I was traveling at around 65mph in 5th gear, and downshifted to get more oomph (technical term). Only I mis-shifted and hit 2nd. The tachometer jumped up around to 7000RPM, the DSC blinked once and obviously the car lurched a bit. But I quickly engaged the clutch and upshifted to 3rd.
Car appears fine, and it was a stupid mistake. Should I be concerned?

 

Nah, don't stress over a one-time event. I know it must have startled you, and I'm sure it sounded awful, but our little cars won't crap out over one missed shift.

 

In Porsche circles they call that the "Money Shift". Sounds like the rev limiter and you caught it early enough that they was no damage. If there was, I believe you would have known it right away.

 

rev limiter can not catch mis-shift. The car would over driven by the wheels, and any cut in fuel or spark will not stop the car from overrunning.

65 to 2nd is not a huge issue, the normal running limit in 2nd is like 60mph anyway.

 

actually somewhere between 53 and 56 - I've been bouncing off the rev limiter in second enough times on the auto-x track to know .

7000 rpm for a very short time shouldn't have done any damage though.
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I bet the OP is alot more careful after this though! There was potential to mess things up badly.

I've done it once and was like

 

I started a thread like this a long time ago when I shifted from 4th to 3rd while at 4000 RPM (I'd wanted 5th):

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...d.php?t=111700

 

Thanks for that. The search function failed me.

Thanks to everyone else as well.

Also I guess I did not realize the redline on the R56 is 7500rpm. (http://www.motoringfile.com/2006/11/...-the-2007-mcs/

After checking a calculator (data is approximate), I was probably going a tad faster than 65MPH, but I did not exceed 7000RPM if I hit it at all.

Gear 1 2 3 4 5 6
MPH Revolutions per minute
5 ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
10 1605 1033 ---- ---- ---- ----
15 2408 1549 1077 ---- ---- ----
20 3210 2066 1435 1106 ---- ----
25 4013 2582 1794 1382 1152 ----
30 4816 3099 2153 1659 1382 1193
35 5618 3615 2512 1935 1612 1392
40 6421 4132 2871 2211 1843 1591
45 7223 4648 3230 2488 2073 1789
50 ---- 5165 3589 2764 2304 1988
55 ---- 5681 3948 3041 2534 2187
60 ---- 6198 4306 3317 2764 2386
65 ---- 6714 4665 3593 2995 2585
70 ---- 7231 5024 3870 3225 2784
75 ---- ---- 5383 4146 3455 2982
80 ---- ---- 5742 4423 3686 3181
85 ---- ---- 6101 4699 3916 3380
90 ---- ---- 6460 4976 4146 3579
95 ---- ---- 6818 5252 4377 3778
100 ---- ---- 7177 5528 4607 3977
105 ---- ---- ---- 5805 4837 4175
110 ---- ---- ---- 6081 5068 4374
115 ---- ---- ---- 6358 5298 4573
120 ---- ---- ---- 6634 5528 4772
125 ---- ---- ---- 6911 5759 4971
130 ---- ---- ---- 7187 5989 5170
135 ---- ---- ---- 7463 6220 5368
140 ---- ---- ---- ---- 6450 5567
145 ---- ---- ---- ---- 6680 5766
150 ---- ---- ---- ---- 6911 5965
155 ---- ---- ---- ---- 7141 6164
160 ---- ---- ---- ---- 7371 6363
165 ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 6561

 

I also did this when my car had around 1000 miles on it. It has almost 11000 now, and it doesn't seem to have affected it.

 

Glad to hear the car's OK. I never drove stick until I got my Mini (the car made learning painless, by the way) but the apparent "money shift" is one of my biggest fears.

 

If you Money Shifted, and did some damage, you would know it immediately. I thought I had ruined my trnasmission in my old Z4 when I did this once but everything was fine. But those who have performed the Money SHift will tell you that you know something is damaged immediately.

 

I don't think the top gear article was correct.

 

Whaddya mean that some cheeky british car magazine got it incorrect? Impossible!

No worries.

 

Money shifted my Z3 from 5th to 2nd. It broke several blades from the belt driven fan, and the engine was horribly out of balance at that point. The viscous fan clutch was never the same (loud) but it's at 157k miles and still runs very smoothly. Definitely true that money shift can not be stopped by any kind of rev limiter.