Leave in Gear or Leave the Handbrake on !

On holiday for few weeks

Live on a slight hill should I leave in Gear or Leave the Handbrake on !


Prefer not to come back to it stuck!!

insured??

yes

leave it outside a friend/family members house!

leave it unlocked, with the keys in.
yer nevva know, there might be someone stoopid enuff to nick it.

tedshred said:

On holiday for few weeks

Live on a slight hill should I leave in Gear or Leave the Handbrake on !


Prefer not to come back to it stuck!!

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To give you a sensible answer, leave it in gear. Don't put on the handbrake at all.

If you are wanting to be really 'highway code' then park it facing down with wheels turned into the kerb slightly too.

Hope that helps.

ScottishStew said:

To give you a sensible answer, leave it in gear. Don't put on the handbrake at all.

If you are wanting to be really 'highway code' then park it facing down with wheels turned into the kerb slightly too.

Hope that helps.

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Ear, shouldn't your username be "Scotchbroth"?

That's the best idea, assuming yer elecktrickerys are all wired up properly, ie. they turn off and you don't want your handbrake to sieze that's yer best plan!

TheVengefulElephant said:

Ear, shouldn't your username be "Scotchbroth"?

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I suppose it could have been! Oh well never mind!

ScottishStew said:

To give you a sensible answer, leave it in gear. Don't put on the handbrake at all.

If you are wanting to be really 'highway code' then park it facing down with wheels turned into the kerb slightly too.

Hope that helps.

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Or you could park it facing up but then your steering wheels should be turned towards the road. (away from the kerb, the opposite as if facing down).

willo said:

Or you could park it facing up but then your steering wheels should be turned towards the road. (away from the kerb, the opposite as if facing down).

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only if there is a kerb stone for the front wheel to stop against if it rolls. if not, wheels facing the kerb....

Optimus Prime said:

only if there is a kerb stone for the front wheel to stop against if it rolls. if not, wheels facing the kerb....

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Yes, of course, all this assuming there is indeed a kerbstone.
If not he can just put a brick in front/behind a/some wheel(s), then release the handbrake and push in the clutch and have the car 'rest' on the stones, then put it in gear and leave it that way ??

ffs Just leave in in gear an pull the hand break on,,, a couple o weeks isny gona hurt it....

Jest find the biggest hill and park it facing downhill.....then just apply the handbrake....go on holiday or whatever....hopefully yur freelanders gone when you return

Sirus said:

Jest find the biggest hill and park it facing downhill.....then just apply the handbrake....go on holiday or whatever....hopefully yur freelanders gone when you return

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Oh feck,,, a never new it wis a fleelander, that changes every thing,,
cos now a dont care what happens tae it...

I have never had my handbrake sieze on. I have left it for two weeks or longer many times.