Let my Honda Accord roll backwards in Drive and the engine died. Did I hurt it?
I wanted to roll backwards down a hill, and thought I put in neutral, but I rolled about 50 feet going pretty fast before the engine just died. I looked down and realized I was in Drive. Did I hurt my automatic transmission or anyting else?
Added (1). 96 accord
Fortunately, the 1996 Accord was one of Honda's classic transmission designs, not much different from a mechanically shifted manual transmission with a torque converter. Other transmissions may take it pretty hard but yours should be okay.
Must have been a mongo slope!
FlagMichael was right, at idle and in D, the torque converter simply does not provide enough torque to hold the car and prevent it from rolling backward on "steep" hill. This is normal for a lot of models.
As for the car dies out. You'll need to go through the normal inspection after the incident took place and see if it still continuing dies out. Would it be fuel or spark related?
Edit: If it start, drive and shift good then I would not worry about it.
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