SnailPower
Autocross Newbie
- Location
- North NJ
- Car(s)
- 2017 GTI MT, PP, LP
I threw this here so it isn't only VW related...
So I used to own an Srt4 about 15 years ago. I probably had it for about 1 month at this point. I had a habit of never parking with the e-brake and only throwing my cars in 1st gear to park them unless I was on a serious incline. Did it with my previous manual and kept it up...
I parked it outside of a Borders book store (no longer there) in the parking lot. I go inside, reading my usual car magazines and come back out. My car is gone. I'm like, WTF? I turn my head completely to the left and there is my car in some grass and half the car had jumped the curb, lol. I'm immediately thinking, HOLY CRAP! Like, what if someone was walking behind it when it began to roll backwards, another car was driving through the parking lot, if another car would have parked behind it in it's path, so many bad thoughts.
I did the walk of shame and got in and drove off the curb and away I went. Never again did I park in 1st gear only, lol.
I got more like that and not necessarily my own story but would start with this one.
So I used to own an Srt4 about 15 years ago. I probably had it for about 1 month at this point. I had a habit of never parking with the e-brake and only throwing my cars in 1st gear to park them unless I was on a serious incline. Did it with my previous manual and kept it up...
I parked it outside of a Borders book store (no longer there) in the parking lot. I go inside, reading my usual car magazines and come back out. My car is gone. I'm like, WTF? I turn my head completely to the left and there is my car in some grass and half the car had jumped the curb, lol. I'm immediately thinking, HOLY CRAP! Like, what if someone was walking behind it when it began to roll backwards, another car was driving through the parking lot, if another car would have parked behind it in it's path, so many bad thoughts.
I did the walk of shame and got in and drove off the curb and away I went. Never again did I park in 1st gear only, lol.
I got more like that and not necessarily my own story but would start with this one.