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Originally Posted by Thymeclock
Do you ever shift from neutral back into drive at higher speeds? It's questionable as to whether that might damage the transmission.
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I do do that and I've wondered now and again if I'm damaging the trans. It's been okay so far, and isn't making any nasty noises or showing anything on my RPMs that would indicate it's real bad..... It feels like it gets itself back up to the right gear in about the same time it would if I floored it. I figure that that wouldn't be too much different
If it was a new car, I probably wouldn't do it except for a few situations that I can think of: there's this great series of steep hills for like 80 miles where you can coast in neutral the whole way; coasting to a stop at a sign or light. I shift to neutral in bumper to bumper traffic too, since I sit in it enough that I figure it's gotta add up!