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- From: leonglaw@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Lawrence LEONG)
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 10:43:29 GMT
- Subject: Re: Coasting with auto tranny's...
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- In rec.autos.tech, andyh@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Andrew J. Huang) writes:
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- |In article <53110036@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com> leonglaw@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Lawrence LEONG) writes:
- |>In rec.autos.tech, ilh@lcs.mit.edu (Lee Hetherington) writes:
- |>
- |>|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!
- |>
- |>That's if you press that little button on the shifter. On the few times I
- |
- |>On column shifts, I believe you have to pull/push to go from neutral to
- |
- |The truth is:
- | 1) its not too hard to do; column shifts let you go anywhere once
- |you pull, floor shifter buttons only stop you from getting 2-1 instead
- |of D. At least that was the case in my father's '65 442 and my
- |mother's 76 Volvo 244.
- |
- | 2) It only stalls the engine if you happen to get into the
- |reverse. I decided to coast down a hill (yes, its illegal) and after
- |I reached 35mph, I went to put it back into D and went to R. Stalled
- |the engine. At least that was the case in my father's '65 442.
- |
- |-andy
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- I'll believe you on point 2. I don't intend to verify it on my dad's Honda
- :-)
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- lawrence
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