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Car in "park" is backed into and it moves about 5 feet. Any internal damage?

Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:32 pm
Posted by LSUGrad9295
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2007
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Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:32 pm
Long story short, I was backing out of a driveway and with my head completely up my arse, I backed into my friend's truck. No scratches to his truck, my car had a few scrapes. No biggie.

But his truck moved backwards about 5-7 feet. Automatic transmission. Will that cause any unseen damage?
This post was edited on 3/12/24 at 4:33 pm
Posted by HempHead
Big Sky Country
Member since Mar 2011
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Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:33 pm to
Truck AIDS.

Sorry baw.
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
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Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:33 pm to
Don't call his insurance company back. You'll be home free.
Posted by LSUGrad9295
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2007
33634 posts
Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:36 pm to
quote:

Don't call his insurance company back. You'll be home free.


Well since he is a good friend and I fricked up and neither of us know anything about cars, I figured I could find one baw on here who could help me
Posted by Steve Rogers
Bama
Member since Jan 2021
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Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:38 pm to
It will be fine.
Posted by Tortious
ATX
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:38 pm to
quote:

Don't call his insurance company back. You'll be home free.


I love these cross-thread posts
Posted by bengalman
In da Country
Member since Feb 2007
3221 posts
Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:39 pm to
Possibly. Only way to tell is to drive the truck and see if it is still shifting correctly.
Posted by Obtuse1
Westside Bodymore Yo
Member since Sep 2016
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Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:40 pm to
quote:

But his truck moved backwards about 5-7 feet. Automatic transmission. Will that cause any unseen damage?


Possible but unlikely.

I had a drunk friend throw the SUV I was driving into park on the interstate at 70mph. Sold it 75k miles later and never had any transmission issues.
Posted by Jcorye1
Tom Brady = GoAT
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:40 pm to
You did something dumb, so I'd pay for a quick looksie at the local mechanic.
Posted by Corinthians420
Iowa
Member since Jun 2022
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Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:41 pm to
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I was backing out of a driveway and with my head completely up my arse


hopefully a lesson learned and no damage. pay attention to what you are doing instead of living on your phone or worrying about other shite when you are reversing a vehicle

save that shite for when you are driving on the interstate
This post was edited on 3/12/24 at 4:42 pm
Posted by LSUGrad9295
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2007
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Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:42 pm to
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I love these cross-thread posts



I must have missed the other part of it.
Posted by 4
Member since Jul 2022
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Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:46 pm to
Possibly damaged the parking pawl.
Posted by Flashback
reading the chicken bones
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Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:47 pm to
Shouldnt
Posted by LSUGrad9295
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2007
33634 posts
Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:49 pm to
quote:

hopefully a lesson learned and no damage. pay attention to what you are doing instead of living on your phone or worrying about other shite when you are reversing a vehicle


It was a driveway I've literally backed out of over 1000 times with no vehicle behind me. Doesn't excuse me not looking, but we are creatures of habit.
Posted by Tempratt
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Member since Oct 2013
13494 posts
Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:57 pm to
Parking pawl. When I was about 10 I pushed my dad’s dodge d100 into park when not completely stopped. He said don’t do that.
Hated myself ever since. He wasn’t mad at me but I’m still mad myself.

Probably didn’t do anything.
This post was edited on 3/12/24 at 9:11 pm
Posted by BayouBlitz
Member since Aug 2007
15860 posts
Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:57 pm to
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No scratches to his truck,


quote:

his truck moved backwards about 5-7 feet


His truck moved that much in park? No scratches?

Posted by chinhoyang
Member since Jun 2011
23706 posts
Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:59 pm to
I had a lady with dementia smash the back of my wife's Z71 4WD truck and move it up the driveway about 20 feet. The lady thought my driveway was road. She was lucky because she would have driven into a deep ravine had she continued to go straight. There was no damage to the truck mechanically. It did need some cosmetic repairs.
Posted by LSUGrad9295
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2007
33634 posts
Posted on 3/12/24 at 5:00 pm to
quote:

His truck moved that much in park? No scratches?


He has a big arse bumper and I have a Nissan car. It wasn't a fair fight
Posted by Possumslayer
Pascagoula
Member since Jan 2018
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Posted on 3/12/24 at 5:16 pm to
How are you with him doing your wife?
Posted by LSUGrad9295
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2007
33634 posts
Posted on 3/12/24 at 5:18 pm to
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How are you with him doing your wife?


Well I don't have one of those, so hard to say.


:inb4: "Are you ok with him doing your husband"

I don't have one of those either
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