Will stalling in fourth gear while parked cause any damage?
Relatively new to driving a manual, though i've felt very comfortable and that level of confidence got caused me to stall in fourth. To briefly explain what happened, I started the engine while parked and casually attempted to flip the stick down from 1st gear to neutral but accidentally put it in fourth unknowingly. I normally just wait in my car while in neutral and let the car warm up, but when I took my foot off the clutch since it was in fourth it immediately stalled but it gave an "engine fault" notification. I waited a bit and everything seemed normal but when i got to around 3k rpms it started acting weird, i believe it just hovered around 3k RPMs even if I put on more gas, but I immediately put it into 2nd gear and then everything seemed normal but i still immediately pulled over " I drove 0.1 miles to be exact". I parked it and shut off the engine, waited a bit and restarted the engine and everything seemed completely normal. I drove home with no problems, though could I have done something harmful? Should i take it to a shop? I'm hoping it just thought that since i was in fourth i was moving and stalled, which would definitely be some sort of engine problem. Thanks for the help, i'm definitely pretty anxious. I'm driving a 2014 ford focus st
It's highly unlikely that damage was caused. If you did it regularly that would be a different matter.
If it's fine now, there's no problem. Anyone can stall a car sometimes. In your case you probably got the "engine fault" thing simply because the engine wasn't stopped in the normal manner. It's got over that now, and all will be fine.
I would guess there's no damage. The computer made a mistake on top of your mistake.
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