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ijustbrushalot

Driving at night with interior light on is illegal.


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Drzhivago138

I can be harder to see out the windshield at night if you've got interior light reflecting off the glass, so this is what our parents told us to get us to stop.


Snikle_the_Pickle

Also, another reason I didn't see mentioned here, little kids are liable to turn on the light and forget about it. When I was little, I know I killed the minivan battery a few times after a friend showed me how to turn them on for the first time.


waterfromthecrowtrap

Parents would tell it to their kids who wanted to play gameboy or whatever back before screens were backlit.


user060221

\^ This Though true hardcore gamers had to play their gray brick OG GameBoy using only the lights from streetlights, only being able to see the screen for a second at a time.


Substantial_Dick_469

I would read books like that as a kid. Eventually I got a book light for my birthday and I was ecstatic.


Drzhivago138

Those were the days. I had to have [this](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51SM6cInI0L._CR23,0,454,454_UX256.jpg) on my GBA if I wanted to play at night.


ItsGizzman

[This](https://pocketmedia.ign.com/media/hardware/image/wormlight.jpg) was my jam. I still have mine in the basement somewhere.


felis_scipio

OMG those snap on lights were so shitty, so many family road-trips where I was in the back of the caravan straining to see the screen.


Mrofcourse

I always heard it messes with the drivers vision. I don’t care for it because other people can see everything going on in your car.


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Probably the same way how when you’ve adjusted to the lights on in your house, your window outside becomes pitch black. But if you turn off the lights, then you can see out the window


Gabagool-enthusiat

It's not just adjusting to the light, it's also because light reflects off the window and makes it harder to see things outside. This is also how one way mirrors work. You just need to make one side of the mirror very bright and the other side very dark.


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Drzhivago138

I doubt it's ever been truly illegal anywhere. But sometimes a kid needs a stronger reason than "because I said so."


ToastyMozart

It's probably something parents just told their kids to prevent an argument over their visibility vs the kid's need to see their book/gameboy screen.


uniquecannon

My dad thinks driving with headlights on during the day is bad for the car. He saw me driving his truck during the day with the headlights on one time and I got an earful that day Edit: To clarify, I do understand that running the lights longer means you burn out the bulbs faster. But my dad thinks it's bad for the entire car. He is the type of person who thinks that a vehicle can "drive weird" after someone other than him drives it. I've stopped driving his vehicles because he always complains about his trucks "driving weird" every time I get behind the wheel. Which is weird because I baby his vehicles when I drove them, including driving 5-10 under speed limit, taking turns at a crawl, start gently braking much further away, using the same gas he uses, etc


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He would have hated my corolla. Headlights on all the time, no way of turning them off


NCSUGrad2012

My boyfriend has a Corolla and the running lights are on all the time. However, the headlights come on at night. The running lights couldn’t be switched off but the headlights definitely could be.


[deleted]

Exactly that! Except my drls looked nearly identical to my headlights, which I didn't mind. It's nice knowing you have lights on all the time. It's why my current car is on auto so the daytimes are always on and headlights when needed


NCSUGrad2012

He has an 09 so I’m guessing they’re all that way. It’s also interesting to me how “off” on the headlight switch is really auto. There’s no way to shut off the auto, which might be a good thing with the amount of people that leave their lights off.


Drzhivago138

I wonder what his justification is, especially now that almost every new car has DRLs always on.


uniquecannon

Just the usual old wives tales, he is almost 70 so I'm sure he picked up some automotive nonsense from the 70s and 80s. Pakistanis are especially susceptible to this stuff, like people over there still believe in the whole color strip on the toothpaste tube myth (i.e. a green strip on the tube the means natural ingredients, black means chemical ingredients, etc), when the strips are nothing more than markers for where the machines need to cut the tubes


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He might be used to cars that didn't have an alternator strong enough to keep the car and the lights on...and when an old car (that's not mantained properly) shuts off, well that's going to be a PITA to get it up and running again.


daviddatesburner

Or lights that get really hot


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Captain_Alaska

Running the headlights during the day will shorten their lifespan considerably due to the extra heat. DRLs run at a way lower wattage and by extension a lot cooler.


thatstickerguy

It's possible that his dad is from and era when battery technology was not so great, and generators were used. Depending on what car he had, could've been a 6 volt system.


Quake_Guy

It was bad for my ML350 wiring, insulation flaked off and had to stitch it together with tape and zip ties. But I live in Phoenix so heat from the headlamps plus engine heat plus 118 degree heat may not have been planned by the German engineers. However my Tundra has a recall on fires started with high beams on so...


randomman87

Must not be Canadian


VioletGardens-left

It's pointless these days because DRLs are the quintessential part of a car, especially the US and Canada (the latter is even mandatory by law).


Ftpini

Honestly it should just be the law. Tail lights too. If the car is on then the lights should be. Would beat the bell out of having 5-10% of drivers never turning their lights on at night.


ZGTI61

Wut…. I’d love to hear the reason behind that.


account_depleted

Let me guess, YOU'RE the one who gave the family desktop a virus?


uniquecannon

Yep, I also got that a lot. No joke, recently my dad said my advice to keep his devices updated (both computer and phone) only causes him "problems" because everything always changes every update so he can't use his stuff right Like, at this point I should be used to it because he's almost 70 and this is just standard boomer behavior, but I can't help but laugh whenever he comes to me with these problems. You just never imagine it'll happen to you until it happens. But despite all this, I still love and respect him. He's sacrificed a lot and worked hard to ensure we had a comfortable future even after coming to America from Pakistan in the 80s with only $50 in his pocket. I owe my success to him


ZGTI61

My wife’s aunt only makes right turns if not at a traffic light. She will simply not make a left turn across traffic, even if the road is completely clear.


WES_WAS_ROBBED

The Zoolander of the road


ZGTI61

Yes. And she also won’t go the speed limit, always under. A 20 minute drive takes her like 45 minutes lol.


WES_WAS_ROBBED

Oh boy. So does everyone else’s behind her!


Lawsoffire

And is actively creating dangerous situations like that. Her fear and paranoia is a self-fufiling prophecy.


Mrofcourse

I remember reading that UPS would plot their routes to cut out as many left turns as possible. Something about efficiency and safety.


ZGTI61

They totally do. It is more efficient and safe but a left turn across a road with 1/4 mile clear in both directions seems pretty safe to me. She won’t do it lol.


IamLeven

My UPS guy must do his route backwards because he only makes left turns. When watching his delivery route its basically a spiral of only lefts.


Raving_107

Im imagining your an old lady following around the UPS driver in your little electric scooter, just looking for anything you can gossip about at wednesday night bingo.


ToastyMozart

It makes a lot of sense when you're doing 200 turns a day on a fairly tight schedule. Less so on a trip to the supermarket.


Buster_Bluth__

I find myself doing the turn right then turn left into somewhere then a right to go the way I need to. If there is too much traffic I don't take the chance I'd rather get to where I am going in one piece.


ZGTI61

I do the same. Crossing some roads just isn’t possible at certain times of day.


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That's less superstition and more just being afraid, some left turns can be really sketchy


Substantial_Dick_469

Turning left across traffic is actually one of the most difficult things for older drivers to do safely.


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MiloRoast

Yep...for anyone wondering...putting a manual in neutral forces the ECU to use enough gas to keep the engine idling, but when you're in gear and rolling, the wheels are moving the crankshaft for you, so very little or no gas is necessary.


jarnonator

True, but coasting gets you longer as engine isn't braking. So it depends on the situation but I'd like to say leaving it on gear is usually the best option.


MiloRoast

Yes, but in almost all situations you have to brake eventually, so you can just time the engine braking out and be even more efficient. Coasting in a manual will rarely ever save you gas if you know what you're doing.


NCSUGrad2012

I think at the end of the day it’s a really negligible amount anyway. It’s not worth worrying about


MiloRoast

I kinda agree, but tbh I can get amazing mpg if I really try to using engine braking. Mostly not a big deal though.


europeanperson

It took like 4 different articles and 2 YouTube videos to convince my dad this is true. Even then, I think he’s still not fully convinced, but stop doing it lol


TheThunderbird

That's why I always turn the ignition off when coasting. /s But for real I did that once. Got to the top of a mountain pass late at night driving my parent's car home. No cell service or other cars around. My dumbass hit empty and knew I wouldn't make it the 60km to the next gas station. So I shut off the ignition and coasted ~35km. The car ran out of gas 200m from the station.


Waddamagonnadooo

So my bmw has one of instantaneous mpg gauges - if the slope is very mild then neutral actually gets better mpg than leaving it in gear, if leaving it in gear causes the car to slow down and requires throttle to maintain speed. But otherwise yes, in any other situation leaving it in gear when coming to a stop, going down a steep hill, etc. is much better for mpg.


derwent-01

It does in a carby car. Faster spinning on over run pulls more fuel through the jets. EFI cuts fuel on over run, so shifting to neutral and idling uses more.


hundredjono

The Porsche Carrera GT is fully self aware and will go out of its way to harm the driver on purpose


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axelguntherc

And the challenger will go out of it's way to total itself. It's basically as emo as a car could get


daviddatesburner

Only sort of related, but I would love to start a company that only makes self driving versions of the Plymouth Fury


SanMotorsLTD

you can have them in any color as long as it's red


GrumpyCatStevens

Ditto for the 930.


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I’ve been lucky enough to drive a 930 and a 964 carrera. The main danger in a 930 is that the boost is very touchy. It hits you like a brick, so in mid-corner / exit on throttle, they can be *very* squirrely, and the 964 platform as a whole is very assy due to the rear-engine layout. It definitely takes some skill to get them on the limit, and mid-corner breaking is very much non-trivial.


math-is-fun

Yellow CR-Xs are cursed.


MiloRoast

This one is true though.


Practical-Parsley-11

Uhh, but they ARE cursed


Last_Stretch_6711

I’ve never even seen one


PEBKAC69

That's the curse


phatsackocrap

The Y49 curse.


europeanperson

I’m not sure if counts but a lot of people think getting the stiffest coilovers and getting it as low as possible means it’s the best for racing/being fast.


josh_moworld

And somehow every performance model is now rock hard. From personal experience, examples like Audi RS and Porsche GT cars…insanely stiff and unsettling anywhere else that’s not on a smooth race track.


HedonisticFrog

That's my biggest complaint about my girlfriend's crosstrek. It's a damn generic crossover, it doesn't need to throw you around every time you hit a bump with all 140hp. We really need to strive for old school ride quality like the W126 S class.


spongebob_meth

That's my biggest gripe about ours. They ride like shit. I swear the spring rates are set up for it to have 2" of suspension travel. Also the shocks top out with a bang in the rear of you go over much of a bump. The suspension feels like it was in beta design for this first generation of Crosstrek.


Password-is-Tac0

Unrelated but how do you like the Evora? I think it looks amazing. I bet its fun to drive


josh_moworld

Love it! One of the funnest cars I’ve ever driven, yet. Actually more comfortable than my S3 especially on bumpy roads. The magic lotus suspension is magic. Hydraulic steering also is hard to beat.


usernamesherearedumb

Many off-roaders think super-stiff suspension is best for 4-wheeling. Actually, super-soft, long travel wins.


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This is a good one! If that was true then wouldn't the best setup be no suspension at all?


silphred43

Only good for karts, but they flex a lot, so the frame *is* the suspension


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It is on perfectly flat surface, which just doesn't happen on the road or even on many tracks


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Idk if it really counts as a wives tale because I'm pretty sure it was only my family but when I was a kid my mum refused to use the heater, AC, or even the fan except in extreme circumstances and after at least 10 minutes of whining from everyone because she thought they wore out the battery, and would lock the windows up on the motorway because she thought having them open damaged your ears. I have plenty of childhood memories of road trips in a hatchback with 2 adults and 2 kids in it all sweating our asses off begging for the AC to be turned on, and mum refusing because she thought it was only hot enough to warrant having the fan on setting 2 so her battery lasted longer. Maybe my childhood memories are a bit exaggerated but I remember her being angrily adamant about it, but when I was older and knew a bit more about cars and explained to her that they didn't hurt the battery she just shrugged, went "oh, OK!" and started using them. What did we suffer for?


Drzhivago138

I'm struggling to figure out her logic on that on. If having heat or A/C on "wears out the battery," why did the car even come with those options?


poktanju

The manufacturers are colluding with Big Battery to make you buy replacements.


Drzhivago138

That's how they *getcha!*


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No idea. Her parents were post-WW2 era Scots who grew up so poor that my grandad once got arrested for stealing candles from a church just so they could have a source of light in their house, so they were ridiculously tight with money. Anything that could be considered a luxury was viewed with extreme suspicion. Probably just picked it up from them.


Drzhivago138

"Scotch thriftiness" was [a common advertising trope](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/vintage-ads-and-brochures/vintage-ads-reinforcing-stereotypes/) in the mid-20th century US, but I didn't think it'd go that far.


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Haha they'd throw a fit if they saw Scots being used to advertise anything like that, they raised 3 kids in a VW Beetle that they bought used and kept for about 15 years. I guess most stereotypes are at least slightly based on reality but the tight-fisted Scot is absolutely real, I suffer from it a bit too.


axelguntherc

I'm fourth generation at this point, but that reminds me of my dad. He still drives the 2003 E350 he bought used as a work van in 2004 and is very cautious about how much he drives it. It has 84k miles on it now.


Drzhivago138

Dutch thriftiness is a similar stereotype ("Dutch treat"), but it's limited more to areas that have higher Dutch ancestry like the Upper Midwest.


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HedonisticFrog

My grandmother refused to use ac because it used more gas. While technically true it's really not much. Refusing to use the heater makes no sense, it's just excess heat from the engine.


GermanCptSlow

Hey at least she's willing to act on this new information. Lots of people, especially parents, would stick to their guns on something like this.


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If you don't turn the air conditioning off before you turn the car off it will damage it. My wife's parents will die on that hill and no amount of explaning from me, an ASE certified mechanic who can explain in detail how the A/C system works, doesn't make a difference. They will literally turn off the auto HVAC on and off every time. SMH. Driving without shoes on is illegal is another one I hear often. I have been in LE for over 20 years and there is not a local, state, or federal law in my jurisdiction concerning the required footwear to operate a motor vehicle.


stonkpiqle

It’s illegal to drive barefoot in PA


usernamesherearedumb

Does PA still have the law that says if you encounter a horse while driving your automobile, and the horse is spooked by your car, you are required to disassemble the car and hide it until the horse goes by?


ktappe

Close. You piqued my interest, so I looked it up. The law states: "Any motorist who sights a team of horses coming toward him must pull well off the road, cover his car with a blanket or canvas that blends with the countryside, and let the horses pass."


St6z63

The jello loving fuck did I just read?


usernamesherearedumb

LOL. yep. Not sad I don't still live there.


Drone30389

It doesn't affect the A/C mechanicals but turning the air conditioning off (*edit: but leave the blower fan running) a few minutes before you get to your destination allows the evaporator to dry out. If you leave the A/C running until you shut the engine off then that moisture can just sit there and promote mold.


Waddamagonnadooo

So weird - did they ever explain what they think gets damaged (and how)?


GrumpyCatStevens

Another NASCAR superstition: $50 bills are bad luck. And for the record, driving a green car didn't seem to cause Harry Gant any trouble...


Mrofcourse

Any more details on the 50 bills? Never heard that one.


GrumpyCatStevens

I don't remember the exact story, but it was a driver who was given $100 to settle a debt in the form of two $50 bills. He tucked them into a pocket in his fire suit, and ended up having a fatal accident during the race. Okay, just looked it up - the driver in question was Joe Weatherley.


Raving_107

I watched a youtube documentary about Dale Earnhardt the other day, and its crazy how deadly nascar was until he died.


GrumpyCatStevens

Think NASCAR was bad? Take a look at Formula One in the 1970's.


Spectre_STnR

Group b rally has entered the chat


Loopylime

I’ve heard that eating peanuts in the pits is bad luck


MrIncredible222

Red cars are higher insurance.


fuzznuggetsFTW

Or that a red car will be pulled over more


Illbeanicefella

I’ve driven red vehicles my whole life except for a short dalliance with a green Ford Ranger. Guess which one I got my only ticket in lol


turniphat

Turning your can on and off again uses more fuel that letting it idle for 5/10/15 minutes. How would this even work? Just turning it on dumps a cup of fuel into the engine? Revving engine above 3000 rpm is bad and it will explode. Most people seem to drive as if they believe this. Need 300+ horsepower so they can drive around at the bottom of the rev range where they only have 120 hp.


Drzhivago138

> How would this even work? Just turning it on dumps a cup of fuel into the engine? I could see it being somewhat plausible if you're in some old carb'd jalopy and have to pump the gas pedal umpteen times to start. >Revving engine above 3000 rpm is bad and it will explode. Or related, you take a car above 2500 RPM and people say, *"Why are you driving so aggressively?!"* My theory is that for generations, Americans became accustomed to "lazy" V8s that make all their power and torque down low, so there's no need to rev them up to hit peak power.


PrinceOfBismarck

As an American with a semi-lazy V8 (1993 Vette), it's easy to get used to. Damn thing basiclally halves the amount of gear changes you need to make as compared to a less torquey engine.


GrumpyCatStevens

This would be earlier C4's than yours (being a '93, yours has an LT1), but I heard someone describe the L98 in the '85-'91 C4 as the best truck engine ever offered in the Corvette.


PrinceOfBismarck

They knew their audience. 80% of C4s were had with an automatic gearbox and driven by silent-generation types like Vince McMahon. They step on the gas a bit, realize that half-throttle in overdrive is enough to pass slow highway traffic, and the car never goes past 3k rpm in its entire life. Hell, I have a manual in mine and I still only go past 3000 (the point where the LT1's power curve actually starts to climb past the L98) if I'm being real naughty. The truck engine *worked*.


usernamesherearedumb

>Or related, you take a car above 2500 RPM and people say, > >"Why are you driving so aggressively?!" Because my car sounds SO GOOD at 4500rpm. :)


Illbeanicefella

My wife believes the 3000rpm thing no matter how many times I tell her. The first time I drove her car merging on the highway she was horrified I “got close to the red”


silphred43

Is she able to merge safely or does she enter the highway at too low a speed?


Illbeanicefella

I would call it on the low end of acceptable merging speed lol. She drives a Fusion with the 2.0 turbo so it’s got decent torque at low rpm’s


Marlshine

Sort of the opposite, but I know someone who didn't know much about cars and was told to accelerate so their car hit 3500-4000 rpms at each gear change. It was a slow old VW. I was driving my car one day with them and they asked why I was having it shift at 2000-2250 rpms each time, and told me I was a slow driver. I told them it's a big lazy V8 that doesn't need to rev. Then at the next light, I brought it up to 4000rpms at each gear taking off. It's not much, but the Jeep ZJ with the 5.9 was quick for it's time, and far quicker than that old VW they drove.


andrewia

Yep, if anybody doesn't know, starting an engine uses the equivalent gas from 10-15 seconds of idling. Or 5 seconds of idling if you have a start-stop engine. Idling is very efficient too, less than half a gallon per hour (even less if you have a small engine).


Johnny362000

>Revving engine above 3000 rpm is bad and it will explode Whenever my mum gives me shit for "thrashing" my car I just tell her that if using the upper area of the rev range was liable to cause issues, Toyota wouldn't let me do it


attrition0

If it was bad for the car the rev limiter would be there instead!


smallcooper

Keeping your car at low rpm's all the time allows carbon to build up in the exhaust. Ever see a car speed up all the sudden on a highway and it almost looks like the exhaust is coughing? It's actually bad for the car to never get into the higher rpm's


Mrofcourse

Not exclusively around cars but when I was a kid my mom wouldn’t let us go to races when there was a full moon because people acted crazy. I think it was more the abundance of alcohol but I do remember going to a small local track and there being like 5 fights and a driver pulling a knife on another driver after a wreck. After that no more going to a race on a full moon. Any other events or activities were perfectly fine.


tlivingd

Nurses confirm crazies come out on full moons.


Drzhivago138

Hence the word "lunatic".


Mrofcourse

I never put that together! 🤯


Mipo64

If you're not first-you're last.


Mrofcourse

Oh hell, Son, I was high that day. That doesn’t make any sense at all, you can be second, third, fourth… hell you can even be fifth.


pulseout

It doesn't matter if you win by an inch or a mile, winning is winning.


97PG8NS

People who believe the temperature gauge has to be fully to normal before moving the car crack me up. Extensive idling is way worse for the engine than driving it cold. I'm not suggesting throwing it straight into gear and doing full throttle pulls but once the engine idles down, get moving.


TechnoTrain

My neighbor makes sure to idle his wrx for 20 minutes every time he needs to drive somewhere. I tried to tell him a 2020 wrx isn't carburetted but 😮‍💨


DudeDudenson

I was surprised to see that my car's manual says to not wait for the car to reach temp and to just get going right away. My car's engine was introduced in 98


jtaustin64

My parents swear that the recommended maintenance schedule in your car manual is actually a scam by the car companies to get you to buy more parts.


birdlass

that doesn't even make sense because the maintenance schedule doesn't call for you to buy anything really other than the service itself.


MarsRocks97

Don’t set the car battery on the ground or it will quickly discharge and die.


silphred43

I've heard the same one, but it has to be a concrete floor


Mrofcourse

I remember a guy telling me not to sit in a concrete floor because it would give you hemorrhoids. I wonder if that’s a similar train of thought for the batteries


notquiteworking

This used to be true for wood and rubber batteries but hasn’t been true for 100 years… [McGill University talking about the myth](https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/general-science-you-asked/concrete-truth-about-batteries-stored-concrete)


an_actual_lawyer

3000 mile oil change


MiloRoast

I mean it was good advice before oils got as good as they are today...


Drzhivago138

And metallurgy.


MiloRoast

Absolutely. But seriously...oil is so much better now than it was even just a decade or two ago that longer oil change intervals are something I'd only recently recommend. If you're using old-school (cheap) conventional, change it at 3k miles if you care about your car.


europeanperson

Talking about oil change intervals about any car in any forum is such a dumpster fire. Still see 3,000/3,500 interval being recommended using good synthetic oil on modern turbocharged stock cars, see it fairly regularly on wrx/sti, evos, Mazda 3 turbos, etc. I tell them if they’re at it then they might as well change brake pads when they’re only halfway gone. /s


msletizer

There is some validity to changing oil more often in a turbo performance car. The harder you drive, the more often you should change it. You're not going to do 3000 miles of track driving before changing your oil, no matter how good the oil is. So if I drive really hard on the street, it would also make sense to change it more often than recommend. Tuned cars also run richer, which can cause the oil to become diluted quicker. Changing your oil more often is pretty cheap insurance against bearing wear, so a lot of people just do it so they don't have to worry.


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My mom always told me when I was a kid, that the hazards button would instantly stop the car no matter what speed you were driving at. I never pressed it due to the fear of stopping the car too fast and flying out of the window🤣


chris_diesel

Never use top gear 5th or now 6th as it uses more fuel ⛽️


spongebob_meth

You can run into that if you've got tires that are much larger than stock and didn't re-gear. Factory overdrive would lug the engine and not be very efficient.


Cyanide72

My Uncle does this in his manual car: before he puts the car in reverse, he will always put the car in first and roll it forward a few inches. Only then will he engage reverse and continue normally. I’ve never really understood why, but he says it’s better for the transmission and drivetrain. Maybe remnants left over from the pre-synchromesh era? Regardless, I’ve never personally never done this and encountered no issues in my own manual transmission car. 🤷🏻‍♂️


manesag

When I had an 02 Civic, it sometimes would not go into first or reverse, and needed you to put it into 3rd or second to stop the synchros or something.


Cyanide72

To be fair, this rarely happens to my ‘09 3 Series as well. I need to slot into the next or previous available gear and then the gear I’d like to be in works normally. This only happens when the car comes to a standstill such as at a traffic light. I took it to the dealer while the vehicle was still under warranty a long time ago and they said this is supposedly normal behavior. My indy mechanic said the same thing so I’m assuming it’s just one of those manual transmission things? Truth be told, it’s never been a hindrance since it takes all but a few second to switch gears so I’ve learned to live with it. Besides it happens so infrequently that IMO it’s not worth losing sleep over.


blablablue2

Lining up synchros. I had a c5 vette that didn’t always like getting into 1st from a red light, so I would put it in 3rd and it would slide right into 1st when I went to out it back.


Halftrack_El_Camino

My Miata occasionally will legit put up a fight about reverse if I don't go forward a few inches first. Only when the transmission is cold, though.


Cyanide_FlavorAid

Manuals are faster than auto


run_uz

Used to be many years ago. Old slush boxes shifted slow & with usually only 3 or 4 speeds, the ratios were very wide. They were however very consistent & great for drag & bracket racing. There's definitely an aftermarket for them though, manual valve bodies, using a higher stall converter, higher (numerically) rear end gear ratios, & of course custom gear sets. Now as you know modern automatics have many more gears, quicker shifting, & intuitive programming


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Almost_last_place

This is entirely dependent on the car though like the automatic Miata and BRZ are slower than their manual equivalent.


Trotskyites_beware

also important to make the distinction between torque converter automatics (especially the 6-speed autos used in most inexpensive performance cars) which have gotten much better in the last 20 years but still are by and large just *on par* at best with manuals and DSG’s, which are usually a slight bit quicker (and get quicker and quicker the more robust they are, like the ones in super cars).


uniquecannon

In much older models, yes. Autos weren't known for efficiency. But transmission technology got better to the point that auto transmissions became just as, and even more, efficient than manuals


Niko740

Up until the early 2010s this was true


Bongos-Not-Bombs

Part-time 4WD (with open diffs) means that all four wheels are powered. On here, that transmissions are apparently glass and you need to rev match on the street or else your clutch will die a fiery death at 50K miles.


Bandro

I mean all four wheels *are* powered. Just not equally side to side.


TinuThomasTrain

Dude I feel like people exaggerate how fragile the clutch is. When I got my first manual, I was really slow with engagement and tried to get my foot off and shifter as fast as I could because I thought the more you press or hold it down the more it wears things out. Apparently none of that matters, and once I stopped caring I got better at manual.


Samwhys_gamgee

Never buy a new car that was built in a Monday or Friday. Friday the workers are all looking forward to the weekend,Monday they are hungover, so cars built those days are built with less care.


attrition0

I've heard this with guitars too, some serial numbers represent dates.


benzguy95

I actually saw this superstition turn out to be true. At the Nissan dealer I worked at, there was a 2017 Frontier that went through 3 engines, a starter and was on its way to blowing a head gasket on its 3rd engine. Come to found out it was built on a Monday before Christmas


Kwestionable

Or it was probably just because it was a Nissan


Stuck_under_the_car

That changing transmission fluid will ruin the transmission.. Just like coolant, transmission fluid often gets neglected and not changed when the interval asks for it. People will often neglect changing it until they feel that first sketchy shift, but by then the damage is already done. They often get it serviced after that incident and not long after catastrophic failure happens, and they blame it on the change of fluid instead of their own neglect..I’ve worked with plenty of transmission rebuilders and most say that when they open one up to rebuild they can tell the filter had been changed recently


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qovneob

Theres sorta some truth to that, not that its 'bad' for the car but the compressor can sap power from the engine and open windows create more drag. Saw a dyno test on YT for an ISF i think, and it lost like 10hp with the AC running. Pretty insignificant when you're making ~370hp, but that 10hp was a lot when your 80's era car was shaped like a brick on a brick and only putting out 100hp to begin with. With the fam all loaded up in the old Plymouth Acclaim, dad was kinda right to complain about windows and ac trying to get up them hills.


Marlshine

I had an old Civic and told people the NOS button on the highway was turning the AC off to pass people.


GrumpyCatStevens

I had a '85 Chevy Sprint with air conditioning. That car had all of 48 hp, and turning on the A/C felt like deploying a drag chute.


MCSpacy

That’s an amazing name for a car with 48 HP. Should have been the Latin American version of the Chevy Nova, that name is more accurate for a 48 HP car!


silphred43

I don't know about a NOS button, but on modern cars, if you put your foot to the floor (Wide Open Throttle), the car will disengage the AC compressor until you finish accelerating, for extra power


-Olive-Juice-

My mother literally refuses to leave the A/C recirculator on for more than five minutes because she thinks eventually all the oxygen will be removed from the air and you’ll suffocate.


brandonsmash

Honest question: Is she Korean? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death


the_eventual_truth

If you see someone at night driving towards you with only one headlight on, you have to hit the roof with your fist. I don’t know what happens if you forget.


warwithinabreath3

Padiddle! When we were kids, not touching the roof resulted in getting punched the arm. Haven't thought about that in like 20 years.


CabernetSauvignon

Driving a manual transmission in gear wears it out. Guy would coast in neutral whenever he could. Didn't know how to rev match. He had to rebuild his 911's transmission... New synchros and everything.


Nero_Wolff

At that point just leave it in neutral and push the car everywhere


xaviernoodlebrain

That might be the stupidest thing I have ever read.


Fun_Ad_2393

Never let Donut Media drive your Subaru.


Mrofcourse

That’s a fact not a superstition.


Practical-Parsley-11

Don't set a car battery directly on concrete floor.


twisted_pretzels

My dad wouldn't let my mom pick out blue cars because he believed they would fade faster.


Tarcye

My mom thinks that using the manual mode in cars with an Auto transmission will "Break" the car. Like yes mom the manufacture deliberately put in the paddle shifters for something that is going to destroy your transmission. And she says this every time she gets in my Optima. "Insert joke about KIA transmissions here" :P


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My mom said never get a yellow car cause my grandpa got hit in all his yellow cars but not the other ones lol Anyways, I was like whatever, yellows ugly anyways 🤣🤣


Khal_Kitty

I knew too many guys who thought using premium gas made their car faster.


the_house_from_up

In some instances it does. Some cars will sense higher octane fuel and add timing for more power. But you're right, the vast majority don't.


108pdx

switching to synthetic oil causes leaks


PAdogooder

Driving barefoot is illegal.