Which gear do you skip the most?
 

I'm interested to see which gear you guys show the least amount of love to.

It seems I'm always skipping 5th, and going straight to 6th from 4th. My coworker seems to skip 3rd and go 2nd to 4th. I always joke with him and say "If you ever sell the BRZ, you can list it with '3rd gear barley used!'"

Anyways, which gear do you skip?

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i skip 4th @@ for cruising cus if the shift indicator showed 40mph is already 5th/6th gear. (i forgot which gear)
so i usually 1,2,3,5, for normal DD.

Does reverse count?

^ just does half a donut to back out of the driveway, impressive

Only if it results in a J turn :cool:

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I never skip gears.

I also rarely skip gears, if I do, chances are I just miss-shifted and went 3-5, 2-4...(only happens upshifting)

Sometimes skip 5th... on the way down... :ugh:

the gear I shift the least to is 6th... but 6th is also the gear I use the longest lol. in city driving, I usually keep it at 5th unless there's no traffic and I'm cruising a good speed. then of course 6th is the longest used gear because of my weekly commutes

Only time I skip too :)

I head is bad to skip gears. However, sometimes i do it when im entering a tight corner and im in sixth gear and need to be in 3rd before going into the corner.. What i do is revmatch on downshift from sixth to third.. but like i said i rarely do this.

Not sure if its good or bad.

I don't.
I paid for 6 I am going to use all of them damnit!

Why skip gears? You are missing the fun

IKR ...people is there a need to skip gears? i go through every gear(treat them equally)..OP's gearbox has a fresh ass 5th gear lol :lol:

Well, I do skip gears, but only down. It's not unusual for me to go from 6th to 4th on the AT (double tap to pass), or even the occasional 6th to 3rd..

Listen I have lots of fun from 1-4, and usually when I get into 4th I'm going fast enough to just throw it into 6th. So there'd be no need to go into 5th!

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depends traffic density & street mph limits. ill skip 3rd, 4th, and 5th but never all together. sometimes 1->2-->4 or 5 for city streets. sometimes 1->2-->3-->5 or 6 when merging interstate

Every now and then I skip 4th gear while driving on local roads. Ill just rev up a little higher in 3rd and then just throw it straight to 5th and cruise.

I skip second gear in the mornings and then continue to skip it from time to time. I also try to stay out of 5th.

thats it, whatever gear i skip its always wound up a little higher in the previous to settle into +1 higher than normal

That's oddly specific, why don't you skip 2nd in the afternoon or evening as well? :D

Hmmmmmm http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104065




I promised myself I would just sit back and keep my mouth shut on this subject. Apparently I lied to myself.


Not the popular opinion but skipping gears can (not will, just can) harm your transmission. Not going to debate it any further since I know there will be 100s of "no it won't" from prior arguments. Oddly enough the biggest "no it won't" argument I ever had here was with a guy that was on his third transmission. Of course his statement was simply that they are "crap" quality.


I will just continue to use all of my gears, all of the time and enjoy my 60k mile 100% problem free tranny and clutch.


OK guys, have at me!

I do it with other combinations too like say 1st to 3rd or 4th to 6th, but 3rd to 5th is by far my most common gear skip.

Lol "crap quality".


Anyways, I don't think skipping gears can harm your transmission if done correctly. The only thing you've gotta keep in mind is making sure the synchros match up fairly well. You don't wanna be too high or too low in the RPMs going from 2nd (at 60MHP) to 5th or 6th gear.


It just depends on the driver I guess.


As for the "can harm your transmission", just driving in general harms the vehicle. Doesn't it? :D

Yep!
Yep!
Yep!
Big yep!


Oh and I was not saying that Sheep broke his transmission just pointing him out as an example of a guy that has issues and skips!

I had issues before I started skipping. It was the issues that caused me to skip.

That is what I figured. Yours was just the only thread I could remember that had problems. Bad example really.

(in my case) texas is mostly flat. if driving up a hill, skipping gears is certainly a bad idea. if on a 30 mph road, i dont see problem with 1-2-4. but its potato /potAto

Look, we can bring skipping 4th gear back. That I will tell you, we're bringing it back okay? I understand what you're saying, and I get that from so many people. "Is it okay to skip gears?" They are asking me the question, "is it okay to skip gears?" And the transmission is in trouble. Okay? It's in trouble. But we're going to use every gear and do some real shifting too.

lmao.

No such thing as skipping gears. If you are going a certain speed at a certain RPM, there is a correct gear for that situation. C'mon now guys.

I would love to see you guys try to quickly stop the car from 100MPH and hit every gear on the way down then calmly go to neutral at the end.

#sequentialswap #yolo

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7th

I do 6th to 4th if I'm going from the highway to a fun offramp, and 4th to 6th if I'm going from a fun onramp to the highway.

I don't skip gears, I run through them like if they were running out of style

#allgearsmatter

Skipping gears won't kill your transmission but it does increase wear on the syncros in certain circumstances. In particular, because 1st and 3rd and 2nd and 4th share syncros, you should avoid skipping those gears. Additional wear on the syncro happens on these shifts because the syncro it will still be spinning too fast for the next gear when you are trying to go into it. Obviously, this can be avoided by sitting in neutral long enough for the syncro to spin down before you try going into the next gear but that kind of defeats the purpose. If you try to go straight from 1st to 3rd or 2nd to 4th right away, you'll feel resistance as the syncro spins down until it's slow enough to pop into gear. As you feel that resistance, you are pushing against the spinning syncro causing additional wear.

Will it kill your transmission? Not right away but it should be avoided if you can help it. I will note that I'll sometimes skip 2nd when the car is very cold to avoid grinding but I wait plenty of time before pushing it into 3rd.

Skip from 1 to 6 all day all day.












Just kidding. I love going through my gears. I have skipped some gears in the past but I've tried not to because sometimes I hear a loud clunk when I don't use the clutch properly.

Lol if anyone missed it, it's Donald Trump.

On downshifts, I think I ignore 4th a lot. It is usually 6 > 3 or 5 > 3.

On up-shifts, not enough torque. I feel like you must use every gear to keep acceleration linear. If I did a 4 to 6, I would feel like the engine just died. Going to 5th first prepares me for the disappointment of lugging around in 6th.

With my GTI I always skipped 5th because there was a 200-ish rmp difference between 5th and 6th. In the frs all the gears feel useful to me.

LOL now I get it! Sorry for the delay :D