Ever Get Rear Ended?

JARblue · 06-26-2012, 10:25 AM

On level ground, I rarely hold the brake pedal, which is primarily for comfort. I'm with Bobo and have been doing it for years and never been rear ended at a light. I would expect getting rear ended at a stop light is going to happen regardless whether your brake lights are on or not.

However, I generally always put my foot on the brake whenever a car is coming to a stop behind me and wait until they are stopped to let it off again. One other thing I always do on uphill slopes is before someone pulls up behind me, I let off the brake, roll back a hair and make sure they realize I'm in a MT and don't need to pull right up on my a$$. I've kissed an old lady's Lexus hood with my Explorer Sport trailer hitch before when she pulled up too close and I was still learning the clutch - she was very nice about it, tho, and understood it was her fault.

DarkZ · 06-26-2012, 06:58 PM

I had a funny smell and some fluid leak from my rear-end once.

06-26-2012, 10:25 AM	#31 (permalink)
JARblue A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Austin, TX Age: 43 Posts: 36,449 Drives: 11 Z34, 98 E36 M3 Rep Power: 2684440	On level ground, I rarely hold the brake pedal, which is primarily for comfort. I'm with Bobo and have been doing it for years and never been rear ended at a light. I would expect getting rear ended at a stop light is going to happen regardless whether your brake lights are on or not. However, I generally always put my foot on the brake whenever a car is coming to a stop behind me and wait until they are stopped to let it off again. One other thing I always do on uphill slopes is before someone pulls up behind me, I let off the brake, roll back a hair and make sure they realize I'm in a MT and don't need to pull right up on my a$$. I've kissed an old lady's Lexus hood with my Explorer Sport trailer hitch before when she pulled up too close and I was still learning the clutch - she was very nice about it, tho, and understood it was her fault. __________________ 2011 370Z 6MT Sport Gun Metallic \| ARC \| CJM \| Ecutek \| FI \| Fujimura \| R2C \| SPL \| Stillen \| TWM \| Z1 \| ZSpeed \|

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06-26-2012, 06:58 PM	#32 (permalink)
DarkZ Base Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Atlanta GA Posts: 76 Drives: 10 BCherry 6MT Sport Rep Power: 15	I had a funny smell and some fluid leak from my rear-end once.