Ok, I was about the get off the freeway so i was going about 60 mph. I decided to shift the car into neutral for the hell of it. I pushed to far and the car tried to go into reverse. There was a tug and I lost power steering. I pulled over, turned the car off. Tried to turn it back on and it wouldnt start. Let it sit for a minute and everything seems to be fine now.


How much damage did I just do to my tranny?


Oh and yes, I know it was extremely retarded, you don't need to tell me.

 

don't worry about it....the car has an auto cut off for that so nothing bad happends. It happened to me once too. not exactly like that, lets just say my ex did it on accident trying to hold my hand the car shuts power to the engine, and keeps it from eating the tranny into little pieces and blowing the motor.

 

whoa, thats a relief... I was about to **** my pants because I know a guy that did this in a thunderbird while going 80 and his car stopped on a dime and his tranny actually fell out =/

 

The Tbird tranny probably more of "shot out" of the car

~THT

 

so any other opinions on my car or is mad max basically right?

 

yea, its ok,

i did that **** once going 60 down the beverly hills mountains(got up to that speed by not even pressing on the gas peddle) n miss shifted in to reverse instead of neutral. had almost no brakes n no power steering n i was goin down a curvy mountain ... scared me straight, dont do that **** no more

 

when i shift to neutral on freeway down hills, i just push the shifter up, no need to press the button. that way it won't go into reverse accidently. i found out that you don't need to press the button when: going to N from D or D to N, going fron R to N and/or D, going from 1 or 2 UP to D (need to press the button to go down)

 

yea, i wont be doing that anymore.. and blk_g20, thanks for the info, that wouldve probably helped

 

Your car is fine. The Thunderbird is a Ford. Enough said.

 

why are you pushing the button on the shifter? the shifter goes from drive to neutral just by pushing the stick up. dont use the button

 

why would you shift into neutral? Are you just using it for the engine braking?

 

I have never had a problem putting on reverse while going down hill, Then again my car is a manual, so I would never have this problem

 

A.) Yea....don't press the button...

B.) I love you AT guys who feel the need to goof around with your transmission while you're driving. What is shifting into neutral going to accomplish, other than making you even more unprepared if you had to hit the gas in some type of emergency situation? You're not getting engine braking in Neutral, so what the hell is the point of doing it? At a stoplight, okay, but on the highway?? LOL....next time buy an MT!

 

i agree with endus +1

 

Yes - whats the story with shifting into neutral... is definitely isn't giving you any engine braking... and as for the habit at doing it at stop lights, I wonder if that may actually be worse for the tranny since you are constantly engaging/disengaging it each time you shift between D and N (and back to D)... Just leave it in D, and keep your foot on the brake... or get a 5spd (not that I should talk - since I have the automagic)

 

I just like "Guinader's" smiley, SHIFT!

 

i will vouch for this my friend has a 96 sentra and we always tried to brake the car for fu( it was anextra crap car) we all have one sometimes( mine is a 87 mazda b2200. and we did this like 1000 times and not results. just auto cut off.

 

that would freak me out too dont worry about it