Originally Posted by Discosmurf
I know I don't know a whole hell of a lot about cars and such, but it just makes more sense to do the latter. When he told me he threw it into 2nd from 5th, I went :eh: because it just seems like you would ruin your transmission that way.
Not only the tranny, but you are making the engine work much harder for no reason.
And if you don't do it correctly, it's pretty much a mis shift aka money shift.