04-17-2013, 07:02 PM | #29 | |
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Brakes pads are wear and tear items. The fact that you stopped does much more to wear them out than the fact that you have remained stopped.
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04-17-2013, 07:05 PM | #30 |
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Why would you even think of shifting into neutral at a light?? It doesn't even make sense why you would do that?? Any time you move something it wears. So yea. Just leave it in drive. That's why you have a torque converter.
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04-17-2013, 07:09 PM | #31 |
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IMO, shifting into neutral (with an automatic) while driving should only be used during the winter season when you need to come to a stop at either a stop sign (light) or for a turn. It helps slow the vehicle down and you don't have to apply the brakes as much reducing the chance of skidding. It works really well, especially when the roads haven't been plowed.
Brakes are made to stop your vehicle, they don't wear that fast, I'd be more concerned about causing any potential wear on the transmission. A lot more expensive to replace.
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Slipping the trans in neutral is never a good idea. Ever. Use your brakes. That's what they are there for. If you can't slow down with your brakes you need to learn to drive or get tires meant for the situation or something. I get alot of bad snow and I am always driving on unplowed roads. |
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04-17-2013, 08:27 PM | #34 | |
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Let me a bit more precise about my previous post. With an automatic I personally wouldn’t shift it into neutral when I stop at a light, if I had too I’d put it in park so I wouldn’t role. Going down hill I would not do either, this is not a manual, re-engaging your automatic at a higer RPM if you hit the gas early or something could do serious damage. I am NOT a mechanic nor do I claim to be one. With a manual car I use neutral a lot, in my camaro I will coast down hills and around corners. They are two different trannys. I have my own driving style, my wife asks me all the time why I shift into neutral a lot, i just tell her each person has their own way of driving a standard car, this happens to be mine, I also shift from 1, 2, 4, 6 sometimes when just cursing around town. to each their own i will never tell anyone how to drive their car, however i just don't understand the point of shift an automatic into N at all, i cannot remember the last time i used that gear in an automatic car, but thats me. to each their own! |
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Just get up to top speed as quickly as possible...go to nuetral right away and start coasting for as long as you can...It'll save your clutch and wear and tear on the auto-trans...(If you turn off engine at this point you will really save gas, but lose power-steering, so be careful)....Re-start car as needed...lol...
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If you are slowing to a stop and shift into neutral the car will actually roll faster out of gear.
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In their time maybe but with a modern car with modern brakes and tires and traction control its not true anymore. You paid for all that fancy crap so use it or at least give it a chance. And coasting in neutral will result in lower mpg. When the car is engine braking the injectors don't get pulsed so no fuel is used. When its idling its using fuel.
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That's good to know, thanks for the information.
I've only done it a few times during the season, must have been a false sense of slowing the vehicle down. I do have proper tires at least, I'd be stranded with my P-Zero AS tires.
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