Experienced drivers advise: drove to a traffic light – set the selector to position N or P, so that the automatic transmission lasts longer.
It is not known who first came up with this nonsense, but at the traffic lights, the cars in front of you occasionally wink with reversing lights, which indicates that the driver believed in this theory, says Mikhail Kolodochkin, an expert on the field of driving. .
And he says don’t! Back then, engineers didn’t invent automatic transmissions, so drivers pulled the lever at every traffic light. Perhaps the only justification option is, for example, parking in front of the barrier, which threatens to drag on for 10 minutes or even longer. Indeed, in this case it is possible to move the lever to position P, which will allow the right leg to relax. But it is absolutely impossible to switch to neutral: it will end badly.
For those who do not believe it, we recommend that you refer to the car manufacturer’s instructions. And don’t complicate your or the car’s life.
However, a plus (doubtful!) In this switch, the techies interviewed by the author nevertheless found – more details in our material.
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