they didnt need to do the first part because those 2 cars had different masses hence different momentums because momentum is mass x velocity, so what did the 65 to 7- ft difference make?
when my 1982 subaru leone was automatic, i shifted to reverse instead of neutral once, all it did was stall the engine, threw it back in 2nd and it restarted and then i selected drive and kept going about my business, although my 1990 ford fairmont on the other hand, selected reverse while moving coz i was going to replace the transmission anyway (reverse was slipping in the first place) doing 60km/h on a gravel rd, neutral, rev-limiter (5400) then reverse, actually split the transmission case
ships can do it but they have to stop their propeller shafts and shift to reverse,some propeller planes can rverse thrust by reversing pitch on their props,jets use deflectors to redirect engine thrust,steam piston trains and cars can do this to slow downwithout damage it was simular to power brakes,the stanley steamer could be put into reverse at any speedwith no damage other than soiled shorts
i had a guy comeing to fight me and he thought he would be cool to come wiping up fast in his car and puting it into park and he about wreck his trans...
@boothill24 i was riding the other day with my friend car, i wanted to put the car in neutral (automatic) but i hit reverse in accident, the transmission made a really strange noise. and yeah, it works.
You should add the car length to the distance it took to stop... since if you have to slam on your breaks to avoid hitting someone, you want the car to not hit them.
My old GMC pickup can reverse while moving forward. Its first transmission could park... Once. Destroyed the parking pawl, and had to replace the tranny, but the truck did stop.
This is stupid, why didn't they bypass the safety feature on the auto then so they could actually do the experiment? They didn't actually get either car into reverse..
I got one of them there new cars 2001 Chevrolet suburban and it just simply wont engage into reverse at any speeds above 15mph. Don't test it out though you retards. It's a god awful repair.
Each car is different, it depends on what kind of gearbox, and manufacture of the gearbox. Some cars, if you put the auto into park, the gears will click and grind until the car stops. Others it will just coast.
this is bullshit i put my commodore into reverse by accident one day and it near thru me thru the windscreen the diff here was my cars an Aussie car myth busters are in American cars?
If in a manual, if one wants to stop the car, shove it in the lowest possible gear (1st may be unavailable due to the lack of syncromesh) and kill the engine. Tory couldn't put it in reverse because it didn't have syncromesh. On automatics, the parking pawl won't engage unless completely stopped.
I'm guessing that the automatic transmission also has an integrated safety device for the parking brake given that it did nothing when they tried to engage the parking brake. I guess it would make sense considering that I actually witnessed what happens when someone tries to move a manual car with the PB on-it smells awful! I was sitting in the passenger side, and I yelled "PARKING BRAKE!!" thankfully no damage was done
@SlightlyFrozen if you were to immediately change the direction of the tires on ice, it would cause you to lose all traction on the drive tires, exactly the same as locking the tires up, except only on the drive tires.. It will not slow you down...hell, even downshifting too hard on ice can cause your drive tires to lose traction.
@Alches2 Dude I do it all the time, I live in Saskatchewan which get some of the harshest winters in North America, It can stop you in a emgency, works better then slamming on the breaks and sliding into the back of another car....
i too can confirm that this works (i found out the hard way back in about '98, when i was a flower delivery driver). i was on the highway and had a bad habit of resting my right hand on the column-mounted gear shift (it was an automatic Ford Econoline van). i actually managed to push it down into "reverse" (with my foot on the gas!) and it did throw the rear tires into reverse. scared the hell out of me, and i'm sure it wasn't great for the transmission!
Hello! This Myth is confirmed! I had a automatic transmission 1988 Toyota Tercel. While reaching the pay toll on a highway, I accidently put it on reverse and the car slammed me into a suden hault. Im glad I did not dammage the transmission. I was going about 40 M.P.H.
@Zc0ol Nah the Syncromesh on the CRX has a lockout meaning you cannot put the car into reverse whilst in forward motion until you almost stopped regardless of the clutch position. This is a stupid test anyway they are both completely unmatched cars, just some dingbats mucking about. .
i think they should have mentioned the other ways of slowing down the cars when the brakes fail, like simply downshifting to a lower gear, this will slow both the automatic and the manual to a speed where it would be safer to apply the emergency/parking brake.
I accidentally did this in my 1992 Buick LeSabre and engine cut out and loss power steering, it stop instantly, as well as needing a new transmission.
The manual transmission only was obvious it wouldnt work but if and automatic transmission without that saftey shutoff it would work accidently did it to my truck for two secs left some nice markson the road to.
The auto car is too modern, try a pre 80's one. I've done it on my 74 Mustang II with a c3 auto @ around 30mph, meant to pop it into neutral coming at a red light and hit reverse on accident, car skidded and engine stalled but luckily no damage. But the neutral safety switch isn't hooked up so that could have been a factor.
@mcnairone TRY IT IN A DODGE VAN. I WAS GOING 60 AND MY VAN SHUT OFF DUE TO CLOG IN FUEL FILTER, I TRIED TO PUT IT IN NEUTRAL TO CRANK IT WITHOUT STOPPING. I PUT IT IN REVERSE BY MISTAKE..THE BACK TIRES WERE STOPPED DEAD !!! SCREAMING AND SCREECHING!!! SCARED THE MFIN SHIT OUT OF ME..I HURRIED AND GOT IT INTO NEUTRAL..THE VAN CRANKED RIGHT UP..NEVER HAD ONE PROBLEM WITH TRANSMISSION..WHEN I DID THE DEED I JUST KNEW I MESSED UP MY TRUCK..BUT SURPRISINGLY NO PROBLEMS..
TRY IT IN A DODGE VAN. I WAS GOING 60 AND MY VAN SHUT OFF DUE TO CLOG IN FUEL FILTER, I TRIED TO PUT IT IN NEUTRAL TO CRANK IT WITHOUT STOPPING. I PUT IT IN REVERSE BY MISTAKE..THE BACK TIRES WERE STOPPED DEAD !!! SCREAMING AND SCREECHING!!! SCARED THE MFIN SHIT OUT OF ME..I HURRIED AND GOT IT INTO NEUTRAL..THE VAN CRANKED RIGHT UP..NEVER HAD ONE PROBLEM WITH TRANSMISSION..WHEN I DID THE DEED I JUST KNEW I MESSED UP MY TRUCK..BUT SURPRISINGLY NO PROBLEMS..
@rastermanian Even if you could throw it into reverse, it would be less effective as just locking your wheels. If in reverse, the tires are spinning on the road and reduce the traction between the actual tires and the road. Just use your brake that stop all four wheels.
I've done this in a Ford taxi that I used to drive. The owner refused to fix the transmission as long as it still drove forward (No top gear, I'd be forced to drive around in 2nd gear all day) So I thought FUCK HIM I'll help the gear box to destroy itself. I placed it in REVERSE at 120 kph thinking that the tranny would simply disintegrate. No luck,...there's a safety mechanism that stalls the engine and disengages the gear box. No GO
@Rustaholic777 Yeah I manually downshifted my old 85 dodge ram 727 and once accidentally shifted up to reverse squalled the tires, killed the engine but didn't hurt a damn thing. That is just American muscle though.
Bullshit I have a crown Vic police interceptor same model as that one and I was going about 40, I accidentally threw it into reverse trying to shift to neutral and my tires spun in reverse..it definitely works
If you want to break very suddenly (e.g when a car is on hills and might fall of a cliff) put the car from the 5th or 4th gear to the 1st. Dramatic speed reduction will occur.
@0engima0 if it's an automatic it won't shift down that far even if the selector is in L or 1; if it's a manual, the synchro won't let you into 1st at 50, you'll get the same result as he did trying to put it into reverse.
lol, this is one of the reasons I take mythbusters with a grain of salt... Or maybe ten. They used two different models of cars. That completely invalidates the manual vs transmission comparisons.
Transbrakes are used in racing. In drag racing the car is in both forward and reverse at the same time. It stays still. The driver revs his engine and when the go signal lights on, the driver flicks a switch and a solenoid shifts out of reverse leaving the forward engaged.
first of all,,, tory did not use the clutch, if you press clutch put it into revers and dump the clutch, it will grind , it will stall the engine and it will stop eventually. it will kill the transmition and clutch but it will save you, but the best way to stop a "runaway " manual transmition car from 50 mph, is to shift down into one, slow down useing motor brake, and shift into highest possible, you will choce engine, and stop:)
WRONG WRONG WRONG!!!!!!!!! My Nissan Frontier 4X4 automatic trans got away from me one time wile going down a hill on a mud trail, and I started sliding so I taped the brakes and they locked up. So since I didn't want to hit the Red Oak tree that I was heading to, I threw the transmission in R, and I stomped the gas, and was able to fully stop before hitting the tree. Incase you were wondering I was going about 25mph on a WET DIRT ROAD GOING DOWN HILL!!!!!!!!!!!!
@KySurivorMan If your brakes are locked up your transmissions gears arent moving therefore you could put it into reverse without a problem, the test was if your brakes failed (you couldnt lock them up) could you put it in reverse and use it to slow you down. Automatics can be put into reverse if moving forward but only up to marginal speeds, however manuals are impossible to put into reverse at any forward speed over say 2 mph because the gear cannot engage.
you cant put a manual into reverse when moving at anything over 1-3 mph because the clutch cannot engage the gear because it is moving....i mean it could be done if you really pushed it into reverse (impossible for human strength)...it probably just explode...the clutch brings the car into neutral...so you can engage another gear, very hard to do if the gears are moving, how is it meant to just fit in place, without exploding or crippling the whole transmission at that speed, haha xD
Obviously they must've looked into the 'hazard potential' or operational compromises before they experiment with things like that or they'd be wearing crash helmets or have the cars equipped with roll cages. That's a dead giveaway the myth is busted.
That's a mid 90's crown vic. The computer won't let the transmission go into reverse when the VSS is telling it that the car is moving foward. You would think the mythbusters would look into things like that.
If they would have been smart enough to rev the engine in the automatic in neutral then hitting reverse it wouldn't have stalled the engine. I can't believe they didn't know this. There is no safety device, just the driveshaft spinning the rear tranny gears forward with more power than the idling engine was making in reverse.
this myth isn't busted.. I stopped a Pontiac Sunbird by slamming it into park, i was grateful because the brakes were gone and it avoided damage to my garage wall
i wonder if he was going slower, could the synchros brake on the input shaft and eventualy reverse it's direction to match the output? then when you take ur foot off the clutch, the engine would jerk to a stop and spin backwards. that would be cool.
When I was a teen, after one really hard day of work I was irritated and anxious to get home. I hopped in my car, threw it in reverse and stomped the gas (*big lot). As I looked behind me and skillfully backed out, I noticed the car was extremely sluggish. Then the engine quit. "WTF?", I thought. Then I noticed the handbrake was on.
@hectiky I think everyone does that at least once. Even my father who swears by manual transmissions did it recently. It smelled bad, and can't have been good for the brakes. That's probably why the auto-tranny car wouldn't let the parking brake go on when the mythbusters tried it, it has a safety to prevent someone from destroying the parking brake. If you do need to use it in an emergency, an automatic car has a emergency brake pedal which the transmission "ignores"
@dickcheney6 Nope. The emergency/parking brake only controls the rear wheels and is cable operated. It can be applied at anytime. The transmission has no control over it... The majority of manual transmissions have un-synchronized reverse gears, meaning while the vehicle is in motion reverse cannot be selected as the gears would grind. Modern manuals are now coming with synchronized reverse, but even with that advancement, reverse isn't engage-able above a certain speed.
@hectiky I think everyone does that at least once. Even my father who swears by manual transmissions did it recently. It smelled bad, and can't have been good for the brakes. That's probably why the auto-tranny car wouldn't let the parking brake go on when the mythbusters tried it, it has a safety to prevent someone from destroying the parking brake. If you do need to use it in an emergency, an automatic car has a emergency brake pedal which the transmission "ignores"
@hectiky I believe on an automatic, the transmission has some kind of cam or lever that engages the parking brake when the lever is on "park" and at the same time, shifts the transmission itself into neutral. The E-brake pedal bypasses any safety device because chances are if you're pushing that, either the parking brake won't go on the normal way (shifting into P) or you have an emergency and you don't care about burning up the parking brake.
@dickcheney6 NO. Auto transmissions have whats called a parking pawl. It's a lever that slides in between the pinion gear teeth, preventing the drive wheels from turning. Nothing at all to do with the parking/emergency brake. It's recommended that the parking brake be applied, especially on hills so the vehicle weight isn't resting on the pawl.
@dickcheney6 there is no such thing as a e brake.there is a pedal or handle in all cars that is connected by cable to your drive wheel brakes ,people call it an e brake,but its a parking brake.p on an auto tranny engages the parking pawl a wedge tha t blocks the gearsd in your tranny.a call to any tranny shop could have saved them a transmission,
i had a 1962 ford ranchero. i accidentally hit it into reverse when i was driving. it did slow down and stop the truck, it also tore up the tranny. this was before the safety feature in the newer cars.
try this with a 1986 v6 auto cuttlass supreme. i was running out of gas and tryed to put it in neutral and wet all the way to reverse or park? shit my pants on 280 (lived in the bay back then)
That's not how you properly brake with a manual car. You need to shift to a lower gear after a short break and then continue breaking, repeating as needed. Of course this is common knowledge in Europe and most parts of the world.
@XedGeneral Actually I would have to say that this is the first example of a camera to tv recording that is actually a pretty darn good picture! Thanks for sharing!
I meant now I know the SYMBOL for "feet" or "foot". i know it is the same measurement. if it was different it would have a different name. just like a lb. is different from a kg. i'm not stupid.
My Uncle said he got an old Volvo 240 I think he said. He by accident, stopped his car by putting it into "PARK". He said all the wheels locked and he was doing 30 MPH, and meant to move into 'cruise' but, went into park instead.
You can stop a manual transmission car in an emergency (for example no brakes) if you shut the engine off with a gear still on (not in neutral position). Depending on the speed you are, it may be a bit dangerous, and of course it will destroy your engine.
@marcotada it doesn't destroy the engine, and if you have enough time to react and get all the way into first gear it is very effective. In higher gears the vehicle can turn the engine easier, therefore the braking effect of the engine is less. Plus you will still have power steering and power brakes as long as the engine is turning, just don't be stupid and turn the key to lock !!
@expertmax1 Its not.. there many enthausiasts like me. okay this was just a HF and there are thousands of them in America. But its still sad. Well at least it just shows the good quality of the car^^
@TheHondaTuner Same reason they use any other car - It's Donated by a fan, and or very cheap, and it's for Science. Lot of those California cars shouldn't get the punishment they get :(
If you're driving a car with no abs and u need to stop quick dont press your foot straight down on the brake hit your foot on the brake as many times as you can a second this increases stopping power and you wont skid into things :)
This is stupid! The reverse, as well as the first gear, on a stick-shift are NOT synchronized, while all other gears ARE. That means, all gears, except first and reverse have a special... device, called synchronizing cone, that helps making the speed of the gears that will be switched, EQUAL. If the speed is not equal, you can not "fit" the teeth of one gear into the gaps on the other, so there's no transmission. You "rub" the lateral side of the primary gear on the lateral of the driven gear.
I did this a time or two when I was a teenager, coasting downhill in an automatic shifting into neutral trying to "save gas" (f*cking around). Engine just shuts off. At least in that mid-80's cutlass sedan. Didn't seem to hurt it really either.
Manual transmission cars can be slowed down considerably by down shifting gradually to lower gears, truck drivers use this technique a long with engine brake. All gears in cars are engaged by synchronizers whereas reverse is engaged by moving the whole tooth wheel and is impossible to do when the car is moving even a slight bit
@6Camel6Finger6 Not sure about your B2, but older designs of manual transmissions have this peculiarity, that's why it's hard to put them in reverse even when standing:) You could hear the gears grind because of the speed the shafts spin have to be equal to engage, hence the use of synchronizers on all other forward gears.
If the manual had a reverse sincro it would be ugly. The clutch would reverse the engine rotation to say the least. If the auto was older without a computer, it would lock the car up pretty damn quick and destroy the transmission.
@viper19861986 turning off the engine doesn't help to disengage the wheels from the transmission. engaging the clutch separates the engine from the drive-train (transmission, wheels, etc) and is a lot simpler.
Basically, googlesux is right, and otherwise you're just grinding gears until you can get something to go *crunch*
in manual tranny, it easyer to stop than automatic. all have to do is push clutch in, turn off the engines, put gear in frist and let go a clutch, and it stops as brakes power. i done with my truck, when i loss my breaks. It did stop a truck with engine off and drags in gear with dead engine. lucky i didn't crashed and no harms to tranny or engine.
@MasterTenku over 50MPH or 80km/h, second gear frist then when slows down enough to frist gear. it may locked up the tires and lose tractions in highspeed. let a mythbuster redo it again.
Putting the car in park isn't likely to work, because the parking pawl in an automatic tranny is angled to keep from locking into place if the car is still moving. You'll just get a lot of clicking, though there is a slight chance the pawl could get broken off if it does lock.
I once accidentally put a 1977 T-Bird in reverse while traveling at 35MPH. The drivewheels locked up, the car stopped and the engine stalled. It worked and there was no damage, though I wouldn't recommend doing it on a regular basis. I'm not sure if it would work with newer cars, however.
Try using the fucking clutch next time- It is possible to put it in reverse. but won't stop the car, and it definitely isn't recommended! I accidentally slammed a hire car into reverse at 70. I was aiming for sixth, which is quite ambitious for a five speed, but soon realised it wasn't my car I was driving (which is a six speed). Gearbox was all over the M8 between junctions 2 and 3. Woops.
Sliding on ice I had the brakes on my manual locked up completely (1990, before anti-lock). I was able to get the car in reverse then. It didn't do anything to pull me out of the skid though.
So why didn't MB try the e-brake? surely they would have gone into a spin, but might have pulled off a less than 65 foot stop. :-D
Retarded myth, even if you have driven a car you'd know this myth would be busted. All they did with the manual one was destroy it's transmission gears...
in my 2004 toyota camrey it stopes in reverse
kurtwilliamnicholls 1 week ago
You can do it in games
TommyTollandVids 1 week ago
they didnt need to do the first part because those 2 cars had different masses hence different momentums because momentum is mass x velocity, so what did the 65 to 7- ft difference make?
ManofChrist101 2 weeks ago
it works in my 98 lincoln town car! we throw our cars into reverse just for fun, the tires spin backwards and the car slides sideways lol its fun
Mx583 3 weeks ago
when my 1982 subaru leone was automatic, i shifted to reverse instead of neutral once, all it did was stall the engine, threw it back in 2nd and it restarted and then i selected drive and kept going about my business, although my 1990 ford fairmont on the other hand, selected reverse while moving coz i was going to replace the transmission anyway (reverse was slipping in the first place) doing 60km/h on a gravel rd, neutral, rev-limiter (5400) then reverse, actually split the transmission case
Colt45hatchback 3 weeks ago
ships can do it but they have to stop their propeller shafts and shift to reverse,some propeller planes can rverse thrust by reversing pitch on their props,jets use deflectors to redirect engine thrust,steam piston trains and cars can do this to slow downwithout damage it was simular to power brakes,the stanley steamer could be put into reverse at any speedwith no damage other than soiled shorts
cartmanrlsusall 1 month ago
i had a guy comeing to fight me and he thought he would be cool to come wiping up fast in his car and puting it into park and he about wreck his trans...
Fallen2Dope 1 month ago
automatics have safety pin in the transmission so you u dont hit it into park and ruion it
boothill24 1 month ago
@boothill24 i was riding the other day with my friend car, i wanted to put the car in neutral (automatic) but i hit reverse in accident, the transmission made a really strange noise. and yeah, it works.
hitachi088 3 weeks ago
I want to get a Tesla and try this, 100% reverse torque at 70mph might be interesting, but expensive
fairyheli2 1 month ago
That poor crx D:
TheDataZoo 1 month ago
Can be done with a 5 speed manual in a Daewoo - stripped a few teeth off the reverse gear though
er10b 1 month ago
just drop it to 1st and you get a compresion lockup slows you down
mrgavindjones 2 months ago
i love how 70% of the comments are people saying how they done it in their car
OhNoNotMyPenis 2 months ago
So, what I learned from this, is that you have to stomp tha brakes and lock up the tires, before putting it inti Reverse...
WezleyB 2 months ago
You should add the car length to the distance it took to stop... since if you have to slam on your breaks to avoid hitting someone, you want the car to not hit them.
staphinfection 2 months ago
if this was topgear the car would explode
2012GT500Supersnake 2 months ago 9
I wasnt understanding the video very well.. BUT with the chinese subtitle I understand evrything
SchlumpfDumpf 2 months ago
My old GMC pickup can reverse while moving forward. Its first transmission could park... Once. Destroyed the parking pawl, and had to replace the tranny, but the truck did stop.
Obviously, Grant and Tory weren't doing it right.
SchizoFilms 2 months ago
This is stupid, why didn't they bypass the safety feature on the auto then so they could actually do the experiment? They didn't actually get either car into reverse..
jay92889 2 months ago
I got one of them there new cars 2001 Chevrolet suburban and it just simply wont engage into reverse at any speeds above 15mph. Don't test it out though you retards. It's a god awful repair.
derekroolz 2 months ago
the sound of the gears grinding makes me sad.
x0flame 3 months ago
i did it in a sx4 (auto) and put it in to park while going forward and it made a clicking sound so i think my gears were grindong
thewraith69 3 months ago
Kanji looks terribly hard to read fast, is it an easy laguage to scan? Like to read really fast?
Stillwater900 3 months ago
what about shifting to rear and then gassing it?
bananian 3 months ago
Each car is different, it depends on what kind of gearbox, and manufacture of the gearbox. Some cars, if you put the auto into park, the gears will click and grind until the car stops. Others it will just coast.
Mcmerc01 4 months ago
Good way to destroy an actuator or two..
EggheadJr1 4 months ago
new car has special mechanism to avoid this to happen..
nyehnyi 4 months ago
this is bullshit i put my commodore into reverse by accident one day and it near thru me thru the windscreen the diff here was my cars an Aussie car myth busters are in American cars?
obieezx11 4 months ago
If in a manual, if one wants to stop the car, shove it in the lowest possible gear (1st may be unavailable due to the lack of syncromesh) and kill the engine. Tory couldn't put it in reverse because it didn't have syncromesh. On automatics, the parking pawl won't engage unless completely stopped.
taitai907 4 months ago
I'm guessing that the automatic transmission also has an integrated safety device for the parking brake given that it did nothing when they tried to engage the parking brake. I guess it would make sense considering that I actually witnessed what happens when someone tries to move a manual car with the PB on-it smells awful! I was sitting in the passenger side, and I yelled "PARKING BRAKE!!" thankfully no damage was done
dickcheney6 4 months ago
I do this all the time on ice, slows down quite well...
SlightlyFrozen 4 months ago
@SlightlyFrozen if you were to immediately change the direction of the tires on ice, it would cause you to lose all traction on the drive tires, exactly the same as locking the tires up, except only on the drive tires.. It will not slow you down...hell, even downshifting too hard on ice can cause your drive tires to lose traction.
Alches2 4 months ago
@Alches2 Dude I do it all the time, I live in Saskatchewan which get some of the harshest winters in North America, It can stop you in a emgency, works better then slamming on the breaks and sliding into the back of another car....
SlightlyFrozen 4 months ago
i too can confirm that this works (i found out the hard way back in about '98, when i was a flower delivery driver). i was on the highway and had a bad habit of resting my right hand on the column-mounted gear shift (it was an automatic Ford Econoline van). i actually managed to push it down into "reverse" (with my foot on the gas!) and it did throw the rear tires into reverse. scared the hell out of me, and i'm sure it wasn't great for the transmission!
catpee3000 4 months ago
@catpee3000 i call bullshit on that if you did that for real all you get is a clicking noise and sometimes a stalled engine
cartmanrlsusall 1 month ago
Hello! This Myth is confirmed! I had a automatic transmission 1988 Toyota Tercel. While reaching the pay toll on a highway, I accidently put it on reverse and the car slammed me into a suden hault. Im glad I did not dammage the transmission. I was going about 40 M.P.H.
Bassotronics 4 months ago
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Bassotronics 4 months ago
Nice one fella,nice facts mythbusters!!xD
hackers09fr 5 months ago
If the touched an locked up the brakes while shifting it would cause the engines to run backwards and compression would slow it down faster.
Jmaster2230 5 months ago
You don't have to be in a "complete" stop to select reverse in a manual. Just to nitpick.
justinwbohner 5 months ago
He didnt release clutch. Thats why it was grinding.
Zc0ol 5 months ago
@Zc0ol Nah the Syncromesh on the CRX has a lockout meaning you cannot put the car into reverse whilst in forward motion until you almost stopped regardless of the clutch position. This is a stupid test anyway they are both completely unmatched cars, just some dingbats mucking about. .
Azureecosse 5 months ago
i think they should have mentioned the other ways of slowing down the cars when the brakes fail, like simply downshifting to a lower gear, this will slow both the automatic and the manual to a speed where it would be safer to apply the emergency/parking brake.
98erics 5 months ago
i now that this myth is busted... The car actually slow downs a bit but then the transmission breaks
dfgxhchvjb 5 months ago
good information...
ezes6zy 5 months ago
I accidentally did this in my 1992 Buick LeSabre and engine cut out and loss power steering, it stop instantly, as well as needing a new transmission.
johnfunchion 6 months ago
The manual transmission only was obvious it wouldnt work but if and automatic transmission without that saftey shutoff it would work accidently did it to my truck for two secs left some nice markson the road to.
TylerReifenberger5 6 months ago
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xhighalert 6 months ago
The auto car is too modern, try a pre 80's one. I've done it on my 74 Mustang II with a c3 auto @ around 30mph, meant to pop it into neutral coming at a red light and hit reverse on accident, car skidded and engine stalled but luckily no damage. But the neutral safety switch isn't hooked up so that could have been a factor.
RacistRedneck 6 months ago
why is this the only video on Youtube
bilyisbored92 6 months ago
@mcnairone TRY IT IN A DODGE VAN. I WAS GOING 60 AND MY VAN SHUT OFF DUE TO CLOG IN FUEL FILTER, I TRIED TO PUT IT IN NEUTRAL TO CRANK IT WITHOUT STOPPING. I PUT IT IN REVERSE BY MISTAKE..THE BACK TIRES WERE STOPPED DEAD !!! SCREAMING AND SCREECHING!!! SCARED THE MFIN SHIT OUT OF ME..I HURRIED AND GOT IT INTO NEUTRAL..THE VAN CRANKED RIGHT UP..NEVER HAD ONE PROBLEM WITH TRANSMISSION..WHEN I DID THE DEED I JUST KNEW I MESSED UP MY TRUCK..BUT SURPRISINGLY NO PROBLEMS..
bennyhayess 6 months ago
TRY IT IN A DODGE VAN. I WAS GOING 60 AND MY VAN SHUT OFF DUE TO CLOG IN FUEL FILTER, I TRIED TO PUT IT IN NEUTRAL TO CRANK IT WITHOUT STOPPING. I PUT IT IN REVERSE BY MISTAKE..THE BACK TIRES WERE STOPPED DEAD !!! SCREAMING AND SCREECHING!!! SCARED THE MFIN SHIT OUT OF ME..I HURRIED AND GOT IT INTO NEUTRAL..THE VAN CRANKED RIGHT UP..NEVER HAD ONE PROBLEM WITH TRANSMISSION..WHEN I DID THE DEED I JUST KNEW I MESSED UP MY TRUCK..BUT SURPRISINGLY NO PROBLEMS..
bennyhayess 6 months ago
Clutch, 1st gear, and let out clutch. Engine will break, but at least you won't break your neck in a crash
Gandyware 6 months ago
@Gandyware Everytime engine will break?
zachattack83 6 months ago
mhh.. at least it took it like a maan!! xD
TheHondaTuner 6 months ago
@rastermanian Even if you could throw it into reverse, it would be less effective as just locking your wheels. If in reverse, the tires are spinning on the road and reduce the traction between the actual tires and the road. Just use your brake that stop all four wheels.
Hayeshacker0NE 6 months ago
I've done this in a Ford taxi that I used to drive. The owner refused to fix the transmission as long as it still drove forward (No top gear, I'd be forced to drive around in 2nd gear all day) So I thought FUCK HIM I'll help the gear box to destroy itself. I placed it in REVERSE at 120 kph thinking that the tranny would simply disintegrate. No luck,...there's a safety mechanism that stalls the engine and disengages the gear box. No GO
TelecasterLPGTop 6 months ago
i put a 240 sx into 2ng gear going 90 and i wont do it again
JustinKennith 6 months ago
@JustinKennith Why not?
As a much younger guy I had a 1972 Opel Manta Rallye.
My favorite stunt was to approach a 90 degree intercetion at 100 MPH,
Just at the corner I would slap it into 2nd gear and pop the clutch.
Then do a quick turn of the wheel and the locked up rear wheels would start coming around.
Slam it into third gear and I was around the corner doing 85 MPH.
The tach. slammed the needle just over ten GRAND.
Seven years I drove that car like that. Then I sold it.
Rustaholic777 2 months ago 2
Wrong car Guys.
I did it.
1967 Oldsmobile F-85.
250 straight 6 engine and an automatic tranny.
65 MPH going past a friend's house and he hollered for me to stop.
I slipped the tranny into Neutral, revved the engine and popped the tranny into Reverse with the gas pedal on the floor.
The tires smoked until the car stopped and then backed up through the black smoke to pull in his driveway.
Obviously some wear & tear but no apparent damage to the car.
Rustaholic777 7 months ago 18
@Rustaholic777 nice job rev matching...
851995STARGATE 2 months ago
@Rustaholic777 Yeah I manually downshifted my old 85 dodge ram 727 and once accidentally shifted up to reverse squalled the tires, killed the engine but didn't hurt a damn thing. That is just American muscle though.
nowthisis2stupid 1 month ago
@nowthisis2stupid You just didn't have your gas pedal on the floor.
Rustaholic777 1 month ago
@Rustaholic777 "black smoke" cool story bro!
tire smoke is white/grey
please no bullshit
markowina 1 month ago
@markowina Really?
Were you there?
Rustaholic777 1 month ago
@markowina true.
hitachi088 3 weeks ago
that grinding sound was just painful to listen to.
dboy11368 7 months ago
Bullshit I have a crown Vic police interceptor same model as that one and I was going about 40, I accidentally threw it into reverse trying to shift to neutral and my tires spun in reverse..it definitely works
bcouri1 7 months ago 11
4:40
Push in the clutch you idiot
Kingisland32 7 months ago
@Kingisland32 he did, reverse doesnt have a synchro.
Starfleet0 6 months ago
A CRX saved my mom's life
JayLovePlaysGuitar 7 months ago
At least that Crown Victoria lived to see another day.
myespion 7 months ago
what happens when people who know nothing at all about cars try to play smart car guys.
Utter FAIL!
eschelar 7 months ago 2
If you want to break very suddenly (e.g when a car is on hills and might fall of a cliff) put the car from the 5th or 4th gear to the 1st. Dramatic speed reduction will occur.
0engima0 7 months ago in playlist mythbuster/electriccarraces
@0engima0 if it's an automatic it won't shift down that far even if the selector is in L or 1; if it's a manual, the synchro won't let you into 1st at 50, you'll get the same result as he did trying to put it into reverse.
lt1caprice57l 7 months ago 2
lol, this is one of the reasons I take mythbusters with a grain of salt... Or maybe ten. They used two different models of cars. That completely invalidates the manual vs transmission comparisons.
Versudan 7 months ago
Transbrakes are used in racing. In drag racing the car is in both forward and reverse at the same time. It stays still. The driver revs his engine and when the go signal lights on, the driver flicks a switch and a solenoid shifts out of reverse leaving the forward engaged.
PikPobedy 7 months ago
104 people dont have a reverse gear
TheWombatHunter 7 months ago
I like how everyone cares about that CRX. It's a fucking piece of shit Honda, get over it.
rex3453 8 months ago
I loved that crx damn... Oh why are your subtitles in japanese btw lol?
demonsparkx 8 months ago
first of all,,, tory did not use the clutch, if you press clutch put it into revers and dump the clutch, it will grind , it will stall the engine and it will stop eventually. it will kill the transmition and clutch but it will save you, but the best way to stop a "runaway " manual transmition car from 50 mph, is to shift down into one, slow down useing motor brake, and shift into highest possible, you will choce engine, and stop:)
Hunikum2m 8 months ago
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The mythbusters guys ignited a half a ton of thermite to try to cut a car in half. See how it turned out in my video:
Incendiary Experiments
punxsutawneybarney 8 months ago
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Watch the Mythbusters Parody I made! We are reaching warp speed with a skateboard!
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PerfectChaos666Tim 8 months ago
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ThleTruth 8 months ago
I feel sorry for that tansmission :(
DoubleM55 8 months ago
WRONG WRONG WRONG!!!!!!!!! My Nissan Frontier 4X4 automatic trans got away from me one time wile going down a hill on a mud trail, and I started sliding so I taped the brakes and they locked up. So since I didn't want to hit the Red Oak tree that I was heading to, I threw the transmission in R, and I stomped the gas, and was able to fully stop before hitting the tree. Incase you were wondering I was going about 25mph on a WET DIRT ROAD GOING DOWN HILL!!!!!!!!!!!!
KySurivorMan 8 months ago
@KySurivorMan If your brakes are locked up your transmissions gears arent moving therefore you could put it into reverse without a problem, the test was if your brakes failed (you couldnt lock them up) could you put it in reverse and use it to slow you down. Automatics can be put into reverse if moving forward but only up to marginal speeds, however manuals are impossible to put into reverse at any forward speed over say 2 mph because the gear cannot engage.
fragafixiat3d 8 months ago
you cant put a manual into reverse when moving at anything over 1-3 mph because the clutch cannot engage the gear because it is moving....i mean it could be done if you really pushed it into reverse (impossible for human strength)...it probably just explode...the clutch brings the car into neutral...so you can engage another gear, very hard to do if the gears are moving, how is it meant to just fit in place, without exploding or crippling the whole transmission at that speed, haha xD
nksharpshooter 8 months ago
thats a fine japanese quality no wonder it so durable
AlmightyMacky 8 months ago
That poor CRX
nvidia290 8 months ago
Obviously they must've looked into the 'hazard potential' or operational compromises before they experiment with things like that or they'd be wearing crash helmets or have the cars equipped with roll cages. That's a dead giveaway the myth is busted.
yermyahu 8 months ago
they should have disabled the saftey feature
cdude100 9 months ago
LOL At the park attempt. I didn't even hear the pawl inside the transmission rattle against the parking gear.
MrNotorius5500 9 months ago
That's a mid 90's crown vic. The computer won't let the transmission go into reverse when the VSS is telling it that the car is moving foward. You would think the mythbusters would look into things like that.
MrNotorius5500 9 months ago 2
Sometimes the mythbusters are too dumb to test things right.....
om3gadagg3r 9 months ago 5
If they would have been smart enough to rev the engine in the automatic in neutral then hitting reverse it wouldn't have stalled the engine. I can't believe they didn't know this. There is no safety device, just the driveshaft spinning the rear tranny gears forward with more power than the idling engine was making in reverse.
northernchicken 9 months ago
this myth isn't busted.. I stopped a Pontiac Sunbird by slamming it into park, i was grateful because the brakes were gone and it avoided damage to my garage wall
DThaeman 9 months ago
i wonder if he was going slower, could the synchros brake on the input shaft and eventualy reverse it's direction to match the output? then when you take ur foot off the clutch, the engine would jerk to a stop and spin backwards. that would be cool.
creamyfilling102 9 months ago
@creamyfilling102 only if you could briefly lock the drive wheels until you engaged reverse.. on a rwd car, that would be the handbrake
to trolls: i'm aware that the manual car in the video was fwd...
DThaeman 9 months ago
wait.. isn't that stick-shift car the SAME one from the intro to the first Mythbusters episode?
Stere0123 10 months ago
It is possible to get reverse if you can lock up your brakes first...obviously not useful if your brakes aren't working to begin with.
mpwelk 10 months ago
When I was a teen, after one really hard day of work I was irritated and anxious to get home. I hopped in my car, threw it in reverse and stomped the gas (*big lot). As I looked behind me and skillfully backed out, I noticed the car was extremely sluggish. Then the engine quit. "WTF?", I thought. Then I noticed the handbrake was on.
hectiky 10 months ago
@hectiky I think everyone does that at least once. Even my father who swears by manual transmissions did it recently. It smelled bad, and can't have been good for the brakes. That's probably why the auto-tranny car wouldn't let the parking brake go on when the mythbusters tried it, it has a safety to prevent someone from destroying the parking brake. If you do need to use it in an emergency, an automatic car has a emergency brake pedal which the transmission "ignores"
dickcheney6 4 months ago
@dickcheney6 Nope. The emergency/parking brake only controls the rear wheels and is cable operated. It can be applied at anytime. The transmission has no control over it... The majority of manual transmissions have un-synchronized reverse gears, meaning while the vehicle is in motion reverse cannot be selected as the gears would grind. Modern manuals are now coming with synchronized reverse, but even with that advancement, reverse isn't engage-able above a certain speed.
Alwayzsmilin 3 months ago
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@hectiky I think everyone does that at least once. Even my father who swears by manual transmissions did it recently. It smelled bad, and can't have been good for the brakes. That's probably why the auto-tranny car wouldn't let the parking brake go on when the mythbusters tried it, it has a safety to prevent someone from destroying the parking brake. If you do need to use it in an emergency, an automatic car has a emergency brake pedal which the transmission "ignores"
dickcheney6 4 months ago
@hectiky I believe on an automatic, the transmission has some kind of cam or lever that engages the parking brake when the lever is on "park" and at the same time, shifts the transmission itself into neutral. The E-brake pedal bypasses any safety device because chances are if you're pushing that, either the parking brake won't go on the normal way (shifting into P) or you have an emergency and you don't care about burning up the parking brake.
dickcheney6 4 months ago
@dickcheney6 NO. Auto transmissions have whats called a parking pawl. It's a lever that slides in between the pinion gear teeth, preventing the drive wheels from turning. Nothing at all to do with the parking/emergency brake. It's recommended that the parking brake be applied, especially on hills so the vehicle weight isn't resting on the pawl.
Alwayzsmilin 3 months ago
@dickcheney6 there is no such thing as a e brake.there is a pedal or handle in all cars that is connected by cable to your drive wheel brakes ,people call it an e brake,but its a parking brake.p on an auto tranny engages the parking pawl a wedge tha t blocks the gearsd in your tranny.a call to any tranny shop could have saved them a transmission,
cartmanrlsusall 1 month ago
i had a 1962 ford ranchero. i accidentally hit it into reverse when i was driving. it did slow down and stop the truck, it also tore up the tranny. this was before the safety feature in the newer cars.
sirkaos 10 months ago
try this with a 1986 v6 auto cuttlass supreme. i was running out of gas and tryed to put it in neutral and wet all the way to reverse or park? shit my pants on 280 (lived in the bay back then)
3rotorFD 10 months ago
That's not how you properly brake with a manual car. You need to shift to a lower gear after a short break and then continue breaking, repeating as needed. Of course this is common knowledge in Europe and most parts of the world.
barc0deblankblank 10 months ago
@barc0deblankblank your wrong
sickwititty 10 months ago
@sickwititty sure kid
barc0deblankblank 10 months ago
hey now i know what feet is in japanese or chinese or whatever language that is. it looks like []R. BTW what episode is this from.
bears7777777 10 months ago 14
@bears7777777
it's chinese subs. :)
sorry for the cam quality tho, recording machine broke down :P
lots of people complained but this episode was too good to be missed so i used my camera instead...
XedGeneral 10 months ago 14
@XedGeneral Actually I would have to say that this is the first example of a camera to tv recording that is actually a pretty darn good picture! Thanks for sharing!
BigDH28 9 months ago 23
@BigDH28 thanks! :)
XedGeneral 9 months ago 3
Feet is the same measurement in any country... just like inches, centimeters... it appears stupidity is also a universal measurement :P
Tommowful 10 months ago
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bears7777777 10 months ago
I meant now I know the SYMBOL for "feet" or "foot". i know it is the same measurement. if it was different it would have a different name. just like a lb. is different from a kg. i'm not stupid.
bears7777777 10 months ago
at 0:25 the people in the background laughed just like Grant.
bears7777777 10 months ago
Hi XedGeneral,
My Uncle said he got an old Volvo 240 I think he said. He by accident, stopped his car by putting it into "PARK". He said all the wheels locked and he was doing 30 MPH, and meant to move into 'cruise' but, went into park instead.
Does this count?
Take care,
mrbluenun
Please let me know?
mrbluenun 10 months ago
you could just put it in "N" and wait a minute or two.
mslmn92 11 months ago
I always thought that I would have to eat some Hamburgers MAN!
orrinsjuice1 11 months ago
You can stop a manual transmission car in an emergency (for example no brakes) if you shut the engine off with a gear still on (not in neutral position). Depending on the speed you are, it may be a bit dangerous, and of course it will destroy your engine.
marcotada 11 months ago
@marcotada it doesn't destroy the engine, and if you have enough time to react and get all the way into first gear it is very effective. In higher gears the vehicle can turn the engine easier, therefore the braking effect of the engine is less. Plus you will still have power steering and power brakes as long as the engine is turning, just don't be stupid and turn the key to lock !!
northernchicken 9 months ago
ive done it before with an auto in a car some cars shut off wen u do it but mine didnt ;)
fs8014 11 months ago
VTEC KICK YO
vorrap 11 months ago
Why a CRX`? WHY???
TheHondaTuner 11 months ago 25
@TheHondaTuner Because it's a douche bag car :P
expertmax1 8 months ago
@expertmax1 Its not.. there many enthausiasts like me. okay this was just a HF and there are thousands of them in America. But its still sad. Well at least it just shows the good quality of the car^^
TheHondaTuner 8 months ago
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ThleTruth 8 months ago
@TheHondaTuner Same reason they use any other car - It's Donated by a fan, and or very cheap, and it's for Science. Lot of those California cars shouldn't get the punishment they get :(
kirbyyasha 6 months ago
@TheHondaTuner Watching a CRX be abused hurt pretty bad.
eyetoobyes 4 months ago
@eyetoobyes :(
TheHondaTuner 4 months ago
If you're driving a car with no abs and u need to stop quick dont press your foot straight down on the brake hit your foot on the brake as many times as you can a second this increases stopping power and you wont skid into things :)
minimemy 11 months ago
Great sound.
EmmaLovelace 1 year ago
Does anyone know the song at 1:05?
MikeHauncho1 1 year ago
Newton got it right
jmm1233 1 year ago
i was 10 i stoped a ford expler in revers by puting it into drive
holygroundscoffee 1 year ago
This is stupid! The reverse, as well as the first gear, on a stick-shift are NOT synchronized, while all other gears ARE. That means, all gears, except first and reverse have a special... device, called synchronizing cone, that helps making the speed of the gears that will be switched, EQUAL. If the speed is not equal, you can not "fit" the teeth of one gear into the gaps on the other, so there's no transmission. You "rub" the lateral side of the primary gear on the lateral of the driven gear.
Kostagh 1 year ago
@Kostagh there were some 3 speed manuals that every gear was syncronized
Texassince1836 1 year ago
they would have to start towing the car with the revers gear engaged with the foot on the clutch and reliesing it at 50
steffankaizer 1 year ago
CRXS SURVIVE ANYTHING
NromulousZ 1 year ago
I did this a time or two when I was a teenager, coasting downhill in an automatic shifting into neutral trying to "save gas" (f*cking around). Engine just shuts off. At least in that mid-80's cutlass sedan. Didn't seem to hurt it really either.
porkupine73 1 year ago
Well, I have shifted to park while moving and it was a jerking halt... But that was with a 1992 Honda.
PerfectParasite 1 year ago
Manual transmission cars can be slowed down considerably by down shifting gradually to lower gears, truck drivers use this technique a long with engine brake. All gears in cars are engaged by synchronizers whereas reverse is engaged by moving the whole tooth wheel and is impossible to do when the car is moving even a slight bit
igogosh 1 year ago
@igogosh what about my manual B2?
iam able to shift from R to 2nd while moving and from 2nd back to R.
i do it all the time
6Camel6Finger6 1 year ago
@6Camel6Finger6 Not sure about your B2, but older designs of manual transmissions have this peculiarity, that's why it's hard to put them in reverse even when standing:) You could hear the gears grind because of the speed the shafts spin have to be equal to engage, hence the use of synchronizers on all other forward gears.
igogosh 1 year ago
I've seen it done with a 1987 mustang... I know he didn't use the brakes... because it didn't have any.
pyro854 1 year ago
WTF I've been in a car when someone threw it into reverse it seemed to stop but the drive might have slamed on the brake...
IRMacGuyver 1 year ago
If the manual had a reverse sincro it would be ugly. The clutch would reverse the engine rotation to say the least. If the auto was older without a computer, it would lock the car up pretty damn quick and destroy the transmission.
listlesssleeper 1 year ago
My 94 cuprice did go in R & in P . and its just like ebrakes
AAYMF 1 year ago
Manuals will NOT let you go into R cause the timing teeth or something, it just grinds..
If you turn OFF the engine, push in the clutch, put the car into R, THEN it will stop!
viper19861986 1 year ago
@viper19861986 turning off the engine doesn't help to disengage the wheels from the transmission. engaging the clutch separates the engine from the drive-train (transmission, wheels, etc) and is a lot simpler.
Basically, googlesux is right, and otherwise you're just grinding gears until you can get something to go *crunch*
neoshade 1 year ago
in manual tranny, it easyer to stop than automatic. all have to do is push clutch in, turn off the engines, put gear in frist and let go a clutch, and it stops as brakes power. i done with my truck, when i loss my breaks. It did stop a truck with engine off and drags in gear with dead engine. lucky i didn't crashed and no harms to tranny or engine.
999Toyotaforlife999 1 year ago
@999Toyotaforlife999 The RPM's would be off the scale and you would probably blow your engine going anything about 50mph
MasterTenku 1 year ago
@MasterTenku over 50MPH or 80km/h, second gear frist then when slows down enough to frist gear. it may locked up the tires and lose tractions in highspeed. let a mythbuster redo it again.
999Toyotaforlife999 1 year ago
Putting the car in park isn't likely to work, because the parking pawl in an automatic tranny is angled to keep from locking into place if the car is still moving. You'll just get a lot of clicking, though there is a slight chance the pawl could get broken off if it does lock.
logik316 1 year ago
I once accidentally put a 1977 T-Bird in reverse while traveling at 35MPH. The drivewheels locked up, the car stopped and the engine stalled. It worked and there was no damage, though I wouldn't recommend doing it on a regular basis. I'm not sure if it would work with newer cars, however.
logik316 1 year ago
Try using the fucking clutch next time- It is possible to put it in reverse. but won't stop the car, and it definitely isn't recommended! I accidentally slammed a hire car into reverse at 70. I was aiming for sixth, which is quite ambitious for a five speed, but soon realised it wasn't my car I was driving (which is a six speed). Gearbox was all over the M8 between junctions 2 and 3. Woops.
condowallace 1 year ago 2
i always thought that the transmission would explode from the car and cause a black hole destroying us all.
tharwpoop 1 year ago 88
@tharwpoop
if you are not on ice, and not having a "rugged" car, you will break the transmission.
Not sure , maybe you can even damage the engine.
anyways point is, its not impossible at all to put a car in reverse, just can't be done anytime/anywhere.
goglesux 1 year ago
@tharwpoop They could have tried to put it into second and disengage the clutch rapidly, thereby blowing the transmission into pieces for sure.
NoirNG 1 year ago
@tharwpoop
no no, that would be dividing by 0
PXNielsen 9 months ago
Sliding on ice I had the brakes on my manual locked up completely (1990, before anti-lock). I was able to get the car in reverse then. It didn't do anything to pull me out of the skid though.
So why didn't MB try the e-brake? surely they would have gone into a spin, but might have pulled off a less than 65 foot stop. :-D
sourchipmunk 1 year ago
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nizziezzar 1 year ago
If people knew how transmissions work they would know this test was flawed from the start.
topsecretvids4u 1 year ago
yeah you need an old crown vic with with a c6
philtripe 1 year ago
Retarded myth, even if you have driven a car you'd know this myth would be busted. All they did with the manual one was destroy it's transmission gears...
Razgrits 1 year ago
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yoingyoyo 1 year ago
@yoingyoyo It doesn't work. Period. All you'll do is ruin the transmission, not stop the car. Case closed.
corwin11412 1 year ago
is it just me, or does tori look like he's floating @ 0.46?
trex0021 1 year ago
not that you guys fucked up that crx, can i have it?
shampistol69 1 year ago
nigga put it on Park
nigguh654123 1 year ago
@nigguh654123 On? Do you mean in ignorant654123?
Countavery 1 year ago