I have said this to people before and it takes a Mustang driving off all by its self for it to really sink in.
DO NOT LEAVE YOUR MUSTANG RUNNING , with no one sitting in it or the emergency brake pulled . I have seen it happen more than once ,the car is running with no one in it and it jumps into gear .This is normally an automatic trans thing .First time i saw it was my old 69 Mach 1 .My brother had it running while he was working under the hood revving it up ,and i just told him to make sure the emergency brake was on and i walked away and heard a crash behind me .It had jumped into drive ,bumped him out of the way and crashed into the front porch post .Didn't do much damage ,but broke the front porch post off, Lesson learned !
I got a call from a local shop today to look at a 66 coupe ,the mechanic was working on it while it was running .It jumped into reverse ,the driver door caught the shop door opening and folded it forward .The car continued out of the shop ,with the mechanic chasing it ,and hit a tree dead center in the trunk lid pushing the back end of the car in about a foot and wrinkled the driver quarter, and i believe the driver rear frame rail .After hitting the tree,the car wasn't finished yet ,it jumped into drive and rammed the front of the shop taking out the grill ,radiator support and drivers side fender and most of the parts under the front of the hood where it came to rest with a puff of anti freeze . I estimate about $2000 in sheetmetal and that is not counting under the hood ,radiator and fan and other parts . I think what may have caused this one to jump into gear may be motor mounts or bad shifter bushings . Any who , take my advise and never leave your Mustang running with out some one sitting in it ,or the emergency pulled .You has been warned i will probably do a thread as i repair this 66.
DO NOT LEAVE YOUR MUSTANG RUNNING , with no one sitting in it or the emergency brake pulled . I have seen it happen more than once ,the car is running with no one in it and it jumps into gear .This is normally an automatic trans thing .First time i saw it was my old 69 Mach 1 .My brother had it running while he was working under the hood revving it up ,and i just told him to make sure the emergency brake was on and i walked away and heard a crash behind me .It had jumped into drive ,bumped him out of the way and crashed into the front porch post .Didn't do much damage ,but broke the front porch post off, Lesson learned !
I got a call from a local shop today to look at a 66 coupe ,the mechanic was working on it while it was running .It jumped into reverse ,the driver door caught the shop door opening and folded it forward .The car continued out of the shop ,with the mechanic chasing it ,and hit a tree dead center in the trunk lid pushing the back end of the car in about a foot and wrinkled the driver quarter, and i believe the driver rear frame rail .After hitting the tree,the car wasn't finished yet ,it jumped into drive and rammed the front of the shop taking out the grill ,radiator support and drivers side fender and most of the parts under the front of the hood where it came to rest with a puff of anti freeze . I estimate about $2000 in sheetmetal and that is not counting under the hood ,radiator and fan and other parts . I think what may have caused this one to jump into gear may be motor mounts or bad shifter bushings . Any who , take my advise and never leave your Mustang running with out some one sitting in it ,or the emergency pulled .You has been warned i will probably do a thread as i repair this 66.