Next time try not being a idiot.







To add some relevance to my post tho, you used to be able to skip gears on most older cars/ trucks, but anymore its not a good idea. Remeber you arent driving a old farm truck.

 

I go from 4th to 6th all the time, or 2nd to 4th in a neighborhood, and sometimes 3rd to 6th. I have my fun getting up to speed, but once I'm there, there's no reason to visit the other gears just for the sake of shifting. I let the revs fall as needed and let out the clutch. I guess that's rev matching. It's only like a 1/2 second longer on the clutch so it feels pretty fluid.

If I'm accelerating really lightly, I'll use all the gears.

 

I see absolutely no reason why, if I'm gunning it in 4th up an on-ramp on the expressway all the way up to 60-65 MPH, press the clutch, shift to 6th, and let the RPMs fall to about 3K before engaging the clutch (which would be the normal RPM/MPH combo if I were cruising at that speed) why that would harm anything. The synchros are doing minimal work, they're correcting the layshaft/driveshaft RPM mismatch by less than 1K RPM. How would that wear thru anything?

Same with a 2nd-4th hop I do all the time. Yes, 1st to 3rd is rough and not practical, and 3rd to 5th takes a little doing, but the gears on a TSX are pretty close together. As long as you ease off the gas so the RPMs have fallen when you re-engage the clutch, I don't see how any of this would cause a problem.

Or am I on crack?

 

Ok I'm going out on a limb here agreeing with the noob but I have to agree... as long as you let the RPMs fall. There is no difference between that and shifting through every gear.

 

Except I've been on the forum since November 2002 when I bought my CL. I'm only a TSX noob, not a forum noob.

 

damn and just made your first post??

congrats

 

Actually I have another post around here somewhere. Probably relating to the 2001-2003 CL automatic tranny problem that bit everyone back in the day.

 

Thanks, but it's at least nice to know I'm (probably) not abusing a transmission on a car that isn't technically mine (I'm leasing it.) I always thought the point of buying a manual transmission is that you didn't have to saw thru all the gears in all situations.

 

That's a bonus, but the number one reason is that you can control what gear the car is in 100% of the time, assuring you always have the revs you want coming out of corners or for passing, or even controlling how soft you are on your gas mileage.

 

I thought you only had to rev match was mainly for saving wear and tear on the clutch and therefore you only have to do it when downshifting, not upshifting....

 

The amount of confusion about shifting techniques always surprises me! Anyway back to the topic....yes, I do skip gears once in a while, both upshifting and downshifting. My rule is "if I skip a gear, I double clutch." That minimizes wear on the synchros, and as most people have been saying, rev-matching is definately in order.