Doing your own vehicle repairs and maintenance at home can be quite rewarding, and is a great way to learn about your car or truck while saving a few bucks in the process. However, for anyone out there considering a little DIY weekend wrenching, it’s imperative to take all the right safety precautions, as the owner of this Chevy Colorado had to learn firsthand in the following brief video.
The video is a little over a minute long, and comes from Middletown, New York, captured on October 9th, 2020. It opens with a view of a Chevy Colorado pickup parked in a driveway, some tools spread out near an open driver’s door. It’s late in the afternoon and the sun is low. No one is around, with the exception of a DIY mechanic underneath his truck.
Suddenly, the Chevy Colorado starts to roll backwards down the driveway, slowly at first, then more quickly as it starts to gain momentum.
A surprised gasp is heard from underneath the Chevy Colorado as it rolls backwards, followed by a blood-curdling yell.
Miraculously, the DIY mechanic pops out from underneath the truck’s front bumper after being dragged down the driveway, jumping to his feet as the Chevy Colorado continues backwards, colliding with two SUVs parked across the road with a sickening crunch. The mechanic looks disoriented, hobbling around and unsure what to do next.
“While fixing the car, I accidentally knocked the transmission into neutral,” the video description reads.
All told, this DIY mechanic is lucky to be alive. He could have easily been crushed by the truck as it rolled away down the sloped driveway.
So there you have it, folks – dramatic evidence that any mechanical work should be done with the proper safety precautions, including wheel chocks to stop exactly what happened here from occurring. Scary stuff, and a tough lesson learned, but we hope this driveway wrench-turner will make sure to chock up next time before he crawls underneath a car or truck.
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Holy roll away’s Bird Brain. Ever hear of at least the emergency brake being applied?
Ghost driving never turns out well.
Duh. Bet he won’t do that again.
Most HOA’s prohibit homeowners from driveway auto repair, for good reason
If you enjoy living in a hoa you’re a cuck.
Dumb ass🤣🤣😂😂🤣
Idiot. He needs to be bannen from wrenching on a vehicle.
If you cant follow simple safety precautions then you don’t deserve to work on one.
U need two be bannen frome lebin commaments !!!!!
And people chastise me for always using the e-brake.
I find it odd/stupid that this article references wheel chocks before mentioning the e-brake, which was obviously not engaged. I’ll bet the owners manual states to use it.
Everyone knows Found On the Road Dead (Ford) but I never heard of Chevy Rollin’ Over A Knucklehead (croak).
emergency brake and wheel chocks …if yoh don’t know what your doing its better to not do the work….
ikr, if he was a real cheapskate at least use a block of wood or a heavy rock from the side of the road. He’s also at the end of a cul-de-sac, he could’ve just done the job right off the driveway, where the road ends, where it looks more FLAT.
Honorable Mention in this year’s Darwin Awards.
How do you knock a vehicle that requires the pedal to be pressed and key in the on position into neutral, from under the vehicle? Oh, add that it uses electronics do do the shifting.
Geoff, it uses a straight 2 cable system. You can knock the linkage at the tranny into neutral relatively easily. No excuse for this guy’s actions, but read up a little
It’s not a Colorado. It’s a Chevy SUV, Tahoe I believe. Hopefully he learned what NOT to do.
Vanessa, this is 100% a Chevy Colorado. Yes, from this angle the bed is being obscured, but the cab isn’t long enough to be an SUV. Plus, the Colorado is the ONLY vehicle that has that grill. It was never shared with any other vehicle.
Being a owner of 2 Colorado trucks. I can tell you by looking at the roof it’s a Tahoe or Suburban for it has air and rain louvers running all the way to the rear.
Ummm the open door says “Colorado” on it.
Never heard of the parking brake and chocks I guess? Dummy.
Not the smart thing to say the least. If my truck runs me over? Do you really think I’ll posr it for all to see? Whats dumber? Getting run over by your own vehicle? Or POSTING IT ONLINE??? 🤣😅🤣😅
Stupid is stupid does. And it scares the life out me , to see someone get under a vehicle with only a jack, use jackstands
Sure saved him money working on his own vehicle didnt it, cheap ass. 😂😂
To be fair, I suspect a fair number of us are equally cheapasses, and also particular about our vehicles, and want to know the job is done correctly.
Having seen “professional” oil change operations leave oil out of customers vehicles, I figure most of us have at least as much chance of getting it right or wrong as if we took it somewhere. This guy, perhaps not so much.
I agree. Its sad that a great number of repair facilities are more apt to over charge and under perform. If your a woman? Your chances of getting a fair shot is 1 out of 100. Problems found that don’t exist, work not completed, i could go on. I see it first hand when they bring me the Repaired car to fix. Good on him for taking the time to do it. Just next time try not killing yourself. Oh, yes, don’t forget, unless your looking for laughs? Don’t post your fails online
How scary. I’m glad he’s ok. Could of ended up much worse.
Its a trailblazer
Very poor title on artical. This is not a mechanic. He’s a Do it yourself guy.
It bothers a professional like myself to be grouped with people that watch you tube and think they can fix things that put people in danger. Glad no kids where on the street.
Talking about Chevy Colorado’s I have a 2006 Chevy crew cab extreme why are there not making any more.