What happens if you put in park when driving
Discussion
I dont plan on doing it but on my BMW with auto it has a press button for park that sometines when I pull on the drive I press before I have fully stopped and it stops dead. This got me thinking what would happen if I did it at say 20, 30 ,80 etc
When I am driving cant help resting my fingers near it - so very tempting, on other autos I have had to move the lever so not the same.
Sog
When I am driving cant help resting my fingers near it - so very tempting, on other autos I have had to move the lever so not the same.
Sog
MarkP1973 said:
you'd hope there'll be some safety measure to stop it happening at unsafe speeds. But, my friend, there's only one way to find out. Make sure you video it when you do it at 70mph and report back.
I had a similar type of arguement with a friend of mine, he was ridiculing the Jason Bourne movies and claimed the scene where he unhinged the gas stove and proceded to shove a newspaper in the toaster was unrealistic and bawlocks.Told him " oh yeah, why dont you try it then? Expecting a promt report in 5 minutes"
No idea if it's still the case but autos of 30+ years ago used a toothed wheel on the output shaft and a pin or hinged bar that locked it in a fixed position.
Engage this while in motion and it's down to the weakest link in the chain: locking pin, wheel, gearbox casing, output/drive/prop shaft, diff, or just violently and suddenly lock the wheels.
Engage this while in motion and it's down to the weakest link in the chain: locking pin, wheel, gearbox casing, output/drive/prop shaft, diff, or just violently and suddenly lock the wheels.
Big News said:
I'm not sure whether my Volvo stops me doing it at high speed, but I've absent-mindedly thrown it into Park when I was doing a couple of MPH whilst parking and it didn't half stop quickly!
Yeah, a mate of mine thought it'd be hilarious to jump in my car and drive away, (850 T5 Auto) only to have never driven an auto before, only to put it in park at about 5 mph, the gearbox made a horrible grinding noise and the car lurched violently to a stop. To this day, I'm amazed it didn't do any serious damage to it.
C36 Nico said:
MarkP1973 said:
you'd hope there'll be some safety measure to stop it happening at unsafe speeds. But, my friend, there's only one way to find out. Make sure you video it when you do it at 70mph and report back.
I had a similar type of arguement with a friend of mine, he was ridiculing the Jason Bourne movies and claimed the scene where he unhinged the gas stove and proceded to shove a newspaper in the toaster was unrealistic and bawlocks.Told him " oh yeah, why dont you try it then? Expecting a promt report in 5 minutes"
Surely if you did manage to put it in park (on an older box) it'd just rip the parking Pawl off the box casing and let it rattle round, while having the box in neutral?
Manual gearbox is a different job though, I'm pretty sure that if you did manage to engage it the MA box in my car would just chew the reverse idler to bits... That or the casing would just fly apart.
Manual gearbox is a different job though, I'm pretty sure that if you did manage to engage it the MA box in my car would just chew the reverse idler to bits... That or the casing would just fly apart.
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