Originally Posted by fncrow

I already knew but my dealer did tell me about having to push down to go in reverse.

I learned the hard way years ago back in high school auto shop class. We had a VW as a shop car and it was out in the lot and i went to go drive it in the shop. Well i didnt know at the time that you had to push down to go over in reverse so i had put it in drive. So im looking back over my shoulder expecting the car to go backwards, gave it gas and hit the wall that was like 1ft in front of me.

Didnt leave any marks and no one saw me do it so i just pretended it never happened. Went inside and asked the teacher if there was a trick to getting it in reverse and he was like "Oh yea, you gotta push it down and then over"