Handbrake slipped

Swifty09

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Mh now in repairers after handbrake slipped and mh ran down drive with me and a fridge engineer in it. Handbrake slipped off? I always ..........always ........always put it in gear ........ But not on this occasion. Now been 4 weeks await mh parts likely to be after Christmas at best. Not happy no going away after Christmas... Gutted. Always make sure you put you mh in gear when on a slope
 
put my works van on dads drive yesterday , no handbrake but left in gear , after about an hour it decided it didn't like the drive and rolled down drive and halfway across the road ,lucky it aint a busy road , and someone spotted it and knocked on the door ,cos next stop was the river
 
Swifty09 said:
Mh now in repairers after handbrake slipped and mh ran down drive with me and a fridge engineer in it. Handbrake slipped off? I always ..........always ........always put it in gear ........ But not on this occasion. Now been 4 weeks await mh parts likely to be after Christmas at best. Not happy no going away after Christmas... Gutted. Always make sure you put you mh in gear when on a slope
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Both my son and late wife always left the car out of gear no matter how many times I went on and on about it.
My mate did the same on his sloping drive and his car ended up through the garage door !
Now he always leaves it in gear lol !
 
The first time I drove a Saab saloon I found that I had to put it into reverse gear in order to remove the ignition key. Idiosyncratic but a lovely drive!
John
 
A mate of mine left his car on his drive, in gear and the handbrake on, he got up in the morning after a very heavy frost and the car was buried in the garage door. He said it had slipped down on the ice.

I did not believe him but he swore it was the truth.
 
A couple of years ago at Linda's work (a Doctors surgery) someone went to reception and asked who had a grey car as it had rolled across the service road and over a grass verge, then across the main road and across another grass verge, across the service road on the other side of the main road and hit their car which was parked.
It turned out to be a visitor to the house next door.
The amazing thing is how it managed to miss the traffic on the main road.
 
Middle of the night, on an aire in Provence, was woken up by what seemed like someone on the roof....I jumped out of the luton bed, pants on then outside...the van had decided to roll off the flat top level of the ramps. And I'd not put the handbrake on and hadn't left it in gear !
Left it on the tilt till morning, didn't want to disturb folks any with starting the engine.
Easy to forget.

Allen
 
We have a very steep drive so when parked up I leave the van in gear, heavy weight chocks at the rear and heavy wooden blocks at the front, and leave the handbrake off. Not run into the neighbours house yet in 10 years.

John.
 
artheytrate said:
We have a very steep drive so when parked up I leave the van in gear, heavy weight chocks at the rear and heavy wooden blocks at the front, and leave the handbrake off. Not run into the neighbours house yet in 10 years.

John.
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Hi John,
Just wondering why you don't put the handbreak on - I have seen a few other people saying the same thing.
Thanks
R
 
rosetube said:
Hi John,
Just wondering why you don't put the handbreak on - I have seen a few other people saying the same thing.
Thanks
R
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If Parked up for any length of time the handbrake can stick on.

Before anyone says that they use their motorhomes and not on the drive long enough, My 2014 Auto sleeper Broadway has just done over 8000 miles from new.
John..
 
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hand brakes do not slip as there multi toothed,they are worn by bad driver use pulling them up without pushing the button in until top found then let out button and one finel pull.its easy to know the bad drivers as you can here the ratchet when they park up.
 
trevskoda said:
hand brakes do not slip as there multi toothed,they are worn by bad driver use pulling them up without pushing the button in until top found then let out button and one finel pull.its easy to know the bad drivers as you can here the ratchet when they park up.
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A worn handbrake ratchet is a failure on the MOT and will be checked by the tester attempting to knock it off! They cannot just slip off and then work again afterwards - but they can easily be blamed after they have been left off?
 
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the thing is as we get older we start to forget things like pulling on the h/brake and of course never admit to it ,now what was i talking about ,never mind i cant remember.:scared::lol-049::wave:
 
Seeing that there are other 'handbrake' stories, I need to tell you mine.
I live on top of a hill, with a road running steeply down the side of the house.
A taxi one morning had stopped at the shop opposite our house and had gone into the shop leaving his car to roll into our garden wall on the side of the steep road.
Luckily the wall stopped the car from heading down the hill, which could have caused a lot of damage or injury after picking up speed down the hill.
Because there was no-one at our home at the time, the taxi driver walked back over to the shop and informed the shopkeeper that he would post his information through our letter box.
Did he? Did he fox! The way we found out was seeing the damaged wall when we got home and going across to the shop and asking the shop keeper...:mad2:
 
When was the last time you saw a vehicle parked with it`s front wheels turned towards the kerb ?

Used to be quite common.
 
back in the days when i had a company car i parked the nearly new mk5 cortina behind a landrover , went in the dealers office for a meeting , came back 3 hours later to find the cortina had moved forward a foot, bemper resting against the landrovers quarter bumpers with the spotlights between them. ivenever trusted handbrakes since


this morning i went out to pick up some rockery stone.... reversed the car and trailer up the sloping drive, applied the handbrake firmly, car and trailer stationary on slope pointing at the open gate and road. so selected first gear.
hour later with about a ton of stone in the trailer i hops, in foot on clutch to start car.... it starts to roll forward with handbrake still on. was well within the cars 2 ton towing limit so handbrake should have held the weight on its own.
all handbrakes are held on by a cable under tension , im convinced they stretch a bit under load and slowly release a tiny bit of tension over an hour or so. not normally enough to notice but just enough when youre on a bit of a slope with weight on.
 
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