altjx
GTFO_0036 | 1337 h4x3r
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- 2017 Race Red GT350
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Agreed 100% with everything here.It isn't about trying to look cool at all. If you are in gridlock traffic, I absolutely agree with your perspective. But in light traffic/less commonly driven areas I downshift all the time. Why? Because I want to have the ability to accelerate or react immediately if the need should arise, or if an emergency maneuver is required.
He isn't imagining anything; reread the posts before jumping to the conclusion that the OP doesn't know how to operate a manual. I am an experienced adept manual driver and sometimes experience the same odd issue. Have never experienced it on any other manual transmission car I've ever driven, so no, it is not a wild imagination or user error IMO.
+1.Crazy talk right here
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Well, just as a quick update, I'm pretty sure this isn't a user error. I know some people are gonna say I drive like an idiot, doing things for no reason, whatever, but yesterday I took off from a red light, went into second gear, and the light not too far in front of me turned red. Instead of shifting into third or neutral, I just left it in second and as I was coming down from like 4k RPMs, I noticed that when I clutched in and tried to just do a quick rev from around 2.5k, the throttle blip/acceleration/rev wasn't registered. Instead, it just rev'd 100-200 RPMs up (even though I pushed the peddle down to what I'd say 5-6k). Now this time it happened without even shifting from third to second like usual. It was just simply clutching in and trying to do a quick rev. Couldn't even do that. A few days ago when it did happen while shifting, I noticed I could only reproduce it if I tried to blip while in the motion of going from 3rd to 2nd. Blipping while still in 3rd and then moving to 2nd is always nice and solid, it's when it's simultaneous when it becomes a problem.Went for a drive yesterday and paid particular attention to the downshifts. Nothing out of the ordinary was noted. Throttle responded appropriately and rpm's rose to where they should.
I wonder why two people have this issue but not others. For ref. my car is an early build; Sept. 2015.
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