the other day i was at a stop light, in drive (5at). took off from the light (thought i was in 5mt) punched it, slaped sticked it and shifted into neutral and hit rev limiter. lucky no one else was around.
such a dumb a$$.
anybody else???
tom

 

hahaha... what the hell would make you want to do that? did it cause any problems for your car? i think that was the funniest story i've heard all day. i don't even know what you look like, but i can just picture someone doing that. i just want to know how did you forget that you have an automatic transmission?

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don't they put this restriction thing on moving from D to N such as if you don't have brake pedal depressed it won't shift unless you press the button. so if you are in D and starting up at stop light, you are probably not braking, so i don't see how it let you go into N and rev.

 

What he means by 5mt is the Tiptronic option the Auto version of the car brings...

 

Not to look too stupid myself...but what happens when you hit the rev limiter? Does it cut off the engine?

 

Nothing... it just bounces off the limiter waiting for to do something. I wouldn't worry about your engine, the limiter did its job and saved your rear end.

 

I've never had a tranny where they restrict it from going to Nuetral from Drive.

Andrew

2003 coupe 6MT blue premium aero (on order)

 

not from neutral to drive, but from drive to neutral they do have this switch at the shifter they doesn't allow you to shift unless you press the button if you don't have the brake pedal depressed

 

To reverse or park. Or out of park, but you want to be able to put it in nuetral somtimes (only two places to start a car, nuetral and park)

Andrew

2003 coupe 6MT blue premium aero (on order)

 

LOL I did this once too but it was not as severe as yours. I was making a left turn and thought I was in Manual Mode. I shifted up to nuetral and took car up to 4k rpm. I immediatly shifted into D and rode away.

 

I did the same thing when I test drove an auto for the first time. Instinct is to flip down as you would in a manual tranny.

 

WHAT?

OK there baby ... I dont think he meant to ... this would be fairly indicative of him calling himself a dumba$$
let alone forgot that he had a auto or technically a manumatic.

Dont worry M1dtom ... obviously you not as dumb as you though after all buddy

hehehhe...

anyways Later G's

 

wow i never really thought people could do that... everyone does it to the maxima i drive when i let them drive it. it's automatic. but the drive and the 3 are right next to eachother so they keep thinking that they can change the gears. i sometimes just do it by accident because my hand stays on the shifter.

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You've seen the interior of the G right ???? ...

there is a little "area" on the shift line where you can slide over the shifter from the park,neutral,"3", Drive area so that you can upshift or downshift by pushing the shifter level up (duh) or down (yah).....

which gives the driver the option of going from the automatic shifting transmission like in your maxima over to a "manumatic" or a manual type shift .. where as the driver can change the gears when needed or wanted as opposed to the car changing the gears "AUTOMATICALLY".... hence automatic..

later Gs