How bad is grinding gears?
 

I recently bought a '95 ex with a manuel transmission. Its my first car and ive never drivin standard before. How bad is it to grind the gears.. when it makes that really ugly noise?

RE: How bad is grinding gears?
 

ahh pretty bad, try not to do it... if it happens once in a while, then that is ok, everyone does it from time to time, Just do'nt do it all the time. cause you will ruin your tranny

RE: How bad is grinding gears?
 

Grinding your gears is bad. When you hear that noise, just think of you taking your gearset and putting it to a workbench based grinder and ripping the teeth off.