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From: jim on 9 Nov 2009 21:38 Vic Smith wrote: > > If it was the car wouldn't have moved. > But anyway, I never knew a driver that would thing twice about opening > the trunk with a car running in park. What so different about opening the trunk from opening the hood. Probably millions of people have opened the hood with the engine running. -jim > Anybody who says they've never done it is probably lying. > Might be some anal types who use a parking break in flatlands. > I never do, and often get in the trunk or check trans fluid level with > the engine running and the parking brake not set. > Just put it in park. > Oh, I'm a real daredevil, ain't I? Evic Ksmith I am. > Might be more careful with a strange car, and use the e-brake, > but maybe not. Park is park. > Fords have had a number of these supposed incidents. > There was a supervisor who had his legs broken by a Ford sedan in the > steel mills where I worked in 1968. > I'm not convinced they weren't "user error." > Was it ever proved they could slip from park? > Has that ever been determine for ANY car? > Most likely the cars were left in gear. Many autos can sit still in > gear waiting for a slight engine surge to get them rolling. > > --Vic
From: Al Falfa on 9 Nov 2009 21:42 "Vic Smith" <thismailautodeleted(a)comcast.net> wrote in message news:o5ghf55evnloee9me5bh2cpvq04ci88njn(a)4ax.com... > On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:50:37 -0600, "Al Falfa" <crop(a)eastforty.fld> > wrote: > >> >>"Sharx35" <sharx35(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >>news:md1Km.52154$PH1.8219(a)edtnps82... >>> >>> "Al Falfa" <crop(a)eastforty.fld> wrote in message >>> news:4af876a7$1(a)newsgate.x-privat.org... >>>> >>>> "E. Meyer" <epmeyer50(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >>>> news:C71DA903.1376D%epmeyer50(a)gmail.com... >>>>> Paranoia at the time smeared across all Fords and for a while, all you >>>>> could >>>>> find in the used car lots were used Fords as people dumped them for >>>>> anything >>>>> else. I got a really nice '70 Torino wagon for $150 at the height of >>>>> the >>>>> craziness. Drove it for 6 months until things settled down & sold it >>>>> for >>>>> $500. >>>>> >>>> A friend of mine was crushed to death while unloading the trunk of her >>>> Ford when it jumped from park into reverse. Then, of course, there >>>> were >>>> the exploding gas tanks on those Chevrolet and GMC pickups. Tort >>>> reform. >>>> That's the answer. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> What kind of idiot would unload the trunk with the engine running and >>> the >>> Parking Brake not engaged? >>The parking brake was engaged. > > If it was the car wouldn't have moved. > But anyway, I never knew a driver that would thing twice about opening > the trunk with a car running in park. > Anybody who says they've never done it is probably lying. > Might be some anal types who use a parking break in flatlands. > I never do, and often get in the trunk or check trans fluid level with > the engine running and the parking brake not set. > Just put it in park. > Oh, I'm a real daredevil, ain't I? Evic Ksmith I am. > Might be more careful with a strange car, and use the e-brake, > but maybe not. Park is park. > Fords have had a number of these supposed incidents. > There was a supervisor who had his legs broken by a Ford sedan in the > steel mills where I worked in 1968. > I'm not convinced they weren't "user error." > Was it ever proved they could slip from park? > Has that ever been determine for ANY car? > Most likely the cars were left in gear. Many autos can sit still in > gear waiting for a slight engine surge to get them rolling. > > --Vic Start here: http://www.autosafety.org/srr/FP-R.pdf Much of this stuff predates the 'net. My friend was killed in the early 80s. Ford settled that one.
From: E. Meyer on 9 Nov 2009 23:22 On 11/9/09 8:42 PM, in article 4af8d31f$1(a)newsgate.x-privat.org, "Al Falfa" <crop(a)eastforty.fld> wrote: > > "Vic Smith" <thismailautodeleted(a)comcast.net> wrote in message > news:o5ghf55evnloee9me5bh2cpvq04ci88njn(a)4ax.com... >> On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:50:37 -0600, "Al Falfa" <crop(a)eastforty.fld> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> "Sharx35" <sharx35(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >>> news:md1Km.52154$PH1.8219(a)edtnps82... >>>> >>>> "Al Falfa" <crop(a)eastforty.fld> wrote in message >>>> news:4af876a7$1(a)newsgate.x-privat.org... >>>>> >>>>> "E. Meyer" <epmeyer50(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >>>>> news:C71DA903.1376D%epmeyer50(a)gmail.com... >>>>>> Paranoia at the time smeared across all Fords and for a while, all you >>>>>> could >>>>>> find in the used car lots were used Fords as people dumped them for >>>>>> anything >>>>>> else. I got a really nice '70 Torino wagon for $150 at the height of >>>>>> the >>>>>> craziness. Drove it for 6 months until things settled down & sold it >>>>>> for >>>>>> $500. >>>>>> >>>>> A friend of mine was crushed to death while unloading the trunk of her >>>>> Ford when it jumped from park into reverse. Then, of course, there >>>>> were >>>>> the exploding gas tanks on those Chevrolet and GMC pickups. Tort >>>>> reform. >>>>> That's the answer. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> What kind of idiot would unload the trunk with the engine running and >>>> the >>>> Parking Brake not engaged? >>> The parking brake was engaged. >> >> If it was the car wouldn't have moved. >> But anyway, I never knew a driver that would thing twice about opening >> the trunk with a car running in park. >> Anybody who says they've never done it is probably lying. >> Might be some anal types who use a parking break in flatlands. >> I never do, and often get in the trunk or check trans fluid level with >> the engine running and the parking brake not set. >> Just put it in park. >> Oh, I'm a real daredevil, ain't I? Evic Ksmith I am. >> Might be more careful with a strange car, and use the e-brake, >> but maybe not. Park is park. >> Fords have had a number of these supposed incidents. >> There was a supervisor who had his legs broken by a Ford sedan in the >> steel mills where I worked in 1968. >> I'm not convinced they weren't "user error." >> Was it ever proved they could slip from park? >> Has that ever been determine for ANY car? >> Most likely the cars were left in gear. Many autos can sit still in >> gear waiting for a slight engine surge to get them rolling. >> >> --Vic > > Start here: > > http://www.autosafety.org/srr/FP-R.pdf > > Much of this stuff predates the 'net. My friend was killed in the early > 80s. Ford settled that one. > > Most of this also predates auto recalls. Actually, this is the sort of stuff that led to the recall system.
From: Vic Smith on 9 Nov 2009 23:44 On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:22:06 -0600, "E. Meyer" <epmeyer50(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > >On 11/9/09 8:42 PM, in article 4af8d31f$1(a)newsgate.x-privat.org, "Al Falfa" ><crop(a)eastforty.fld> wrote: > \ >> >> Start here: >> >> http://www.autosafety.org/srr/FP-R.pdf >> >> Much of this stuff predates the 'net. My friend was killed in the early >> 80s. Ford settled that one. >> >> > >Most of this also predates auto recalls. Actually, this is the sort of >stuff that led to the recall system. Good article about it http://www.fordification.com/tech/auto-trans_recall.htm Never found a defect on the Fords. Driver error. And lawsuit mass hysteria. I've done some stupid things myself, but never got run over by my car. Just lucky I guess. But I never drove an auto Ford. Seems with my Chevys once you bring the shift lever all the way up until it stops you're in park. And it stays there. Every time. So far. --Vic
From: hls on 10 Nov 2009 02:39
"Vic Smith" <thismailautodeleted(a)comcast.net> wrote in message news:barhf5perc5qjl7erdbkvbbvev0qkcc6jb(a)4ax.com... > But I never drove an auto Ford. > Seems with my Chevys once you bring the shift lever all the way up > until it stops you're in park. And it stays there. Every time. > So far. > > --Vic With the Fords I had, they also stopped in Park. Once that parking pawl was set, they were not going anywhere, but there is plenty of documentation that mine were perhaps lucky experiences. With certain models of GM with rear disc brakes, you could have problems with those parking brakes. These brakes had mechanical adjusters, and applied the rear caliper pistons manually when the brake was set. The problem was that the adjusters often didnt adjust, and the parking brakes wouldnt hold for sour apples. |