Reverse
 

I've Always wondered how does the gear shifting work if you want to put it into Reverse gear? there has to be a safety measure right what if you think its in gear 1 and it goes reverse into a wall.. haha

You gotta pull up on the shifter boot to shift into reverse.

Have you even seen an FRS?

http://www.tune86.com/sites/default/...frs_reveal.jpg

You pull up on the black piece under the shift knob, then push left and up. The shifter will not move over unless you lift up on that piece (will only go so far as the 1/2 gate)

Pretty much IMPOSSIBLE to put it in reverse by accident... Took me about 30 seconds to figure out wtf was going on when i went to test drive...

All 6 Speed gearboxes have a safety feature that prevents you from doing just that.

With some of these threads you would think this is a 'new to cars' forum more than one that supports a sports car.

Hey, if a guy hasn't seen one and never drove a six speed how is he supposed to know.

There's a lock out feature that makes it impossible to accidentally put the car in reverse. You have to pull up on a ring that is below the knob and while holding that ring in the up position only then can you put the car in reverse.

bingo bango bongo

R34 skyline gtr's are 6 speed though...

Every manual transmission will have some kind if feature...some have to press down on the stick, some lift a ring, some press a button, and some are just electronic lockouts. If none of those were there it would just grind (unless you did everything in your power to force it in, in which case you deserve that repair bill payment).

For 6 speed manual transmissions (there could be exceptions).
For 5 speed transmissions, some don't have such protection mechanism; and I know (old) cars with 4 speed transmissions, on which the reverse is where the 5th would be (no protection, either).

The fun part is switching between driving my 6 speed and 5 speed cars. The Miata's 5 speed is geared so you're at 4k rpm on the highway - so if you forget which car you're in, there's that natural inclination to shift into 6th - well, except that's exactly where Reverse gear is on the Miata!

Every car I've ever driven had it. '84 camaro 4 speed, you had to physically push DOWN on the shifter from center neutral, then right and down (same as 6th gear position would be) to get reverse. '00 Neon has a lockout that prevents you from going into R from 5, if you pull straight back it deflects it into 4th. You have to let it settle into neutral before it'll go to R

inb4 feed the troll

I didn't know the answer either :sigh: only drove a 5 speed and never been in a car with a 6 speed...:lol:

i constantly tried shifting my beater civic into 6th gear, and the weird thing is, i've never owned a 6 speed... :iono:

Bad quality video, but you get the point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hakNxO5pME4

Pains me to see them do that to the crx, but it's an interesting video anyway.

Nobody who has driven mine has figured out the reverse lock out without my telling them. I think I had to sit for a while before I figured it out myself.

Well, these cars are attractive to young people for many reasons and there *are* a lot of young people on here who are new to cars. Let's help them learn :)

Can you name some examples? I've never encountered an MT car - even decades ago before dirt existed - that didn't have some sort of protection mechanism for reverse. It varies by make, not so much by how many gears there are.

This isnt a new feature by any means. One only need look as far as just about any late 70's to early 80's VW manual transmission.

The 4-speed transmission car I'm talking about was the Oltcit with french gearbox. An Oltcit, by the way, was a Romanian made car which was actually a licensed Citroen Axel (more or less contemporary with the Citroen Visa, though the Romanians made it until '94 or '95). It was a hatchback sporting an aircooled 4 cylinders boxer engine, and it's front ventilated disks were in the engine compartment, next to the gearbox. Handbrake was on the front wheels, but there were some unsuccessful projects to move it on the back wheels.
I had an Oltcit, but with a (Romanian made) 5 speed gearbox; reverse was right and down, un-protected.

My current car, a MY 2008 Toyota Auris, also have a 5-speed manual gearbox; the reverse - guess what - has no protection mechanism. When I select reverse, I'm just moving the lever right and down, and that's it.
The current Auris have a 6-speed gearbox, with it's protection (pull up) ring.

By the way, I agree it's not a new feature - on the contrary. What I'm saying is that it wasn't and it's not used in every car (I'm talking about 5-speed or less gearboxes).