Which gear do you skip the most? - Toyota GR86, 86, FR-S and Subaru BRZ Forum & Owners Community

Bowen · 04-11-2016, 10:20 PM

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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FR-Sky · 04-11-2016, 10:22 PM

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.

rookie · 04-11-2016, 11:32 PM

Does reverse count?

Luftwaffel · 04-11-2016, 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by rookie

Does reverse count?

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

Bowen · 04-11-2016, 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by rookie

Does reverse count?

Only if it results in a J turn

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Clipdat · 04-11-2016, 11:46 PM

I never skip gears.

Blue-Sensei · 04-11-2016, 11:49 PM

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

KevinK121 · 04-12-2016, 12:00 AM

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

ryoma · 04-12-2016, 12:13 AM

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

15limited · 04-12-2016, 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by KevinK121

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

Only time I skip too

Jfheisenberg · 04-12-2016, 08:48 AM

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.

Tcoat · 04-12-2016, 08:56 AM

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

Teseo · 04-12-2016, 09:19 AM

Why skip gears? You are missing the fun

NyC Zn6 · 04-12-2016, 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Teseo

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

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ryoma Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Drives: 2015 Subaru BRZ Limited CWP Location: SoCal Posts: 1,561 Thanks: 34 Thanked 669 Times in 469 Posts Mentioned: 13 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	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 __________________ My 2015 CWP BRZ Build

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FR-Sky Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2015 Drives: 2013 FR-S 10 series [755] Location: Bay Area, CA Posts: 1,189 Thanks: 385 Thanked 390 Times in 264 Posts Mentioned: 7 Post(s) Tagged: 2 Thread(s)	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.

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Jfheisenberg Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Drives: 2015 BRZ Series Blue WRB Location: North Jersey Posts: 830 Thanks: 371 Thanked 204 Times in 156 Posts Mentioned: 2 Post(s) Tagged: 1 Thread(s)	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.

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