do you slow down with your clutch or brakes

i use friction and gravity...

If you're driving a manual, performance car, you always stay in the right gear for maximum torque if it's needed. So, you both brake and shift when slowing.

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Originally Posted by ReBop

If you're driving a manual, performance car, you always stay in the right gear for maximum torque if it's needed. So, you both brake and shift when slowing.

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damn this is an old thread

Brakes are cheap and easy, clutches are not. But when I autocross on some curvy roads, I engine break to keep it in the power band. Other then that, USE THE BRAKES PEOPLE, thats what they were made for, not the clutch.

welcome to last year thread

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Originally Posted by Spaz

i use friction and gravity...

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I let "Jesus Take the Wheel"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky4rfA_tebY

TTT lmao, did i mention i use my brakes to slow down?

well, on a related topic, I engine brake my car, and its an auto.


like while cruising through neighborhoods, I keep it in "2" and I let it engine brake. some times on short streets I do it in 1st.

any other time, I use brakes

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Originally Posted by LT1 > LS1

well, on a related topic, I engine brake my car, and its an auto.


like while cruising through neighborhoods, I keep it in "2" and I let it engine brake. some times on short streets I do it in 1st.

any other time, I use brakes

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If your an A4 and you do as you've stated I'll be willing to wager $$$ that the sun shell is toast and the friction disks are black.

its really bad for it? dang. It will be a bit before I get my stage 3 rebuild.......I better quit.

sounds cooler with the clutch.

little bit of both i guess. Double clutch into 4th. and double into third... break shift into 2nd at about 20-mph. and stop with the breaks... never thought it was bad? Im open to suggestions! i figure this would be easer on the clutch matching the revs on a down shift, never thought i was being to hard on the transmission?

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Originally Posted by Rob00Taws6

little bit of both i guess. Double clutch into 4th. and double into third... break shift into 2nd at about 20-mph. and stop with the breaks... never thought it was bad? Im open to suggestions! i figure this would be easer on the clutch matching the revs on a down shift, never thought i was being to hard on the transmission?

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Rev matching is the way to do it. I ride out each gear pretty par and then just lightly rev to match my engine speed to the road speed. No jerkyness, no extra wear. :yup: