How do YOU shift? (manually)

[ZLWonton]

I skip 2nd gear almost ALL the time. I go from 1st to 3rd 95% of the time, the other I go to 4th cuz the computer display tells me to.

[ChriSS]

I normally don't skip gears , but when I do I skip 5th .

[jlrtexas]

when going down freeway at highway speed and need to pass slow driver I'll skip from 6th to 4th to get around than back to 6th once I get settled back to speed i'll skip back to 6th. Other than that I shift through all gears. Skipping while downshifting is intoxicating.

[2SScamaro2010]

I usually go thru 4th then skip 5th and go straight to 6th

[Mutant Racer]

I don't think I've ever skipped a gear except when that skip thingy made me do it but that has been tuned out by the dyno.

Downshifting I'll use neutral after 3rd gear to come to a stop but lately I'm going as far as 2nd with rev matching after talking to somebody here. I forget his name.

[Norm Peterson]

Originally Posted by Rob3D

Do you skip gears? Go thru all the gears no matter what? Sometimes, when entering a highway via on ramp, I'm up to higway speed by 2nd or 3rd gear and just go straight to 6th. Even in town I can skip gears (even when I'm not ordered to by the computer)

What are your shift habits

I rarely skip gears for upshifts.

For downshifts, "it depends". It's easier to rev-match when you're dropping down only one gear at a time, but if your stop or sudden slowing is hurried enough you may not have either the time or the room.

I'll still drop it into 4th while I'm adjusting to the speed of other highway traffic. Once in a great while in my wife's 6M Subie I'll skip 5th and go straight to 6th, but only often enough to know that it happens.


Norm

[SlingShot]

For me typically around town where the speed limit is 45, I drive mine mostly like a 4-speed. I make it a point to use all gears when upshifting, and normally grab 2nd when stopping.

[Jason@JacFab]

Daily driving from a stop, 1-3-5-6
from a roll (turning on to a side road, etc) 2-4-6
Drag racing 1-2-3-4

[Ken_]

I forget I have a 6th gear. How many of you have had that problem? Anyway, I mill through all of them up on the freeway. In town, I just go as high as what is easy on the gear. Downshifting I go through all of them to come to a stop, and in passing I drop into 3rd and punch it.

[Mikey193]

Originally Posted by PAUL SS

If I wanted to skip gears I would have an automatic, I never skip gears.

It's just when your driving, sometimes it's easier to go 1-3-5.

[Norm Peterson]

I've always felt that making a "U" motion with the shifter was clunkier than making two separate mostly straight-line motions. A 4-2 downshift entering a side road is maybe the easiest "exception".

Then again, that might be a hold-over from learning to drive on a 6-cylinder car with "three on the tree" and a non-synchronized 1st. There weren't any reasonable gear "skips" in that car.


Norm

[Roll_the_Dice]

Originally Posted by 2SScamaro2010

I usually go thru 4th then skip 5th and go straight to 6th

This is what I do as well...

[12 ZL1 #1725]

I use 1,3,4th in town, 1,3,6 on highway... But really depends what kind of mood I'm in!!! Lol!

[Rob3D]

Originally Posted by 12 ZL1 #1725

I use 1,3,4th in town, 1,3,6 on highway... But really depends what kind of mood I'm in!!! Lol!

Same here. Funny how moods change the way you drive... Or is it the other way around?