God damn it, I tried to shift and went from D to N.
 

How bad did I mess the car up? I went from D to N at about 40km when I wanted to make a left turn, I quickly let go of the throttle and popped it back to D right away.

I'm still breaking in the car and only has 1.3km.

Not at all. If there were a negative amount, that's how much you would have damaged it.

Nothing, you're ok

Thank god, scared the hell outta myself! The sound it made was scary too.

Should have done zero damage. It doesn't bother the transmission and the rev limiter will protect the engine if you don't get off the throttle fast enough. Embarrassing to you but not damaging to the car unless you leave your right foot on the floor or pop it back into gear at high revs.

i went from D to N going about 60 on the freeway because my dog hit the shifter and i didn't notice until i couldn't accelerate and i was like howcome i can't accelerate wtf?

damn, wats with dogs and girl friends messing with the shifters? :shakes head:

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My response as in a similar thread.......If you farted, sneezed, scratched your butt, scratched yourself then touch something in the car and left skin cells, you probably did less damage.

D to N is fine. There's a reason why it can be shifted into it without having to press the unlock button on the shifter. But going back to D is like a neutral drop haha.

If you think that's emberassing or scary imagine being at a stop light jamming out and your gf Ninja shifts your Z from D to N....didn't talk to her for a week:shakes head:

time to get a new gf lol

Going from D to N would not be a problem......You could completely stuff the transmission by going from N to D though. Contrary to some morons beliefs, that is NOT the way to do AT burnouts! :P

So I might've caused damage when I quickly popped it back into D?

No, don't worry, don't think about it

:tup: I just hope it never happens to me again.

I don't even know why they didn't put on an unlock button for moving the shifter from D to N.

Lol, I don't know why you're worrying, it happens to people all the time, don't worry

Only time it would cause a problem is if you were flooring it when you shifted to back to drive but off gas, no problem.

or if you accidently went into neutral and just sat there flooring it off the limiter for a good long while, these cars also have a really soft limiter so it would have to be A WHILE

I've done it a few times... I'll be driving a long in "M" mode for a bit, then I'll switch to D to cruise. Come up to a stop, forgetting I'm no longer in D mode, and go to upshift... yeeeeaaaahhhh.... :wtf2:


Doesn't help when you have headers... :facepalm:

I've done that more than once. I'm not used to having paddles. Did it the other day when my daughter was in the car. She got a big kick out of it.

This reminds me of a mistake I made with my '78 Trans Am. We were drag racing when I accidentally hit 1st gear (4-speed manual) when trying to shift to 3rd.

That was a mess, all the way around!

Your car will be fine.

same thing as pushing in the clutch on a manual. you're fine