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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MeGusta" data-source="post: 15875303" data-attributes="member: 419878">Mcho it's not good for both transmissions and brakes...theory behind this is while you are in a gear once you step out from the accelerator engine brakes do happen...then once you apply breaks the load and the pressure that has to be carry out by the brakes alone is minimal..because almost 70% of the brake is applied by the engine itself while you are in a gear...so brake wear is way lower too.and also you'll have better handling and grip because applying brakes alone can drag the car if not in a gear...if you are in N binding will not always happen but if your break pads get heated too much it can melt and get bind...Bdw there is no damage for manual gearboxes,but once you put N in a automatic transmission you must stop the car to put it in the D again...if you put it in D while travelling it can hurt the gearbox because it cannot calculate which gear it should be in that milliseconds of time..you'll most probably will burn the clutch plates  and torque converter doing this for a long time...always put the gear in 4,5th if you want to save fuel,brakes in down hill...in automatics just turn on the overdrive and accelerate time to time a bit to keep it in the highest gear you'll get the same fuel saving,life is precious than fuel saving rit..</blockquote>

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