Comment on They won't teach you this in Drivers Ed
Skelectus@suppo.fi 7 months agoThey may have exaggerated the risk of a money shift a tiny bit. Stalling is easy, but blowing the car up has to be hard.
Comment on They won't teach you this in Drivers Ed
Skelectus@suppo.fi 7 months agoThey may have exaggerated the risk of a money shift a tiny bit. Stalling is easy, but blowing the car up has to be hard.
WillFord27@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ve nearly shifted into 2nd gear from 4th before, the car was NOT happy, but there were no explosions. Granted, I didn’t fully let up the clutgh, but still. Mistakes happen.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
I shift from 4th into 2nd all the time when in city traffic before taking a turn, so I’m pretty confused why that would be an issue. Unless you wanted to shift up and brainfarted and shifted down instead.
WillFord27@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I was going highway speeds, I was going from 4th to 5th but decided to go back into 4th (or something to that effect, it was a while ago now). The shifting itself was easy because I had the clutch in, but as soon as I started to lift off the clutch it got pissed