I drive a2005 Mazda 3 automatic transmission and I started and drove for about 2miles at 30mph in neutral, (by accident) it was making a really loud noise and no power, noise kept getting louder I thought I was losing the transmission or driveline or something so I pulled over stopped and discovered…

Very obviously, you were not in neutral, because a car in neutral won’t move. It sounds like you were in first gear, and the transmission was not shifting up to second. Read your owner’s manual about the operation choices you can make as the operator that might have led to the non-shifting. Also,…

Driving in neutral is also known as “coasting.” You might maintain 30mph for 2 miles going downhill but not on level pavement. I’m inclined to more-or-less agree with @oldnotdeadyet that you were probably just in a lower gear than usual. There was likely no harm done. Assuming it’s an automatic, you…

2005 Mazda Mazda3 - Did I break it?

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oldnotdeadyet October 21, 2020, 2:48pm 3

,and I doubt if you did any damage. You were just hearing the engine at high RPM, and the engine probably has a mechanism to limit the RPM to prevent engine damage.

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