5 Tips to Extend Manual Transmission Life
Forgive me for speaking in generalizations, but if you enjoy driving, you also enjoy rowing through the gears of a manual transmission. There is a special connection you feel with a car when you’re the one physically commanding the gear changes. Using a rudimentary 3-pedal-set system, and not some soulless computer that decides your momentum’s fate, pays off in driver sensation. Sure, these new-fangled computer controlled dual-clutch transmissions can be quite good and fast — some shifting in less than 100 milliseconds, or a fifth of what an average manual transmission and its driver can fumble in — but, that doesn’t matter to the enthusiast. We ignore the numbers and instead focus on how a car makes us feel.
As vigilant as we are to #SaveTheManuals, we need also be cognizant of the needless abuses we put on our preferred mechanical friend. Luckily for you and me, in the video below, Engineering Explained educates us in an effort to eradicate our errors. Alliteration aside, some of these helpful manual saving tips are things you probably didn’t realize you are guilty of. We should all take note, and make a valiant effort to stop. We need to keep manual transmissions around as long as we can, because if we don’t, Skynet wins.
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