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I am reversing. While the car is still moving backwards, I switch gears from R to D, and press the accelerator to start moving forward. After a bit the car stops going backward, and starts moving forward.

My dad always told me that I should wait for the car to come to a complete stop before switching from R to D. He said that unless I did this, I would be damaging my engine. Is he correct? (Note that I'm going at extremely low speeds during this entire switch).

V Maharajh
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In newer automatic cars, you won't be hurting the engine by switching from reverse to drive because the car will wait in neutral before actually going into gear. So if you don't have this feature, you could potentially damage things connected to the drivetrain by putting so much force on the torque converter.

Sterling
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