Jeffuhnator
Well-Known Member
I was looking around for cai's and ran into this video review. I also noticed the car was an automatic and they were shifting between 1, 2, D3 and D. Just as if it were a manual. Won't it hurt the car?
Just put it into D3 and drive around like that. It's like a Sport mode. No harm doing that until you get up to highway speeds. Obviously you would burn lots more gas. I wouldn't start in 1st. The revs go up way too high way too quickly, plus all that shifting has got to be harder on components.
I manually shift my automatic, mostly D3/2nd for tight turns for engine braking & accelerating(no I don't take it to red line in either case, about 5 to 6 k). I also use it smoothly in all cases.(meaning it gets help from my foot brake & or hand brake).
1st will run in 1st only; 2nd will run in 2nd only; D3 will run in 1st to 3rd(serving at the pleasure of the "box"); D will run in 1st though 5th(serving at the pleasure of the "box").
Ya, no problem. I do it once in a while. I switch to drive when I get to around 90 km/hr.So just driving in D3 would be fine to do in the city?
Yes, that would be correct, but we also have a line(rpm range) where the car wants to go from 3 to 4 or 4 to 3 and just keep jumping back and forth, because where we hold the throttle may just be in that zone, "so keeping it at a constant throttle with out the gear jumping, we put the gearstick(selector) in D3, now we can give or let off the gas and it'll stay smooth.So just driving in D3 would be fine to do in the city?
The explanation of 1, 2, D3, D makes everything make more sense, but the computer would know that you're in 3rd gear if you put it in D, right? Doing so wouldn't throw off the computer?