oops, my car rolled away.
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Racer
Joined: Dec 2006
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From: Houston TX
oops, my car rolled away.
i am lucky i didn't kill anyone.
i was on a long drive and stopped to use the rest room. SOP is to put the car in 3rd and go in. that's fine in Houston, TX and most other places but this day on this slope i guess i didn't have it all the way in gear or something and it slowly rolled backward down a hill. not more than 20 feet and came to a stop in some bushes. no damage and no real speed involved.
i have driven stick shifts for about 20 years and they have never rolled like this before.
i was on a long drive and stopped to use the rest room. SOP is to put the car in 3rd and go in. that's fine in Houston, TX and most other places but this day on this slope i guess i didn't have it all the way in gear or something and it slowly rolled backward down a hill. not more than 20 feet and came to a stop in some bushes. no damage and no real speed involved.
i have driven stick shifts for about 20 years and they have never rolled like this before.
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i am lucky i didn't kill anyone.
i was on a long drive and stopped to use the rest room. SOP is to put the car in 3rd and go in. that's fine in Houston, TX and most other places but this day on this slope i guess i didn't have it all the way in gear or something and it slowly rolled backward down a hill. not more than 20 feet and came to a stop in some bushes. no damage and no real speed involved.
i have driven stick shifts for about 20 years and they have never rolled like this before.
i was on a long drive and stopped to use the rest room. SOP is to put the car in 3rd and go in. that's fine in Houston, TX and most other places but this day on this slope i guess i didn't have it all the way in gear or something and it slowly rolled backward down a hill. not more than 20 feet and came to a stop in some bushes. no damage and no real speed involved.
i have driven stick shifts for about 20 years and they have never rolled like this before.
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St. Jude Donor '06-'07
May you never roll again and the lever closest to the passenger is the emergency brake, not the ejection lever like you thought....
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As a representative of the forum, I should take your car and try it out for a few years. I just want to make sure that it is ok. Would not want to see you get in any kind of trouble, you know.
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