Manual safety 1st gear lockout, fun fact!

[ARCH3R]

Today I was driving to work and I discovered something thinking... "what if". I was rolling to a stop sign at ~45mph and was going to put the shifter into 1st and hold it until I stopped, because why not. BUT. But I discovered there is a safety mechanism that I physically can't even hit the synchros into 1st. It feels like there is a physical barrier preventing this to happen (for obvious reason). While there is a physical blocker, the dash shows a message and has warning chirp.

Has anyone else discovered this? I am curious.

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[Beewdawg]

I have not, but it's probably good that the engineers thought of such a thing ?

 

[Tufelhundin]

Thanks for testing that out. ??


This is the reason we have SOP’s at work.

People want to see how wide that grey area really is.

???

 

[FloridaJT6MT]

I haven’t experienced this but I did read about the feature in the manual.

 

[-miko-]

Today I was driving to work and I discovered something thinking... "what if". I was rolling to a stop sign at ~45mph and was going to put the shifter into 1st and hold it until I stopped, because why not. BUT. But I discovered there is a safety mechanism that I physically can't even hit the synchros into 1st. It feels like there is a physical barrier preventing this to happen (for obvious reason). While there is a physical blocker, the dash shows a message and has warning chirp.

Has anyone else discovered this? I am curious.

Yes, agreed that it feels like the syncros won't allow it - much like an old SM420 with a granny gear. And it's not just first. If you also try to put it into a low gear at a high speed it flashes a warning and won't let you.

 

[ACAD_Cowboy]

45 sounds a wee fast to spin up the syncros in 1st anyway. Good to know it's desperate to defend itself.

 

[brianinca]

Sounds like when I was learning to drive at 15, why not just put it in first coming up to the stop sign?

No magic blockers in the transmission linkage, just a big fat NOPE from the gearbox!

 

[Hipbilly]

yeah, I missed 3rd downshifting one time and saw the warning... I got a kick out of it.
Basically "We respect your individuality, but we feel that your decision is inadvisable at this time"

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