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While you are approaching a red light at 80km/h in 5th Gear on the hwy  

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danh Community Regular

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80-0 on freeway, if its just a cruisey slow down then i would prob use mostly brakes, drop it into 3 then brake some more then neutral and stop.

same process when at 50/60 in city when stopping slowly

but when stopping hard thats another thing all together!

Konrad Grand Master

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When i was learning to drive i was told i'd fail my licence test if i 'clutch coasted' to the lights. Had to downshift.

Besides gear breaking is kinder to your brakes (although less kinder to your engine :lol: ). I look at it in an emergency situation, someone outta nowhere rams you from behind and you're in neutral you'll go flying, in gear there'd be more resistance, plus it'd be quicker to put your foot down and get out of their way if you saw them coming as you wouldn't have to shift back into gear or risk the car bogging down while you attempt to take off in fourth or something....

Having said that i usually do a combination of both. Downshift then clutch coast the last few metres.

danh Community Regular

danh

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yeh i was taught to always have the car in a gear, ie the correct gear for the given situation.

as konrad said, saves getting stuck in a sticky situation, also makes for better practice if you want to learn how to race on track.

having said that, i do get lazy in traffic :)

LO_R33 Proficient

LO_R33

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When i was taught by my driving instructed he told me always to go from 5th,4th to 2nd... when comming to a rounderbout or a set of lights, form their its a slip into first when under <20k's

Even though i always used to just go to neautral, i found that its more enjoyable going down through the gears:D

Dayne

rinmak Proficient

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Say im cruising up to a red light in 4th for example, I usually just cruise up to it using no gas but fully in gear, then when revs get to about 1,000rpm I will clutch it and stop the car using the brakes.

I dont see the point in downshifting unless its really heavy braking. In my opinion its just more wear and tear on the clutch/gears.

Coasting as soon as you see the red uses more fuel than leaving the car in gear as the car must use fuel rather than the wheels to keep the engine turning over (so i hear).

rinmak Proficient

rinmak

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Is this like a smart or dumb realisation joke or sumthin.

i clutch in.

cuz u have to clutch in to down shift or to put it in neutral, if u dun wana wreak ya sincro's...

?!?

or am i just a smart ass?

:)

Indeed you are :)

gt-t_r34 Mentor

gt-t_r34

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if im ages away from the lite i just nuetral it and coast along til i just break lightly and if i pretty close i down shift.

when my old girls with me she doesnt like it when i down shift coz sometimes it jolts!

sl33ek Rising Star

sl33ek

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Neutral then coast to stop. But then I have a habit of putting it in neutral whenever I can, love those downhills.

Gt_t_34 to stop it from jolting when downshifting, put it in neutral, tap the gas so rpm goes up around 1k then downshift.

Say you're in 4th, go to N, blip the gas then go to 3rd. It will be as smooth as an auto. Sounds awkward but its easy and becomes second nature.

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