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Originally Posted by wdb
When the car started they found had 1 forward speed, and 4 speeds in reverse.
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After my Mom's Mazda 626's engine got a crack and had to be replaced, the engine check light kept turning on. She spent lots of $$ at the Mazda service station on diagnostics until she got fed up and went to a small "Bob's garage" place. Within 20 minutes the mechanic found that a sensor was hooked up with reversed polarity. Ever since we've been joking that if the Mazda guys had replaced the trans instead of the engine, she'd have 1 forward and 5 reverse gears.
Here is my m/t story. Some European cars (Opel, Renault) have "front reverse" transmission,
instead of the standard "rear reverse".
After driving around Poland in my Grandma's Opel Corsa I came to the US for a few months. Mom asks if I want to drive. "Sure". The car is parked facing a ditch, so I had to back out. Being used to the "forward reverse" stick, I threw in what I
thought was "R", but was in fact "1". Lucky for us, I'm not the kind of person who floors it. Plus the motion sensor in my ear was in good communication with my reflexes. What makes this ironic is that it all happened in the parking lot of the local DMV, where I had just renewed my license.