Was driving my car (automatic) up hill yesterday after turning a corner onto the hill I noticed the gears stopped changing the car was revving supper bad but I couldn’t stop on the hill to check what was wrong as there were cars behind me, by the time I was able to pull it it must have been about 3/4 mins of the car struggling and screaming at me coming up hill.

When I stopped and checked for issues I noticed my gear stick had knocked out from D to D+ -

When I shifted it back I took it for a short drive before coming back home where all seemed to me ok, I’m just wondering would I have done major damage to my car with this and why would it have just knocked out of D while driving?

I’m hoping it’s all good I know 0 about cars it’s my first car and I just bought it from a dealership 3 months ago

  • Individual-Act-5986@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Dunno what year of car you are driving but it’s highly unlikely you did any damage to your car. If it was only 5-10 minutes then you’re most certainly fine as long as you are up to date on your oil changes and you weren’t low on oil.

  • Bobbar84@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    It’s very likely fine. As long as the engine had 10-15 minutes to warm up prior, revving it high under load for a few minutes might actually clean some gunk out!

    Do you recall what gear it was stuck in and how fast you were going? Then we can figure out what kinda RPMs we’re talking about here.

  • estorial34@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    You probably switched your transmission to manual mode, which means that you basically told the transmission computer to not switch gears unless commanded by you. You can do that by pushing or pulling on the shifter.

    No damage done. The car just stayed in the gear that was selected.

    • painandstuttering@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I knew that I shifted it into manual but I didn’t realise until I had come to a stop and I was worried that all the strain of being stuck in first gear and revving was damaging my car

    • SnowblindAlbino@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      People really have no idea how their car works

      One of my kids did this as a new driver at 16-- hit the freeway in our SUV in second gear, realized it was “loud” and pulled over to call me. Going 65 in 2nd with a small V6 is indeed noisy. Lesson learned. Seems like that’s something basic we should be teaching new drivers.

      • painandstuttering@alien.topOPBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        I also was aware the gear wasn’t changing but couldn’t check what it was, immediately figured it out when I stopped safely and because it was so loud and all up hill and sounded like the car was under strain, I thought I’d ask if I’d done any damage, but that makes me stupid apparently

    • NeighborhoodSame7995@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      OP is asking and in the process, learning about their car. While your response has no value.

      I am sure you know how everything you buy works.

  • Paganigsegg@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    You did not break your transmission by accidentally going into manual mode and bouncing off the rev limiter for a bit. The car has multiple computers focused purely on making sure the engine and transmission don’t damage themselves, even if the driver does something stupid.

    • painandstuttering@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Look all I know is it the car was struggling up the hill making really loud noises the engine was revving it sounded really bad I panicked I asked for reassurance and help on if I damaged my car and I got berated so that’s that