ever forgot to apply your handbrake

[weeds]

first time for me yesterday

in a rush to get back to work after making a quick delivery i forgot to apply the handbrake........sitting at my desk i get a phone call asking if i normally apply my handbrake as my defender had made new friends in the car park

yep, damn defender rolled across the car park ad hits another car

expensive week

oh and i never select first gear, only handbrake.............habit i got into when i was on the defence force, might start doing it although breaking old habit can be hard

and man was the new employee a little unhappy, like it was only his bonnet and bumper

i wonder what the damage would have been if i didn't have a bull bar

[easo]

What a bugger Kelvin.

Easo

[vnx205]

No, but I know what you mean about habits being hard to break.

I deliberately cultivated the habit when I got my first car of removing the key as part of the same action as turning off the ignition. It seemed like a good idea to avoid the possibility of leaving the keys in the car.

The problem arose when I spent a few weeks working on a farm. Almost every time I drove the farm ute, someone who wanted to use the ute after me had to come looking for me as the keys were in my pocket.

Not as expensive as your incident, but it happened often enough to become embarrassing. :oops2:

[Reads90]

Had one fail on an old rangie I had

The car rolled down a hill backwards and straight though a porta cabin between two workers sat at their desk

Expensive day


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[V8Ian]

I never use my handbrake, but I do use park.:angel:

[Ausfree]

Been there, done that, luckily nothing was damaged!!:)

[muddymech]

done both, often leave the hand brake on, have destroyed a few brake shoes.

some times leave brake off especally in 90 as it never seems to work, but always park in gear.

luckily i always take keys out of the defender, but leave the keys in work cars. however took me a while to get out of the habit of leaving engine running all day, a throw back to working in uk in winter time. After about 6 hours on tick over a defender temp gauge needle nearly moves, now the f350 we had thats a different story they were like furnaces.

[harry]

wot's a hand brake?

mine has a p on the gear selector.

[Ace]

I have never done it but my boss when i was working at the Dairy at the UNI in wagga used to be on our backs about our attention to detail until he left the park brake off on the farms hilux. it rolled 100m down a hill and got wedged between two silo's. He got off our back about attention to detail after that :D

[Mick_Marsh]

i wonder what the damage would have been if i didn't have a bull bar
Did it mow down a few dozen pedestrians on the way?

[JDNSW]

Many years ago, my next door neighbour in Melbourne arrived home from work one evening, parked his new Alpha on the (almost) level bit of his steep drive, just in front of the garage, and got out to open the garage door (no door openers in those days!). He slammed the door, and this was enough to start it moving down the drive, having failed to apply the handbrake. Fortunately there was no traffic on the road, and it proceeded across the road, mounted a high kerb, went through a paling fence, a garden bed, and a swimming pool fence, and came to a stop with the back wheels having dropped into the pool. Repairs were quite expensive, as the car had acquired an arched back.

John

[Lostkiwi]

:blush::blush: I have done it.......... 15 or so years ago when i was still living at home.. Had the landie park in the garage with no hand brake applied
Walked away to grab a 9/16th spanner turned around to see the rover rolling back wards out of the shed and down the drive!!:eek::eek: Grabbed the bull bar but by then it was all to late :o Could hear cars coming down the road and I'm there watching my beloved truck and"saying hit the fence, hit the fence HIT THE bloody fence"!!
But no! It misses the corner of the fence by about half an inch and rammed straight into the back of mum's car!! Man did the sh#t hit the fan!:(

[clubagreenie]

oh and i never select first gear, only handbrake.............habit i got into when i was on the defence force, might start doing it although breaking old habit can be hardStrange I always put it in gear, but never let the handbrake ratchet up for the same reason.

[rovers4]

In Tassie, it is an offence to leave a vehicle unattended without applying the handbrake/park brake AND putting it into low gear.

Too many instances of vehicles getting away if only one method used.

While the transmission brakes are effective, there can be a broken/breaking (pardon the pun), cable situation.

Plenty of hills steep enough to overcome the compression if only in gear. Even then, some vehicles start to move with brake applied if pointing up hill.

There are some drives that are so steep that no 2wd vehicle can be safely left on them, pointing up or down.

Even worse if the drives/streets are shaded on a frosty morning.

[Shonky]

I may have... :angel:

Didn't hit anything - I chased it down the street in my undies before it hit my neighbours car. :eek:

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[isuzutoo-eh]

I haven't yet left the handbrake off and also now park in gear, but my Dad always tought me not to leave a diesel in gear as in an instance like Shonky's, the diesel could have started running if it had a mechanical fuel pump and the compression fired it :eek:

[wrinklearthur]

I haven't yet left the handbrake off and also now park in gear, but my Dad always tought me not to leave a diesel in gear as in an instance like Shonky's, the diesel could have started running if it had a mechanical fuel pump and the compression fired it :eek:
Hi
There is a story here in Southern Tasmania, about a Driver of a lowloader / float having a narrow escape. When a large Cat dozer that was left in gear, fired up by itself, broke its tiedown chains and then climbed up the front of the float towards the truck cab ! :o
Cheers Arthur

[George130]

I leave mine in park as I know the hand brake seams to only hold on light slopes or when I want the Defender to role.

I have left it on when driving:angel:.

[dullbird]

I leave mine in park as I know the hand brake seams to only hold on light slopes or when I want the Defender to role.


I have left it on when driving:angel:.

Yep so did Ian once when we drove down and then back up a mountain in France:eek:....he was soooooooo angry, with himself of course:D

[bn172]

guilty as charged!!!! late last year, went into a shop to get a hose clamp, I had parked the D2 with the camper trailer on the back, came back 10 min later to find it parked up against an advertising sign 10 mtr away,:oARB make agreat product, D2 1 sign 0. My wife keeps telling me I'm a ****head i just thought I'd prove it !!!!:angel:

[JDNSW]

I haven't yet left the handbrake off and also now park in gear, but my Dad always tought me not to leave a diesel in gear as in an instance like Shonky's, the diesel could have started running if it had a mechanical fuel pump and the compression fired it :eek:

Many years ago, a field crew I was associated with had a drilling rig mounted on an IH192, petrol engine. One afternoon, the driller gave it a good hose down and left it parked, in gear. Not sure whether the (transmission) brake was on or off, but in any case, it failed to stop first gear. The water got into the electrics, and operated the starter in the middle of the night - on that engine the starter solenoid bypasses the ignition ballast; and the ignition switch (worth remembering if using the starter to turn the engine while working on it). The engine promptly started and it drove towards a nearby creek until it went over the bank and stopped when the rear wheels lost traction.

John

[It'sNotWorthComplaining!]

just tell the new employee is a welcome aboard and initiation for all new employees buy you, then he/she might understand;)