Not enough time to find a little silver brake lever while you're rolling & bouncing backwards in a free fall while still trying to figure why you're rolling backwards and the car won't stop!
If your battery is low on juice even just a little too much, and it doesn't take much since the starter draws so much power, the A.S.S. stops working. The system will disable itself if the battery isn't fully charged. I was driving a short distance back to back a few times and my battery didn't charge enough in between stopping and parking and my A.S.S. stopped working.
Unless it's an ABS failure
So I am no expert off roader, however, I would hardly say I'm green. This happened today and I am at a loss, possibly financially, but more importantly I don't know what actually went wrong. I have wheeled plenty of times in this Bronco since Aug 2022, I have been up this hill...successfully twice before...with plenty of witnesses. I have been up many other hills, in fact this wasn't even the steepest today, as I had done a 39 degree hill earlier, this one was likely upper 20's, lower 30's. I have stalled the Bronco before, it's always restarted before and I've never lost brakes no matter at what angle and what grade. So I really have no idea what caused this. It stalled out around a 1:00 in and I lost power to everything. I did like everyone else yelling brakes, LOL! Tailgate is shot, bumper is shot, driver mirror also shot. It appears that the quarter panels and hardtop were unharmed.
Concerning repair, yes this is posted, either Ford or my insurance will cover it or they won't. If Ford won't I will try my insurance, if this is excluded from coverage, shame on me for not having this coverage, I will not commit insurance fraud in case anyone calls me stupid for posting this. My real aim is to figure out what went wrong. Total damage best I can figure is roughly $3000-4000. Oddly the real rip off is the side mirror based on my quick research.
That is not true. I have tested mine at about 5-10 mph and it restarts itself.
Yeah, I think I have started it before rolling, but I wonder if the grade and/or loss of vacuum pressure or something else in combination prevented it from starting. The more I see these comments, the more I think I screwed up and simply should have made a different decision and I simply did not and made, while not the worst decision, I didn't make the best decision as it all turns out. Based on comments and common knowledge, I doubt Ford will do anything.
Clutch in, in gear? It very well could be only in reverse, that’s the only time I clearly remember it being like I say
