im juss wondering if this is bad for the tranny...my friend w/ an accord drives his car as if its a manual at times.....i read on the org somewhere sometime ago that upshifting isnt good for the tranny but didnt read anything about downshifting....and im talking downshifting like a light turns red, im going 50, shift to 3rd..30 shift to 2nd...and when im at the light basically 1st.....
no crazy stopping downshifting like 120 in 2nd...
holla

 

why not just use your brakes?

 

next time get a manual

 

hey im juss asking....also my brakes are squealing so its kinda embarrasssing

 

yeah might as well use your brakes instead of putting stress on the tranny.


its putting stress on it so i guess it cant be too good

 

Auto Tranny = $2000.00
Brake Pads = $100.00
Rotors = $200.00
Wishing you were a manual = Priceless

 

I tend to downshift sometimes, but I've been tryin to get out of the habit after realizing how much cheaper it is to replace brakes than a tranny. only time I really downshift now is if I'm goin uphill and want to be in 3rd gear before Max wants to shift to 3rd or somethin like that.

 

After reading 5spd92SE post on http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....hreadid=180095
Unnecessarily downshifting is going to kill your tranny. The question there was about shifting it in and out of Drive into Neutral but I think once you have an understanding of what's happening internally when you shift will help you realize that it's best to keep it in D and the brakes do their job.

 

im glad im auto

 

It's just as hard on a manual as it is on a automatic.

 

is this true even if you correctly rev-match?

 

No, only if you use the transmission to brake with.

 

Well if you do that, you will have to replace a cluth, not the whole transmission right? And if you down shift without braking you deserve to blow your tranny.

 

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I think this may have been a large factor in the loss of my previous tranny, I used to manually shift at one point, but constantly downshifted to hear the intake/exhaust...

I did this pretty regularly, but I think it cooked the clutches within the autotragic... and stressed the torque convertor (This is all speculation, but I saw the insides of my tranny and it wasnt pretty).