Camry Question- Please Help

I would appreciate ANY help that anyone could give me- I represent a defendant in a criminal case. He's charged with driving away in his

1994 Camry from a police stop. My client's story is that the automatic transmission on his 1994 Camry is screwed up so that he accidentally shifted from park to low, and that his car got stuck in low range and that the only way to remove it from low was to rev the engine. Putting aside the obvious problems with my guy's story, can anyone tell me:

the layout (order) of the gears on a 1994 camry automatic transmission; the max speed in low on that car; whether or not reving a car stuck in low would indeed allow one to shift out of the gear.

Any help is greatly appreciated--I'm legal aid/public defender, so that's why I am beggiong for free advice.

Thanks RW

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speckcat
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HANG HIM HANG HIM HIGH.

what a load of crap did you make that cockamamy bull shit up or did he.

First your no atty, or you wouldnt be stupid enough to be here, Second tell the truth LIAR. third Do you really think the judge is that Dumb

I sentance you to 90 days, bring your butt plug.

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m Ransley

Sounds plausible to me, I'd let him go if I were on the jury, probably ought to select jurors with grease under their fingernails or grandmothers that drive in low all the time, maybe grandmothers with grease under their fingernails. To answer the questions,.... the car should be the standard PRNDL sequence. Hint, I often shift to neutral from drive when waiting at a stoplights, RR Crossings and police blocks, as it is easy to shift from drive to neutral and back and this keeps the car from creeping forward. I'd suppose your client might have been worried about rolling over one of the officers while stopped in drive and put the car in neutral out of concern for their safety. I got to looking and

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says low gear could be 2.81, 3.938, or 3.943 I'm guessing the engine is spinning about 2800 rpm at 60 mph and redlines about 6,200 rpm so the car could theoretically go 132.86 mph at 6200 rpm dividing by 2.81 would give a speed of 47.28 and dividing by 3.94 would give 33.7 mph in low gear. Tire size could change this easily. I once had a Honda automatic that would stick in low gear and I would run up the speed in low to get it to shift out of low when manually putting it in drive. Come to think of it I also had a couple of Chevys that did the same thing, on older cars it helps build up hydraulic pressure so the shift will take place. Sounds good, I'd believe it. I'm available as a cheap expert witness/jury selection professional and mow lawns on Wed and Friday, qualifications: made a strong D in physics and a not so strong a C in math and I have a 98 Camry. Seriously, if you did not see the Frontline Show about plea bargains it is well worth the watching, you can still catch it online at
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Good luck with your client.

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Reply to
ZZonka Tonka

And you realy beleive OP is an atty.

Reply to
m Ransley

He isn't? Damn! So much for my future expert witness/jury selection job.

m Ransley wrote:

Reply to
ZZonka Tonka

It's possible that the transmission would not change up when moving off in Drive until hydraulic prssure built up with revs,..but that is not what you are saying ie he claims that despite pushing the shifter to Park, the transmission still stayed in low gear. I haven't heard of such a situation,...but that isn't to say its not possible.

You need to consult an experienced automatic transmission specialist to answer this question.

Jason

Reply to
Jason James

I don't know about the 94 Camry.... My 95 Camry has a button on the side of the shifter which has to be pressed in order to get the car out of park, and if the battery is dead, you can press on it all day long and it's not going to release the car out of park.. believe me, my 95 has bee parked outside of my home, and several times I've had to put jumper cables to it just to move the selector from park to neutral so I could push it down the street to prevent an over night parking violation.

The only other logical explaination is a screwed up shift mechanism that's not putting the car in park when the selector is moved to the park postion. Simply moving the selector in error would more than likely move the selector into reverse, and you'd have an assault with a motor vehicle case going on.

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Roger Rabbid

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