know what... soildoc had a great idea using winter mode, but if it's just 1st gear slipping, wouldn't it be less strain on the tranny to just drop the gear selector down to 2nd?

so you have to shift a little - sometimes i do it for fun to pretend i'm driving a manual also makes it easy to smoke the hoop-riders that pull up next to me doin' the chin-jutting head-bop lip-curling 'whatchu got?' to me =)

anyway, just start in 2nd, eh comrade?