what would happen if i was doing 90 mph down a motorway in my car and put it into first gear???????????????

Question

I like the way for such a stupid question so many of you want me to try it!! cheers guys! what a right pack of shits you all are!! ha ha.. I came up with the idea today during a mundane drive down the motorway at work today.. i joked to my workmate what would he do if the breaks were cut on the van??? jump and skid to death or crash and burn!! he said he'd put the van in first gear the spawny git!! hence my question lol

Answer 1

You`d have to apply the brakes immediately ........ come to a complete stop ............. get a large basket out of the trunk .......... then walk back and pick up all the bits and pieces you can find from your engine and transmission .

Put everything you found in the trunk ......... call a tow truck ............ and have them tow what`s left of your vehicle to the Auto Press !

The Auto Press pays you for your vehicle .............. you pay the tow truck driver ............... and you still have twenty bucks clear profit !

Answer 2

Apart from being a really silly thing to do i actually know someone who done it a rover 416, this was all tarted up and tuned but the bloke was a pillock of a driver racing anyone an everyone, was not concentrating and changed down into first @ approx 80 - 90 mph both front wheels locked up he went skidding accross 3 lanes of carraigeway lucky it was late not many cars about, the gear box was shattered to pieces as was his engine the debris went for about a mile down the road, he was promptly nicked got three months porridge, and a two year ban, and he will have to take his test all over again, hope that answered it for you, thinking of trying it ? lol

Answer 3

If you were able to get it into that gear at that speed, and then dumped the clutch, then you would come to a rapid halt as the wheels tried to drive the gearbox and engine faster than they can physically move, and something would go BANG in a big way and you would kill your car. It's that simple.

Additional to above:
Only by going down through the gears. Not from 5th to 1st...

Answer 4

Hi

The driven wheels would lock up and you would skid off the road. If you survived that and the car was still in one piece it would need a new gear box and possibly a new engine.

Your friend could have said use the handbrake of course but there you go!

Best regards

Geordie

Answer 5

You would blow the engine and eventually come to a halt- possibly in a ditch or something. However, should you find yourself doing 90mph down a motorway and discover your breaks have been mysteriously cut, you could use the 1st gear option to stop the car...

Answer 6

sorry to say you'd probably end up meeting your maker,or getting arrested for a number of crimes wich would more than likely end up with you doing eternal life sentences an to be realy honest about it i think you need help in certain departments asking a stupid question like that whats the worl comming too aint they issueing brains out no more?

Answer 7

It would most likly rip a gear out or break a layshaft or tear the center out of the clutch center plate

Answer 8

You wouldn't be able to. You'd shred the synchros on a manual and an automatic won't go into first till the car is going slow enough.

Answer 9

Your gearbox would likely shatter and cause your car to skid off the road, not to mention irreparable damage to the engine.

Answer 10

I woundnt recommend it, but it would down shift to 2 nd gear. Will not go into fist because there is a modual in the tranny that tells it not to do it after a certain rpm.