Put your car to neutral at the stoplight. It can save you a bit of gas.

D at stoplight = .55gal/hour fuel
N at stoplight = .48gal/hour fuel

 

How did you get those numbers? Cobb AP?

 

he has a computer OBDII tap

 

wOW! Thats a lot! Maybe I should start coasting up to trafic lights in "N" more.

 

I used to put my car in "off" at stoplights.

 

Maybe I should get out and push it through drive-throughs?

 

how much does a rebuild cost from the added wear and tear ?

 

OK, How Much?

 

I dont see how its wear and tear just by putting the car in neutral.

 

I save that much gas just by taking a HUGE Dump before leaving for work.. its true.. oh yes its true!

 

Won't that cause the tranny to overwork? In the long run, could it warrant a tranny overhaul and offset whatever gas savings u might've saved?

 

To do what? Put the car in netural at stops?

Now if the OP was talking about coasting in netural with engine off or flat towing with the engine off(Too save gas ) thats a different story.

 

no, he just meant by putting the car in N while at stops cus it will idle lower than in D

I think

rite??

 

Right. Stoplight appears three time in my post.

 

not driving saves lots of gas too

oh and not eating tacos

 

Dont know if Mazda still do it in the RX-8 owners manual........but

In the owners manuals of the JDM version Eunos Cosmo (90-95) + JDM Mazda RX-7 auto (92-02). Mazda tell owners to put the shifter into "N" at traffic lights or during extended stops.

Have been popping my box into "N" since the day I purchased my 03-model.

Had a Eunos Cosmo for 6-years now & been doing the same to it. ZERO negative effects

REgards

 

I have an MT. My '8, by definition, is always in 'neutral' at stoplights.