A parked Auto was pushed forward a couple of feet when driven into by a car. The auto was in 'P'.
What is the likelihood of considerable damage?
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Does "park" still hold the car; uphill and down?
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'park' drops a detent onto the shaft which locates into a keyway - it's a fairly solid device so should be ok but then again how hard was the hit? a bump? fine; back bumper up against the front seats? maybe not so fine...
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If P still works then you should be OK. Might have strained a few bits though.....
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Car was parked in garage, door shut, when hit by a runaway car (no driver) that came from up the hill. Car shunted forwards a couple of feet into shelves at back of garage. You couldn't write this stuff...!
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Wheels may have slid and not turned.
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Mapmaker
What's the garage floor made of and how dusty was it?
Aren't the other car's insurers going to write it off? It must have sustained a fair bit of damage, in many places. Given the costs involved.....
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normd2 mentions a detent. I've heard the noise that an auto makes when it's put into park when moving. I'ts a VERY loud ratcheting noise - maybe a heavily sprung detent ?
In this case, no damage was done and everything worked perfectly afterwards.
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in reply to NONE i think the loud ratcheting noise he heard was a stickshaker type safety device to warn you you're trying to do something silly. imagine what would happen if you popped it into park whilst doing 70 down the M6!
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Concrete, and dusty but not gritty, although I haven't seen it..
I'm guessing that it will be written off, but again, I haven't seen the car.
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I once put my Plymouth into Park while it was still moving, quite slowly. There was a loud clang, jerk and chirp from the locked rear wheels. No harm was done, but I took care not to do it again. The Audi of course will have been fwd, with more complex and probably fragile driveline. But I agree with Aprilia: if everything still works, should be all right although no good will have been done. Look for new backlash in the transmission.
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I managed to get a C3 into reverse while still going forward;locked the back wheels but did no harm to anything.
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Locked the back wheels. That was clever as it is a front wheel drive car. Regards Peter
Edited by Peter D on 11/12/2007 at 15:44
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He was in reverse, so I suppose they were the back wheels at the time :-)
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I read on a US forum a man with a VW (can't remember model) jacked up the front and tried to remove a nut either wheel bolt or hub nut or something while in P and there was a crack sound and it it had broken the peg that locks it. So maybe they can snap quite easily.
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Was this the same American who tried to loosen his wheel nuts with a shotgun?
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