confirmed: pressing the Park button at 70mph on the highway will NOT do anything
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confirmed: pressing the Park button at 70mph on the highway will NOT do anything
so ive been car switching a lot these past few weeks between the C63 and my wifes infiniti....which have the windshield washer controls on opposite sides of each other.
Was driving my car last night on the highway, needed to clean my windshield, thought i was pressing the button when alas, it was the Park button on the transmission lever. idiot me even pressed it a few times because water wasnt spraying
thank god, it didnt do anything. I always assumed there was a failsafe mechanism. although, a few weeks ago my cousin pressed the button at 3mph before the car came to a complete stop, and it made a bit of a grinding noise, so i wasnt entirely confident of the failsafe
the other funny thing ive been doing a lot lately is putting the wipers on when driving my wifes car, thinking i was putting the C63 in drive. i do it almost every time
Was driving my car last night on the highway, needed to clean my windshield, thought i was pressing the button when alas, it was the Park button on the transmission lever. idiot me even pressed it a few times because water wasnt spraying
thank god, it didnt do anything. I always assumed there was a failsafe mechanism. although, a few weeks ago my cousin pressed the button at 3mph before the car came to a complete stop, and it made a bit of a grinding noise, so i wasnt entirely confident of the failsafe
the other funny thing ive been doing a lot lately is putting the wipers on when driving my wifes car, thinking i was putting the C63 in drive. i do it almost every time
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Yeah, some YouTubers have tried this before. Above a certain speed, you can't put it in Park. It also doesn't allow you to put it in Reverse which can potentially happen if you confuse the windshield wiper stalk with the gear selector at highway speed. I also go back and forward between different cars. My wife's car has a traditional center console gear selector and the windshield wiper stalk where the AMG has the gear selector. I also still regularly drive manual transmissions. I have accidently turned on the wipers in my wife's car at times in the past, often when maneuvering in parking lots, because the gear selector stalk in the AMG is so much more convenient to go between D and R when maneuvering, but I've gotten pretty good at making the switch. Interestingly I've never reached down to the center console in the AMG in an attempt to find the gear selector. Says a lot about how intuitive the stalk is.
Funny thing is the gear selector stalk originally made me hesitate getting an AMG, but now I want it in every car. There's something to be said about having all the important controls on or around the steering wheel and only a finger stretch away. I always wanted the paddles to work like they do in many supercars where you press the upshift paddle to put it in D, but then with those, PRN are usually buttons somewhere down in the center console, so you have to go back and forward between the paddles and some buttons somewhere else. Not really well thought through. The PRND selector stalk just has it all there next to where my right hand is.
Funny thing is the gear selector stalk originally made me hesitate getting an AMG, but now I want it in every car. There's something to be said about having all the important controls on or around the steering wheel and only a finger stretch away. I always wanted the paddles to work like they do in many supercars where you press the upshift paddle to put it in D, but then with those, PRN are usually buttons somewhere down in the center console, so you have to go back and forward between the paddles and some buttons somewhere else. Not really well thought through. The PRND selector stalk just has it all there next to where my right hand is.
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When you come to a stop, you will notice there are arrows pointing at each gear, at a certain speed, when those arrows disappear is when it means the car does not meet the conditions required to shift to that gear.
