Re: ****fting from drive to neutral when moving

Negligible difference, an unloaded engine ( neutral) would use slighly less

fuel, but for the short time, it is not worth it plus if you had to make a

sudden emergency manuever, now what.
"Tim" <jmeth111@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:2e75c$48177231$cef8ac46$27884@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> The Reverend Natural Light wrote:
>> On Apr 28, 11:07 am, Tim <jmeth...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>Does continual ****fting from drive to neutral and back cause any
>>>long-term damage?
>>>What I mean is continually ****fting into neutral when approaching stop
>>>signs and red lights?
>>
>>
>> No, but it doesn't help anything either.  There is no friction while
>> stopped in drive.  I do it a lot myself because automatic
>> transmissions annoy me.  I routinely put it in neutral at stop lights
>> or pull it out of overdrive when decelerating.
>>
>
>
> Does it glide better in neutral? Are the RPMs less.
>
> My old car used to seem to idle smoother when in neutral so I would put
it 
> in neutral while at a stop light so it wouldn't stall. It was an auto
too.
>
> I was just reading about hypermilage-ing and wanted to see if that would

> help at all.
> 




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