saving gas?

[icefeather]

Does it actually save gas when you shift to neutral? (say when you stop at a red light)?

[Camryamnesty]

Im not sure, but when your idling in drive, your engine does kinda of use a little gas to get it going, so i guess when u shift into neutral it does save a little gas... not a hole helluva lot... but i cant be to sure...

[bowlofturtle]

i'm not sure either but i do it once in a while. say when i'm far and i'm going to hit a stop sign or a red light i just shift it into netrual and let it kind of coast there.

[Durrby]

i've heard it does...my friend used to do it when he was really low on gas.

[alex]

i heard that can mess up your tranny?

i dunno...........

[grapefury]

your making your tranny work more. it's not worth the penny or two you save on gas

[foompla]

how can it mess up a tranny???

[chronoti]

your adding more stress to it having to switch from neural to drive ... mine is kinda messed up in that sense dont do it not worth it at all .... well the burning out didnt help it out either but still

[alex]

so i was right?

[VVT-i Owns]

I don't see how its bad you're disengaging the engine from the tranny.

[Sharky3]

It doesn't save you anything when your at a complete stop but when you are going down hill it does if you follow the same route everyday

[Wibbit]

i dont know about the automatic... but as VVT-i sed, i cant see how engaging into drive will destroy your transmission. geez, if your car stuffs up cos you put it into drive then theres gotta be somthing wrong! if its a manual and youre always on the friction point reving too hard then itll put unnecessary on some components but it still shouldnt mess up your tranny, not for a while at least

im pretty sure my car's best fuel economy is at 90km/h in 5th gear... not counting when its in neutral, also going behind a truck or something bluff will save a bit of fuel at higher speeds.

[mauibuilt59]

I heard that keeping your car in neutral is bad because something about some fluid/oil is not going to some part of the car. thats what i remember from what i heard.

[Lumberg]

at a stop the idle actually goes up if you shift into neutral. so I would guess it wastes gas. you know what REALLY saves gas? turning off the key when you decelerate. I noticed on my old Sentra I could do that and as long as I turned it back on while I was still going over 30 it woudl start running again. doesn't work on my gen4.

[Wibbit]

^^ are you serious? you will save petrol that way... yes, but surely you are aware that its detrimental to the engine