when i down shifted from 5th to 4th today at around 100km/hr...55-60mph
after i rev matched i release the clutch right....then the tacho flew to 5.5k!!!
wtf? so i jamed the clutch right away and put it back in 5th

later i was driving 60km/ 35mph...shift...3rd to 4th...normal....4th to 5th...normal
downshift w/ rev match 5th to 4th...normal....4th to 3rd normal

wtf? any one encoutered that problem? it only happened to me once is it possible i didnt put my gear all the way in?.....second possiblity is i downshifted to 2nd but thats very unlikely


any info as to what lead to that may help

 

2nd gear, my friend.

 

+1 2nd gear?

 

definitly 2nd gear

 

What he said.

 

thanks guys for such a quick reply! at least i know it was a dumb mistake
instead of some thing wrong w/ the engine/tranny/clutch

*smacks my self across the face*

 

If you had been going faster, it could had been worse

 

yea an extra 20km/10mph i would have been in the red zone haha pretty close call O.o

 

but u know what i did scare the **** out of a 4door civic lol
some lady's been tailing me on the highway for like the past minute and she was going to over take me so she changed lanes to my left, so i down shifted from 5 to what i thought was 4...then i guess i poped it into 2 by accident but my engine went to 5.5k and though it was a stock exhaust it was pretty loud and the lady turned and look at me instantly and slowed down haha....she though i was going to race her so she slow down and got back behind me and stopped tailing me hahah

 

Yup, 2nd gear and a little faster you could have broken something...

 

There should be a block of some sort that prevents 5th to 2nd downshifts, same like you can't shift from 4th to 1st....

 

^driver experience

 

that could have cost you your life and def. your engine/ tranny if you would have been just alil faster !Yikes!

 

I found the best thing to do i dont shift into the wrong gear like from 5th to 4th is to let the shifter sit in neutral quicky then shifting down to 4th insted of trying to find the gear

 

i over reved my ol opel corsa so many times... nothing happens but having good adrenaline time..