Don't mix when you park your car on them and get out leaving just the hand brake on

Just got back from the shops and parked on a little slope out side the office, got out, it wasn't very slippy even in leather souled work shoes

Got to the office door and started to hear a SSHHSHHHH noise behind me

turn round to see my car sliding slowly to a small wall 6ft in front of it rear wheels locked up and the fronts rotating

Did a 15ft dash back to my car, unlocking as i went and jumped on the brake pedle stopping the car about 1ft away from the wall (now i think a 15ft dash in work shoes in 1.2574sec's is a new world record )

reversed car up and put in gear as well and the car didn't move then, but thought it was best to move it to the now vacant spot that i had early in the day were the snow/ice has melted Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

That's what you call a near miss !!! Stornoway Grey GS ... What a fine motor ... but not any more ... ... psst look at my gallery!
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Wooops - near thing Best always leave it in gear as well as the handbrake on  2007 Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Manual with Premium Pack & Moonroof.
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thing is i always leave my handbrake and engine in gear, for some reason, waving at my accountant, i didn't this time.

For that split second, i remember thinking that shouldn't be moving but i had reactions quicker than Billy the Kidd drawing my key to unlock the door with pin point press of the button

Now if i had press the wrong button, i might have whole different story with my headlights lighting the way into a small wall and beyond Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

npinks wrote:

...... waving at my accountant ......

What sort of wave?

A happy one

A sad one

A mad one


Was it such good news you lost it for a moment  Stornoway Grey GS ... What a fine motor ... but not any more ... ... psst look at my gallery!
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Another advantage to having an Auto then.

P=transmission locked + handbrake= no slide??


Although if if your tyres are warm enough I have had a car initially stay put only 2 mins later for the melted ice to re-freeze and the car go down hill gracefully

Did you get chance to take a photo?

Pleased you managed to stop it could've been nasty! The future's bright, the future's........Tambora Flame!!!

i always park in gear, from when i was taught, i don't think they do that anymore. But i have noticed a number of reports of some cars with self releasing handbrakes, so see no reason to change the habit. 

Glad you got it stopped
I'm the other way, driving what I do most of the time, I don't generally use a handbrake (mine has a silly pedal contraption that's rarely used - just pop it into P) so I've caught myself getting out of the fl a few times, having not put the handbrake on and on a couple of occasions, with it in neutral
Like most folk, when not being an abscent minded , its always left in gear. I had an Escort as a kid. Parked it on the drive, locked it and walked 10 yards away when there was a loud bang from behind and the car started to follow me down the path. Took some acrobatics I couldn't manage now, to hold the car back, whilst unlocking the door and banging it into gear. Handbrakes are never to be trusted.
I did wonder which wheels the FL2 locks in gear - are the rears also locked or does the rear diff disengage when the engines off? 07 Freelander 2 TD4SE Tambora Flame, side steps, privacy glass, mud flaps, boot liner and a tow bar. Ok it's the Wifes but she lets me drive it occasionally - if I've been good!

In San Francisco don't they have a law that obligates all drivers to turn their steering wheels towards the kurb when parked? Should stop most cars from running away.

I had a 55 reg Renault Espace that had an electric hand brake (similar to a Disco 3) but it also turned it's self on when you pressed the engine stop button-which was really useful, the problem being if I drove my old FL1 I would often turn engine off and jump out only to see it roll off into the bushes

Rowy