Stick - Driving tips ??

This question is regarding shifting down gears when coming to a full stop,
as at a stop-sign. When I'm driving at, say, 30 mph and approaching a stop
sign, I remove my foot from the gas and shift to neutral straight from 4th
gear even when I'm about 100 yards from the stop sign. I let the momentum
carry my car until the stop-sign.

I think this would save fuel. But I'm afraid, this might spoil the
transmission and/or clutch. I'm not sure if this is bad to the car.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

It won't hurt the clutch or transmission, but I've always downshifted without releasing the clutch as I
approach a stop. That way if for any reason I have to take evasive action I'm already in the correct gear to
do it.

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 03:47:25 +0000 (UTC), "C.G.Senthilkumar." <cheetanc@pc49.cs.ucdavis.edu> wrote:

>This question is regarding shifting down gears when coming to a full stop,
>as at a stop-sign. When I'm driving at, say, 30 mph and approaching a stop
>sign, I remove my foot from the gas and shift to neutral straight from 4th
>gear even when I'm about 100 yards from the stop sign. I let the momentum
>carry my car until the stop-sign.
>
>I think this would save fuel. But I'm afraid, this might spoil the
>transmission and/or clutch. I'm not sure if this is bad to the car.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Thanks in advance.

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 03:47:25 +0000 (UTC), "C.G.Senthilkumar."
<cheetanc@pc49.cs.ucdavis.edu> wrote:

>This question is regarding shifting down gears when coming to a full stop,
>as at a stop-sign. When I'm driving at, say, 30 mph and approaching a stop
>sign, I remove my foot from the gas and shift to neutral straight from 4th
>gear even when I'm about 100 yards from the stop sign. I let the momentum
>carry my car until the stop-sign.
>
>I think this would save fuel. But I'm afraid, this might spoil the
>transmission and/or clutch. I'm not sure if this is bad to the car.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Thanks in advance.
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It's pretty hard on the brake life.

J. Yazel <jyazel@ds.net> wrote:
> It's pretty hard on the brake life.
Why? It's just coasting. I'm not applying the break at all
until I get close to the stop sign.


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On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 23:42:16 +0000 (UTC), "C.G.Senthilkumar."
<cheetanc@pc49.cs.ucdavis.edu> wrote:

>J. Yazel <jyazel@ds.net> wrote:
>> It's pretty hard on the brake life.
>Why? It's just coasting. I'm not applying the break at all
>until I get close to the stop sign.

you loose the engine braking effect, which contributes substantially
to the stopping effect, resulting in even more braking needed.

Heaven forbid should you ever have to drive in a mountainous area!
YOu'll probably crash on the first real downhill intersection. Where
we are, (mountains) we see this frequently when flatlanders come up
for the summer. By the time they are at the bottom their brakes are
smoking, the pads a glazed, and it is all they can do to stop. And,
sometimes they can't. As others mention, it is dangerous.

"C.G.Senthilkumar." wrote:
> This question is regarding shifting down gears when coming to
> a full stop,
> as at a stop-sign. When I'm driving at, say, 30 mph and
> approaching a stop
> sign, I remove my foot from the gas and shift to neutral
> straight from 4th
> gear even when I'm about 100 yards from the stop sign. I let
> the momentum
> carry my car until the stop-sign.
>
> I think this would save fuel. But I'm afraid, this might spoil
> the
> transmission and/or clutch. I'm not sure if this is bad to the
> car.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks in advance.

If you’re foot’s off the gas, it wouldn’t matter either way, but
keeping it in gears saves the brakes. The only way you could use more
gas with your foot off the accelerator is if you had a carberator AND
a mechanical fuel pump, but that’s a pretty rare combination on late
model cars.

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