A question about shifting gears...do you have to come to a complete stop?

[Laconian]

Well if you manage to ever shift a car to R while driving forward down a steep hill, let me know.  Let me know if it slows you down, too.

It'll slow the car down all right.

[2o6]

It'll slow the car down all right.

Actually, it'll probably break first.

[Laconian]

Actually, it'll probably break first.

Which is a great way to slow down a car.

[Raza]

Oh, you guys...

[AutobahnSHO]

But that'll tear up the transmission. (Automatic)

Won't the parking pawl eventually break off!? Won't the reverse gear eventually grind into nothingness? (especially since it's to designed to go backwards, not forwards)

Don't most later cars have some sort of failsafe to prevent this from happening? (or wearing the tranny)

It probably tears up the Torque converter first.

Like when your brother stands on the brakes of your mom's car while your other brother smashes the gas.....

[Rupert]

I wasn't actually believing him. I was humoring him.


I think.

LOL

Nice.

[Minpin]

I do this benzie. Always have. My parents do it too, and they've never had a failed tranny. I think with today's engineering the damage it does is negligible. True, I am no enginerd, but I am not about to stop doing it.

Hell, with my car, I don't even have to have my foot on the brake to shift from R to D...