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Incidentally, does anyone know why the wheels of a 'bricked' car would be locked up, preventing towing?

• Mvandenbergh 15y ago
  Yes, because the systems for disengaging the wheels from the drive train won't work without power.
  • tocomment 15y ago
    Is that a fail-safe or the opposite of a fail-safe? I can't decide...
    • teamonkey 15y ago
      Consider a battery failure while parked on a hill
      • tocomment 15y ago
        Does it not have a "park" setting? How does "park" work in a car with an automatic transmission anyway?
      • seanos 15y ago
        Doesn't it have a handbrake?
      • abruzzi 15y ago
        Park usually does two things--it slips a fixed tooth (pawl) into a gear on the output shaft of the transmission, effectively locking the driven wheels (i.e. front wheels on a front wheel drive car.) It will also unload the gears of the transmission the same as the neutral setting. This is why on some AT cars, the idle speed will creep up a tiny bit after put in PARK or NEUTRAL.
  • randomdata 15y ago
    Does it require more power than a tow vehicle can supply to provide that disengagement?