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- From: stnd@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Scott N. Dickson)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Coasting with auto tranny's...
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- Date: 10 Nov 92 19:17:45 GMT
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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!
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- My sister did that to my car. I almost killed her!
- I almost always shift into neutral coasting up to a stop because the
- engine pulls hard enough to require a fair deal of pedal pressure to
- bring the car to a complete stop. She had never driven the car before
- and had seen me slip it into neutral and thought she'd do it. Crunch!
- Came to a complete stop from about 20 mph, killing the engine in the
- process. I've had the car out a few times since then, and it seems to
- be ok. I guess you either break it or you don't, but nothing in between.
- Just my little story, worth what you paid for it....
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