Now i wonder what the stick is for?

[XcOM]

this guy, at top of our road, forgot to put there handbreak on (Park break) and there car rolled down the hill, missing ours by a mear few feet, and hit a lamp post!

result after he pulled it forwards:

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/TBCS_Group/xcom/iMG_0033.JPG

I've just had to move our car so the engineers can cut the lamp post down as he knocked it over quite a lot as you can see, but what you can't see is he put a huge throu and through crack, only the ree-bar holding it together!

[chaksq]

Some chick I went to high school with did that. Had a classic beetle convertible, too much of a ditz to use the parking brake, car rolled down the parking lot and hit another car. That was just one of way to many car accidents she causes. Never saw that classic beetle after that, damn shame.

This reminds me, I need to fix the handbrake on my project car.

[SXRguyinMA]

that sucks lol. bet he'll remember to use a handbrake from now on. new to driving a stick is he?

[XcOM]

stick over here is the norm, even cars like mine (Automatic, the norm over in us i assume) have handbreaks

[Airbozo]

stick over here is the norm, even cars like mine (Automatic, the norm over in us i assume) have handbreaks

Yes, most cars sold in Europe are manual transmission. Heck if you want to rent an automatic in Europe, you have to reserve way in advance and pay lots extra IF you can find anyone to rent an automatic.

The US is exactly opposite. Most cars are automatic and just try and rent a car with a manual transmission. I dare you.

Only OLD people and handicaps should drive an automatic. In fact, IMNSHO you should have to have a special license to be able to drive an auto.

But yes, ALL cars come equipped with a parking brake, not necessarily a handbrake.

One of my neighbors guests forgot to set her parking brake and her car slid down the hill and landed in our other neighbors downstairs tv room. Just passing through.

[crenn]

That car may not have a hand brake but a foot pedal with activates the parking brake.

As for driving stick, I'm still a learner, but I'm more leaning towards learning to drive manual. Driving auto is dead easy.

[msmrx57]

When I was in school and still living at with my parents, the guy across the street (uphill with a steep driveway) went out and started his truck to let it warm up. Well his parking brake failed to hold the truck as he's standing in his livingroom looking at the snow he sees the truck roll down the hill, hit my dads car push it back into my car and push mine back until it hit the garage door.Luckily the only real damage was the headlights and grill on dads car aand small hole in garage door from my trailer hitch.

[blueonblack]

I drive a stick just about every day and I can't remember the last time I used the park brake. I just leave it in gear. Seems a lot easier to me, any of you gearheads see anything wrong with that? (At least until the engine wears out to the point that the compression on the pistons won't hold it back...)

[billygoat333]

my ex in-laws had their garage smashed through by a 1 ton truck that the guy left runnin in neutral and forgot to put the park brake on the hill above their house. sucked.

[FuzzyPlushroom]

My car is (unfortunately) an automatic, and I still set the parking brake on anything resembling a hill.

[XcOM]

That car may not have a hand brake but a foot pedal with activates the parking brake....

its a rule in the UK, all cars MUST have a handbrake of some sort, the only car on the market was a VW passat which had a button activated break, but when you pressed it it moved a motor which still put a manual break on the rear wheels.

It got removed as it was deamed too dangerous by the government.


As for driving stick, I'm still a learner, but I'm more leaning towards learning to drive manual. Driving auto is dead easy.

I always recommend learning to drive manual (Stick) as its harder to drive, then when you get an auto, its piss easy, also over here you can drive an auto on a manual license but you can't the other way round.


anyway, our hill is quite steep at the top, so why didn't he turn the weels into the kerb to stop it rolling?

[Airbozo]

its a rule in the UK, all cars MUST have a handbrake of some sort, the only car on the market was a VW passat which had a button activated break, but when you pressed it it moved a motor which still put a manual break on the rear wheels.

It got removed as it was deamed too dangerous by the government.



I always recommend learning to drive manual (Stick) as its harder to drive, then when you get an auto, its piss easy, also over here you can drive an auto on a manual license but you can't the other way round.


anyway, our hill is quite steep at the top, so why didn't he turn the weels into the kerb to stop it rolling?


I am pretty sire that most countries have some sort of handbrake law.

I DIDN'T know that you had 2 types of licenses for auto or manual. In the US there is no designation between the 2 types of vehicles. There are special licenses for Motorcycles, commercial vehicles and a couple of levels for large trucks (including multiple trailers).

The automatic can be likened to the point and click camera vs the fully functional SLR.

The road I drive to work shows you the difference between an auto or manual transmission. Get behind someone with an automatic transmission and you will be smelling brakes all the way to work and generally going slower than someone with a manual due to all the corners and twisties.

Meh, to each his own I guess. Like my friend says, only those with automatic transmission need to brake uphill. (he IS a loony when it comes to automatics...)

[XcOM]

I am pretty sire that most countries have some sort of handbrake law.

I DIDN'T know that you had 2 types of licenses for auto or manual. In the US there is no designation between the 2 types of vehicles. There are special licenses for Motorcycles, commercial vehicles and a couple of levels for large trucks (including multiple trailers).

The automatic can be likened to the point and click camera vs the fully functional SLR.

The road I drive to work shows you the difference between an auto or manual transmission. Get behind someone with an automatic transmission and you will be smelling brakes all the way to work and generally going slower than someone with a manual due to all the corners and twisties.

Meh, to each his own I guess. Like my friend says, only those with automatic transmission need to brake uphill. (he IS a loony when it comes to automatics...)

we have several license types here, manual car, Automatic car, 7.5 Tonne trucks, LGV, HGV, PCV, Motorbike under and inc 50cc, motorbike over 50cc and trikes are a bit of a gray area.

You also need to take another test to tow anything over a certain weight and or size.

http://www.dvlni.gov.uk/images/paperlic97.jpg

also you need not brake going uphill, just change down gears, all autos i've driven can do it, i also can keep up with manuals, but over here i think the cars are slightly different in the way the auto system works, also our cars are lighter and more efficient due to our rip off petrol (Gas) prices, hitting £4.50 a gallon ($8)

[Airbozo]

we have several license types here, manual car, Automatic car, 7.5 Tonne trucks, LGV, HGV, PCV, Motorbike under and inc 50cc, motorbike over 50cc and trikes are a bit of a gray area.

Man, say what you will about bureaucracy, but this makes more sense to me. I would also like to see an additional license class for SUV's. If you can't parallel park it, you can't drive it.


You also need to take another test to tow anything over a certain weight and or size.

http://www.dvlni.gov.uk/images/paperlic97.jpg

also you need not brake going uphill, just change down gears, all autos i've driven can do it, i also can keep up with manuals, but over here i think the cars are slightly different in the way the auto system works, also our cars are lighter and more efficient due to our rip off petrol (Gas) prices, hitting £4.50 a gallon ($8)

Most of the cars I have driven with automatic transmissions are the same way (except that 1964 Barracuda with push button transmission). In fact the owners manual says right in it to shift down a gear to slow down when going down hill. People just like the point and drive method without getting involved in the cars running. Those are the people that need brake jobs every 5,000 miles. Push on one pedal and go, push on the other and stop. My mother in law is like that. She bought a Convertible Mustang GT with automatic transmission. With her it is full gas or full brake. Her merging skills on the freeway are impressive!

The main thing that confused me when driving in Scotland was not driving on the opposite side of the road, it was shifting with the left hand... Threw me off several times. Only once did I start out on the wrong side of the road.

[Omega]

I use the e-brake whenever my vehicle is off and not moving.

Parked on a perfectly level street?
e-brake and put it in park
my driveway, which is sloped, e-brake and neutral, then once the car's off, put it in park

[Airbozo]

I use the e-brake whenever my vehicle is off and not moving.

Parked on a perfectly level street?
e-brake and put it in park
my driveway, which is sloped, e-brake and neutral, then once the car's off, put it in park

Jeez Omega, not sure what you are worried about, you drive a Volvo. That thing can't roll fast enough to do any damage...


;)

[Luke122]

Jeez Omega, not sure what you are worried about, you drive a Volvo. That thing can't roll fast enough to do any damage...

;)

..to itself at least. Bricks can destroy lesser cars at low speed.

[Airbozo]

This is a site long since forgotten, but used to be my home page when the guy was updating it regularly. Now I only drive a short portion of HWY 17, thankfully not the up-and-over-the-hill part.

http://web.archive.org/web/19990128161811/www.got.net/~egallant/the_road.html

Check out the Jerque du Jour page and repeat offenders.

I met the guy that used to own that page and he was a real card.

[xRyokenx]

I really would prefer driving stick over automatic. It seems like more fun and better for the car if one can learn to drive stick well enough. Most people seem to like flooring their cars and getting it up to 6k when it goes to shift gears.

I just got back from going to NE to get a car and arrived empty handed except for my now empty bank accounts... mom and bro were in the other car so when I blacked out from my blood sugar crashing way too fast nobody was there to stop me from hitting that tree. Ugh. /potential thread derailer ><

[XcOM]

nice work dude, and somethings waiting till 6k isn't rite, becides my car rev's all the way upto 7.5k before it red lines.

but by rites you should change up when you come top the end of your power band, so you will remain in the powerband when you change

[billygoat333]

speaking of emergency/hand brakes, my stupid hand brake lever broke. the little plastic piece that holds the lever in place instead of just dropping back down to disengaged broke. so now I have no emergency/hand brake (at least its useless for parking, I can still use it for e-brake slides :P ) and it sucks.

[p0Pe]

at least its useless for parking, I can still use it for e-brake slides :P

pfff... who uses it for anything else? just look at the guy in post #1 :banana:

[billygoat333]

pfff... who uses it for anything else? just look at the guy in post #1 :banana:


very true haha. i am still in such a habit that I will pull the e-brake just to have it slap back down after I let go. then I feel like crying. lol

[Omega]

very true haha. i am still in such a habit that I will pull the e-brake just to have it slap back down after I let go. then I feel like crying. lol

http://thebornotaku.com/images/laugh2.gif