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Originally Posted by phosphite
If it matters, it's the Si, so it's in neutral while I'm coasting and shouldn't do any damage. There's no reason to flat-bed these cars, you only flat-bed an AWD car or a car where you wouldn't want the wheels to turn.
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Actually, it isn't good for the transmission to coast a long way with the car in neutral with the engine off. This is why they say to flatbed the car.
The manual transmission doesn't have an oil pump to lubricate the gears/bearings. They tranny fluid is splashed and circulated around by the spinning gears themselves. When the car is in neutral and the engine is running the gears are still spinning from the engine, but are not connected to the output shaft, so the car doesn't move (neutral). If the engine is shut off and the car is rolling in neutral the differential and couple shafts are spinning, but not the rest of the gears, so there is the potential for some bearings to be spinning without adequate lubrication.
I'm not saying you will definitely have transmission issues, but better safe than sorry.