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- From: mchaffee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Rockville)
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- Subject: Re: Coasting with auto tranny's...
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- Date: 6 Nov 92 22:34:33 GMT
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- ilh@lcs.mit.edu (Lee Hetherington) writes:
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- >In article <Bx91Ev.91p.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- >rudis+@cs.cmu.edu (Rujith S DeSilva) writes:
- > On an automatic car, can one shift into drive while the car is
- > moving? Would it damage the transmission?
-
- >You would really kill your transmission if, when shifting from drive
- >to neutral, you overshot neutral and hit reverse!
-
- Funny you should mention that...Once on my '85 Olds, the MAF sensor crapped
- out, resulting in extremely poor running and the inability to idle in Drive.
- As I limped home, I had to put the trans in Neutral every time I got to a
- red light (being careful to get to the lowest possible speed before shifting
- of course). Once I DID blow it and slip on into Reverse. It actually took a
- few seconds for me to get it back into Neutral, and even with a delay of maybe
- five seconds, I didn't feel any shock from the trans, nor did I notice any
- problem later as a result. Seems to me that a lockout valve or something to
- keep the trans from selecting Reverse while moving forward would make sense...
- Anybody out there know if there's a lockout? I only know manuals...
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