Skip a gear?

Dembflyr

A question to those of you with a manual transmission.

Do you ever skip a gear?
Say you are easily shifting through the gears and get to about 50 mph in 4th, do you just skip 5th and go right to 6th?

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axio

Not really...

ProfessorDave

That would make the other gears jealous...

seriously, I only skip a gear during aggressive downshifts.

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radio5boro

welll lets say i rev really high in 4th gear... and i just feel like cruising after. ill just match it to the 6th gear. i've never had any issues doing this.

Dembflyr

Well when I do this my transmission grinds really bad. One dealer says "Well yeah, because you're not supposed to do that". They are refusing to go any further with it.
I have called another dealer and explained what is happening and they agree with me that while it may not be the norm to skip it should not grind.

I have been driving manual transmission cars for 20 years and have never had a problem doing this.

I am out of town so a friend is going to pick up my car and bring it to the other dealer.

The service manager tried to tell me that the 370z transmission is a whole different animal because of the syncro-rev match.

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Super Tanooki

I hate it when brainless sales reps talk utter BS like this, just to either a) get you off the phone, b) relentlessly promote their product (even if it's for having/doing something that it actually doesn't) or c) grasp at any small thing to make it SEEM like they know what they're talking about when, in actuality, they haven't a clue.

I haven't got my 370 yet, but I really don't see why it should be a problem. I've skipped gears in all my cars so far, for similar reasons as mentioned above, and never had a problem.

On the other hand, I've had problems with a few of my cars with second gear just refusing to engage on a downshift. Even on relaxed downshifts - very slow speed, too fast for first but too slow for third (such as on approach to a traffic light that just changed from red to green), i try to shift down and it just won't go in. I have to lift and re-engage the clutch. Has anyone else ever had this? What's that about?

m4a1mustang

That's BS. If you are having an issue with the car grinding into 6th gear it's a bad synchro. There are a number of members here who have had their transmissions replaced under warranty because of this.

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shabarivas

Sounds like a bunch o bs - honestly - why do you even tell them you skip gears? Just be like this bitch is grinding and you need to fix it...

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kidkotic2001

I second this.

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terbo

I had this exact issue. I took the car in and told them that. They responded with the same nonsense about not skipping gears. I hit them with "I've got a degree in mechanical engineering, I know what the hell I'm talking about" card. They took it for a drive and a week later I had a new transmission installed.

As for skipping them now, I still do. Sometimes I'll take off in 2nd, go to 4th, then to 6th, usually when I'm feeling real lazy.

The BlueMax

This trans is a finess type it has to warm up and at certain RPMs it might clunk a little or grind a bit you just have to work around it like first thing in the morning I shift from 1st to 3rd and its smooth. You have to shift slowly unless your really getting on it. The a T56 six speed in my 97 WS6 T/A shifts better and the gate travel is less. This is one of the reasons of how they keep the price down on the car. I would of outsourced the transmission to Honda.

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Rockcrawler

x2, harmless, usually had fun on the on ramp and need to slow down to merge into traffic about when I'm leaving 4th and drop right into 6th

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ohioZboy

well there are 2 reasons why i skip gears...

1) when i'm dropping the clutch and burning out i go from 1st to 3rd because i've seen way too many people lose 2nd gear doing a burnout and shifting into 2nd when the revs are too high.

2) when my girlfriend is in my car, occasionally for some odd reason i have to go from 1st to 4th...you could imagine why

m4a1mustang

I do it all the time. If I'm accelerating quickly up to ~45 mph I'll usually short shift 1st to 2nd... somtimes third... then I'll go straight into 5th.

If you are already at your desired cruising speed in, say, 3rd, gear, there's no reason to go 3-4-5 or 3-4-5-6... Just jump to the gear you want to be in.

Same thing for downshifting...

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