Re: Worst thing you can do to a transmission?

I have a couple contendors in the "automatic" category, based upon
things my folks have done. Very bad with cars...

A) 1974 Chevy Caprice stuck in snow. In order to get it unstuck, they
shifted into reverse, then floored it, stepped on the brake, put into
drive, floored it...process repeated several times with increasing
rapidity until *clunk* we were dead.

B)1985 Chevy Suburban. Never changed fluid or checked fluid level, in
spite of some very rigorous use such as hauling heavy trailer up
extremely steep Mexican mountains on really bad roads. One day it
overheated and seized up due to it being extremely low on fluid. It
started working again, sort of, when fluid was added, but died
completely soon afterwards.

I also once had a friend who always put it into park before he was
completely stopped..sometimes it made a groaning noise. Needless to
say, the tranny eventually went on that one as well.

I also have some nasty stories involving friends who never checked or
changed their oil, never checked their coolant, and/or completely
ignored engine and temperature warning lights, but that would be off
this topic. You could, however, have a topic called Horrifically Stupid
Things People do to Cars.

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