I stalled out tonight
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From: Belvidere, NC Virginia Beach, VA
I stalled out tonight 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
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 thinkRemember 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
