So Whats the three " 3 " on the automatic transmission for?


On a automatic If i put the car in neutral and rev it up and all of a sudden put it on drive will it run off? or nothing will happen? unless i gas it when i put it to drive?


thank peeps!



-toji

 

don't do neutral drops. thats how i screwed up my tranny on my old car. it still works, but shifts hard.

 

That "3" means 'you slam it in drive from neutral 2 more times like that and that tranny will drop out the bottom of the car.

 

the 3 is third gear.

 

Nope, that's just a manual downshift in an automatic. The tranny is electronically controlled so when you pop it down into the 3 while in 4th gear it'll send a signal to drop back into 3rd gear.

The 3 is used mainly for climbing inclines so the tranny doesn't shift into 4th where the gearing might not be able to clamp the wheels hard enough to combat gravity. Basically, the numbers mean the top gear that the tranny will shift to. In D it's 4, in 3 it'll only shift up to 3 and not go into 4, in 2 it'll only go up to two and in L ... or 1? Yea...

 

I was being sarcastic, kungpaosamuraiii

 

I had a Nissan dealer that was desperate to sell me this loaded Altima SE(Nav, Sunroof Leather, but it was an automatic) try to tell me that moving the gear selector from 1-2-3-D is the same and just as fun as driving a manual. If only the guy hadn't been so adamant on trying to sell me a car, I probably would have put an order in for an SE-R, but he was only interested in selling what they had on the lot.

 

I would have flogged him with a stick for even thinking I'd be dumb enough to manually shift an automatic. It's called an automatic for a reason. I would have told the salesman to prove it on the highway as the transmission dropped out of the car.

 

Just plain scares me when I read this kinda stuff...makes me wonder if some folks should even be on the freaking highway!!!

 

I wouldnt worry. It could be worse. If he asked which was the gas pedal and brake I would start worrying.

 

i'm going to hide in the corner now... let me know when it's all over