shifting gear from neutral to drive at 50 MPH

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Jan 28, 2005 | 05:07 AM

samba

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shifting gear from neutral to drive at 50 MPH

Hi
My Honda accord (2004) gear shifted from D4 to D3 by mistake while I tried to pull my cell phone out. I tried to move it to D4 but it moved to Neutral and then I changed to D4 again. All this happened while I was driving at 50MPH. I saw the RPM shoot up to 7 or 8. Does this damage the gears or anything? Do I need to have my car inspected?

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Jan 28, 2005 | 05:10 AM

JonnySBeee...

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Re: shifting gear from neutral to drive at 50 MPH (samba)

you should be fine...just dont do it again

Jan 28, 2005 | 07:05 AM

samba

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Re: shifting gear from neutral to drive at 50 MPH (jonny05)

can you tell me what happens when we shift the gear at 50MPH from neutral to D4 ?

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Jan 28, 2005 | 02:00 PM

fw190bvi

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Re: shifting gear from neutral to drive at 50 MPH (samba)

your torque converter got very mad at your, thats all

Jan 30, 2005 | 10:03 PM

businessmanph

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Re: shifting gear from neutral to drive at 50 MPH (fw190bvi)

can't you rev match it so it catches gears quicker?

Jan 31, 2005 | 12:59 PM

JimBlake

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Re: shifting gear from neutral to drive at 50 MPH (businessmanph)

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by businessmanph »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">can't you rev match it so it catches gears quicker?</TD></TR></TABLE>Sure. If you know how to rev-match (like with a manual), you can do that. Then your tranny won't get so mad at you...

He didn't do this on purpose, so I bet he's not gonna keep doing it. Even with rev-matching, that's not something you should keep doing with an auto-tranny.