Anybody do it after they learned automatic
How bad was the learning curve?
I just bought a old ass civic to learn
How bad was the learning curve?
I just bought a old ass civic to learn
Learning to drive stick
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Mike Nasty
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Took me about an hour with pops burning up the clutch. After that it was smooth sailing. Great skill to have.
Once you learn the feel of the clutch and the rpm's to up/downshift at its pretty easy.
ask your girl 
NOBODY WANTS YOU TO WEAR OUT THEIR CLUTCH.
Mike Nasty
Veteran
Cause no one wants to sit there while you tear up their clutch. Now that I think back I'm surprised my dad was as chill as he was when he was teaching me.
The hardest part for me was not rolling backwards into the car behind me when I was on an hill.
Other than that, it's easy & fun - downshifting to come to a stop. My cousin and I would make a game of who was smoother at shifting gears and making the ride feel like automatic transmission. She always won.
Other than that, it's easy & fun - downshifting to come to a stop. My cousin and I would make a game of who was smoother at shifting gears and making the ride feel like automatic transmission. She always won.
Rent a car from a airport spot, get that extra insurance
That was my back up, instead went ahead and got this for $1500 just to learn
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Cop you a rental.
Cop you a patient/understanding tutor.
Cop you a bit of Youtube prep before hand so you can know what to expect.
Cop you some flat road/land/parking lot and get a feel for it.
After the first hour or so of ripping shyt up, you should get a hang of it or atleast know what's expected and how to operate. Try and practice on consecutive days, though. That way when you come back the NEXT day, you already know what to expect, alot of the nervousness you had before should be gone to very low provided you learned enough the first day, and just become proficient.
Also, I don't know where you live, but if you have hills...PRAC....TICE. 'cause it's all fun and games dealing with that shyt on the flat, but then you got to climb a hill and some bullshyt in the middle of it and you get stuck and start herking and jerking and you slipping and the car stalls out and you all
Like me and a mate were when we thought we was hot shyt 'cause we could operate standard on flat. Nearly slid into a passenger bus behind us, with traffic behind honking/hollering. shyt was one of the worse driving experiences of my life, bar none and I done been in crashes, nearly fishtailed off of cliffs and did 360's on hills trying to go up wet terrain.
Cop you a patient/understanding tutor.
Cop you a bit of Youtube prep before hand so you can know what to expect.
Cop you some flat road/land/parking lot and get a feel for it.
After the first hour or so of ripping shyt up, you should get a hang of it or atleast know what's expected and how to operate. Try and practice on consecutive days, though. That way when you come back the NEXT day, you already know what to expect, alot of the nervousness you had before should be gone to very low provided you learned enough the first day, and just become proficient.
Also, I don't know where you live, but if you have hills...PRAC....TICE. 'cause it's all fun and games dealing with that shyt on the flat, but then you got to climb a hill and some bullshyt in the middle of it and you get stuck and start herking and jerking and you slipping and the car stalls out and you all
Like me and a mate were when we thought we was hot shyt 'cause we could operate standard on flat. Nearly slid into a passenger bus behind us, with traffic behind honking/hollering. shyt was one of the worse driving experiences of my life, bar none and I done been in crashes, nearly fishtailed off of cliffs and did 360's on hills trying to go up wet terrain.
Mike Nasty
Veteran
If you have the parking brake in the center console you can use to hold the car on a hill until the clutch is engages. The better you get the less likely you need it.
desjardins
Veteran
Had a coworker try to teach me in his Accord coupe. Took like a hour in the parking lot and I couldn't get it down. Took him to Ihop and got him breakfast as a form of payment. The biggest issue is finding people like that who will let you practice on their car. The rental idea might be the best move
getting it into first is harder than it looks
that and the hill thing is the hardest part.
what helped me alot was to visualize how the gears and clutch are actually working.
how they are engaging.