I got pissed on the road and the car is Automatic. I was on drive and slammed the shifter which went into park while the car was still moving then I put it back to drive. It freaked me out and the car seems to run fine but when it happened I heard a grinding noise. The car is an 06 Mustang.
2006-11-05 09:45:35 · 6 answers · asked by Allen S 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Let me explain it. No it wont hurt it In order to put it into park and stop the forword moting the trans mut come to a complete stop.
Therre is a thing called a dog tooth and when you put it into park it moves this tooth into a posision that stops the drive.
That is the clicking you hear when you are stopted and put it into park.
When you did that you hurt a funny noise that was trying to lock the trans in park but it dident cause you put it into drive right away.
In some cases it can break off this tooth and it will not stay in park but you did it so fast it did little or no damage at all.
Now if you had it in drive and put it into reverse it can and does burn out the trans. It is the same if you are in a hole and try rocking the car out buy going from foward to reverse and back again.
You can get away with it a few times but the it burns out the trans.
2006-11-05 09:54:40 · answer #1 · answered by goldwing127959 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually Don's answer is very good although we use different terms for the components involved. when that happens it's better to be going faster than slower. the parking paw is also applied with spring tension because there are cogs on the OD of the park lock gear that the paw has to engage to stop your vehicle from rolling away after you get out of it. that's why, if you've ever noticed, sometimes when you put your car in park it will roll slightly before it stops. when that happens the park paw by the luck of the draw at first made contact on the top of the gear and the vehicle had to roll slightly till it got to the notch where it can stop the car. because it is applied with spring tension it can do that. i also agree, DON'T DO THAT NO MORE!
2006-11-05 18:14:12 · answer #2 · answered by bill 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the grinding you heard was the parking pawl beating on the park lock.as long as your trans is working ok consider yourself lucky and look into anger management classes.
2006-11-05 18:54:19 · answer #3 · answered by wrenchr2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could, but you might have gotten very lucky. Good luck trying to explain that mishap to the dealer if it does break...A word of advice, don't do that again.
2006-11-05 17:48:17 · answer #4 · answered by Silverstang 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully you only broke the parking lock.
2006-11-05 17:50:46 · answer #5 · answered by gdwrnch40 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
idiot
2006-11-05 19:20:08 · answer #6 · answered by jayson_waltz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋