Chat & Social > The Bar - General Chat

Cautionary tale for automatic drivers (PS Im Stoopid)

<< < (2/2)

JumboBeef:

--- Quote from: carbore on August 16, 2008, 20:50:19 ---NEVER EVER MOVE AN AUTO WITHOUT THE ENGINE RUNNING!
--- End quote ---

Unless you've ever driven an old motor, like a SII Landy.  Nothing powered on them, you just have to stand on the brakes and pray!

lee celtic:
we had a 1973 Pontiac firebird (big mat black thing drag tyres side pipes etc etc) it also had a quick silver shifter fitted . With this shifter you just hit the stick forwards or backwards to change gear .

My mate was heading to the inlaws house to pick his misses up and came to the back of a que of cars , he sat for a while then got out to see if he could spot the blockage only to see blue lights outside the inlaws ...

fearing the worst he decided to take another route that comes out right by the house (back road) he spins the car round and starting drag style in first drive he floors it (now in panic) slaps it into second then hits it for third .  and here comes the bad bit , he slaps it again (don't know why as it's only three speed) it goes through drive and into reverse :shock: :shock: big bang back end locks up black stripes on the road etc etc...

Limps to the house (it would move but only slowly on full revs) and finds Nothing wrong somebody had had a small bump on the junction by the house and the blue light guys were there to block the road while it was swept :roll: :roll:

Car never did get fixed :'(

muddyjames:
Also another top tip is dont become bored of not doing any gears and flick between D and 1 like a manual and forget your in an auto and think when your in D your in 4th and want 3rd so go up 2 clicks to only find reverse!!!

Not that I have ever done this.  :shocked:  :^o Funny noises were made by me and the disco!

Tommo:
Thats what the button is there for!

muddyjames:
I know but I got right into thinking I was in a manual. When I drove corsa vans it had a button to lift for reverse and I played with that whilst bored driving so probably thought the same on the button!

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page