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Is It A Bad Practice to Upshift from 3rd to 5th?

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I rarely use 5th gear except on the long uphill into the Sierra Nevada.

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In normal city use, I shift mine that way, that is, 1-2-3-5-6.

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I rarely use 5th gear except on the long uphill into the Sierra Nevada.

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POST 1Original post

I am new here. I often drive my CS from the 1st gear and reach 50 mph in the 3rd gear (it is hard not to). At that speed usually it already exceeds the speed limit. I want to get to the 5th but don't want to go thru the 4th. Is that wise? Your inputs are appreciated.

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In normal city use, I shift mine that way, that is, 1-2-3-5-6. The 3-4 split is only 19.5% while the 4-5 and 5-6 splits are even smaller at 14.2% and 15.4%. That 3-4 split is so small it's hardly worth the trouble, and the 3-5 split at 30.9% is quite OK. And if I accelerated mine to around 50MPH is 3rd gear, I'd shift it 3-to-6. Live it up.

POST 4Original post

In fact you have discovered what is so remarkable about manual transmissions over automatics, and PDKs, you can go into any gear you want, (except reverse), without going through another gear in between. Just don't go from 6th to 1st at 60 MPH and release the clutch.

POST 5Original post

Thank you all for the information. Now I can enjoy my CS even more.

POST 6Original post

wow im gonna give this a try too i have never skipped gears in all the years i have driven manuals eihter going up or down but often i have wanted to go from 6-4 or perhaps 6-3

POST 7Original post

I rarely use 5th gear except on the long uphill into the Sierra Nevada. Mostly do a 4 to 6 shift. One day the fossilized remains of my car will be found with a nearly new, perfectly preserved 5th gear that will no doubt puzzle archeologists. They will conclude that we were all a bunch of hapless dolts with single-geared transmissions. Sorry guys. My fault.

POST 8Original post

FYI: Sometimes skip shifting will put more wear on the synchros of the transmission for the particular gear that you are selecting. It's a bit harder to rev match if you are going down 2 gears than just 1 gear JMHO.

POST 9Original post

Yeah, I actually offered Dave $1 for his 5th gear not long ago. I skip gears occasionally, but never when trying to really haul, and only in normal to light traffic.

POST 10Original post

:hilarious: :banana::hilarious::banana::crazy::cheers:

POST 11Original post

While I dont do that in the Boxster (obviously, since I have tip) but I often shift 3rd to 5th on many cars when cruising. Dont think it causes any trouble if the RPM's dont fall too low!

POST 12Original post

in the pdk if you ramp on it in say 1st and 2nd, and then hold the upshift button, it will select the highest gear possible at your speed, same thing for downshifting, lowest gear to drop down to without overreving

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