Who uses those paddle shifters?
03-07-16, 05:35 AM
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I tranny brake on my old ls400 still!! it has over 200,000 miles and the tranny has no issues......
Exactly the point. The more you use your starter the sooner it is eventually going to need to be replaced. Same with the transmission. Admittedly that may not happen in the life of our ownership, but it is going to put more wear on it.
I recently posted in a thread about the quality of Audi's versus Lexus that my sister recently spent $5,000 on a new transmission in a seven or eight (don't remember which) year old RX350. Someone responded that it could be her fault because of her driving, and I can assure you she does not shift it manually. But the point is that Lexus transmissions are not totally bulletproof.
I'm not suggesting you should stop doing it, just making a point regarding using the transmission to save the brakes. At some point in time it darn sure could cause it to give out sooner than if you did not use it to slow the car. Heat is the enemy of a transmission.
I recently posted in a thread about the quality of Audi's versus Lexus that my sister recently spent $5,000 on a new transmission in a seven or eight (don't remember which) year old RX350. Someone responded that it could be her fault because of her driving, and I can assure you she does not shift it manually. But the point is that Lexus transmissions are not totally bulletproof.
I'm not suggesting you should stop doing it, just making a point regarding using the transmission to save the brakes. At some point in time it darn sure could cause it to give out sooner than if you did not use it to slow the car. Heat is the enemy of a transmission.
03-07-16, 05:46 AM
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Correct. I was trying (perhaps not so effectively) to show that the redline was higher than 6200 rpm. As noted above, we see its 6500 for the 13, 6600 for the 14 and 15.
Fully agreed and don't believe I implied otherwise.
Just because a car reaches peak power does not mean that is always the ideal time to shift. It depends upon what RPM it drops you back to at the shift and where that puts you in the power curve.
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