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Originally Posted by FirestormFRS
That whole myth about jamming a car into reverse was busted by the Mythbusters long ago:
Turns out, you can put a moving car's automatic shifter into reverse, but the transmission will actually go into neutral.
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/my...to-reverse.htm
Dude was flat out lying to ya.
As to the piston hitting the injector. If they car actually spun the bearing that means one half of the bearing came out of the large end hole of the rod. That's would allow the additional piston travel. |
This is taken directly from the article that you sent the link to;
"Turns out, you can put a moving car's automatic shifter into reverse, but the transmission will actually go into neutral. Most modern vehicles have safeguards to prevent engine damage, which is what would happen if you flipped directly from "D" to "R."
Based on this statement, it is not enough "evidence" to conclude that the "technician" was lying since the exact word that the Mythbusters used was "most modern vehicles". Also, they acknowledged that damage would occur if the transmission were to go directly from D to R. The BMW in the story had significant transmission damage from what I was told. Also, he said that the car's ECU recorded that the vehicle was at WOT when the shifter was moved from D to R at over 70mph which would also indicate abuse.
It is also true that these idiots who pass themselves off as "technicians", in their khaki pants and spotless white polo shirts don't know the first thing about cars and its common knowledge that these "technicians" routinely lie through their teeth to not pay a claim. That was not the issue that I brought up. The issue at hand is the data logging features of new cars. Whether or not the "technician" was telling the truth about that particular case is irrelevant and hair-splitting for the purpose of forum drama.
My point that I was making concerning the data logging features of modern cars is still applicable and surprising considering that BMW was able to read that data from the key alone.
Scott