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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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So by not downshifting you save a day on your clutch's life then. Not the "go through clutches much faster" you said before.
The whole "brakes are cheaper than clutches" things is just plain silly since both are wear items but the clutch should outlast the brakes by many times over if you don't abuse it.