So tonight i was driving home after getting Battlefield 3, and i was in the wrong lane.

So i put my car in reverse and hit the gas enough to spin a bit and i believe i had shifted my car into OD before it stalled but it may have been in neutral.

My question is why did my car stall? Is it b/c i didnt wait till it came to a complete stop before switching gears?

or did going backwards fast and trying to go throught the gears kill it?

I started it right after it died and it drove normally the rest of the way, but i was just really scared that i had ruined the car when it happened.


I thought, oh god theres a few thousand bucks i dont have. so what do you guys think


Remember its a A4

 

I've never done it in my camaro but in my old v6 firebird i was going in reverse rather fast and I was mad for some reason at the time so I just kinda jammed it into drive and yes the same thing happened the car died. IIRC these and other new cars have a safety mechanism that wont let you select reverse if your going over 25mph in drive however if your under 25mph well then this happen haha. Your car is fine

 

whew thankx