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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doug" data-source="post: 2141021" data-attributes="member: 222104"><p>Your car is fine.  Most manual vehicles built in the last decade won't let the driver put the car into 1st if the car is moving.  If the car is already moving you shouldn't ever need to downshift.  So the reason it's grinding is because you're forcing it against the way the car was built.  So to recap, your car is totally normal.  It's just a new thing that car makers started doing to help the transmission last longer.</p></blockquote><p></p>