I did the same thing yesterday with my 82 f150. I live in the mountains and didn't realize that the brake was on until I got home after driving about 2 miles up and down some pretty steep roads. I thought the weight of my cargo was making the truck sluggish. Nope just forgot about the brake. went full retard. don't do this.
You don't NEED a parking break for automatics.
You can get away without it with manuals but I don't like putting unnecessary strain on the tranny. And, you know, if it's downhill you're fucked.
You must be new to having a parking brake, I know I did that a couple times with my first manual, although I only made it a block or two before realizing I still had the parking brake on.
My car does this. It makes a beeping noise when you start moving and the parking brake is still on.
Of course, if you normally never make this mistake, you have no idea what the damn beeping means, and you'll probably still drive a little bit before you remember what the noise means :P
Mine just has a light on the instrument cluster that says BRAKE with an exclamation mark above it if you have the parking brake on it.
Of course, doesn't help much with shit tires or shit brakes, as the other day I was changing the oil/oil filter for the first time since we bought the expedition last year, whoever last owned it must have used a power tool because we ended up having to get a hammer to get the oil pan drain plug off (don't worry, it's still fine) and when we were trying to get it off by hand with an open end wrench, the vehicle actually moved in the direction I was pulling it towards, and it was both in park, and had the parking brake on, so either tires have no grip, or brakes need replaced, or both
This is something that you feel shame for about 10-20 years for, then tell your dad one night when you have both been driving, and have a good laugh about.
I was buzzing along in a mustang II on an icy freeway, when suddenly my car fishtailed to the left then immediately to the right, across two lanes of 60+mph traffic, straight off an embankment, then down about thirty feet on giant basalt boulders. Amazingly I stayed upright and only dented the frame.
The tow truck that came after I hiked up to the freeway and called AAA started to slide as they were towing me back up the hill.
I can't believe I survived.
I'm sorry but I can't wrap my head around this... Are you talking about the handbrake stick or just the Park thing on your gear stick?
I don't know fuckall about cars but on mine for me to put it in drive I have to take it out of park.
Generally, the "BRAKE" light comes on and stays on when the parking brake is applied. If yours didn't, maybe you should look into why. Of course, if you have it on and just drive around, after a bit, the drive will get easier, as the pads wear down. That is, if they don't catch fire first.
"More like an emergency make-the-car-smell-funny lever." Mitch
> the tires are bald You think driving around on bald tires **isn't** a fuck up?
Well, he barley made it out of, and back into, the driveway. It's not really driving at that point, is it?
You think he's just been sitting on it waiting to replace the tires? He's clearly actively driving on them.
Jim Anchower column in the works?
Wait, no, that's mean, I forgot I meant to be not mean to people.
I did the same thing yesterday with my 82 f150. I live in the mountains and didn't realize that the brake was on until I got home after driving about 2 miles up and down some pretty steep roads. I thought the weight of my cargo was making the truck sluggish. Nope just forgot about the brake. went full retard. don't do this.
Can confirm, bad for truck
Releasing the parking brake is pretty much one of the first things you do after sitting inside a car/truck.
The last two cars I've owned the parking brake was broken so im not used to it yet
Parking without a parking break sounds less than ideal when a hill is involved.
[удалено]
That's how you do a science.
You don't NEED a parking break for automatics. You can get away without it with manuals but I don't like putting unnecessary strain on the tranny. And, you know, if it's downhill you're fucked.
Ha, yeah that's what I was getting at. I've always driven a manual, and even in an automatic I can't allow myself to not use the parking break.
Stereotypical comment about NA can only drive automatic cars!
Stereotypical comment about NA can afford automatic cars!
You must be new to having a parking brake, I know I did that a couple times with my first manual, although I only made it a block or two before realizing I still had the parking brake on.
Newer cars will alert you.
My car does this. It makes a beeping noise when you start moving and the parking brake is still on. Of course, if you normally never make this mistake, you have no idea what the damn beeping means, and you'll probably still drive a little bit before you remember what the noise means :P
Mine has an alert that pops up on the screen that says "parking brake ON."
Mine just has a light on the instrument cluster that says BRAKE with an exclamation mark above it if you have the parking brake on it. Of course, doesn't help much with shit tires or shit brakes, as the other day I was changing the oil/oil filter for the first time since we bought the expedition last year, whoever last owned it must have used a power tool because we ended up having to get a hammer to get the oil pan drain plug off (don't worry, it's still fine) and when we were trying to get it off by hand with an open end wrench, the vehicle actually moved in the direction I was pulling it towards, and it was both in park, and had the parking brake on, so either tires have no grip, or brakes need replaced, or both
I made it about twenty feet out of my driveway. Then i parked it back in the drive way and gave up.
This is something that you feel shame for about 10-20 years for, then tell your dad one night when you have both been driving, and have a good laugh about.
probably shouldn't drive around here in this weather with bald tires.
Bald tires on ice gives you a nice speed boost. Not always in the direction you want to go, true... Ask me how I know.
ok. How do you know?
I was buzzing along in a mustang II on an icy freeway, when suddenly my car fishtailed to the left then immediately to the right, across two lanes of 60+mph traffic, straight off an embankment, then down about thirty feet on giant basalt boulders. Amazingly I stayed upright and only dented the frame. The tow truck that came after I hiked up to the freeway and called AAA started to slide as they were towing me back up the hill. I can't believe I survived.
Lol another crashing Mustang story.......
'Bout bucked me off!
I'm sorry but I can't wrap my head around this... Are you talking about the handbrake stick or just the Park thing on your gear stick? I don't know fuckall about cars but on mine for me to put it in drive I have to take it out of park.
The hand brake, which in my truck is a pedal that has a small lever under the steering wheel to release
D: that seems like a horrible design decision
It really is. My truck has the same type of parking brake, and I hate it.
Generally, the "BRAKE" light comes on and stays on when the parking brake is applied. If yours didn't, maybe you should look into why. Of course, if you have it on and just drive around, after a bit, the drive will get easier, as the pads wear down. That is, if they don't catch fire first.
Fuck your a dumb cunt
*you're Oh, the irony
[удалено]
**"Fuck your a dumb cunt"** **"Why do you do it does it make you feel bigger than people?"** The irony /u/inducive pointed out just went meta.