I park my car in my car port in reverse, but its a slight incine nothing too steep. In the mornings when i go to work, when i put the car in drive it kind of bangs into gear, but when i drive it shifts normally, no banging no slipping, it only happens when i come out of the slight incline at my house. Is this normal? I have a 5AT by the way.

 

When I back out of a parking space and then put it in drive it make a weird clunking, scraping sound from underneath the car. you can feel it in the floorboard. 05AT.

 

when you park your car on that incline, pull in, hold the foot brake, put the car in park, pull the hand brake the release the foot brake. Then all your pressure is on the brake. The trick is to pull the hand brake before the cars rolls that inch or two you put the car in park. Just an idea.

 

Sounds like you are not setting the hand brake before you shift into park. It's normal but it does put a strain on your transmission. Next time, when parking, shift into neutral, set the hand brake, release the foot brake, and then when the car settles into its final parked position, shift into P. That should eliminate the "banging" into gear.

 

this is how I do it and I never have that porblem.

 

uh oh, i always do park then hand brake....

 

Actually, as long as you set the handbrake before releasing the foot brake you should be fine. The more severe the incline the more of a problem it may be for the car to roll a bit when in "P".

 

but sometimes I forget to shift from [N] to [P] before shutting off lol

 

lol

 

That sounds like the ABS going into test mode. It's a normal vibration that occurs every time you start the car and shift into drive.

 

nah it's natural. You're on an incline your wheels are already moving, when you engage the transmission your engine gets in touch with the wheels, I know exactly what you mean. Just get on the brakes and hold onto it until you finish the shift.

 

Well... if you release the brakes on an incline, and then pull the parking brake, you've already put a load on the transmission when you are parked there since the transmission is locked up and the car wants to roll downhill. When you shift out of park the clunking you hear is the sudden release of the load of the transmission from the park gear. It has nothing to do with the gear that you are going into. My recommendation is to tightly pull the handbrake and let it take the resistance of rolling downhill other than your transmission. When you release just do it backwards, hit the brakes, undo the parking brake, then shift into D, and then release the brakes.

 

Ya, i learn on the forum the way Jlukja said too! shift to N, handbrake, then P. I sometimes forget to shift to P too i was like, wtf?? why is the key jammed..hahha

 

That's the best way to do it.

 

this did it. no more banging into D. thanks just gotta get used to doing it.

 

Sounds like the weight of the car is against the tranny. With autos, I like to put the car in neutral, release the foot brake and allow the weight of the car to settle against the handbrake, then shift into park. Clearly this is most important on inclines.

 

^^Ooops! Jlukja beat me to the punch. That or I didn't read far enough.

 

No worries, better to get two answers than none.

 

Thanks, was concerned it might be a tranny problem.

 

same here, i dunno what it is.

 

Before you put in park, put on the brake, shift tranny into neutral, pull hand brake LET GO OF THE FOOT BRAKE, then put into park, doent strain tranny at all

 

I had an 2000 Accord EX V6 and it did the same thing, pull it out of park and and it like bangs out of gear, but only coming out of park, but its a 2000 Accord sooo... idk

 

Any car with an automatic transmission will do that if the weight of the car is supported by the transmission and not the brakes (i.e. if its the transmission that is keeping the wheels from turning while the car is parked). The easiest solution, as discussed above, is to make sure that the parking brake takes the weight of the vehicle before the transmission is placed in "Park".