I broke two records today...

[Zomies]

Usually when a flywheel goes it takes out other stuff like the clutch, bell housing and starter. Then there is the crankshaft its bolted to and trans input shaft close by.

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[MultiMediaWill]

UPDATE 3: The repair is sadly not covered under warranty. They said they need to replace the entire clutch. It will cost around $1,000. They blamed the issue on me downshifting to a low gear at a high speed. Definitely my fault. Gonna make sure to never let this happen again.

 

[Khyber]

jumping from 6th to 2nd at 70mph or 4th to 1st, is bad.

 

[MultiMediaWill]

jumping from 6th to 2nd at 70mph or 4th to 1st, is bad. mmk.

I think what happened was that I shifted from 6th to neutral at around 80mph. Then I drifted until I hit 70mph, and then I tried to get back into gear and accidentally shifted into 2nd instead of 4th.

Costly mistake that will never happen again. I just need more practice.

 

[Socalmustang]

The problem started from the beginning....driving a manual with no experience, you should have had some ease you into driving before you started hitting the road right away. Luckily, it was just the clutch.

That's the type of record that only comes once in a lifetime hahah

 

[Khyber]

i taught myself to drive a manual from sim racing over the course of many years before I bought my first manual car. My mustang is my 2nd manual car but sim racing definitely, definitely helped alot. Especially because I have high end quality sim racing equipment and it's not very different from the real thing except for clutch feel but the one I got has a cam in it to help simulate a real clutch. The h pattern shifter I got is practically the real thing.

 

[TorkN8R]

Wasn't entirely my fault. I took the car through an automated touchless carwash, but I had the clutch halfway engaged when the car was locked in the pulley system for quite a bit of time. The problem was that I didn't know exactly when to put the car in neutral since I couldn't tell when my wheels were locked into the pulley system.

"Wasn't entirely my fault" ! Ok? Who's fault was it then Bro?

New Mustang = $35,000 +

New clutch = $1,000 +

Driving new mustang THROUGH CARWASH WITH THE CLUTCH ENGAGED =

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Sorry to cap on you man. That sucks what happened. We all make mistakes. Lifes about decision, choices and regrets. The good news is...you won't be doing that again. Right?

 

[MultiMediaWill]

"Wasn't entirely my fault" ! Ok? Who's fault was it then Bro?

New Mustang = $35,000 +

New clutch = $1,000 +

Driving new mustang THROUGH CARWASH WITH THE CLUTCH ENGAGED =

$$$ Priceless !
Sorry to cap on you man. That sucks what happened. We all make mistakes. Lifes about decision, choices and regrets. The good news is...you won't be doing that again. Right?

Read page 7. The car wash didn't do the damage like I originally thought.

 

[PonyGrrrl]

I'm surprised that the transmission wasn't damaged from downshifting into 2nd gear at 70 mph. I'm guessing the OP hasn't been a passenger in a manual transmission car before either or he wouldn't be having such a hard time learning to drive a manual.


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[GigaHz]

How does one get inside a car wash with an exploded flywheel? When you go to 2nd from 70 mph, the car is just dead. The last thing this car did was explode the flywheel. How could one not know you just broke your car?

 

[MultiMediaWill]

How does one get inside a car wash with an exploded flywheel? When you go to 2nd from 70 mph, the car is just dead. The last thing this car did was explode the flywheel. How could one not know you just broke your car?

Because the car still worked after the poor shift. The car did not fully die until an hour later, oddly.

 

[MultiMediaWill]

Did I get lucky that the transmission did not get destroyed? Is the flywheel a common part to get destroyed after a bad downshift?

 

[GigaHz]

Usually the black box stores the missed shift. I don't see that happening here. How far was the car driven after the missed shift? I wonder how Ford knows there was a missed shift? Usually the motor is the item that gets destroyed after the missed shift. It gets spun way past the red line. You should of seen the RPMs jump when you missed.

 

[bmatt]

Did I get lucky that the transmission did not get destroyed? Is the flywheel a common part to get destroyed after a bad downshift?

Yes, to an extent. 70MPH in 2nd gear is probably bumping up against 8K RPM. Redline/limiter is at 7K and I think people up that to mid 7K without too many issues with tunes, maybe lower. When you are traveling at a certain speed already the transmission has to catch up to the wheels, so putting it into 2nd at 70MPH will force the transmission up to that high range ~8K RPMs, that may cause problems as the transmission isn't meant to take that speed (limited to 7K by default). If you don't go too much higher you may not do damage or extensive damage. Your ECU will prevent you from using the gas to increase RPMs and your engine/transmission are likely to slow you down pretty quickly from that speed, so it should be a short period at that RPM. I'd guess you could get away without doing too much damage at that range. Now, if you were going 80-90MPH and did that you'd likely be picking up pieces of your transmission off the road.

EDIT: Also with above comments, the engine would also be a target of damage.

 

[MultiMediaWill]

You guys are starting to worry me a little bit. If the engine was damaged, do you think ford service would have caught that by now? Is this something to be concerned about when I pick up the car tomorrow?

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