Hokay, I have a 1999 Toyota Camry with automatic transmission. The other day I pulled out of the driveway.. and when I went to go put it into drive and I was driving down the street and it was just sounding funny so I looked down and i must have put it in 2nd.. what does that mean? is that bad?
2006-12-18 12:45:02 · 8 answers · asked by Julie 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
All you did is manually put it in 2nd gear. There is nothing wrong with that form a dead stop. Some time it is a good thing like on the ice. The "L" is for 1st gear and the "2" is for second gear. When you have the shifter in one of theses gears it will not shift buy it's self you will have to shift it manually or you could cause damage if the R.P.Ms get to high.
2006-12-18 12:54:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All that means is that you had the transmission so it wouldnt shift out of 2nd. How fast were you going and did you happen to notice what the Tach said? It depends on how long you did it you may have fried the plugs... If it still runs good than I wouldnt worry about it just try not to do it again because it can be hard on the engine running at that high of RPM's without a real load.
2006-12-18 12:49:48 · answer #2 · answered by Jr. Mechanic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If its an automatic you should put it in drive before you move unless you are climbing a very steep hill. Thats the reason you have an automatic so it can do the shifting for you from drive.
2006-12-18 12:49:41 · answer #3 · answered by roy40372 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats a funny one, you must not have a tachometer.... If this is a common thing for you, let me be the one who tells you to get ANY tachometer installed in your plain veiw of the speedometer with a big red light that flashes when you hit 5000 rpms
2006-12-18 12:51:07 · answer #4 · answered by ptcruisher2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't feel bad, my wife drove just over 100 miles in (2) intead of (drive) on the freeway @ around 60mph.
She said it ran fine, but used a lot of gas.
And we haven't had aly problems scince then.
2006-12-18 12:51:13 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. KnowItAll 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means it (trans) was running in 2nd. NO biggie.....unless you were doing 90mph. Just click it up into "D" and keep going.
2006-12-18 12:47:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no,,you didn't hurt it none,,it wasn't that good for it,,but it wont burn it up,but its not a good idea to do this a lot,,,but Toyota,s are tough vehicles,,and it should be OK,,good luck,and have a good x-mas.
2006-12-18 12:48:54 · answer #7 · answered by dodge man 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
as long as you didn't drive at 50 mph
2006-12-18 12:47:35 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋