on an automatic, if i accidentally bump the "shifter" from D to N while at 60mph...

[Bignate603]

Originally posted by: brblx
did it actually lock the reverse clutches (and the wheels) while you were driving? that'd be pretty awesome in a pant-shitting kind of way.

It didn't lock up for some reason, it stalled and I seem to remember the car bouncing around a bunch before I pounded it into neutral a second later. There wasn't any screeching tires though. The transmission didn't even shift any harder afterwards, I'm thoroughly convinced that the AW4 is bullet proof after that.

 

[exdeath]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
i'll say this - at low speeds, my car does not like it (VW passat tiptronic). it makes a nasty clunk sound going from N to D. i've done it on accident a few times thinking i was in tiptronic when i wasn't. i'm sorry baby 🙁

Sounds like mounts or driveline play or something.

 

[ayabe]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: ayabe

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Just lift off the gas and put it back in "D", that should be good enough. It's certainly not the best thing you can do to a transmission, but it's far from the worst.

ZV

Like trying to powershift a Dodge Aries, getting it wrong, ending up in R while traveling at around 30mph?

I was a passenger for this event, lots of great "ball-bearings in a coffee can" audio.

:laugh:MFAO!!! What genius thought that would be a good idea?

A friend of mine in high school, he used to beat that thing without mercy. Tranny was fine afterwards amazingly enough, he bragged to his dad about it and almost got punched in the face.

This always makes me chuckle:
It's not just the performance, it's the luxury....

Spent a lot of hours in that car riding shotgun, and that commerical pretty much sums up the whole experience.

 

[Mide]

I'm done that many times...no you just get it back to D and the engine will re-sync up.

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: ayabe

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Just lift off the gas and put it back in "D", that should be good enough. It's certainly not the best thing you can do to a transmission, but it's far from the worst.

ZV

Like trying to powershift a Dodge Aries, getting it wrong, ending up in R while traveling at around 30mph?

I was a passenger for this event, lots of great "ball-bearings in a coffee can" audio.

:laugh:MFAO!!! What genius thought that would be a good idea?

Obligatory :

http://www.ag.auburn.edu/users/parmega/articles/neon/

Rental Neon w/3spd Auto and 13" steelies does 13's in the quarter before blowing bits of motor out. 🙂

 

[brblx]

Originally posted by: Bignate603

Originally posted by: brblx
did it actually lock the reverse clutches (and the wheels) while you were driving? that'd be pretty awesome in a pant-shitting kind of way.

It didn't lock up for some reason, it stalled and I seem to remember the car bouncing around a bunch before I pounded it into neutral a second later. There wasn't any screeching tires though. The transmission didn't even shift any harder afterwards, I'm thoroughly convinced that the AW4 is bullet proof after that.

i guess the wheels won the battle and tried to turn the engine backwards.

they did something like this on mythbusters, i believe. i think they were using a computer controlled auto, though, so nothing happened, of course. funny watching one of their guys resorting to trying to jam a manual into reverse at speed, though.

oh, and that rental neon article is a classic.

 

[Raduque]

Let me tell you something right now, do not try to slam a 91 Aerostar V6's automatic into drive from reverse at more than 5mph - you'll blow out all the forward gears. My dad did this one time and the rebuild was more than $2100.

 

[TraumaRN]

Well I can do some fun things with my car.....because of the whole electronically controlled CVT on my Fusion Hybrid I can actually put my car into reverse at speed and have absolutely nothing happen. Even if you pull to a complete stop it'll just stop then reverse. Kinda boring, but it's cool because technically there is not a true 'reverse' gear on my car.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Just lift off the gas and put it back in "D", that should be good enough. It's certainly not the best thing you can do to a transmission, but it's far from the worst.

ZV

the worst is doing 5 grand neutral drops.

:Q

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: DeathBUA
Well I can do some fun things with my car.....because of the whole electronically controlled CVT on my Fusion Hybrid I can actually put my car into reverse at speed and have absolutely nothing happen. Even if you pull to a complete stop it'll just stop then reverse. Kinda boring, but it's cool because technically there is not a true 'reverse' gear on my car.

So, it's idiot proof then? 😛

 

[LTC8K6]

You can put most fairly modern auto tranny cars into reverse at speed and nothing will happen.

Mythbusters tried it with an older Crown Vic and even that tranny was smart enough...

 

[yh125d]

Originally posted by: astroidea
Revmatch to what? Automatics always drop the RPMs to a bit above neutral when you don't have your foot on the gas anyways, especially with overdrive on.

Not always. My fusion does 80mph at ~2800, and only drops to 24-2500 when I let off the throttle. If my memory serves me, most autos I've driven are like this actually

 

[brblx]

not always as in, not really at all. the converter will stay locked in overdrive until you hit the brakes.

 

[imported_Imp]

I have a bad habit of throwing cars into Park or Reverse before I completely stop moving. Foots on the brake, and I'm doing maybe 1 Kmh, but that's no good. Worst was last week when driing the company Camry hybrid when I threw it in Park while still moving slightly. Well, the Park "gear" stopped the car with a big clank.

 

[Greenman]

Originally posted by: ayabe

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Just lift off the gas and put it back in "D", that should be good enough. It's certainly not the best thing you can do to a transmission, but it's far from the worst.

ZV

Like trying to powershift a Dodge Aries, getting it wrong, ending up in R while traveling at around 30mph?

I was a passenger for this event, lots of great "ball-bearings in a coffee can" audio.

I did that in an old ford F150. I had replaced the engine and manual transmission with an engine and automatic tranny out of a wreaked Shelby mustang. I was using the gear shift and linkage from the old tranny, it didn't work all that well and I hit reverse going from second to what I thought was going to be third at WOT and around 70mph. I don't know if it actually went into reverse, but there was a God awful amount of smoke and noise coming from my rear tires. The tranny survived, though it only lasted another 20 or 30k miles.

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: ayabe

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Just lift off the gas and put it back in "D", that should be good enough. It's certainly not the best thing you can do to a transmission, but it's far from the worst.

ZV

Like trying to powershift a Dodge Aries, getting it wrong, ending up in R while traveling at around 30mph?

I was a passenger for this event, lots of great "ball-bearings in a coffee can" audio.

The brakes on my mom's Dodge Aries went out one time and she jammed it into park at 30 MPH. Funny, we heard the exact same noise! 😀

The car was completely dead by 70,000 miles. Good ol' Detroit iron. 😉

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: yh125d

Originally posted by: astroidea
Revmatch to what? Automatics always drop the RPMs to a bit above neutral when you don't have your foot on the gas anyways, especially with overdrive on.

Not always. My fusion does 80mph at ~2800, and only drops to 24-2500 when I let off the throttle. If my memory serves me, most autos I've driven are like this actually

If your revs change at all at 80 MPH, your torque converter isn't locking, and it sure should be at that speed.

Good ol' Detroit iron!

I'm on a roll!

 

[TraumaRN]

Originally posted by: thomsbrain

Originally posted by: yh125d

Originally posted by: astroidea
Revmatch to what? Automatics always drop the RPMs to a bit above neutral when you don't have your foot on the gas anyways, especially with overdrive on.

Not always. My fusion does 80mph at ~2800, and only drops to 24-2500 when I let off the throttle. If my memory serves me, most autos I've driven are like this actually

If your revs change at all at 80 MPH, your torque converter isn't locking, and it sure should be at that speed.

Good ol' Detroit iron!

I'm on a roll!

Actually what he(yh125d) is describing is the normal response of your car dropping RPMs when you take your foot off the gas at any speed......Just an FYI 😉

 

[sindows]

For an automatic car, there is always a couple hundred rpms worth of nothing happening if you gingerly accelerate in top gear.

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: Imp
I have a bad habit of throwing cars into Park or Reverse before I completely stop moving. Foots on the brake, and I'm doing maybe 1 Kmh, but that's no good. Worst was last week when driing the company Camry hybrid when I threw it in Park while still moving slightly. Well, the Park "gear" stopped the car with a big clank.

Same here, but I try to throw it into Drive before I'm stopped. POS tranny tries to break my neck as a reminder every time I do it.

 

[Bignate603]

Originally posted by: potato28

Originally posted by: Imp
I have a bad habit of throwing cars into Park or Reverse before I completely stop moving. Foots on the brake, and I'm doing maybe 1 Kmh, but that's no good. Worst was last week when driing the company Camry hybrid when I threw it in Park while still moving slightly. Well, the Park "gear" stopped the car with a big clank.

Same here, but I try to throw it into Drive before I'm stopped. POS tranny tries to break my neck as a reminder every time I do it.

I don't think it's the transmission that's the problem.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Bignate603

Originally posted by: potato28

Originally posted by: Imp
I have a bad habit of throwing cars into Park or Reverse before I completely stop moving. Foots on the brake, and I'm doing maybe 1 Kmh, but that's no good. Worst was last week when driing the company Camry hybrid when I threw it in Park while still moving slightly. Well, the Park "gear" stopped the car with a big clank.

Same here, but I try to throw it into Drive before I'm stopped. POS tranny tries to break my neck as a reminder every time I do it.

I don't think it's the transmission that's the problem.

Yeah, remind me not to buy a car from either of them 😉

In my MPV yesterday twice I went from N to D at around 35-40 and back into D, it feels like the tranny doesn't really car.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: ayabe

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Just lift off the gas and put it back in "D", that should be good enough. It's certainly not the best thing you can do to a transmission, but it's far from the worst.

ZV

Like trying to powershift a Dodge Aries, getting it wrong, ending up in R while traveling at around 30mph?

I was a passenger for this event, lots of great "ball-bearings in a coffee can" audio.

Oh god, my brain hurts just thinking about it.

 

[nakedfrog]

I had this happen once, only it wasn't me that bumped it, it was the ridiculously drunk guy that I was driving home (his vehicle). Prince's 1999 came up, and he was hootin' and hollerin' and sticking the top part of his body out the passenger window so everyone else on the highway could revel in his magnificent performance, and his antics knocked the shifter into N. It took me a second or two to realize what had happened due to the distraction, but I stuck it back into drive, and all was well.

And I never offered to be designated driver for that dude again.