I know what youre getting at and all, but for all practical purposes aside from a few freak exceptions, not to mention specifically his car, its JUST another gear!
I know what youre getting at and all, but for all practical purposes aside from a few freak exceptions, not to mention specifically his car, its JUST another gear!
feralkid
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Did you Google? Wiki?
Look up Laycock De Normanville if you still have trouble grasping what an overdrive is.
Just because someone slaps another gear in the box to change the ratio, that does not make it an overdrive.
Ford used to market their transmissions as having a 5th gear "that acts as an overdrive".
That's analogous to throwing an anchor and chain out of your car and saying it "acts as the brakes"...maybe, but it IS NOT THE BRAKES.
Same thing with simply adding another gear.
Hope this helps.
How old are you? I mean no offense, but perhaps you are too young to have owned or worked on a car with a true overdrive. Perhaps that's what you termed "freak exceptions". These are not freaky (well some look kind of wierd) or exceptions, they are Overdrives.
And yes there are those that are marketed as "Overdrive Transmissions", and I'm guessing that these are what you are familiar with; however calling it an overdrive transmission does not make it an overdrive, it is simply not the same thing at all.
I don't need to google it. I believe you 100%. But they haven't made cars like that for a long time, with some rare exceptions if any at all. For all practical intents and purposes, on the vast majority of cars, OD = top gear.
Congratulations, youre older than me. It's the 21st century now. Would you like to join me here in the present?
While that is clearly an overdrive unit, and how the term got started, English is a fluid language. "Overdrive" now refers to any gear which allows the wheels to overdrive the engine.
I rest my case.
I'm as wrong as someone who calls photocopying xeroxing. Technically, I'm wrong, but it takes a special kind of ass to insist that we not call it xeroxing.
The world calls it overdrive.
Precisely.
That's a weak, semantic argument, Wiki clearly differentiates between the two.
Feralkid is right and explained it well; in turn BD treats him like a dick.
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As a matter of fact I read the entire thread. No need for all the technical jargon. The OP wanted to know when to use OD, and he already had his question answered in his own very first post....yes use it on the highway. There is no need to use it in the city unless you want all the extra shifting.
And yes, OD is just another gear (or set of).
Oxford, Merriam-Webster, and Dictionary.com don't. I like Wiki too, but I trust Oxford a lot more when it comes to the English language, and especially proper usage.
And I've never denied his correctness or questioned his articulation of it.
He said what he said. Then he followed up by condescending to the person stating the obvious, which was the first dick move. After a few volleys of dickishness back and forth, in the end, he's a pompous ass, and im just a plain dick.
And I've never denied his correctness or questioned his articulation of it.
He said what he said. Then he followed up by condescending to the person stating the obvious, which was the first dick move. After a few volleys of dickishness back and forth, in the end, he's a pompous ass, and im just a plain dick.[/quote]
I can read, and I saw no condescension from him...you were wrong and made it ugly.
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I can read, and I saw no condescension from him...you were wrong and made it ugly.
:thumbsdown:
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You can read, but apparently he doesn't think anyone else can. I back up captain obvious, and then he refers me to the almighty google. I tell him theres no need for that, because I know he's technically right. Then he questions my integrity, and even pulls the age card. I tell him he's right AGAIN, bringing myself down to his level just so he can understand what I'm saying. He questions my integrity AGAIN, with the most disgusting holier than thou bullshit attitude. "We are in these forums to help each other" he says, yet he completely ignored the OP who asked for help (and got it, from several including myself), just so he can lord over all of us how ignorant we are for not knowing what a *real* overdrive is.
Give me a fvcking break. :disgust:
when we come to the US for holidays we always seem to drive round in Drive,
but real men have manual gearbox's anyway
but real men have manual gearbox's anyway
i dont know but we used to have an automatic renault espace and used to tow a 1 ton+ trailer with it. i think that and a combination of french bust the tranny on that one
is it not just a different final drive gear?
im not sure what im talking bout either, but i thought final drive gear affects all gears before it
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