Don't Do This!!!!
Check that toad again before heading down the road, or you could end up like this unfortunate fellow... Here is the story that goes with the picture... Car front end damaged after dragged in ‘park’...
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FIRE UP wrote:
People,
This is not about "blown tires". This is not about Tire Pressure Monitoring systems or, noticing or not noticing that you "still have a toad back there". It's about DRAG, and a SERIOUS AMOUNT OF IT! How many of you have ever tried to push a vehicle/pickup truck/anything that had THE EMERGENCY BRAKE STILL ON or, IT'S STILL IN PARK, or, IT'S STILL IN GEAR????????? The simple and incredibly obvious answer is, YOU CAN'T!
Scott, just to play devil's advocate, Phaeton motorhomes can weigh up to 42000 pounds and have over 1200 ft/lbs of torque. Dragging a Honda Civic around even with the front wheels locked with one of those is like dragging a loaded shopping cart with a car. A driver SHOULD be able to feel the extra resistance, but as you and I know from years of riding in the right seat of a fire engine, some drivers are far less aware of what their rig is doing than others. Obviously this driver was not aware at all!
