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Rockcrawler 04-13-2012 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by radio5boro (Post 661095)
welll lets say i rev really high in 4th gear... and i just feel like cruising after. ill just match it to the 6th gear. i've never had any issues doing this.

x2, harmless, usually had fun on the on ramp and need to slow down to merge into traffic about when I'm leaving 4th and drop right into 6th

ohioZboy 04-13-2012 01:51 PM

well there are 2 reasons why i skip gears...

1) when i'm dropping the clutch and burning out i go from 1st to 3rd because i've seen way too many people lose 2nd gear doing a burnout and shifting into 2nd when the revs are too high.

2) when my girlfriend is in my car, occasionally for some odd reason i have to go from 1st to 4th...you could imagine why :icon17:

kidkotic2001 04-13-2012 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by shabarivas (Post 661189)
Sounds like a bunch o bs - honestly - why do you even tell them you skip gears? Just be like this bitch is grinding and you need to fix it...

I second this. :iagree:

kenchan 04-13-2012 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Dembflyr (Post 661078)
A question to those of you with a manual transmission.

Do you ever skip a gear?

no.

/thread. :icon17:

Dwight Frye 04-13-2012 04:57 PM

Sure, I do it almost every morning. I'm in 4th doing about 70 when merging into heavy traffic on the freeway and have to get over about 6 lanes before the freeway splits. As soon as I pick a spot and get in the lane I slip directly into 6th gear and back off the gas. No problems.

thtdoodstid 04-13-2012 05:13 PM

I skip gears everyday. I've heard its bad to make it a habbit to skip the same gear repeatedly, just mix it up. Go to a different dealership and don't mention anything, but that its grinding. Get that ish fixed yo!

Z_Girl 04-13-2012 05:17 PM

[QUOTE=kenchan;1661358]no.

:iagree:

Itsalex687 04-13-2012 08:23 PM

skipping gears
 
I do the same exact pattern have you had any problems with your z?

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Originally Posted by memorylasts (Post 662829)
i go 1-2-4-6 if i am just cruising, if i am on the highwy i downshift to 4th if needed, and skip 5th, and if for some reason im doing a full row, then i will use every gear.


Mino 06-14-2012 04:11 PM

I do it all the time, I do a lot of 1-3-5 or 6th there's no reason for you to go threw all gears if you rev it high enough in first or third might as well just skip it. Specially with the traffic here in SoCal it helps a lot

kenchan 06-14-2012 04:19 PM

why bring this up now 2 months later?

Dembflyr 06-14-2012 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by kenchan (Post 1772189)
why bring this up now 2 months later?

Does it matter how old the thread is? It's still relevant.

SailFree 06-14-2012 04:47 PM

1) Nothing wrong with what you are doing under those circumstances.

2) Missing gears and dropping directly to the one needed while DOWNSHIFTING is the way to go.

kenchan 06-14-2012 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Dembflyr (Post 1772224)
Does it matter how old the thread is? It's still relevant.

dem- see below:

Quote:

Originally Posted by SailFree (Post 1772238)
1) Nothing wrong with what you are doing under those circumstances.

:icon17:

nismochiq 06-14-2012 10:38 PM

I would say only downshift when needed, other than that all gears are used :)

mults 06-15-2012 06:57 AM

I do it all the time as well. Just cruising around town, I go from 3rd to 6th as long as I am going at leat 35mph :driving:. I had a 1994 Pontiac Formula and there was a feature called "skip-shift" that forced you to go from 1st to 4th. They did this to help meet the corporate fuel economy standards. The only way to bypass the skip-shift was to get into the gas more aggressively :eekdance:. I did end up bying an eliminator to get rid of this feature because it was a PITA!


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