Hi, recently while driving, my gf accidentally pushed the gear level from D to N.
I noticed when I'm revving but car is not accelerating.
After that, I took my gas off, tried to brake slightly and shift back to D.

Will this cause any damage to the transmission or engine?

 

I ain't no expert, but am gonna guess no...have owned a variety of cars over the last 40 years, several of them automatics, and this has happened on all of 'em at one time or another....oops....have never had a transmission problem ...ever...on any car. I wouldn't make a habit of it, necessarily, but, am sure they're built with the possibility of this happening in mind, or somwhere near the back of their minds. As long as you're off the gas, it should slip back into Drive smoothly...You should be fine. BUT, of course, have never owned a CVT trans car, but assume it would be equally fine....my Fit is a 6 spd manual

 

I've done it before (on purpose). No issues. You probably don't want to go around doing it all the time, though.

es

 

happened with my corolla many many times, no problem at all

 

You're fine. I do it all the time on accident thinking I'm going from S to D, but I'm going D to N.

Just let it go down to idle and put it back into D from there. No harm done.

 

I agree, no problem at all. It's designed to be able to do this. If you should ever have the engine die while you're rolling and it's not practical or safe or easy to come to a stop, you can shift into neutral to restart and get power again.

 

yep as others have noted unless you're reving high and neutral drop into gear while in motion, should be no problem. im pretty sure the oems anticipated our occasional brain farts.

 

not to mention i did the same on my DGS gearbox

i still kinda suck at driving AT cars... lol

 

I do it all the time, just let the foot off the gas, and put back in gear...

 

What's more embarrassing is switching from a manual to an automatic and accidentally slamming the brake pedal thinking it's the clutch!

es

 

HA!!!! I had that very issue!! After decades of driving manual VW's, the first few days in my FIT were embarrassing. I can truly state that the brakes in the FIT are excellent! Luckily no one was behind me.....

 

That was my Dad when he got his first auto in 1965.

 

I suspect most everyone who has switched back and forth has probably done that at some point or another. It's right up there with groping around empty space for the shifter when it's mounted on the steering column, or turning on the windshield wipers when you meant to shift out of park....

 

Yep, did that once in a rental on a business trip 30 years ago when all my cars where manuals. About put myself through the front windshield.

 

Heh....kind of an opposite end of the spectrum story, but, yet, a true story. Way back when (my older brother had graduated from college and bought a Fiat 850 Spider, must've been early '70's), it was "street sweeping day" and all cars had to be off of the streets....my bro was sleeping, and my dad, having driven big American automatics for decades, decided to pull his Fiat into the driveway -
this car had an impossibly narrow stretch between the pedals, and when my dad pushed on what he thought was the brake, he only depressed the clutch and ran through the garage door!!!! LOL.....my brother was not happy, although damage was extremely minimal to the car, bent the steel bumper back from the top a bit, rest of the car unscathed...was a cheap light garage door, luckily

 

Hello group,

I was just out driving with my hand on the shifter of my 2019 Fit and all of a sudden it was in N. Did I break the lock from going to D to N or is it like that? In other words it made me pose the question of the normal operation is such that D to N does NOT require pressing the trigger?

 

There is no lock. This is normal operation.

 

 

Normal. The lockout is only on the reverse gear.