Sometimes I park my (manual) car and find that while I’m well aligned , I’m either too far into the spot (don’t always want to bait someone with my smol car) or not far in enough.

Assuming I’m on level ground (ie in a multi storey carpark), is it OK to put my car into neutral, let down the handbrake and push it a little? As opposed to firing up the ignition and driving it 50 centimeres?

  • ritchie70@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I even sometimes push my automatic transmission car. Yes, it’s perfectly fine.

    Back in high school I used to sometimes push whatever shitty car of my dad’s I was driving out of parking spaces because I just could not get it into reverse.

    Would have been an MG Midget or a Renault R5 (“LeCar” to an American) because the only other manual transmission cars he had were a BiTurbo and a Chevy P30 and I definitely wasn’t driving either of those to high school band practice. I never drove the BiTurbo at all (that he knew of…)