Auto Trans NTK Thread

[kjoons]

I tried searching and couldn't find anything on this, if there is info out there, by all means lock and delete this thread.

NTK = Nice To Know

So, my question is, what to do and what not to do with the automatic transmission? Cruising at 40mph in 7th gear, down shifting while approaching a light or stop sign while the ecu is already down shifting for you, etc etc...

What is more likely to cause more wear and tear? Manual shifting in the mountains or around the city, etc.

I've done a bit of reading on the trans, and from my take, it's a traditional Auto trans, designed and tuned and built to perform as close to or better than a sequential gear box (like the M3s and GTRs). We still use wet clutch packs, planetary gears, automatic trans fluid, etc and yet the trans performs like a sequential gear box! i was actually almost 90% certain that they adopted a smaller and simpler version of the GTRs double clutch seq gear box until I finally read up on it the other day!

Any feed back is appreciated!