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Old 04-22-2020, 09:44 PM   #15
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Is it damaging to an automatic FRS to be consistently in "manual mode" ? I use it for my commute every day because it's a lot of fun but recently thought about potential damage. Anyone have insight? I spend about 10-15 minutes of my commute on really fun winding roads.

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I wish I could say you were full of it, but everything you said is technically true...

But also bullshit.
This ain't troll thread yet. I lived that hondamatic debacle.
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And just like that... paranoia
Just warm it up nice and trust the friendly engineers at Aisin. They're super good at what they do.
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This ain't troll thread yet. I lived that hondamatic debacle.
Sometimes people are just better off not knowing?
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ignorance is bliss.

where am i again?
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Ignorance may be bliss but knowledge is power.
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ignorance is bliss.

where am i again?
Commence trolling. Fire for effect.
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Welp, some thought that shifting a MT was too complex and required too much effort.

So, we made the transmission simpler and easier to shift.

Then we made that "simpler and easier to shift" transmission more complex again.

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ignorance is bliss.

where am i again?
Who knows - who cares - what day was this? -
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After watching the news tonight, I'm beginning to wonder about the power-knowledge relationship - SMH

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After watching the news tonight, I'm beginning to wonder about the power-knowledge relationship - SMH

I'm beginning to think it's a sliding scale.
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I'm beginning to think it's a rapidly decaying scale. Like roadkill on a hot day.
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Sliding seems to gradual. Plummeting, or free falling seem to fit better
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