divil

This is weird...I was in first gear, just after reversing out of a driveway, and after a few yards I heard a horrific bang, like I had driven over something metal that bounced up and hit the underneath of the car. It was loud. The car jumped out of first and into neutral. I got out and looked around - there was nothing on the road where I had been driving. Looked underneath the car - couldn't see anything out of the ordinary. The engine was still running fine. I got back in and tried putting it into gear again...no problem. I drove off carefully, and the car seemed fine. I ended up driving home (35 miles or so) with zero issues.

Anyone know what might have happened? It's freaking me out man.

The car is an '89 951.

catamax944

You probably didn't engage first gear properly.It hapened to me once and just like you say it popped out with a big bang.It wont cause any damage,dont worry.

divil

Phew thanks...I was hoping it was something like that but I had never heard of that happening before. I did engage the gear kind of hurriedly because I was doing a quick and possibly illegal 3 point turn. Lesson learned.

87 944 C

synchro's can do it, but based on you not having any further issues, i'm going with the car not fully being in 1st.

Fara

I'm going to go with it sitting on the synchro only, not in gear properly as well.

It's pretty freaky when it happens. It's happened on one of my non-944 cars in the past as well.