My story is that soon after I bought the car my wife and I went to the movies - when we came out there was a large rock behind the rear wheel and a note on the windshield asking me to set the brake next time - the theater workers had pushed the car back into the parking spot for me. I looked and saw the brake was still pulled up - not far enough and it was not in gear. Last time I did that!

 

What gear do you guys put it in?

 

[QUOTE=xviper,Apr 7 2006, 01:34 PM] This is taught by every driving school and tested by every agency in towns and cities where there are significant hills.

 

1st or reverse. These two have the best mechanical advantage in terms of holding a car's weight on an incline. I use 1st.

 

i just stall it in gear when its time to park..boom..simple ...yay

 

yeah leaving in gear good idea, its been a habit for me since i started driving mannual

 

x2

 

Sorry for LMAO



I haven't had a laugh like this in a while

 

First off, I'm real sorry to hear about your car koshiro.

Secondly, this reminds me of something similar (but a hell of a lot funnier) that happened to a co-worker about ten years ago. Part of my friend's morning ritual was to move his beautifully restored TR6 out of the way so his wife could back out of the driveway. He'd then pull back in and continue getting ready for work. Well one morning after doing this he's drinking his coffee looking out the kitchen window towards his driveway (in his underwear, I might add), and sees his TR6 rolling sloooowly down the driveway. My friend, who was in his late fifties, and was well, big for his age, managed to grab the front bumper just as it reached the street. But there was no stopping the car, and it bounded, with him in tow, Flintstone-style, right over the shallow ditch on the other side of the road and right into the neighbor's house!
Well the car blasts right thru the wall, into the neighbor's sleeping teenage daughter's room. Still in bed, she starts screaming her head off when she sees the car in her bedroom. She screams even louder, now joined by her father ,when they see my friend, dressed for work in shirt, tie, and underwear, standing in the new hole in their house.

Luckily no one was hurt, and surprisingly the car was barely damaged, but try to imagine the response my friend got from the girl's dad, and their insurance companies, when he tried to explain the whole thing!


So the lessons here are:

1) ALWAYS park your car in gear

2) ALWAYS wear clean underwear

 

I am not sure if I am doing this properly. I have been driving manual for only a month now. When it comes time to park, I put the clutch in, hold brake, pull ebrake, put it into 1st or R, turn off engine, let off clutch.

Should I be doing it this way instead? Or is it the same thing? Clutch in, hold brake, put in N, pull ebrake, clutch out, turn off car, clutch in, put in 1 or R, clutch out.