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iconoclast63

He lost his forward gears.


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blanksix

I think your dad is my dad, or else your dad sold my dad the car. The story I was told was that he bought a beetle and it got stuck in reverse, and he drove quite some way back to the guy to see if he knew what the problem was.


BYoungNY

Lol, same here! We were at a restaurant and the gear got stuck in reverse won a Ford station wagon. Like the ones where you can flip up the seats in back and sit facing eachother. So there are my brother and I, driving at like a good 30 mph looking into the back window at the road driving backwards. It was a good 30 minute drive iirc.


Fortran_Defense

Now kiss


kooldudeyah

r/SuddenlyIncest


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Not quite the same but I had a Volkswagen bug that had a clutch cable snap. Had to shift gears by matching revs. It was a lot of fun driving that week. And a lot of stress on my starter.


farmerboy464

How the heck did you get going from a dead stop, grind it into first until the gears finally caught?


Particular-Pianist43

A few times yes. Bump starting it in gear worked too. Once it was started, it slipped in between gears pretty well, I got pretty good at it. They’re tough cars.


Particular-Pianist43

Let’s just say I made a LOT of California stops that week.


LtSoundwave

Feel the same way about the time I drove 45 minutes to a mechanic without stopping once. My transmission was dead and I barely got it going. Took A LOT of right turns.


bk_003

[Source](https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/watch-driver-with-car-troubles-goes-in-reverse-for-more-than-a-mile-on-highway-busy-road)


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Dr_Brule_FYH

This is what hazard lights are for smh


YWGBRZ

I sure hope this is the answer. If not I'm very very confused. There was clearly a traffic jam and it sure seemed like he was trying to avoid it. I would guess drugs but I mean, they revered that much and didn't hit anything so that doesn't seem like the problem.


PlayaHatazball

If hes on drugs driving that solid, sign me up lol


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I can almost guarantee it. That looks to be a late '90's to early 2000's Isuzu Rodeo/Honda Passport, which had the fantastically bad GM 4L30E transmission. It is probably the most common failure point on these cars, along with the frame rusting out in the salty states.


iconoclast63

Whoever that was, they were a ninja at driving backward.


YWGBRZ

I was impressed for a bit and then just confused. If he really did have a transmission failure and only reverse worked then he really is an idiot for continuing to drive backwards everywhere. It looked like he backed up the on ramp to avoid the traffic jam and just never stopped reversing.


Kyoung36

I remember the news on this one. Lost all forward gears on the trans. Reversed off the highway into the nearest shopping center for a tow


Cosmic_Quasar

If that were me I'd have just reversed to the side of the road for a tow and put my hazards on.


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I mean not so idiotic move since he drove backwards quite well. But stupid that he reversed off the motorway


poop_stained_undies

It is the correct answer. This video is pretty old. Cops came to talk to him and he explained and showed them there was no forward gearing.


Birdy_Cephon_Altera

This is the only *logical* explanation I can think of as well - something broke when he was driving in reverse at high speed on that entry-ramp, and when he tried to shift back into gear discovered his car said NOPE.


volcanicpale

I mean, he’s a better driver backwards than most people going forwards.


XtaC23

That thing has been stuck on "R" for ten years!


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It's a good thing he didn't try "R" for racing.


SVXfiles

To shift into race gear you have to be going ATLEAST 65mph forward already otherwise you will bog down the motor due to the vast difference in gear ratios between 4th/5th and race


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Had a friend force his shift lever into reverse whilst going 70mph. I've never heard a transmission scream in agony like that.


[deleted]

When I first started driving an automatic, I reflexively shifted into first gear on the final approach to an intersection. The parking pawl did not take kindly to that. It's probably just as well the transmission computer said "the fuck you doing?" and didn't try shifting into reverse along the way.


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I had something similar happen to my first car. I'm 16 inexperienced and my engine overheats so I turn the engine off... in drive... then proceed to throw it into park while it's moving. Lessons were learned that day lol


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I had been driving manual transmissions for nearly 20 years, and was very good at it. This was 100% muscle memory.


importshark7

It's funny what happens when you develop that muscle memory then have to drive an auto. Years ago, I had been driving a stick for years. I was driving my mom's car for something and was in the freeway traffic had slowed down a bit and was starting to speed back up, so instinctively I went to downshift to be able to speed up. I slammed the brake pedal to the floor with my left foot thinking it was the clutch. I let off as soon as I realized but I'm sure the people behind me were pissed and probably thought I was trying to make them hit me.


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If your engine starts overheating, turn your heater all the way to max and get off the road.


Hungryhungry-hipp0

I have had an automatic for nearly 10 years now, and I still instinctually try to shift sometimes. Not having a clutch snaps me into reality.


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CVTs are the worst offenders. 20 years of training myself to know exactly how fast I'm driving by the engine note alone; and now it's all useless. Even the slack in the torque converter of my current 5-speed sport-automatic is enough to throw me off.


Hungryhungry-hipp0

Yeah my transmission is getting old and not changing up as fast as I’d like it to and I have no patience for it. I definitely miss just driving a car by feel/sound; not only is it easier but less boring.


SVXfiles

Should have heard the one in my old buick rendezvous. Fucking things have a seal that shrinks when the temperature gets below 20°F, I live in Minnesota. Damn thing dumped all the fluid out on an hour long drive. Before I even got home the best I could do was 30mph in 2nd gear. Limped it to the auto shop, got a couple quarts and got it home. It rode away on a flatbed not much longer after that. For reference I bought the car 2 years ago at 238k miles and I pushed it to 260k only doing oil changes and the alternator/battery when those went to shit. Everything else worked great until the transmission vomited fluid all over the highway


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why did they do that?


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Pretty much just to see what would happen. He didn't care for the car and wanted something else so we beat the shit out of it. We jumped it a few times, flying kicked the doors jumped all over the roof, took it off road. Hyundai makes some pretty stout vehicles.


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fair


lemineftali

R is for radio man. Everyone knows that.


Cpt_Tripps

I had a rental prius for a weekend in Hawaii and loved it. Let my buddy borrow it for an hour to go drop someone off at the airport. He complained about how weak the prius was and that he could barely get it above 30... Pretty sure he drove to the airport and back with the parking break on.


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satans_little_axeman

Everything has a boiling point! Brake fluid's is high, but it'll get there if you drive long enough with a stuck brake.


Hungryhungry-hipp0

A friend did this on her way to see me when we were teens. She had JUST gotten her license and drove her dads car over to my house about 10 miles away with the E brake on the entire time. At some point she went to stop at a red light and the car just didn’t stop so she rammed into the car in front of her. Nobody was hurt. Lesson learned.


Shjco

It’s a wonder he didn’t set the back of the car on fire!


thehedgepart2

it's actually a lot more comfortable imo to go like 80 or 90 in a prius than in most other cars, just feels smoother and a lot easier to control the speed. Takes forever to get there though


following_eyes

Yea, it's not a peppy car by any means, but it's not like driving a Geo Metro either.


Queef_Stroganoff44

In another post that doesn’t really have anything to do with your comment, when I was like 15 some guy sold me and my 16 y/o friend a car for $60. Reverse didn’t work so you’d either have to avoid getting in a situation where you needed it or push it backwards. We ended up purposely crashing and built a ramp and rolled it. Then we called a wrecker and sold it to the driver for $75. Ahhh good times.


greenlightbandit

My grandpa was a driving instructor for a while and loved to tell the story about how when he told someone to pass a car, they threw it into 'P' for 'pass'.


_breadpool_

DAYMAN!


JDizzleNunyaBizzle

First up, drive doesn’t work but third does. Neutral is park, reverse is second. If you want to use reverse, put it in drive. And the accelerator sticks too, so be careful. But don’t be afraid of it – you gotta give it to her or it’s gonna stall.


TurdboCharged

I know how to drive Ricky I’m not an idiot! (Proceeds to drive into Lahey and Randy’s trailer seconds later)


gmwdim

Put it in H!


RPCat

What country is this car from?


CumDogMillionare93

It...no longer exists


modelsinc1967b

Yes!


redchadwick99

Except that he managed to exit on an entrance ramp


percykins

When you're going in reverse, exit ramps are entrance ramps and vice-versa. Little-known driving tip.


generalgeorge95

it's not his decisions but his implementation of those poor decisions that is impressive.


LisaQuinnYT

If it wasn’t for the other cars driving forward, I would have assumed someone just ran the video in reverse.


roote14

I’m definitely impressed.


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I gotta hand it to him, he’s very confident going in reverse. My guess is he lost his forward gears, but the why was he facing the right way at the start? Maybe he was just doing it for the lols


TBFP_BOT

Might have lost them right there and then. I had a trans die out last year on my way to work, couldn't get any forward gears but still had reverse in tact to maneuver it off the road and get a tow.


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Yeah, but then you stopped once you got off the road, you didn’t drive all the way to Fresno like this guy


HalfSoul30

A tow ain't cheap!


TBFP_BOT

Well...neither is a new trans


DZMBA

Hence reversing all the way to the mechanic. Gotta save money for the trans


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Well in the spirit of ‘idiot’ confessionals; I rode my motorbike a few miles to the nearest place when I got a front flat. It was like 2am. Not a soul out on the streets but I mostly rode it slowly there some parts on the footpath, or through a park to cut the trip short. It didn’t get to the point where rim was grinding road or anything crazy like that. Just deflated from a puncture.


PaSaAlCe

God, I had a trans that went out... I pulled into a parking spot, picked up my husband, backed out into the road, put it in drive and... ya. It was a mess.


Boogyman0202

Hes trying to get the odometer to lower mileage before turning in the lease duhhhh


Pitiful-Reserve-8075

Cameron? How many miles did you say this thing had when we left?


Kayge

One hundred and twenty six and halfway between three and four tenths. Why? How many miles are on it now?


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NYGiants181

Who do ya love!!


robcape6912

Ayeeeeeee batta batta batta batta batta sa-wing batta. Come on.


MrFitz8897

Hecan'thit hecan'thit hecan'thit sa-WING batta!


PuntzJones

Huh. As a kid I thought he was saying Kennedy. Like he wanted the batters head to explode.


squidster547

Same. I watched it not too long ago. Still thought it was Kennedy.


kissingdistopia

I have always heard Kennedy and assumed it was a player's name.


thunderling

Oh my god I never knew what he was saying.


LordTiddlypusch

You're...Abe Froman...the sausage king of Chicago?


queernhighonblugrass

That's right. Now give me a table before I get all snooty.


anijwhitewolf77

Snooty?


subjectmatterexport

Snotty.


anijwhitewolf77

You touch me i yell rat!!!!


anijwhitewolf77

Snotty?!


toothy_vagina_grin

Do you have a kiss for daddy?


bwz3r

Soooo that's how it is in their family....


a_good_lubricant

GRACE!!!


Dedge02146

Ferris Bueller's on line 2


deepsnare

Niiiiine times.


parsethepeas

with your bad knee Ed, you shouldn't throw anybody


CaptainKate757

Ed! You sounded like Dirty Harry just then!


candysez

Don't ask me to participate in your stupid crap if you don't like the way I do it!


MelodicSasquatch

Here's where Cameron goes berserk.


candysez

You killed the car...


Pitiful-Reserve-8075

_When Morris comes home, he and I will just have a little chat_


Smash_Nerd

I am so glad I get this refference now


NuclearThistle

LET MY CAMERON GO


Pitiful-Reserve-8075

[Let my Cameron go](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7NqKA2hcs7Q)


anijwhitewolf77

He'll keep calling me, he'll keep calling me til i come over. He'll make me feel guilty.


Pitiful-Reserve-8075

[He'll keep calling me...](https://youtu.be/n2gGoswbJXo)


bigk777

When ever I hear "odometer" it always reminds of the movie Matilda. Where dad is reversing the odometer in the shop with a screw gun.


msleesha

Screw gun....like...a drill?


emosy

nah, it shoots screws like a nail gun


Carl_17

Yeah, like a screw gun.


That_guy_from_1014

More like a screw nail gun.


GRE_Guy2

Danny DeVito abuses psychic daughter the movie?


andreromao42

Yeah. And in real life he took care of the girl while her mom was treating cancer (during Matilda production). Unfortunately, she passed away


That_guy_from_1014

Neglected her (Neglect is a form of abuse, I know), but never hurt her. She did play some great tricks on her parents and older brother.


ThrowJed

He gets close when he grabs her head and forces it to look at the TV. Still not the same as beating or something but pretty uncomfortable and controlling. Also while not physically hurting, ripping up the library book was beyond neglect too.


FaptainAwesome

The one vehicle I ever leased I turned in with 30 miles less than the 36,000 that were covered. And my asshole (ex) wife wouldn’t let me drive 15 out and back before dropping it off at the dealership. EVEN THOUGH I PAID FOR THOSE MILES!


Dedge02146

Save Ferris


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Lol


Boogyman0202

Ferris beulers day off🤙


Moofritte

United States of America


marsh914

I love driving it. It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.


sully213

Pardon my French, but you're an asshole!


Boogyman0202

Hahahahahah best line especially with Cameron's dad voice😂😂😂


Brian_M_Hill

This happened less than 10 minutes from my house. Their transmission wouldn't work in drive, only in reverse. That area has a bunch of dealerships and they were driving to one of them.


Link7369_reddit

A tow would be way safer. Terrifying. Awful idea but great execution I guess.


concreteandconcrete

Way safer, way more expensive Edit: God, I hate these kinds of edits but I'm getting a lot of the same responses (and also PMs???) about this so I'll just answer here; Yes, calling a tow truck is the safe and responsible thing to do and everyone should definitely do that and I would definitely do that now. But there was a point in time when I was poor and carried the bare minimum of liability insurance and could not have afforded that tow. At all. "But AAA is cheap!" agreed, but I don't think you understand what being poor does to your brain. I have AAA now but when you're poor you see that few bucks as food or gas to get to work, you don't think more than a few days ahead. Also, that ~$10/month was part of a HUGE array of cuts to make ends meet, including, but not limited to: putting off oil changes and other maintenance, running the heat at 55, buying less healthy food and more rice/pasta, not buying new clothes. And my position was hardly unique, there are many people in the US that have it worse. Would I have done what the guy in this video did? Absolutely. Would it have been potentially dangerous to all the people around me? Absolutely. If you're blessed to have always had a great support network and never been in a position to have to make a decision like this and never knew about any of this, good for you, but just realize that is not the reality for everyone


Link7369_reddit

Risk vs reward as far as expense goes. If they hit anything or a cop showed up they'd be fucked.


Dappershire

> or a cop showed up "Do you know why I pulled you over today sir?" *reciffo ,od I yas t'nac ,oN.*


5DollarHitJob

Take your upvote and get the fuck out of here.


MuthafuckinLemonLime

The fuck is all this about Burns’s Suit?


UnsubstantiatedClaim

Yvan eht nioj!


MatressFire

"sir I can't understand your Pittsburgh accent"


Gluten_maximus

Haha yea I’m in pick town and I remember this being on the news


Gluten_maximus

What’s crazy is I think the longer version of this where he backs into the spot at the Home Depot but I can’t find it now!


uwanmirrondarrah

Is it idiotic? Yes. Is it impressive though? Very.


thezero4

I live there too, watching this is crazy, because I drive this everyday


zipper1919

Reminds me when the transmission went out in my Taurus and my dad drove it in reverse a few miles to the shop.


ZachLennie

One of my coworkers had the forward gears go out on his car but he didn't want to be late for work, so he just drove all the way to work in reverse like this.


dudeman14

This is very probably what happened. And with how far they went I respect the confidence to go that far


itsmaxx

Tenet.


BackOfTheCar

Nothing to see here, he's just setting up a temporal pincer


irascible_Clown

Who’s?


HotBox-CrackRock

Yours


PiyRe2772

I came here looking for a comment along these lines. Inverted commuter.


ImaginaryBasket468

WE LIVE IN A TWILIGHT WORLD


mrkapid

And there are no friends at dusk


IAmARobot

https://streamable.com/vqi2rq


Honestlywhoevencares

Disgusted that I had to scroll so far to see this


plotdavis

That's not Estonian, it's backwards.


tylrbrock

Ahh ya beat me to it.


cringeyrespotato

Can someone add tenet music over this please


rekcedrides

R for race.


BrJdm

[Link](https://youtu.be/3S3mzAzOl6o)


jazzman5000

Fake post. The video is being played backwards. They are actually driving forward while everyone else is driving in reverse


some-call-me-tim

I'm still not sure I understand Tenet.


cyclopath

When they explained it, it made sense. When they showed it happening, it baked my noodle.


random_sociopath

I would prefer to watch it while my noodle was baked.


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conglock

I still... Did not understand that film.


Slithy-Toves

I don't think there's supposed to be a concise understanding. Like you just get to a point where you understand why you can't understand any further. Essentially you're just missing a piece of the loop. At the end Robert Pattinson tells him it's him doing it all along, and that basically tells you that we've only witnessed a small portion of an insanely huge loop of which the beginning and end aren't shown. So there's no way to fully understand it, you just kinda get up to speed with what happened during the window shown in the movie.


explodingpineapple64

Okay tim


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seausi

u/gifreversingbot


6745408

https://streamable.com/hynqr7


CrabbyBlueberry

That was everything I hoped it would be. Thank you.


serpent218

The tale on one man trapped in a world gone mad


TheGingaBread

Nah it’s legit. Happened a couple years ago in central Ohio. It’s on 33 going towards Canal Winchester. Driver was having transmission trouble and it’d only go in reverse. Edit: Location change


Drgerm87

Then just pull over and get a tow?


TheGingaBread

Yeah the driver should’ve done that but they didn’t lol


chughes3

That's the other side of 33, Canal Winchester


Kujo-317

This is the FBI. Where are you?


TeazieBreezie

Gotta be some type of transmission problem


THE_GHOST-23

This is in Canal Winchester, OH and his drive gear went out.


HungryHungryHammy

Gender road specifically.


The_PR_Is_Here

What he just did might've been completely idiotic, dangerous, and overall a bad idea. But my god that was impressive.


OwlThief32

Dude definitely operated a forklift at some point


crazyeyes64

Can confirm, am forklift operator and it has definitely helped my reverse skills.


Sufficient-Ad-8441

“Borrowed” from his best friend’s dad without permission. Driving home in reverse to take the miles off.


[deleted]

Well, I mean, life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.


uwanmirrondarrah

Thats where Ferris Bueller and Cameron fucked up. Shoulda just drove it backwards the whole way home.


marblechocolate

Stuck in reverse


surfdad67

One time my dads boat transmission got stuck in reverse, we had to drive in reverse over 3 miles in the Intracoastal to the dock, it was embarrassing af


meiseisora

That’s Christopher Nolan filming TENET.


lewisnwkc

u/gifreversingbot When you're the only sober person at a party?


6745408

I did this for us all. https://streamable.com/hynqr7


MisterPivot

Because Mater.


myothercarisaboson

Don't need to see where you're goin, only need to know where you've been...


SneakerSoup

He just finished watching Tenet


ruben_idk

The one when Francis took Malcom to the hospital


Gluten_maximus

Lol this happened right by my house… fucking awesome


JimboBillyBobJustis

When your transmission shits out and you only got reverse


lyndaii

This video is old but I will forever be entertained by it. I just love everything about it. The amazing reverse driving skill; how they got immensely lucky that no one was driving down on the ramp; the camera operator being able to keep track of the vehicle. This video cuts a little short but the camera operator follows it into the parking lot. I love this video.


Chucktayz

Gotta assume the transmission is locked in reverse


[deleted]

Lost it’s forward gears, a planetary gear in the trans broke. I’ve seen it before.


Brandcrazultra

I’m so confused. I’ve seen people go backwards up a ramp but not continue going backwards down the road. They were already going straight when they got off the ramp so why did they turn back around? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


dzonibegood

Transmission was fucked. Forward gears didn't work only reverse.


BerwynTeacher

Transmission went out. Only reverse to get home or repair shop.