I love owning a stick shift <3.

[Baltothewolf]

My battery died at work and I was wondering how the heck I was gonna get home, and my relieving guard said 'Why are you trippin, you have a stick!' then I said 'Oh yea duh! Bump start ahahahaha!' I love owning a stick over a auto <3333333.

[cowmeat]

Probably from all that EOC & P&G with the lights on

I go to work way before sun-up, so the entire time I'm P&G or EOC in the mornings it's draining the battery. Once in a while it needs a push, but I bump start as much as possible , so that helps

[Baltothewolf]

Originally Posted by cowmeat

Probably from all that EOC & P&G with the lights on

I go to work way before sun-up, so the entire time I'm P&G or EOC in the mornings it's draining the battery. Once in a while it needs a push, but I bump start as much as possible , so that helps

Oh no not at all, it died because I did a compression test on Thursday before I went on vacation and I put the spark plug wires in wrong. I killed the battery trying to turn it over to start it before I found the error of my ways and fixed it. I then jumped started it and drove it around the block to give the battery a little bit of a charge. When I got home Sunday I forgot, drove it to work and sat for 8 hours in my car with the inverter plugged in charging my phone and laptop. Lol.

[elhigh]

Devices that do more things for you...like automatic transmissions...mean you can't do as much for yourself.

Vive le manual.

[Baltothewolf]

Originally Posted by elhigh

Devices that do more things for you...like automatic transmissions...mean you can't do as much for yourself.

Vive le manual.

Yea I'm never going back to an auto except when I drive my Mustang which is a auto. Which will eventually get a 6-speed manual conversion lol.

[Edit]: my little brother got hit with the same thing, he got a '91 Jeep wrangler with a manual and he refuses to drive his Dodge Dakota which is a auto haha.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

I don't hate automatics, they're actually good for constant stop-and-go traffic, but when the battery dies it's a PITA. Even worse is when the starter is not working properly and not even a bump-start is an option. Once my dad bought an old Pontiac Trans Sport from one of my uncles, and it had a starter failure, it still could start but took longer to do so, and I was getting so mad at it that I have even considered to work around a manual pull-cord starter similar to the one used in marine outboard motors at least to be there as some sort of backup...

[niky]

This is/was for an upcoming article, but I'd like to leave it here....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdp7...W5QE_Z18Y3kXVg

[tvbd56]

I sold my 97 civic which was an automatic to buy any manual car, any manual car. I ended up buying my 90 CRX and I was criticized afterwards for buying an older car than the one I had. When I told people I jumped from an average of 37 MPG to 56 MPG they shut up

[jakobnev]

Getting an automatic is like hiring a retarded butler.

[oldtamiyaphile]

The starter in my MB100 always gave me trouble, I went through everything including eventually fitting a new starter, but nothing fixed it. It eventually blew a head gasket so the starting issue was never totally resolved.

At one point, I always had to find a hill to park on in case it wouldn't start.

One time it died in a car park, there were bays either side of the central drainage, with a slight slope either side. I first tried bump starting in reverse, but the slope just wasn't steep enough.

Eventually, I managed to rock the van back and forth across the two slopes, then with all my might pulling on the tow bar got the 2t van all the way into the parking space behind me. It was now backed up facing forward. All I had to do now was release the tow bar (I think I might have used my foot as a chock), run into the driver's seat as it rolled forward, put it in gear, release the clutch and go.

Took two goes at this method and about 20mins but I got it going!