Vehicle removal query.

[spionfox]

On the way to the game yesterday saw another car being pulled onto a lorry and towed away. The car was hooked up to a winch and pulled up onto the low-loader. The car wheels were moving. Question. How do they isolate the handbrake without opening up the car?

 

[GazLCFC]

On the way to the game yesterday saw another car being pulled onto a lorry and towed away. The car was hooked up to a winch and pulled up onto the low-loader. The car wheels were moving. Question. How do they isolate the handbrake without opening up the car?

Planning on removing some yourself? I'm looking for a Focus ST if you can get one. :icon_bigg

Seriously, I don't think it's possible, are you sure it wasn't just broken down and the owner had opened it or it had been dumped with the doors open.

 

[Nottingham Fox]

Was this on Sawday St or Brazil St about 10 mins before the game? If so, I also saw it about to get lifted, but sorry don't know the answer to your question.

 

[spionfox]

Seriously, I don't think it's possible, are you sure it wasn't just broken down and the owner had opened it or it had been dumped with the doors open.

No, it was definitely an illegally parked car being moved away.

 

[spionfox]

Was this on Sawday St or Brazil St about 10 mins before the game? If so, I also saw it about to get lifted, but sorry don't know the answer to your question.

It was on Filbert Street on the corner with the Spar shop at around ten past 2.

 

[DesertFox]

If the wheels were moving it must have had the hand brake off. Either it was being towed with the owner's knowledge, the hand brake was off anyway, or they'd broken into it with a "lockout kit", which bona fide recovery operators are allowed to own (they are otherwise illegal).

Go on, ask me how I know...

 

[spionfox]

If the wheels were moving it must have had the hand brake off. Either it was being towed with the owner's knowledge, the hand brake was off anyway, or they'd broken into it with a "lockout kit", which bona fide recovery operators are allowed to own (they are otherwise illegal).

Go on, ask me how I know...

They must have gained access to the vehicle then as it was a parked car and I have seen this scenario before. I asked the question because I wondered if there was some way of bypassing the handbrake by doing something underneath the car.

Go on then, how do you know :icon_wink

 

[fcukcov]

They must have gained access to the vehicle then as it was a parked car and I have seen this scenario before. I asked the question because I wondered if there was some way of bypassing the handbrake by doing something underneath the car.

Go on then, how do you know :icon_wink

You could cut the brake lines.

 

[DesertFox]

Go on then, how do you know :icon_wink

You don't want to know.

But seriously though folks..... My old man ran a vehicle recovery company in Leicester for 30 years. Getting into older cars is a piece of piss on the whole, don't know about the really recent stuff.

And if you're not able to get in quickly and you're moving it on the instructions of the old bill because it's illegally parked, you just drag it up without really worrying about stuff like brakes. So they either got in easily and let the brake off, or the owner was aware of it, I'd guess.

 

[lazzer]

Talking Tennisballs

 

[fcukcov]

Talking Tennisballs

Half a?

 

[spionfox]

Half a?

sixpence?