Shifting into reverse with the car moving oh man!

[Chester]

So I was coming back from school and I had gotten pretty tired. It was late at night around 11pm. So I arrive home and didn’t really noticed that I have haven’t really stop completely and I was going to shift into park. When I hit reverse I heard the metal on metal grinding noise and I quickly put it into neutral. I said to myself oh man what the heck have I done.

My question is did I damage the transmission? This happened a month ago and now for safety I pull the e brake first. The car still reverses fine but I just still worrying.

I have a 1991 Toyota Camry 4 Cyl With the ECT Transmission.

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[Jake]

If this is the only time you’ve done this and everything is O.K. then the worst thing you probably did is accelerate transmission wear. So problems now? Maybe not. Problems down the road? Yeah

[Chester]

I got it checked out by a mechanic he said it was fine. He told me be careful when you shift. I done this a year ago when I first starting driving. I think I over exaggerated about the 5mph thing. It was more like pulling into to garage and not having enough pressure on the brake and shifted. I got that jerking feeling and didn’t sounded too well. You are probably right about the transmission accelerated wear.

[Bill]

I think it’s ok. If it was gonna break it would have by now.

[Flemming Jacobsen]

I know our police has wrecked several automatic transmissions thats way. But the last couple of cars I have driven with automatics has allowed me to switch the auto into reverse as I was going forwards, but didn’t actually physically switch till I was stationary.

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