What if you are ****fting gears manually or are in neutral at a stop
light and have to make an emergency manuever?
Shep wrote:
> 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]
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>>The Reverend Natural Light wrote:
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>>>On Apr 28, 11:07 am, Tim <jmeth...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
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>>>>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.
>>>
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>>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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