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Old 05-23-2014, 09:19 PM   #11 (permalink)
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The real trick is using all 3 petals at the same time vs the 2 and hand brake.



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My sidekick has the clutch switch bypass so I can start it in gear to climb out of a sticky situation.
Your design? Sometime it ticks me off that I have to get in to the car to start it especially when working on them.

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Old 05-23-2014, 09:28 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Cool

No, I copied it from a tacoma my uncle had. It had a push to start button that over rode the need to press the clutch petal down.

Lesson 2 is to show your children, wife, etc how to up and down shift without use of the clutch.
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Old 05-23-2014, 09:29 PM   #13 (permalink)
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I bet she blames the accident on the complexity of driving a manual and never buys one again. She should have been with someone that knows how to drive if she is that bad/dangerous.





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And I am pretty ticked off they switched their name scheme. I liked that the G37 was a 3.7. The Q60 is a 3.7. I've lost respect for them, as I did when BMW made their change.
I lost respect for naming conventions when they started using meaningless letters instead of actual names. I drive a TSX, and ride a CBR, which means nothing. Ninja, now that's a name.
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Old 05-23-2014, 09:37 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Children, WHAT CHILDREN! Somebody here know something I DON'T. Actually I'm an imposter .

Seriously:

Pivot your clutch foot with your heel on the floor.
The secret to driving a manual, eliminates the surge, jerk, surge, jerk. Teach them to get the car moving without touching the gas pedal.

Teach your children to breathe and float in water and be comfortable and the odds are great they will never drown. Exhale-inhale quickly, hold your breath longer, maintain positive buoyancy. Once they learn this swimming is simple. Heck, I can swim backwards like a shrimp.

Make scary easy.

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It would be interesting to know what happen in the prior to her stalling it on the tracks. Did she stop prior to the tracks as she should have done or stall it tiring to move it from a stop on the tracks.
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I never stop on RR tracks. I either coast across or stop before the tracks and then get moving so I can coast across. I somebody wants to go around me so they can be stopped by traffic on the tracks, then they die.

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I lost respect for naming conventions when they started using meaningless letters instead of actual names. I drive a TSX, and ride a CBR, which means nothing. Ninja, now that's a name.
Fair. I feel that way about the MKZ not being a Zephyr anymore, but at least Ford was honest that people want to say "I drive a Lincoln MKZ" and not "I drive a Zephyr."

I hope Datsun doesn't follow suit. At least at this point it's still a 370Z, even though they are pushing away the numbers.

Still bums me out a 528 isn't a five series with a 2.8 (2.0), anymore :/
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I hope she had gap insurance.

I never stop for rr unless there is a train or blinking crossings or a train horn, etc. Then I sit with engine off to save fuel.

When ever I see the name or infinity logo, I think of the SNL spoof commercial where they are refering to a sleek, new toilet.
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When my son was learning one of the things I made him practice was hill starts and how to maintain position on a hill using the clutch. Also how to cheat using the hand brake. Being in South Florida the only hill without traffic was a loading ram.
In my country the driving license tests are performed with manual transmissions, unless for disabled drivers, and hill-start must be done without the handbrake
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When I was driving the geo metro I had I use the excuse it was a stick shift to keep people from driving it. I had a friend from another country originally and he looked insulted. He said all the cars in his country were stick shift.

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In my country the driving license tests are performed with manual transmissions, unless for disabled drivers, and hill-start must be done without the handbrake

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