Is downshifting bad for tranny
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Is downshifting bad for tranny
OK. So I find myself (almost every time) downshifting when I come to a stop to conserve on brakes and also addicted to rev match sound. Is this wear and tear on the tranny? Brake jobs is costly on this bad boy.
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To be honest it is best to use both. They teach you when riding motorcycles to do it and you would always do it in a manual car. I would try to use them evenly and not over rev as much.
This is a track built car. It was made to be abused. I think we all including myself forget about that when driving such a nice car we tend to baby then when we rape it we feel its hurting.
I am good friends with a master tech at lexus. He gives me a ton of insight. He makes fun of me for grandmoming my car.
There are tons of guys who track their cars, dd and spray nitrous. Just make sure you kep up with maintenance. I don't see any issue.
This is a track built car. It was made to be abused. I think we all including myself forget about that when driving such a nice car we tend to baby then when we rape it we feel its hurting.
I am good friends with a master tech at lexus. He gives me a ton of insight. He makes fun of me for grandmoming my car.
There are tons of guys who track their cars, dd and spray nitrous. Just make sure you kep up with maintenance. I don't see any issue.
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DOWNSHIFTING IS NOT BAD FOR THE AUTOMATIC
If your using down shifting as a way to STOP, then you don't really lose any speed/momentum the same way a manual transmission does, the torque converter pushes power back to the wheels even if you downshift in ways that the clutch wont. Plus the transmission wont let you down shift to unsafe gears. The majority of the time it wont let you go more than 2 gears down. If your doing freeway speeds, you wont get lower than 4th gear even if you tried. Ive learned recently if your doing 100+ it wont let you drop below 5th gear
Toyota has a bit of dummy proof features programmed into these cars so that you don't break it even if you tried
If your using down shifting as a way to STOP, then you don't really lose any speed/momentum the same way a manual transmission does, the torque converter pushes power back to the wheels even if you downshift in ways that the clutch wont. Plus the transmission wont let you down shift to unsafe gears. The majority of the time it wont let you go more than 2 gears down. If your doing freeway speeds, you wont get lower than 4th gear even if you tried. Ive learned recently if your doing 100+ it wont let you drop below 5th gear
Toyota has a bit of dummy proof features programmed into these cars so that you don't break it even if you tried
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