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Originally Posted by cdo221
Question: What's the appropriate way to downshift when coming to a stop (letting the car automatically downshift when the RPMs get too low or manually downshifting before the car does it)? I've been letting the car downshift by itself for the smoothest deceleration to a stop but is this bad for the transmission or anything? This is my first "paddle shifter" A/T car so I'mnew to manually shifting an automatic transmission - I need to get used to not having neutral readily available.
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No harm in letting it do it for you.
Only reason you'd want to intervene is if you think you're in a situation where you might need to accelerate quickly.
That said, if I'm just freewheeling and a situation calls for it, I will reach over and slap the stick back over to auto mode and mash the pedal...
So many options!