Idiotic/Random Occurrence - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

n0rad · 03-02-2008, 04:17 PM

So the other day I was driving to a friends and decided that i was going to do a tail slide because the roads were nice and slippery. The turn was nice and wide so I knew it would be a good one. Silly me gets really amped up for the turn. I spin the wheel, crank the e-brake, and then for reason I can not explain I threw the shifter up straight to R. Car sputtered forward a bit then stalled. I just sat there frozen thinking about wtf I just did. I shifted to P then started the car and tested R. Worked fine. Tested D. Worked fine. Now I have been driving for a couple days and have not noticed any problems. Thank god.

Just thought I would share this idiotic experience with everyone. Maybe someone knows the technical aspect of what saved my transmission haha.

ToyCam187 · 03-02-2008, 04:49 PM

good one. A buddy of mine one time was reving his jeep at me, and he slammed it into Reverse. I just thought it was a Jeep thing.

eurohazard · 03-02-2008, 05:19 PM

Well you said it..."nice and slippery". If it were dry and sticky, maybe you'd have some transmission damage.

***Eye8Pussies*** · 03-02-2008, 05:31 PM

it's fine...everything stalled, etc to protect your tranny

bigbird · 03-02-2008, 05:37 PM

i hear that most newer cars do that automatically to prevent any damage. the tranny wont actually shift into reverse untill it reaches a certain very low speed. not sure if the gen4 camry is one of them.

dare i even ask what you were trying to do when this happened.

n0rad · 03-02-2008, 06:45 PM

that makes a lot of sense.

lol the only thing i can think of is that i was trying to shift down like in a manual. over excitement i guess.

Style Wagon · 03-02-2008, 08:54 PM

shifted into drive from nuetral at about 4k rpm.