Reverse Gear When Moving Forwards

I know someone who did this in one of those awfull little daihatsu cars, the really tiny ones, somehow managed toget it into reverse on the motorway and it made some horrible noises, judders and other such things but that was it, no damage aparently.
 
What about the other way round? (If you theoretically go 70mph in reverse)

I know you can do it at 5~ from normal reversing, would the same happen at higher speeds?
 
Old Lambo Countach has a physical lock-guard on Reverse because it has first doglegged below reverse and full synchro on reverse. I remember reading a review that explored the concept of flooring it in first and then accidentally slamming it into reverse at full revs. :eek:

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Lucero said:
but you pass through Netrual in the process and with the cluth down it wouldn't matter anyway.

In either case, the syncro mesh will be screaming and it would need some serious force and some good luck with timings to be able to get the gear engaged.
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You raise the clutch in neutral and then back down and into reverse. You don't leave the clutch depressed.
 
Lucero said:
but you pass through Netrual in the process and with the cluth down it wouldn't matter anyway.
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It would matter, on mine its impossible to go straight from 5th to reverse, it locks out reverse if you try. You have to centre the stick then go to reverse.
 
I've done this in a Nissan Primera automatic. A few of us from our old work place were invited to a Nissan day out by our car leasing company.

1 of the events was a treasure hunt out on the roads, we ended up with the above and on an A road we had exactly this discussion about autos and how you can select reverse and how I'd done this in a Ford Orion auto previously.

Nobody believed that it could be done so doing 60-70mph I dumped the auto box into reverse. There was a loud noise, the cabin filled up with with dense dark smoke, the engine cut out so I lost the power steering and assisted brakes. Also lost a lot of speed and had to coast the car to the side with me saying see I told you it could be done, my 3 work colleagues were in hysterics.

Car wouldn't immediately start and thought we'd need to be rescued but around 15 minutes later it did and we drove the rest of the way slowly with the windows wound down but the deep acrid smell wouldn't go. Parked the car back at the stand right at the end and sheepishly handed in the keys.
 
Dogbreath said:
At 70mph the wheels may briefly lock, but you will break something very quickly. You'd be doing well to get it in reverse at 70mph with a manual box though.
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You would have to be superman to get it in reverse at anything above 60mph, the cogs wouldnt get a chance to slot into each other, you would just hear a crunch and a very long painful sounding crunch if you kept trying. :cool:
 
Peerzy said:
Just after I passed my test I was messing about with my Punto just trying things out and didn't realise you could do serious damage to parts etc...

I tried throwing it into reverse rolling down a hill at 35MPH. Lots of crunching but no joy.

Also turned the engine off and then back on again down the same hill at 35MPH and that worked fine.
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You should try turning it off and taking the key out of the ignition next time
 
You can't do it. Even if you had synchros on reverse it wouldn't go in.

You could do it if you locked the drive wheels briefly with the brakes. Then when releasing them you would either stall and spin the engine backwards, or break traction and spin the wheels backwards.
 
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