At 02:10 PM 9/24/2012, Ed Lloyd wrote: >A quick shift back into “Drive” and all >becomes normal again, but at what future cost? It will be lost in the statistical noise. Your engine will wear out a quarter of a mile sooner. >Will this dumb mistake cause any lasting harm to a 2.1L waterboxer? If it had been measurable they would have put the redline lower. You weren't even up to the orange. I bet I'm not the only WBX driver who's merged onto a highway on a long hill and wondered why the beast suddenly didn't want to go any faster as the hill eased. Oh yeah, still in third, been bouncing off the rev limiter for the last few hundred yards. OOPS. High revs (below redline) will wear it, but they won't break it. Too-low revs, though (can't really do it with an auto) can break it because cylinder pressures go way up. I'm looking at you, Mr. A... ;-) Yrs, David |
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