I went into my car this morning to go to work and I realized that it was in first before I started it. I went to wiggle the shifter just to double check and it slide right out of first without me using the clutch. I checked the other gears and found out that it will go into any gear without using the clutch when the car is off. What could be wrong and is this something that needs to be fixed or could it wait? Thanks.

 

What is the problem?

My car and every other car with a manual transmission that I have been in does this too....

 

That is perfectly normal.

 

Nothing is wrong, so dont worry about it.

 

Yeah is normal as long as the car is off.

 

For more explaination, read this: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/transmission.htm

as everyone said, this is normal.

 

My bad, I thought that I used to not be able to do this. Thanks for the replies.

 

lawl.