62 reg e250

[prm]

Hi all, just a quick question,, i currently own an e250 with the gearstick on the column,, if I was going at speed and inadvertently pressed the end into park would it ruin the gearbox, reason I ask is because my wife's car had the windscreen washer on the same side and I'm worried she gonna think it's the same on my car lol. Thanks

 

[EDZ649]

Don't you have to have your foot on the brake and be stationary before you can put it in park?

 

[Conquistador]

You don't need to depress the brake pedal when shifting into park. I switch from Audi and Mercedes and back every day and always have this fear I'm going to force the car into park while wanting to spray my windscreen. If you click the electronic handbrake up in an Audi, it applies full emergency braking force no matter what speed you are travelling at, so I assume it does the same with Mercs rather than just forcing it into Park and destroying the gearbox. Might be something in your manual about it.

 

[prm]

Thanks for the above.

 

[prm]

Also if your going in reverse, and open the door, it goes into park,, did this at 5mph,made me wonder if I'd buggered the box, seems ok though

 

[igk1]

I had assumed that if you were going too fast and you inadvertently pressed the P button it would just ignore it or give you an error beep or something, but reading this in the Interactive Owner's Manual it doesn't look like it:

If the engine speed is too high, do not shift the automatic transmission directly from D to R, from R to D or directly to P. Otherwise, the automatic transmission could be damaged.

I pressed it accidentally in the driveway at about 4mph and it came to a juddering halt - I hate to think what would happen at speed...

 

[prm]

That's what I'm worried about

 

[renault12ts]

At speeds above 5 mph nothing will happen...except it will disengage from D. It's always been that way. Even on my old bus you can't accidentally engage R at 70 on the motorway.

With the column change there is no direct mechanical link to the gear box...so it will not be allowed to happen by virtue of the electronics.

 

[prm]

Ok, thanks Renault

 

[Dieselman]

At speeds above 5 mph nothing will happen...except it will disengage from D. It's always been that way. Even on my old bus you can't accidentally engage R at 70 on the motorway.

With the column change there is no direct mechanical link to the gear box...so it will not be allowed to happen by virtue of the electronics.

Surprising that it allows gear selection at engine speeds above 1200rpm, the 5G didn't.

 

[Conquistador]

Hesitantly tried selecting P while above 5mph and it does indeed do nothing, just gives a warning...

 

[prm]

Thanks mind at rest lol

 

[Samsung1uk]

I have got the same gearbox and i accidentally put it into N whilst driving at 40 mph yesterday as I was trying to use what I thought was the wipers...! New car, new way of using the controls, it only put it into Neutral and I coasted to a holt before re-engaging Drive. No damaged was done but I would like to know what would of happened if I tried to put it straight back into Drive whilst coasting?.

 

[Dieselman]

It would have engaged the appropriate gear.

 

[Samsung1uk]

It would have engaged the appropriate gear.

I hope it would, because i am used to the wipers being on the right hand side of the steering column , I don't want to do this again.

 

[Dieselman]

As already said, it's an electronic gearbox, you can't do anything wrong.