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Old 08-05-2008, 02:00 PM   #9 (permalink)
IndyIan
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Parachute - '03 Chevrolet Tracker LX
90 day: 28.55 mpg (US)

Peon - '95 Plymouth Neon Highline baby!
90 day: 31.39 mpg (US)

Slocus Wagon - '06 Ford Focus SE
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Originally Posted by Binger View Post
Will that cause harm to the transmission puting it back in D while rolling at 25-30mph? or less?
Try it and see if there is any harsh engagement. I go from neutral into gear at 50-55 mph quite often (10 times a day) and if I don't rev match its a little harsh but no different than a 3/4 throttle upshift. The Neons auto is an understressed 3 spd with a good reputation in turbo drag racing applications though.

If I was driving a 90's Dodge minivan I wouldn't play around with coasting in neutral so much although at 25 mph I doubt that would hurt any transmission unless it tries to go to 1st gear or something silly.

Ian

p.s. I just checked out your garage, your car might have an early relative of the Neon tranny, plus if you are able to do tranny swap then I would neutral coast all day with that auto until you swap it out
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