Weirdest Thing Happened Today...

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About 2 hours ago, I went to the garage and started up my car to go to school. Car turned on fine and I shifted into Reverse and lightly let the clutch up with some gas, but the car didn't move. It shifted backwards slightly but then came back to its original place, as if there was like a rope tied to it or something. I tried again with even more power with no luck...it felt like I was stuck on something. I turned off the car and got out and checked under the car and underneath was clear and tried again several times. So then I got in the car and started it up and this time fully engauged the clutch in reverse and gave it some good power and all of a sudden heard like, "Pop" or like a "snap" kinda sound and I was "free". I pulled out of my garage and I had no more problems for the rest of the drive back to school. Does anybody know what this was? Maybe some part of the rear axle froze or something? But at the same time, my car was in the garage the whole night and our garage is kept at 75 degrees F, so I can't imagine ice surviging a whole night at such a warm temperature. Anybody have any ideas???
If it helps at all, yesterday when I came home, before I put it in the garage, I rinsed the entire car with a hose, including underneath the car...water temperature coming out of the hose was warm, though and I put the car in the garage as soon as I was done rinsing. Could this have caused it or something?

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I remember my dad telling me not to use the hand brake when it's cold because it can stick but that doesn't apply to you since it wasn't cold. Maybe something caught the rim and was holding it, I honostly have no idea. Good Luck.
 
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It does sound like an e/pbrake issue, perhaps it was very cold and the water froze it in place. But at 75 in the garage this would not happen. I have had this happen in the past when the car is out and the melted slush crap from the road would catch on the car and freeze the e/p brake at night.
 
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Bryan330i said:
It does sound like an e/pbrake issue, perhaps it was very cold and the water froze it in place. But at 75 in the garage this would not happen. I have had this happen in the past when the car is out and the melted slush crap from the road would catch on the car and freeze the e/p brake at night.
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I was thinking that maybe the parking brake froze, but I was lifting it up and down without any problems. If it was frozen, wouldn't I not be able to lift it up and down? It was such a weird thing to happen and I really didn't like that "snap" sound I heard when the car was finally "released" from whatever was holding it in place. I hope I didn't screw anything up...does anybody think I should take it to the dealership?
 
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MrElussive said:
New cars don't come with salvaged transmissions. My car's transmission has never been malfunctioned. You are truly an idiot.
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But I thought your tranny got ruined in your accident... or was it the suspension? [???1]


Idiot. \Id"i*ot\, n. A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, an ellusive person without understanding from birth; a natural fool; a natural; an innocent.
 
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MrElussive said:
I was thinking that maybe the parking brake froze, but I was lifting it up and down without any problems. If it was frozen, wouldn't I not be able to lift it up and down? It was such a weird thing to happen and I really didn't like that "snap" sound I heard when the car was finally "released" from whatever was holding it in place. I hope I didn't screw anything up...does anybody think I should take it to the dealership?
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i'm guessing it was probably your parking brake. i've seen it happen to a car in the summer. don't know how but sometimes the pbrake gets stuck. it happened to me during a safety inspection on an old car. the guy inspecting my car engaged the parking brake and tested if the car would resist when he gave it power to see if the brake worked. when i drove off i didn't know the parking brake was stuck and the car started smoking. i thought it was off because i was able to move the pbrake up and down with no problems. i parked it and tried to go several times before i heard a pop and the thing released. after that the car was fine but i noticed the parking brake wasn't as hard to lift up then before the problem happened.
 
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PuShAkOv said:
But I thought your tranny got ruined in your accident... or was it the suspension? [???1]


Idiot. \Id"i*ot\, n. A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, an ellusive person without understanding from birth; a natural fool; a natural; an innocent.
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Oh, my bad. I thought you were just trying to be a jerk, sorry about the harsh remark. It was my suspension that got was ruined in the accident, but it was completely replaced.
 
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Ebrakes are almost universally cable operated - none of them are hydraulic. One of the uses of the parking/emergency brake is to use it in an emergency if the hydraulic system fails.

I imagine, as others have said, that it was your ebrake that got stuck. There might have been some corrosion that formed overnight on the drum where the ebrake shoes contact from the salt/water mixture from the previous day, so the pads were stuck to the surface when you released the ebrake. Since it's cable operated, you can still move the handle up and down even though the pads were stuck.

Probably nothing to worry about.
 
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Yeah, that does make sense. When I have to park outside over night, I only leave it in gear because of the hand brake freezing, but I guess I am not even safe in my own garage, either. [:0]
Thanks for the advice guys, I appreciate it.
 
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Yeah. It was probably the parking brake, but when that unfreezes, then I have to lower it, right? I mean, it shouldn't be that I "snapped" it out, or could that be it? Whatever it was, it wasn't pleasant, and it was holding my car down with quite a bit of force.
 
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late to jump in, but since the parking brakes are cable operated, and gets tightened to engage, if the brake is already stuck, the free movement up and down would just loosen the cable and not the brake.

as for push [bash] v [boxface] elussive, i was hoping you guys woudl get it on for our enjoyment [:p] ah well, there's always next time, w/ fun photochopped pics floating around and all
 
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