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      11-05-2014, 12:12 PM   #35
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Originally Posted by Aerospike View Post
What if you're braking and 'manually' downshifting from 5 to 3? The car still downshifts as you slow down. You push the stick up twice to go down two gears and the car decides to do its own thing and drop a gear. You end up in second gear instead of third, over rev, and have a very expensive oops. Rev limiter/fuel cutoff won't help isn't design to help in this case.


Have you ever had this happen? I wouldn't think the computer would allow a downshift past the redline. I have grown to hate my transmission, but I came from a M/T GTI, so ...
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