Originally Posted By: dareo
Its a habbit ive witnessed my wife having. If i say something she gets really defensive. She drives the 14 accord and on a flat road you can be in 6th gear on a 35 mph road without being even close to lugging.
If i say something she gets mad, if i dont the higher rpms bug me. Cant justify wasting money replacing it with an cvt accord.
I would let it slide. Not worth the aggravation to get into an argument with the wife over stuff like this. Besides, she really is not doing any harm, IMO.
On the other hand, if you are in 6th at 35 mph, your RPMs must be really low... way below 2K. If for some reason you needed to quickly accelerate at that point, maybe to get out of somebody's way, you wouldn't be able to. Personally, I'd be in 4th gear at that speed in a typical 4-cyl engine. Heck, even in my 6-cyl car, I keep it in 4th gear at that speed, but it only has 5 forward gears.