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They won't teach you this in Drivers Ed (startrek.website)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

They may have exaggerated the risk of a money shift a tiny bit. Stalling is easy, but blowing the car up has to be hard.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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 clutch, but still. Mistakes happen.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    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. But it's pretty hard to hammer in a gear that is way too low for your current speed. There will be a lot of physical resistance and that grinding noise before the gear snaps in.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years 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

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