Skip a gear?

Itsalex687

shifting really? I just stay in first everywhere I go. You should see the looks of jealousy I get when people look at me cruising at 7k rpm going 20 mph. But when I do shift I skip gears.

11Thumper

If you skip gears you're putting stress on the syncros of the gear you're going into. Generally not a great idea, especially if skipping more than one gear. I may be overly sensitive coming from the S2000 world. It's a big no-no there...

alb84z31t

I'll jump from 3rd to 5th or 4th to 6th, I do it frequently to get up to speed when turning onto a highway then stay at the speed limit. There is no problem skipping gears down shifting or up shifting. I've done it my whole life with all different types of cars. The service manager that told you not to do it just gave an opinion from ignorance. As a side note... I had my wife call the service dept. of my local dealer for a valve stem cap and the person she spoke to (ironically also a service manager) told her it was an after market part. I went down there after work, and they pulled one out of a drawer at the parts dept. and gave ot to me. Not all service managers are experts on all the cars.

Dembflyr

Since this thread got bumped I guess I'll update.

The car now has 18,000 miles 12,000 since the transmission was swapped and I've had ZERO grinding issues since. And just in case you missed it I've been boosted for the last 6,000 miles too. So much for it being my fault that the first trans went bad.

I've found that service managers and techs will usually follow the rule "If you can't blind them with brilliance then baffle them with bull****".

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kenchan

no.

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Dwight Frye

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.

Z_Girl

[QUOTE=kenchan;1661358]no.

thtdoodstid

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!

Mino

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

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kenchan

why bring this up now 2 months later?

Dembflyr

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

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SailFree

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

dem- see below:

nismochiq

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

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mults

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 . 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 . I did end up bying an eliminator to get rid of this feature because it was a PITA!

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