So watching videos of these high speed repos where the dude activates the lift while he is backing up and lifts the vehicle in seconds and off he goes. So, if a vehicle is in Park or has E-brake on, how are the wheels moving? And what’s keeping the towed vehicle on?
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I mean for one, a vehicle in park isn’t really being held in park by much, it’s just a little piece of metal in the transmission called the “parking Pawl”
All it takes is a little bit of force to break/bend that pawl and get the wheels moving, which is why you should use your actual parking brake when you’re on a hill or if you’re worried about your car getting hit.
And even if the brake is engaged, that doesn’t totally lock up the tires, it’s just like the brake on the road, it’s just friction, so you pull hard enough and you can get it moving. Then you either get it far enough away to pull over and release the brakes, or just say fuck it and keep driving and replace the brakes.
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