I have an aftermarket shift **** - the lock is still there.

The car will not go into "park" if you are going over a certain speed. I suspect you were going too fast or you would have described the major "clunk" into park as you skidded to a full stop. If that did not happen, the car saved your a$$. You have to be going pretty slow for it to actually engage into park.

 

Over a certain speed, the tranny will just stay in neutral, regardless if u went to Reverse or Park.

 

Do you have an idea of the speed range?

 

Nope, as I havnt tried it. Just read about it.

 

I did that in a honda once and it wasn't pretty. Made the crazyest sound you ever heard all the way until it stopped...you will know if you did damage or not!!! lol

 

lol wow

another reason never to buy an automatic

 

P
R
N +
D -
-


Drive to Park ?! lol seriously HTF ?!, you ahve to push the button to get into park, i know many ppl shift from D to N, but i jsut read you have an AM shifter , but did it do anything when you went past the R ?

 

you should be fine.

I did that too once at much much lower speeds tho and nothing happened.

 

I second that.


As I have mentioned that I have done it and the P did not even engage. Car acted as it was in the N and produced no noise what so ever.

 

Did the car do anything at all when you did that? I did that with a rental car once out of curiosity and it didn't do anything at all. Car kept rolling at current speed but wouldn't let me accelerate like that. Slipped it right back in to drive and kept going. If there is really a safety thing on there for people like....well, you...then you'll be fine. If it did anything else you may want to get it looked at. I haven't seen it on this car, but I hear the pin that locks the tranny in place while in park is pretty small; there's no doubt that will be damaged if this actually engaged when you, somehow, did this. Good luck man. Keep us posted.

 

i was wondering the same thing .. i had to go thru the gears to think how youd get that far up ... but i read the thread some more.

hitting park at low speeds isnt too bad, isnt serious enough to get it checked out. unless you were pushin it. i would consider it..

ive done the d to n once because i forgot i changed from -tronic back to drive at a light. i wasnt goin real fast tho.

 

My car must be wierd, but my dumbass friend was pissed at me right after i got my car and threw it in park going about 15mph. It was grinding and making wierd noises.

Havnt noticed anything since, but boy, i havnt been so pissed. my arm honestly couldnt stop beating the living **** out of him. It was the wierdest thing ever. i was just enragged and couldnt stop hitting him lol He was covered in bruises after that incident.

How do you engaged shift lock?

 

didn't mythbuster have an episode about going into reverse at high speeds?

 

Yeah, that result was disappointing.

D - N isn't a bad thing...D - P is...bad, prob wouldn't let your friend make a habit of that.