Rev Match On or Off

[JOESMITHF1]

I am fairly new at driving a manual, and 95% of my driving are in inner streets. Should i have rav match on or off? Wanted to make sure i am not damaging anything considering that i am no expert at driving a manual.

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[madbikes]

You are not damaging anything by leaving rev match on. It's so good that I leave it on.

 

[jdezee]

I personally don't like the rev match when driving around town. I commonly will downshift when approaching a stop and coast to the stop with the clutch in, so the rev match doesn't actually keep the RPM up for me when I'm accelerating away from the stop. It will be a personal preference thing on how you drive and what you like.

Certainly not doing any damage to the car for sure.

 

[jtlctr]

I think the only reason to turn it off would be if you want to hone or maintain your manual rev matching skills. I’ve been driving manual cars for nearly 30 years and my coordination for rev matching isn’t as good as the auto rev match, so I just leave it on. Honestly, it’s one of my favorite features.
I think you should leave it on unless you want the practice. It’s certainly not harming anything.

 

[Mawfuqqa]

Doubtful anything bad to leave it on (there's 2 modes for it I think. One is slower) Do you have other manuals? The ctr revmatch is excellent and will do better than I ever will but I have other manual cars so I leave it off or it'll probably mess me up for them.

 

[Spart]

Some of y'all in here would be advocating leaving the AutoClutch™ and ShiftTronic™ turned on just because it's better at you than doing something.

You guys went to the wrong car dealership, the Tesla dealership is down the road.

 

[jtlctr]

I never use the AutoClutch feature. However, I do find ShiftTronic to be useful if I’ve had a few too many peyote buttons, when all gears become one.

 

[Cueyo]

I leave it off because I want to get better at rev matching, I think it's a skill that makes it more fun to drive the car. Also it makes it much easier to be a good driver, so having it off is more fun for me.

 

[apl360]

on.

 

[Amm5890]

I leave it on. I also have the acuity pedal spacer which helps a ton when I feel like rev matching myself.

 

[ellupo11]

I don't like mine on in daily driving as I downshift to slow down. But I'll turn it on for a track day

 

[ctechauto]

Been driving manuals for 20-odd years now. Every manual vehicle I've ever owned including the FL5 that has had an auto rev match feature I turn it off (regardless if I'm on track or off track on the street). I bought a manual for a reason and it's to drive a manual. Am I 100% consistent and/or perfect with each downshift heel-toe rev match? Of course not, especially compared to the auto rev-match feature, but having this skill that was developed through driving a manual is and will forever be the fun/enjoyment to me. Otherwise I would have bought a car with a DCT/PDK/ZF8HP or something much faster and "perfect" every time. And what's the fun in that?

 

[MooMoo]

on for me, its really good. The pedal box on this car is aweful for hell toe as well, not that I would still have it on, I want to focus on driving when I am at the track, just shifting gears is enough of a "another thing to do".

Fun to heel toe but not something that I need to enjoy any car.

 

[Bald Wonder]

My opinion has no right to affect your preference. You do you.

 

[AspecR]

It's up to personal preference but the 10th/11th gen civic have terrible pedal placement for heel-toe rev matching. If you've driven older Hondas/Acuras you will immediately notice how much more effort it requires to rev-match properly.

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