Is Skipping Gears Bad For Your Manual Transmission?

Опубликовано 18 апреля 2025, 14:01

Is it okay to skip gears in a manual transmission? Could you shift up from 2nd gear to 4th, or perhaps down from 6th to 3rd? There’s nothing physically stopping you from doing this in a manual - you’re in control. For upshifts, say you want to shift from 2nd to 4th gear, you’d simply wait a little longer before letting the clutch out, so the engine has time to drop to a lower RPM than it would be at if you had shifted to 3rd. For downshifts, say going from 6th to 3rd, there’s two things you want to keep in mind: First, never downshift to a gear so low that it would bring your engine revs over redline, that’s called a money shift, and it can destroy your engine. Second, you need to rev-match these shifts, with a bit higher throttle blip than usual, because you’re going to be significantly raising the engine RPM. If you don’t rev-match, you’ll have added clutch wear and could even lock up the driven wheels.

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