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Is dooing this bad for your gear box?

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Is dooing this bad for your gear box?

Post by shane1992 »

Hey I have a Auto swb vitara, and when Im comin up to red lights etc or rolling down hills I just whack it into Neutral and just roll the rest of the way then put it back into Drive when I slow down till about 20-30 km/h then come to a complete stop. Just wandering will that do anythign to my gear box? Like burn it out or anything cause going that fast in neutral? It just seems to be saving me abit of petty doing it.

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Post by PJ.zook »

Mate its not going to be saving you petrol, as when you are in neutral, youre engine is using petrol to keep it turning over. When youre slowing down in gear, and the engine is injected, it will be using no petrol as youre roadspeed is keeping engine turning over.
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Post by shane1992 »

PJ.zook wrote:Mate its not going to be saving you petrol, as when you are in neutral, youre engine is using petrol to keep it turning over. When youre slowing down in gear, and the engine is injected, it will be using no petrol as youre roadspeed is keeping engine turning over.
Oh really, Just that when your put it in neutral your RPM's go down to about 1000 so I just thought it be using less fuel cause the engine isnt working as hard. ??

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Post by PJ.zook »

Fuel usage has nothing to do with RPM, you could be doing 800rpm with wide open throttle dumping heaps of fuel into the cylinders to accelerate off, or you could be doing 5000rpm down a hill using no fuel at all.
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Post by shane1992 »

PJ.zook wrote:Fuel usage has nothing to do with RPM, you could be doing 800rpm with wide open throttle dumping heaps of fuel into the cylinders to accelerate off, or you could be doing 5000rpm down a hill using no fuel at all.
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Post by PJ.zook »

Contrary to popular belief, thats what the forum is for!
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Post by 11_evl »

in an injected car, when your slowing down to light with no accel, the engine computer puts the injectors into decell mode. that turns the injectors off for better emission control and fuel economy.

as for the box, neutral wont hurt it but chucking it into gear at speeds might eventually do something, maybe
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Post by Gwagensteve »

^ What they said

There's also a road safety reason why it's not a great idea- should you need to unexpectedly swerve to avoid something, you now don't have control over the wheels - only brakes. This might lead to a spin or worse.

I'm not trying to sound paranoid, but it is worth thinking about. I'd put money on that in an emergency situation, you wouldn't think or have time to put the car back in gear.

In fact, I bet, once or twice, you've forgotten to put it back in gear at the lights.

Not having a go- it's just an observation.

You won't hurt the box disengaging gear. As for re-engaging - it would be best to do it it the lowest possible speed.

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Post by 11_evl »

Disenguageing will hurt if you go a bit too far into reverse
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Post by shane1992 »

Gwagensteve wrote:^ What they said

There's also a road safety reason why it's not a great idea- should you need to unexpectedly swerve to avoid something, you now don't have control over the wheels - only brakes. This might lead to a spin or worse.

I'm not trying to sound paranoid, but it is worth thinking about. I'd put money on that in an emergency situation, you wouldn't think or have time to put the car back in gear.

In fact, I bet, once or twice, you've forgotten to put it back in gear at the lights.

Not having a go- it's just an observation.

You won't hurt the box disengaging gear. As for re-engaging - it would be best to do it it the lowest possible speed.

Steve.
Yeah good points, especially about an unexpected situation, Wont be doing it anymore !

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