I have 5,000 miles on my car, and my clutch is fine. I have never beat on the car, and I have never even launched the car from a stop. My clutch has never slipped. Anyways, I was parked on a slight hill with no parking brake, and my car slowly inches down the incline. It stops then it rolls back about 5 inches, then it stops and then rolls 5 inches. WTF is going on. If I put it into 2 gear, it gets worse and goes faster down the incline. The hill isn't even that crazy either. Anyone have this happen. I'm glad I caught this because if someone was parked behind me, my car would have eventually rolled into the car.

 

ebrakes suck on these cars

oh your parking brake isnt on...idk then

 

back up the hill?

Magic?
Demon?
God?
Mind of its own?

 

weird maybe your tranny is slipping. a buddy of mine had a similar thing happen to him in his automatic truck where it would randomly decide to roll back when it was in gear, but sounds like warranty work to me

 

Use the parking brake.

 

Did you take all of your meds today?

 

wouldn't the tranny slip if I floored the car too???

 

you would think but it didn't do it to my buddy. i've never personally had it happen to me other then my ebrake not liking to hold. but i would still take it into a dealer and have them check it out as there is obviously something wrong. the only thing that i could see happening that you would be doing is not having it all the way into the gear but its kinda hard to miss that on our cars.

 

ya, I know that it is fully engaged in gear. So I am stumped. It's going to be hard to to show the dealer considering I'm going to have to find a hill to show them.

 

that incline must be a bear. if your clutch doesn't slip, then you're turning the crank in your motor, and it slows down on the compression stroke as compressing the air in the cylinder is rather hard.

try doing it in reverse. the car shouldn't roll, it's a lower gear ration than first.

doesn't matter what direction of travel you think it'll have, a gear ratio is a gear ratio, and it's harder to turn the motor through reverse.

 

that's there job to properly diagnose a customer's concern. but i would try putting it in reverse and see what happens like disco said.

 

sounds like your on to something. It does feel like the crank is turning.

anyone else have this happen??? Or have an idea.

 

just go try it in reverse and let me know what happens. manual cars can be parked in gear all the time, but unless you're on flat ground, i'd use my parking brake, as well. manual lack the parking pawl that keeps the transmission (and therefore the crank) stationary.

but i wouldn't think it would roll in reverse, unless you had a LOT of weigh in the car and it was a super steep hill.

 

That's what the parking brake is for. If the incline is enough to move the car, then the e-brake is an obvious must.......Automatics are different because they're locked in Park.

 

ya, but I have own manuals my whole life, and I have never ever had this problem. I never use the e-brake on any of my cars.