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Old 02-24-2008, 05:22 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by no_roads View Post
Which is exactly what you are doing when you have an automatic, your tansmission thinks it is starting from a stop so naturally it uses first gear then it has to react extremely quickly because it pretty much was just slapped in the face and told to do something.
Depends on the trans I suppose, although I've never heard of that. My autotragic goes into a gear higher than what it would normally be at depending on how fast I'm going, and then drops into the appropriate gear, so if I'm going fast enough it just goes into fourth. No going first to fourth at 60mph here.
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