This happened to me. My driveway is on a modest incline and I parked, left it in 1st without parking brake and went inside. I was on a phone call and looked out window to see my Bronco rolling back towards the street! It was rolling like 6 inches and stopping and then Rolling another 6 inches and stopping. I ran out, jumped it and put the E brake on. I put in R and Ebrake always now when parking.
I mentioned it above, 4th just seemed to be a natural spot to pull into gear on this transmission with the return to neutral in the middle. And while I've driven manuals (2 and 4 wheel) for my entire adult life, I've never had anyone explain which gear you're supposed to use and why. Apparently in my larger engine vehicles gear selection wasn't an issue and the smaller vehicles were light enough that it didn't matter either because I never developed a habit for any particular gear other than reverse when facing down hill.
Unfortunately I have the "capable" bumper, but your point is the same. Yeah I am thankful it was metal and not plastic. Didn't even scratch it.
We must have had the same Drivers Ed teacher!When I got my driver's license, one of the required skills was correctly parking on a hill. Uphill, no curb, turn the wheels right so the car doesn't roll into traffic. Uphill, with a curb, wheels left so the rolling car will have its front wheels hit the curb. Downhill, I am pretty sure it's wheels away from the road.
Indeed.
I was honestly curious. I first learned to drive a manual transmission (not counting tractors) when I was 13 or so. It was a 3 on the tree late 50s Ford pickup. I honestly can't remember "why" or if someone told me to - but I can't remember a time when I didn't put a manual transmission vehicle into Reverse when parking it. The 58 Chevy Apache truck my Dad had doesn't count - Reverse was gone.
I've seen arguments everyway about this. I was taught to park in 1st on an upslope and reverse on a downside to counteract the pull of gravity, snd when you do that the engine will be spinning the opposite way from what it's meant to do. I don't know if that actually adds any resistance over spinning the right way or if it can damage anything. The argument I like and am having a hard time breaking my habits to match, is to put it in the lower ratio of 1st or reverse no matter which way you're pointing, as that will let the engine do the most work holding you. In the case of this vehicle, Crawl wins that contest by a landslide.
Things change. I never had a Drivers Ed teacher growing up in SC. But I remember taking my final driver's test in my '67 SS Chevelle 4 speed with manual steering and manual drum brakes. Parallel parked it too. How things change.We must have had the same Drivers Ed teacher!
I teach HS in AZ and they don't even offer Driver's Ed!We must have had the same Drivers Ed teacher!
