i have tiptronic, is it okay to redline a lititle sometimes, accidently? a few rpm's over...

 

You can't hurt it. There's a rev-limiter that cuts the fuel when the car hits a couple hundred above max. Sounds cool. "Bah-bah-bah-bah-bah."

The auto tranny also won't let you over-rev the engine on a downshift.. if you're going too fast for the gear, it just won't downshift.

Now, if you have a manual tranny and put it in 1st at 80mph... not much the car can do to save itself there. [img]/w3timages/icons/smile.gif[/img]

 

I thought that the manuals had a lock out feature

2003.5 5AT
Premium Package
Tire/Wheel Package
K&N Filter, Z-Tube, EGK

 

While we are on the subject of manual shifting with the automatics what I notice when I had a sedan loaner was that the car let you up shift on a stop while my coupe wont. So if im at a red light I can start at 2nd with the loaner. now is that a sedan feature only?

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The manumatic mode on the sedan is a "high gear" selector only. You can start the car in 4th if you want, but the car will still start from 1st and go through the gears "up to" 4th. and when you reach the rev limiter in fourth it will just bounce off until you shift again. We had this post or a similar one on the sedan forum not so long back.

 

And along that line, when you "upshift" the manual mode on the sedan, you're not so much shifting, as you are making that gear available to the transmission.. should it decide on it's own that maybe it wants to go into that gear, someday.