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Originally Posted by Riftur
I get my information from my father who has been a mechanic for over 40 years. He owned a shop on Las Olas in Fort Lauderdale and worked on all kinds of high performance cars. Ferrari's, Lambo's, Royles Royces...... He even worked on the first cars used in Miami Vice for those of you who remember. They used a black car before switching to the white ferrari. The more you use anything in general the more wear it takes. No matter what it is. I am not saying downshifting is worse than upshifting. It wears the same either way.
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While it does wear due to more use in a general sense, if you engage the clutch when the input/output shafts are in sync, the wear will be negligible whether the shifting is up or down.