Same here. Short-throw shifters tend to aggravate any tendency for notchiness, with some shifters being worse than others.
What am I missing here? Why wouldn't you want all of your driving to be fun and engaging? Serious questions, actually.
If it's this one ... A Tale of Two Porsche Seven-Speeds: Manual and PDK - Tech Dept. - Car and Driver ... I don't think it'd be all that hard to live with as long as moving the shift lever felt like you were moving something mechanical rather than just wiggling some no-feel video-game joystick. It does have H-pattern shifting rather than sequential +/-, which is a good thing.
Depends on daily circumstance really. A normal commute and it adds to the experience, but if you have 18 stoplights to go through before you get to work, it's not much fun anymore. You may ask why that is, but after a certain point I just start visualizing the pointless extra clutch wear in my head and it sours the experience, lol.
Such a tiring bunch of dribble.
Seems like a weird thing to attack me over. I didn't say it was a rational concern. But given I do all my own work, and that means me dropping the trans out of the car to swap clutches, that thought has more weight in my mind than the average person. Not only that, but its not JUST the clutch disc that wears, there's the throw out bearing and slave cylinder as well, which are doing even more work every time you slam that pedal in. If you think 118 lights every day isn't going to massively wear all those items compared to someone who has 8 lights, then I don't know what you're smoking. It's just like when you start on a steep hill, you have to physically sit on the clutch release longer and with more throttle to get going than a level surface. Everything is additive. Skill can only do so much.
It's all in what you make of it.
Oh of course. I took my Mustang to work every single day for like 6 straight months. I'm not really the person arguing against daily use, if I thought it was that bad I wouldn't have bought one (and come back from auto for that matter). I just understand the logic of the person who was quoted earlier.
Clutch pack discs still experience wear, though it's due to engagement when a gear is selected/commanded rather than when idling at a stop in some non-neutral range. That's also a little clutch pack wear on every shift, though it does get spread out over more than one clutch disc.
Yeah, that I agree with. In that sense 118 lights still has wear in an automatic, but he relayed it to me as if sitting there itself was doing that. I'm actually looking forward to rebuilding a Ford AOD/AOD-E/4R70W sometime soon to learn how to do it. The older style transmissions are a lot more forgiving and generally don't require special tools.
