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Originally Posted by Tcoat
Where the hell did I say anything about driving 4500 through the neighborhood? In fact I said it isn't necessary. I understood the point was about extra wear. It has changed?
Obviously the lugging applies to MTs since the AT will always be in the right RPMs for the speed unless somebody is in manual mode.
The only reason that the conversation is redundant is because you want to change the goals. You insisted that there was extra wear. I said there is not. End of fucking story.
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I never moved the posts. I’ve always maintained that cruising at high RPMs (I was originally saying 4500 at 35mph, you said 4000) when a simple upshift would take it back down is unnecessary. The auto doesn’t keep you where you need for max accelerate. It keeps it as low as possible. When you need to accelerate it then puts it where it needs to be for acceleration. My point was, the auto isn’t a dummy. It doesn’t cruise at 4500 if it can do it at 2000. It isn’t redundant because I’m moving goal posts. It’s because I’ve said the same thing, don’t cruise high if you don’t have to for like a week now. Hahaha
I stand by my statement that there is extra wear at higher RPMs. I don’t think a single engineer on this planet would disagree on that either. The only thing debatable is how much extra wear.