[SamAdams76]

I have paddle shifters on my car and I like to start paddle shifting down as I'm coming off an Interstate or any other major highway. I try not to let my brake lights come on as that means you are saving your brakes and not replacing them so often.

This is how things are with me, anyhow.

[Tell It Right]

The paddle shifter with no brake lights phenomenon reminds me of when there were a larger number of drivers with stick shifts who’d every now and then slow by down-shifting. LOL

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

I have paddle shifters on my car and I like to start paddle shifting down as I'm coming off an Interstate or any other major highway. I try not to let my brake lights come on as that means you are saving your brakes and not replacing them so often.

When I drove a manual transmission, I always did the exact opposite because brakes are cheaper and easier to replace than a clutch.

[whitney69]

Paddle shifters in Seattle are a gamble with your property or you. By decreasing speed on a freeway exit without brake lights they don’t know you are slowing and they will nail you in the keyster. People up here are in way too much of a hurry and don’t think at speed, just react to what they have. And if they don’t have it far enough in advance, there’s contact. Driving Seattle is always an adventure whether I-5 or 99, the alternate way to get into the Seattle downtown area from the south.

wy69

[wrench]

Just wait till you have to replace the friction surfaces in your tranny. VERY expensive and nowhere near as easy to replace as your service brakes.

[Vendome]

Same here.

Love negative torque.

More control as I slow.

My car, which you saw last year, went 231,000 miles before I needed to change brakes to most miles being highway and the use of manual shifting....

Comes in handy over highways 17 and 9 and the Hecker Pass...