Car keeps rolling when in gear

flexcon

Hang on I think everyone missed to ask the question

When at the pumps, did the car roll back, or go forward?

If it went forward when in first that makes sense

If you put it into reverse and it went forward then really is messed up.

I just tried both scenarios in a 2.2 td car on a hill

I'm no mechanic though

selectamatic

Jack the Stripper wrote: »

Where has op in this thread said it's a 1.4 petrol? Could be right in front of my eyes.

I've made an educated guess on that as it'd be the most common configuration.

However it might be a 1.8 corolla T-sport but the aul high revving 2zzge has an even higher compression ratio.

BlinkingLights

In Paris they used to leave the handbrake off / applied very lightly so that people could slowly drive into the bumper of the car and shunt it along to make more space when parallel parking.

You'd just leave your handbrake on very lightly and the wheels straight and the car in neutral.

If wasn't an official thing, just a convention.

Things aren't quite as convivial these days.

Trojan

BlinkingLights wrote: »

In Paris they used to leave the handbrake off / applied very lightly so that people could slowly drive into the bumper of the car and shunt it along to make more space when parallel parking.

You'd just leave your handbrake on very lightly and the wheels straight and the car in neutral.

If wasn't an official thing, just a convention.

Things aren't quite as convivial these days.

Geneva too, and afaik they still do it.

Edit: this could have been just certain districts, but I know for sure it was true for the streets surrounding the IFRC headquarters.

BlinkingLights

It's probably less doable nowadays as you've a lot more electric and automatic handbrakes on manual transmission cars and also way more automatic​s and semi automatic​s not to mention hybrids and elevated EVs.

mikeecho

OP, how far does the car roll?
Is the engine turned off?
Are you pressing the clutch ?


i know that these might seem like overly simple questions.. but they have to be asked

H3llR4iser

mikeecho wrote: »

OP, how far does the car roll?
Is the engine turned off?
Are you pressing the clutch ?


i know that these might seem like overly simple questions.. but they have to be asked

...read my mind. Also, the car being manual was never mentioned. I don't know if there even was an automatic Corolla in 2005, nor if they have that "PRDN321" selector type in case, but I've seen people with auto cars say "it's in first" because they put the lever on "1" with the car stationary. Sorry for assuming such level of "cluelessness" OP, but we've seen stuff like this before on Motors :P

colm_mcm

H3llR4iser wrote: »

...read my mind. Also, the car being manual was never mentioned. I don't know if there even was an automatic Corolla in 2005, nor if they have that "PRDN321" selector type in case, but I've seen people with auto cars say "it's in first" because they put the lever on "1" with the car stationary. Sorry for assuming such level of "cluelessness" OP, but we've seen stuff like this before on Motors :P

They did a traditional PRND321 torque converter in the 1.6 petrol model, they also did the dreadful multimode automated manual in the 1.4 D-4D which you could leave in gear like you would a manual.

Nekarsulm

Have we actually established that this is a manual gearbox, and not an Auto??

Leaving an Auto in "First" and the handbrake off, won't do much.....

colm_mcm

It's safe to say it's a manual as 99.9% of corollas sold in Ireland around then were manual

Nekarsulm

More likely to be an auto, than some of the suggestions I've read here. "OP could have taken out the spark plugs while he nipped into the shop to pay for petrol" ffs...

Jack the Stripper

A gambler would take that .1%.

Jack the Stripper

Nekarsulm wrote: »

More likely to be an auto, than some of the suggestions I've read here. "OP could have taken out the spark plugs while he nipped into the shop to pay for petrol" ffs...

Who suggested the op did that?!

Nekarsulm

Jack the Stripper wrote: »

Who suggested the op did that?!

You did. Post number 28.

colm_mcm

Nekarsulm wrote: »

More likely to be an auto, than some of the suggestions I've read here. "OP could have taken out the spark plugs while he nipped into the shop to pay for petrol" ffs...

Nekarsulm wrote: »

You did. Post number 28.

Read the post again!

Supergurrier

When you see it rolling

Are you hating ?

Esel

Supergurrier wrote: »

When you see it trolling

Are you hating ?

FYP

biko

I've nothing to add but I want to be in on the guessing game we're playing.




Aliens!

DULLAHAN2

biko wrote: »

I've nothing to add but I want to be in on the guessing game we're playing.




Aliens!

I think you could be right biko. I brought the car to the mechanic and explained what happened when i put the car in gear and left him to it. He fixed the loose handbrake cable and tested it. it worked fine and there is no evidence of anything else wrong with it. The car stops now when in gear so not sure what happened that day.

qhe0i9zvfgdou8

Think this can be put down to driver error