sounding much like they were saying :
They're pee easy.
My last two daily drivers (130,000 miles between 'em) have been slushboxed. I wouldn't go back to a manual for a daily now, not living in an area with heavyish traffic.
That's where you'll start to love it.
I don't.
Leave it in D normally. If you want to lock out a higher gear - giving it beans round the twisties, descending a steep hill, waiting for a gap to overtake - then just drag it back to the appropriate.
If it's a four speed, D will choose between 1,2,3,4; 3 will choose between 1,2,3; 2 will choose between 1,2 - 1 is the only one which will remain in one particular gear.
As I understand it, it actually increases wear on the box to be constantly neutral-drive-neutral-drive. Better to just leave it in D - there's the "But you're blinding the poor sod behind you" argument against, but neither of mine have had a high-level brake light, so...
Not really - it's far LESS likely to move if the handbrake lets go. There's a pawl-and-ratchet arrangement which holds the car far more positively than leaving a manual in gear, which can turn the engine against the compression.
Don't, ffs, put it in Park before it's completely stationary! And DON'T think that Park is an alternative to the handbrake.
New to automatics 753bucket you're being trolled by the holy "trollinity" of 2steves and an adrian who are always right about anything, especially if they have no 1st hand knowledge of a subject...
Yes. Makes parking a piece of pee.
Now wait until you get back into a manual box car for the first time after
