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Originally Posted by flatbutt
Well this is a new one...at least in my experience.
My neighbor got a new SUV last month. The other day I noticed a different car in the driveway for several days so I asked what's up. She said the new one needed a bit of repair. OK.
Then the hubby told me why. As she was backing out one day she needed to run back into the house for something. She did so but forgot to put the tranny back into park leaving it in reverse. For whatever reason she didn't notice the car rolling backwards when she jumped out. It rolled down the driveway (at idle) into and across the street, across the neighbors lawn and into a tree hard enough to damage the tailgate.
It needs a new tailgate. Jeez talk about being pre-occupied.
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I’m guilty…
I bought my first brand new truck, a 99 Dodge ram quad cab 4 x 4 on a Saturday.
Leaving for work Monday, I realized I left the inside door open. I pulled back in the garage, put it in park, jumped out, only to find it was in reverse. With the engine, being cold, RPMs or a little higher. And with the door open, it proceeded to push/drag me to the space between the garage door doors.
It bent the door, to the point it wouldn’t close. I took it to the Dodge body shop, and when the guy looked at it, he looked at me and said, you hit the garage door, didn’t you? lol
I took my old 86 Nissan hardbody to work that day, and when everybody asked where my new truck was, I told them there was a little incident that morning and they all busted out laughing!
Since 1999, I have set the parking brake every time I get out of my trucks.