Gareth wrote:Some cars have handbrakes which operate the disk brakes - if the the disk is warm when the handbrake is put on, then when the metal cools and contracts, the car may not be so firmly held.
I've not thought of this angle before, thanks for bringing it to my mind
Gareth wrote:...you need to be careful about which gear is selected because a few engines get very arsey, (i.e. potentially expensive bills), when rotated in the wrong direction! So reverse gear for facing uphill, and first or second for facing downhill.
Can you elaborate on this? I can't think why any sensibly designed engine should mind. (The only exception I could think of is engines with non-mechanically actuated valves, but I don't know of any of those on the road...)
Also I don't think it's even slightly easy to make the engine turn over from a standing start at least in 1st. Anyone who's done more than a couple of bump starts will know it's not worth trying without a run up and at least second gear...
Cheers & God bless
Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny