Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 17:02:19 +0000 From: Matthew Exley <henleynopsamed-naafi.org> Subject: Re: Manual Transmission doesn't hold car 9-5 on hill
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 16:07:57 +0000 (UTC), amesnopsamrak.demon.co.uk wrote: [snip] >FWIW:- In San Franciso AFAIK they have a law requiring parked >cars also to have their steerable wheels turned into the kerb, >such as to send roll-aways into the side and not into mid-road. >Good idea, IMHO. (It would have the incidental side benefit of >complicating car thieves' lives.) ...Though if you're referring to the need to break the steering lock, this wouldn't have much effect on our beloved Saabs now would it? As an aside, I actually thought the must-leave-in-reverse-to-remove-key trick Saab pull, regardless of any other so-called safety benefits, was an *excellent* means of forcing you to leave the car in gear for manual transmissions. I mean, it's a habit I've always had anyway (although normally 1st gear for no particular reason), but there do seem to be a LOT of cars out there using either the handbrake (aka "emergency brake" for the left-pondians amongst the audience) or the transmissions but never both. Belt and braces, don't you know? That's a valuable piece of equipment out there and I don't want it running away from me... -- Matthew Exley henleynopsamed-naafi.org Backups? We don' need no steenking backups
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