I hope that this is the correct forum for this, feel free to move it if it isnt mods.

It shut down my car (left everything on, but turned the engine off), it freaked the crap out of me because I am used to driving in Drive, not Overdrive, but I decided that gas consumption sucked just this one day and decided to cruise at OD, then wanted to shift it into neutral b/c my brakes are about gone (replacing pads on Thursday)

And with my "great" habit of holding down the shifter button while shifting through the gears (dont even know how i got this habit) it shifted it from OD to R instead of D to N lol.

Anyways, after I got to a rolling stop I was able to start the car up again (after a couple pounds of the pedal to the floor on startup) and got it ridden home easily. It felt a bit less torquey (if that's even a word lol) on the rest of the drive though, but perhaps that's because I was quiet tense from the mishap?

Anyways, thanks for reading up on my recent stupidity lol

 

HAHAHAHHAHAHA

 

i did that on a previous thirdgen i had.

went from overdrive to R at around 45 and smoked the tires for a few quick seconds and put it back in od. the tranny and car was fine after that. i just plum forgot what gear i was in and my indicator light was broken and at night.

 

I had a similar thing happen in my s-10 when I was having trouble with it. On my way home one day it was giving me fits and the engine couldnt build enough vacuum to operate the brake booster. I wasnt about to get it towed so I just continued driving and when I wanted to stop. Id shift into neutral, rev the motor, and slam the throttle shut to generate vacuum. Worked fine untill someone pulled out in front of me when I was doing about 60 and coasting to a red light up ahead. Swerved to avoid them and since it has a column shifter, I moved that all the way into park by accident when I turned the wheel. Nothing like hearing the parking pawl trying to engage the internal reaction gear/support or whatever that thing is called while its still turning...

BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz*CLUNK*

 

Arn't you the same one that posted that thread of you wiping out on your motorcycle and messing it up?

 

I did the same thing in my 98 s-10 blazer, except I was doing 75 on cruise on the highway with a tralier behind me hahahahahahaha. almost lost it but regained control. car shutdown. but started up again 5 mins later. has run fine ever since not a single trans problem for the following years

 

glad i'm not the only one out there close minded enough to do something like this heheh.

So I am not thinking that I did any real damage to my car (thank the holy *** ali-bobba ) But boy did this put a real dampner on my already bad day! lol, thanks for cheering me up with your stories guys hehe

 

which gear is drive on an automatic im always gettin different answers? lets see theres p-park, r-reverse, n-nutrual, the circle with the d in it ?-what is it, then the d-what is it, 2-second, 1-first. can some1 help me out? and which drive is better for racing, overdrive? or drive?

 

the d with the circle around it is Overdrive (4th gear). the D right below that is Drive (3rd gear). then you have of course 2 (2nd gear) and 1 (1st gear). what this means, is if you put it in 2nd, for instance, the tranny would still start in 1st, but would shift NO HIGHER than 2nd gear. hope this clears it up...

Josh

 

Another reason why I got an aftermarket shifter, no accidental shifts into reverse

 

That my friend, was below the belt

 

It looked like your post was a pointed barb toward teh thread starter, so I guess I misread you. My apologies.

 

I was

 

heh... Oh well, I sorry jsut the same.

 

its koo man my bikes in "pretty" good shape, should be back up in no time.

 

I think that means that we ALL are human...

 

well, i didnt take it offensively so it's all good. thanks for sticking up for me though heh.

So far today, I havent had any problems with the car, so I'm just assuming it'll be fine. But I am still more concious about shifting around so much heh.