Urgent HELP!!!!

[holdensupporter2005]

Hi Everybody,
I really need to know how many "clicks" the handbrake has to be up for the car to pass a road worthy and for the brake to hold the car.

I had an unfortunate accident today. parked at a friends house and came out half an hour later and my car had rolled back and into the side of her fence. the fence had stopped the car from rolling any more otherwise it would have rolled onto the road and probably caused a nasty accident. I did have the handbrake on.

just wondering wether the damage can be fixed by holden. car still has warranty until may'06.

[Garth]

to be totaly honest holden wont pay for anything, it's your own fault, the hand brake isnt a efective stoping mech, if your car was in park or if a manual in gear then it wouldnt have rolled down the hill, which is exactly what holden will say, as for clicks, its not done by that, atleast halfway on must be enough to hold the car at a standstill, anything less is bad

[holdensupporter2005]

The handbrake was on upto about the 2nd last click. way past halfway

[holdensupporter2005]

Pic of the Damage

[Goodloox_Nogutz]

bummmer...

[Bax]

They go by clicks in Vic, don't know how many though. Kinda sucks because I press the button when I pull it up so it doesn't make the noise.

Sounds pretty shocking though, were you in Park or in Gear?

[vlv8vic]

vic is 6-8 clicks max. ive had mine done over by the canary squad, it wasnt even close to the clicks and im glad i fixed it, took it back to about 5. thats on a vl though.

i hate people that reef it on, thatll **** it. pays to leave the car in gear. i never leave my car in nuters.

[holdensupporter2005]

$1080.00 for the repair. :b: in this week for the repair. they have to respray the back door as well because they have to blend in the metallic paint. I'll have it back at the end of the week looking like new!!!

I'll take some pics of it once it's finished and post them in the "my ride" section.

I have always had manuals and always parked them in neutral. I can just see myself going to start the car and it jumps forward into a brickwall or something.

[gocommygo]

yeh i hate leaving mine in gear, makes me feel dirty :S

[Bax]

I have always had manuals and always parked them in neutral. I can just see myself going to start the car and it jumps forward into a brickwall or something.

Thats where you get into the habit of clutching in no matter what. Would much rather jump forward by mistake then rolling backwards into a fence

[Tasmaniak]

Have always clutched down at the start. Whether I think it is in gear or not. Just force of habit.

Besides, new manuals now you can't start them without putting your foot on the clutch first anyway.

[Shounak]

I thought everyone clutched a manual when they first started..

Maybe try parking it in gear from now on? That's what I've always done when driving a manual..

[matrix]

the hand brake on commodores wont stop it from rolling infact i think they are crap. try reversing with the handbrake on, its like its not even there. i couldnt bring my self to leave a manual in neutral, no different at all to leaving an auto in neutral, the wheels are free to move under the cars own weight.

[holdensupporter2005]

Got my car back today!! looking all nice and new. I'll post pics soon!!!

[deserthead]

Hmmm apparently no matter where u post this, people r going to tell you that u need to put a manual into gear or an auto into park when u leave your vehicle. . . .

I thoughtt they teached that stuff when u learned how to drive? ? ? ?

Dont matter how many "clicks", u leave it in gear or park, thats your fail safe. . . . Just think of the things u could've bought with that 1100 bucks. . . .

[holdensupporter2005]

Dont matter how many "clicks", u leave it in gear or park, thats your fail safe. . . . Just think of the things u could've bought with that 1100 bucks. . . .

could have gone the other way (start car and straight into a brick wall and done a lot more damage).
I was never taught to put it in gear. I dont think they teach it now days

[Tasmaniak]

they should teach it. The thing you are supposed to do is to hit the clutch on start up. I thought they taught that as well.

It's good practice to depress the clutch each time you start. Are you absolutly 100% goddamn positive you left it neutral? Why check when the first thing you do is depress the clutch?

Like I stated earlier. Modern cars now will not turn over if the clutch is not depressed. Why is that you ask? Because it's good practice

[deserthead]

Ahh pretty sure they DO still teach it these days. . . .
And again, its been stated here heaps, its good practice to leave it in gear when parked. . . .

I jump in my, or the other halfs car, first thing I do is put it in neutral . . . .

[VTSSDUDE]

In N.S.W. I am pretty sure it's the law to leave the car in Reverse or First gear.

[Ralgon]

im pretty sure most new manuals these days wont start unless the clutch is depressed just to stop this sort of thing. holden definatly uses these switches in its small vechile range (astra barina cruz etc). haven't had the pleasure of a late model big car yet

[Tasmaniak]

echo echo echo

LOL

[Matty081]

I thoughtt they teached that stuff when u learned how to drive? ? ? ?

They do. as well as, if your parked up a hill, leave it 1st, if your parked down a hill, leave it in reverse.
I to thought this was common sense/knowledge..obviously not.
lol unless your rings and overall compression is very severly f**ked then the car will roll, either way if in gear or not.
expensive mistake wasn't it ?

[vlv8vic]

will always clutch start my car. except sometimes the old datto cos it had a habit of dropping the clutch fluid and required a bunny hop start...

$1080??????? dont you have insurance? even in my p-plate speeding fine days my excess was never high enough to have to pay anything like that.

[holdensupporter2005]

$1080??????? dont you have insurance? even in my p-plate speeding fine days my excess was never high enough to have to pay anything like that.

$400 excess + $450 because I'm under 25 = $850.00 Excess
Yeah, I have insurance, but didnt want to go through them so my rating wouldnt change! so just paid the extra $230.00

[vlv8vic]

thats mad. change policies lad.

im under 25 and had fines and the most it ever got to was about 800, thats with a V8.