Thread: Death by Land Rover

A lot of drivers don't/won't/can't use the handbrake. I know a bloke with a great Merc and you should hear the bang as he drags it out of park when parked on a slope.
"It's (the handbrake) irrelevant" he says!!!!!
A woman at work drives in with her new LC100 with all the gear, bangs it into park and walks off leaving the turbo timer running. Again no handbrake applied.
Her previous vehicle ran off without the handbrake but she hasn't learned at all from that and luckily it didn't hit anyone elses pride and joy.
Ah the joys of motoring in Perth.
Alan.

I have never relied on the Land Rover hand brake. Always put it on but always leave it in gear too.

That's funny, I actually park in neutral with the handbrake on so I don't inadvertently launch the car into the back wall of my garage when I try to start it next time.

I call it diesel-start-up-torque-phobia.

Oh, but I DO leave it in gear when I park on a slope (with the handbrake).

I never use the hand brake in an auto, but i always use it in manual with it neutral

If I am parking on a slope against a gutter I always turn the wheels so that if it were to roll backwards the wheels wedge into the gutter, I also leave it in gear.

Personally I always use the handbrake and leave it in park.

Also if I'm in a manual I will leave it in whichever gear is opposite of the slope I'm on (1st for flat / incline, reverse if the car is facing down a decline).

Use to drive me nuts when I was in Switzerland and took company cars out as half the people never use to leave the handbrake on, just leave the car in gear on a slope. So here I would come and dive in the car - what's the first thing I do in a manual? Yup, put my foot on the clutch - the amount of times I started rolling forward then spent the next 5 minutes swearing and cursing at these guys for not using the flaming handbrake....

well actually should be foot on brake, then clutch

my mother inlaw hates it when i put the handbrake on in her car

she can never get it off again