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This combination of guilt, fear, uncertainty, and doubt is why I used to always go on about the lugging thing...until one particular user took umbrage. So, give it whatever name you want but if the car isn't obviously complaining and is functioning as intended then don't worry or feel guilty, just ...

Rope-Pusher wrote: I tend to shift early and apply a lot of throttle at low rpms to accelerate.

isn't that the recipe for lugging i feel guilty every time i do that

Been watching the mpg numbers displayed on the trip computer while driving around town and i found that my right foot is f**k" heavy", AND no i am not heavy accelerating or anything, just driving relaxed in 2nd and stopping/slowing down constantly when the traffic requires it. i never real...

If you let the gas off abruptly and you get that jerk, does that cause any damage or is it completely safe as far as you are comfortable with it ? Does it strain the whole drivetrain like a jerky shift does ? Engine/transmission mounts or anything ?

It's a question of degree. You don't want to deliberately accelerate the car while the clutch is slipping (except starting from a stop where it can't be avoided) but in this case the slight acceleration is just a byproduct of the engine being dragged down to the car's speed. 1200-1000 RPM is a less...

That's actually pretty close to perfect. If you can get it to the 1000 RPM the clutch drags it to before you let the clutch out, that would be perfect, but that's a tricky thing, especially working around a computer with some of its own ideas on how things should go. but he said the car is accelera...

The amount of energy transferred by the clutch in dragging the engine rpm up or down in order to match it to the in-gear speed after a shift is typically negligible, so don't worry about clutch friction disk wear while doing this. Say you downshift without revmatching and the clutch has to spin the...

I listened to the video - not munch to watch, right? - and I don't understand what this guy is warning about. I wish he would have demonstrated it instead. You aren't going to "burn your clutch out" dragging the engine rpm down with the clutch to match the gear your upshifting into. There...

There are a lot of people holding their cars uphill only with the clutch like 5s before the light turns green, so i guess nothing to worry about here.

say you are doing 30km/h in N and shift to 2nd. Now no matter how slowly you let the clutch out (feather/pause your foot) you will experience engine braking (at least in my tdi, maybe high compression).Not a good feeling, you can even risk getting rear ended. Because the engine is at idle and the cl...

The reason for this is to keep the turbo on boost, clear the VNT guide vanes and apply firm pressure to the rings for optimal sealing against blow-by gasses. The rings need the boost to seal since its a turbo charged engine, babying the engine is detrimental and will lead to issues with compression ...

My car has an apparently fairly flexible (not mechanically) first gear. I usually stick in first until ~2000 RPM, which puts me close to 10 mph. In fact, most of my shifts are in ~10 mph intervals and that typically keeps the car in the 1700-2200 RPM range (obviously until 5th and higher speeds). S...

It's what I recommend for everyone except those times that you have some real need to wind out first gear. 1500-2000 is usually higher than necessary to get into second at idle, in my experience. My car doesn't love it so lately I'm used to taking second all the way up to 2000 or so. my 6 speed vw ...

shifting from 1.5k to 2k (only first to second) I have found that this way the 1-2 shift is PERFECTLY smooth every time no matter how you release the clutch because the rpm will be at or really close to idle on the 2nd gear (so it is perfectly revmatched) of course after you complete the shift you h...

so to put it simply.. if i see a button on the shifter i push it everytime i need to move the shifter, shouldn't hurt a thing and about the brakes i push them too unless i need to move between N-D-S, that's it ? Correct, but honestly there's no need for that much forethought. If you try a shift and...