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1. Myth 1: Heavy key chains are bad on your ignition. It tends to pull down on the ignition causing it to to be unbalanced in the barrel assembly,causing premature wear.
True or false?
2. Myth 2: Heavy/weighted shift knobs are bad for the transmission.
True or false?
3. Myth 3: Resting hand on shifter is bad for the transmission. When you do such a thing, you are pressing whichever shift fork you have selected up against one side of its synchro sleeve, which is always spinning. Hard to determine the exact rate of wear, given slightly different type of materials from series of transmissions, how hard the person is holding, and the rpm of the sleeve, but it will lead to friction and wear.
True or false?
4. Myth 4: Its bad to wet the brakes immediately after driving the car. Ie. washing the car. The rotors will warp. If so what about when you are driving around (brakes are hot/operating temperature) and it starts to rain? Same premise isnt it?
True or false?
I always hear mixed answers about the following, not sure who is correct. Please debunk, thank you.
True or false?
2. Myth 2: Heavy/weighted shift knobs are bad for the transmission.
True or false?
3. Myth 3: Resting hand on shifter is bad for the transmission. When you do such a thing, you are pressing whichever shift fork you have selected up against one side of its synchro sleeve, which is always spinning. Hard to determine the exact rate of wear, given slightly different type of materials from series of transmissions, how hard the person is holding, and the rpm of the sleeve, but it will lead to friction and wear.
True or false?
4. Myth 4: Its bad to wet the brakes immediately after driving the car. Ie. washing the car. The rotors will warp. If so what about when you are driving around (brakes are hot/operating temperature) and it starts to rain? Same premise isnt it?
True or false?
I always hear mixed answers about the following, not sure who is correct. Please debunk, thank you.