Is my truck sliding?

I just parked my 2010 Tacoma in the driveway which is a slight incline, went inside my house for about 5 minutes, came out and the truck was halfway in the street (about 10 feet from where i parked it). Now the rear passenger wheel was sitting on thick ice but none of the others were. Is that enough to make it slide back like that or did it roll?? Kind of a scary thing to find your truck in the street! Thanks in advance

 

i had this happen to me once. parked on a sheet of ice while offroading in the mountains and the parking brake wasnt enough to hold it. truck started to slide back about an inch every 2-3 seconds. luckily i caught it before it slid into the jeep behind me

 

It is possible. If there is enough of an incline or down slope the vehicle could move. I've seen it driving at cars parked at lights, stop signs, not moving forward but the back of the vehicle was sliding to one side.

 

Ok, that makes me feel a bit better knowing it was just the ice. I just thought it was weird cause only one rear wheel was on ice but I know to keep it off of there now! Thanks guys

 

salt or sand your driveway to help prevent ice from forming and you should be good to go

 

You slid, bro! It happened to me about a week ago. One of those days where it was about 35-40F, really sunny and the snow was kinda melty. Gotta remember that it cools off FAST at sunset. I learned my lesson because my truck slid into another parked car at a trail head while I was hiking, and the poor sucker had to wait HOURS for me to get back so we could exchange insurance info. I was even in 4hi, in gear, with the e-brake on.

 

yea lol. id say wedging a rock or brick behind your rear tire would probably prevent it from happening

 

I'm so glad we don't have shark issues here.

 

I've had manual transmission vehicles do this to me in the past... The engine compression wasn't enough to hold it on the hill when parked in first gear and it would roll back bit by bit. Parking in 4 low was the easiest solution as I was too young and dumb to care about adjusting the ebrake.

 

yea shes off of playalinda right now right?

im originally from cocoa

 

You slid.

The open rear end on our trucks allows the rear wheels to rotate oposite one onother even when in park. If you could have witnessed it, one wheel would have turned forward and the other would be turning backwards. The ice allowed this.

 

And being in 2Hi regardless of the parking brake being on means the front tires and free to spin like mad if necessary. Next time if unsure, put it in 4Hi then hit the parking brake.
Shit won't move then.

 

That makes me queasy with dread. I have been AT the ocean many times from the Pacific Northwest down to San Diego and it is beautiful, but I don't like to get IN the ocean.

P.S. Life is too short to eat fish.

 

yea its extremely rare to find a great white this far south. what part of FL are you in?

 

Getting in your truck and driving is statistically immeasureably more dangerous

 

I know, but driving around in vehicles hasn't been a threat long enough to trigger an instinctual response like seeing an apex predator with multiple rows of scary sharp teeth.

 

Very true. I'm actually more irrationally afraid of jellyfish than sharks, because jellyfish can get you even if you're just hanging out on the beach.

 

jellyfish are assholes lol. dont even know they're there until its too late

 

hahaha, quote of the day

 

That tire on the ice was likely spinning forward but while sliding backwards. Meanwhile the one on solid ground was rolling backwards. Putting it in park just locks the driveshaft from turning. With an open diff rear end, if you put both rear tires in the air using a lift or jackstands and having the trans in park, you can spin one of the rear tires by hand and the other one will go in the opposite direction. That is how the vehicle stays in place, but in your case, one tire had compromised traction allowing it to slip and that let the tire with traction just roll on backwards.

If you block your front tires and use a jack to just lift one rear tire off the ground and put the trans in neutral you can freely move the tire in the air even though the one on the ground can't move.