Video: 5 Things You Should Never Do In A Manual Transmission Vehicle

[rice_classic]

Aluminum = soft
Steel = not soft.

Many transmissions have aluminum shift forks riding in a steel collar. I've seen inside enough transmissions to know that premature wear of shift forks is a very real thing.

[Teseo]

Weird, Toshiya Joushima (God Hand) drive his s2000 with one hand in the shifter and the car doesnt seems have problems.

[gravitylover]

Originally Posted by mdm

Not keeping in gear when waiting for green light - true, but then you have to be very fast engaging the 1st gear, here people honk if you don't start rolling within 200 milliseconds of the green light.

When they do that I usually delay starting my roll for a couple of seconds. Sometimes if you watch in the mirror they throw their hands up and start yelling, kinda fun actually. In NYC cabs, livery cars and uber cars will honk just before the light changes which sometimes causes people that aren't paying attention to start prematurely causing other obvious problems.

Yes I have been rear ended for not taking off quickly enough.

[cdrazic93]

5 things you should never do?

granny shifting
not double clutching...lol

[blackhawkdown]

I've been resting my hand on the shifter on all my cars for years and have issues.

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[Ultramaroon]

The shift fork/collar mechanism is designed for brief application of force, not constant contact. Leaving one's hand resting on the gearshift is abuse, plain & simple. Whether or not one cares that shifting issues will arise after 100K miles is a personal choice.

Understanding the design of any system and making an informed decision about what to do with that knowledge is a win in all cases.

[cdrazic93]

...which stands to reason, why dont they simply beef it up enough to allow the constant force? so people can have the option to rest the hand there or not?

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by cdrazic93

...which stands to reason, why dont they simply beef it up enough to allow the constant force? so people can have the option to rest the hand there or not?

Because that would require a pressurized oiling system to maintain a lubricant film a la engine thrust bearings or it would require roller-type thrust bearings. cost/benefit just ain't there. Besides, everybody knows MTs are a dying breed anyhow. :P

Beefier systems do hold up better to abuse but that doesn't change the fact that it's abuse nonetheless.

[cdrazic93]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Because that would require a pressurized oiling system to maintain a lubricant film a la engine thrust bearings or it would require roller-type thrust bearings. cost/benefit just ain't there. Besides, everybody knows MTs are a dying breed anyhow. :P

Beefier systems do hold up better to abuse but that doesn't change the fact that it's abuse nonetheless.

lets be honest, somewhere in the manual it'd say canyon driving is abuse... pick your posion?

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by cdrazic93

lets be honest, somewhere in the manual it'd say canyon driving is abuse... pick your posion?

Absolutely. I choose canyon and let's keep poisson out of this.

[cdrazic93]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Absolutely. I choose canyon and let's keep poisson out of this.

but marriage...ok I'll just stop myself now...

[PandaSPUR]

Damn. Definitely guilty of using the gear shift as a hand rest

[joe strummer]

Originally Posted by mdm

Not keeping in gear when waiting for green light - true, but then you have to be very fast engaging the 1st gear, here people honk if you don't start rolling within 200 milliseconds of the green light. In Europe you have a dedicated signal between red and green (red and yellow) which gives time to put into gear, but AT-centric North America does not have that.

Hahaha, in Bahrain, the yellow lights up between red and green. The honking starts at the yellow.