Posts: 2,560 Forumite
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    Very common in pugs im told postman. If you really are a postman 2 things

    1 why are you not at work
    2 good idea not being at work in this
    Work in progress...Update coming July 2012.
  • postmanpat68
    postmanpat68 Posts: 154 Forumite
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    rictus123 wrote: »
    Very common in pugs im told postman. If you really are a postman 2 things

    1 why are you not at work
    2 good idea not being at work in this

    1, we do get the odd day off you know.
    2, i am a collection driver so no early mornings for me but damn cold when i finish.
    EX POSTIE.
  • Wig
    Wig Posts: 14,139 Forumite
    Lorian wrote: »
    OP said it was in gear though. Either very strange thawing effect or maybe someone could have given it a help?

    OP also said he parked it with the front touching the garage door, as the brakes cooled the car may have moved forward until the gears take up the slack, when he returns he finds the car is now pressing hard against the garage door.
  • Lorian
    Lorian Posts: 6,663 Forumite
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    Wig wrote: »
    OP also said he parked it with the front touching the garage door

    No he didn't, and it was nearly a year ago!
  • maninthestreet
    maninthestreet Posts: 16,127 Forumite
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    A 15 degree slope is 1 in 3 ???
    "You were only supposed to blow the bl**dy doors off!!"
  • Wig
    Wig Posts: 14,139 Forumite
    Lorian wrote: »
    No he didn't, and it was nearly a year ago!

    Yep you're right, How did you know I had replied to you?
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