These mistakes of driving an automatic car are a couple of mistakes you make

Nowadays, more and more people will give preference to automatic models when buying cars, because their handling is more convenient and easy to use than manual transmission. However, many car owners who have just come into contact with automatic gears have some misunderstandings about driving operations. These inadvertent mishandlings may be ruining your car.

Myth 1 Hang N gear when driving at high speed or downhill

Many car owners believe that hanging N gears to coast at high speeds or downhill can reduce fuel consumption, which is actually not desirable. Because the output shaft of the automatic transmission has a high speed when driving, it requires a certain amount of lubrication. When hanging N gears downhill, the engine enters the idle state, and the oil pump stops supplying oil, which may cause the components in the gearbox to rise in temperature due to lack of lubrication, which in turn causes damage. In this situation where taxiing is required, car owners should stay in D gear.

Myth 2 Long time stop and hang up D gear

Some car owners are accustomed to only stepping on the brake pedal when they are stuck in traffic, and the gear lever is still maintained in D gear, at which time the car still has a tendency to move forward, which is easy to cause rear-end accidents. At the same time, stepping on the brake pedal for a long time is equivalent to forcibly stopping the car from moving forward, which will cause the oil temperature of the transmission to rise and the oil to deteriorate more easily. If the parking time is long, it is recommended that car owners switch to N gear and tighten the parking brake.

Myth 3 Starting the engine in a gear other than P or N

In order to prevent the car from suddenly rushing forward when other gears are mistakenly started, the automatic transmission is equipped with an empty gear start switch to ensure that the engine can only start in P or N gear. When starting the engine outside of P or N gear, the neutral start switch may burn out, although the engine is not running. Therefore, before starting the engine, be sure to confirm whether the shift lever is in P or N gear.

Myth 4 Increase the throttle to shift the high-speed gear

Many people think that as long as the D gear starts, increasing the throttle can be directly changed to the high speed gear, which is a misunderstanding of the automatic gear. The correct way to raise gear is to accelerate and then loosen the throttle to raise a gear after starting in D gear, and then accelerate again and loosen the throttle to move up to a higher gear. When downshifting, at the current speed, a slight step on the throttle can be lowered back to the low gear. However, the throttle cannot be stepped deeply, otherwise it will be forced into the low speed gear, which may cause damage to the transmission. The correct shift operation of the automatic gear model is "oil collection upshift, refueling and downshifting".

For the car, daily maintenance is very important, and the owner's good driving habits are also one of the prerequisites for protecting it. I hope that all car owners can get out of the misunderstanding, use the correct driving method, and make the companionship of the car last longer.