50minutes in a 1st gear

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My buddy's MIL is very inexperienced driver and obviously scared of everything that the car/road has to offer. Any how, few days ago, she was driving to work in her '14 Tiguan and accidentally switched to manual shifting and....drove for about 45-50 minutes in a first gear at 5K+ engine rpm. She said she though something was wrong with the car....

Now, the question is, did she cause and damage to engine/tranny? she's not sure if the engine ever overheated or not but I'd imagine it did. Oil/tranny fluid change at the very least??

Crazy, I know, but this has happened
 
These manual-matics will not let the driver exceed the red-line of the engine, it will shift gears as needed. Was this a good day for the engine? not really, but it will be fine.
 
Poor car.

Can't complain about carbon in that engine.
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LOL - this is too funny. She sounds like she should probably be in a Corolla or Camry.

I accidentally did this in a Ford Transit cargo van I was using to help a friend move as manual mode was the 1 drop below drive and the sloppy and loosey goosey shifter did not have well pronounced detents so it was pretty easy to slip past drive into manual. Had that 3.5 V6 just under redline before I figured out [censored] was going on - it was a rental so no harm an no foul.
 
Those engines are built to handle abuse but still have VW gremlins attached to the engine which tend to have issues eventually.
That is the same engine used in the GTI, altough the GTI with the CCTA code has the best dyno results.

If anything was harmed and will fail sooner because of this, I'm guessing the ignition coils got a work out and the cam driven high pressure fuel pump
was taxed and ran hot, too.
 
I thought the default on most(?) of these setups was not first but something mid-range.

Anyhow. No issues. Ford made a big deal of the testing the Ecoboost had to endure, spending days at WOT alternating between peak hp and peak tq. 50 minutes at light load near redline should be nothing.
 
It didn't hurt anything if it still runs right. They buy brand new corvettes to run on training tracks to educate new owners how to drive professional on racetracks and auto crosses. These cars are run to the very limits every day for a couple years and they are still in great shape when resold. My wife drove my F-150 home 8 miles in the 4x4 low range because the didn't understand how the 4x4 dial on the dash worked. LOL! It didn't hurt anything...the truck even seemed like it had a little better acceleration! LOL!
 
My buddy said it was time for an oil change so all good lol

But seriously, his MIL is mechanical engineer designing aeroplanwa in the past, and not being to figure out she's doing something wrong? Crazy
 
I inadvertently did something kinda like that when I was young. Drove my parents' then new Dodge between two tollbooth stops at 65-70 mph on the Bluegrass Parkway in the wrong gear. In my defense, the radio was on, and I was more accustomed to an older, much noisier car (specifically the Chevy listed below) that revved much faster in top gear. No apparent harm resulted, other than wasting gasoline.
 
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