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View Poll Results: How do you use your transmission
Tip full time and actively engine brake. 3 10.34%
Tip for gear changes but brakes for stopping. 1 3.45%
Stick it in drive and leave it there. 6 20.69%
Mixture of Tip and D. Brakes for brakeing 18 62.07%
Is there anything except Sport! 1 3.45%
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Old 4th March 2012, 09:34 AM
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Tend to use D most of the time when just driving about. Almost never use S mode, i would just drop across to tip for spirited driving.

Definitely use tip with the ACC is on.. stops it doing crazy stuff after getting scared by a truck (hard on the brakes, then hard on the throttle sometimes).
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Mix of D and tip for me with brakes for braking - must admit it is VERY rare for me to use anything other than D unless I'm on a country road and will then use S to keep the engine on the boil.

Tip is basically for playing silly buggers with slower cars when I want to make a point
Pretty much sums it up for me too, very rarely need to use Tip.
Though I do occasionally do Amar's trick of "tipping up" when "pootling" to get into 4th or 5th as appropriate when it doesn't want to.

But mine does have a slightly reprogrammed controller, done long ago by the previous owner (chip replacement) so is quicker to drop a cog in the mid-range and isn't limited.
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Old 5th March 2012, 08:45 AM
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I changed my driving style and now use a mixture of both but tend to use tip for coming down the box to save on the brakes, i have cooked and warped 2 sets of front disc's now, and i'm sure that was down to leaving in D and using the brakes then holding on the foot until clear to go causing localised heating on the disc's. The route i drive a lot has duel carriageway into roundabouts.

So just to be awkward i use a mixture of D and tip with tip for braking.
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