Nowadays, cars can be said to be very popular, even in rural areas cars are everywhere, but careful people will find such a thing, it seems that most of the current cars are automatic transmission, it can be said that there is little trace of manual transmission.
Since there are fewer and fewer manual cars on the market today, and automatic cars are more and more popular with consumers, does this mean that manual cars have to return to the market?
In fact, for some old drivers with rich driving skills, especially old car owners with nostalgic ideas, in their view, manual cars are still very popular, but automatic cars are tasteless and not worth having at all.
Although most young people say that automatic cars are stronger than manual cars in all aspects, as automatic cars also have 4 "fatal shortcomings", which cannot be compared with manual cars!
So what are the 4 "fatal shortcomings" of being an automatic transmission car? Let's take a look!
Disadvantage one: automatic transmission car do not idle hot car. We all know that automatic cars are more convenient to drive, and even some novice owners who have just received a driver's license can drive easily.
Although the automatic car operation is convenient, but when it comes to the winter car, the automatic car is not recommended to idle hot car, perhaps some owners think that the hot car is very beneficial to protect the engine, but do not know that the automatic car in situ heat car, but will bring huge damage to the vehicle.
For example, the automatic car for a long time idle hot car, not only can not play the benefit of lubricating the engine conditions, but also make the engine produce more carbon deposits, once the engine and the oil circuit produce carbon deposits, you need the owner to spend more time and energy to repair the car, it can be said that it is self-inflicted!
Disadvantage two: uphill and downhill also have to use manual mode. Although in the automatic transmission model, car owners only need to keep in mind the D, R, P gear, but on some special roads also have to use manual transmission mode.
For example, on some steeper mountain roads, even if you are driving an automatic car, you have to make the vehicle get more torque and power output by downshifting, otherwise the vehicle will not be able to climb the slope normally due to lack of power.
Another example is the automatic transmission car in the long downhill section, if you use the D gear for a long time, the brake pads of the vehicle will weaken the braking effect due to friction and heat generation, and in this case, it is still necessary to reduce the gear, and still the engine to properly assist the braking, in fact, this is basically similar to the principle of the low-grade downhill of the manual transmission car.
Disadvantage three: automatic transmission model fuel consumption is high. For some experienced drivers, we must understand the difference in fuel consumption between manual and automatic cars, it can be said that this type of car, 100 km fuel consumption will basically be 1-2.5L difference.
Take the gearbox working conditions of automatic transmission models, mostly using hydraulic resistance to drive, and manual transmission is based on mechanical transmission, which ultimately makes the transmission efficiency of manual transmission cars higher and more energy-saving.
Disadvantage four: the automatic transmission maintenance cost is high. It is precisely because the gearbox structure of the automatic transmission is different from the manual transmission, the structure is complex and the failure rate is high, which makes the maintenance cost of the automatic transmission more expensive. In addition, when the automatic transmission car is parked or waiting for a red light, if the P gear is rear-ended by the rear car, it will basically bring huge damage to the gearbox.
Judging from the above 4 fatal shortcomings of the automatic transmission car, although the automatic transmission car is more convenient and easy to control, from the analysis of the use of energy saving and safety, the automatic transmission car cannot be compared with the manual transmission. What do you think about this?