Anyone else stalling their manual EB more than normal?

[JeffreyDJ]

Well, I still don't understand how everyone is stalling so much, you can feel when it wants to go! ;) But ... I wish when I put it in Sport Mode it'd stay in sport mode until I turned it off. Having to reset it every time you get in the car is a bit annoying. Which means I hardly ever remember to actually put it in sport mode.

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[GPhilly04]

Oh, I've stalled my new Ecoboost Premium any number of times! It does seem trickier than other cars I've driven but I've just about got it dialed in.

I killed it at least 4 or 5 times on the test drive. Now in my defense, I had been driving an automatic for 12 solid years. :frusty:

I've never had any problems in reverse, but getting the car going from a standing stop was tricky at first, and for the first week, shifting into second gear from either direction was dicey..

However after 2 weeks of driving it just about daily, I'm doing a lot better. Sport+ mode does help, though while I'm breaking the engine in, I'm leaving it in Normal mode most of the time and trying to acquire some finesse.

Now the thing that's even worse than stalling it is what I've taken to calling the "bucking bronco" where the car lurches and bounces my foot off the clutch pedal repeatedly. That's embarrassing. It's happened to me twice and my wife once so far...

I know EXACTLY what you mean. I've lurched through a few intersections in the first 2 weeks so far :(

 

[Max57]

Well, I still don't understand how everyone is stalling so much, you can feel when it wants to go! ;) But ... I wish when I put it in Sport Mode it'd stay in sport mode until I turned it off. Having to reset it every time you get in the car is a bit annoying. Which means I hardly ever remember to actually put it in sport mode.

That's the same as the Jeep Cherokee with that damned annoying engine Start/Stop feature. It's always on unless you press the button to turn it off. And you have to do that every time you start the vehicle. We just have to train ourselves to set these controls before we even put the car in-gear after we start up.

 

[Chris95GT]

I've only stalled mine once in six weeks, but I still can't seem to go from first to second smoothly more than about half the time I shift...

 

[pyrophilus]

I've only stalled mine once in six weeks, but I still can't seem to go from first to second smoothly more than about half the time I shift...

Me too, I had no problem driving 6spd manual before, no grinding clutch, near perfect shift from N to 1 and 1 to 2.

about 1/2 to 1/3 of the time on the EB mustang, I do the "bucking bronco", where the car bucks back and forth once or twice going from 1 to 2.

I can always grind the clutch and make a smooth shift, but I don't like to grind the clutch.

 

[loonysup]

I stalled out a couple times when I first picked it up but it was because I was going from reverse to third when I backed out of the drive way.

My last two cars were 6speed Acura TSX's so reverse was to the right of 6th gear. I thought the learning curve would be a lot longer for the Mustang, but it feels great now.


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[Rob00GT]

Those of you with the stalling issues, just out of curiosity which gear ratio does your car have? Did anyone opt for the 3.55 or the PP 3.75?

 

[TurboAg]

Those of you with the stalling issues, just out of curiosity which gear ratio does your car have? Did anyone opt for the 3.55 or the PP 3.75?

PP is 3.55...

 

[Dannyho]

I haven't had a problem with stalling, but I will agree that the clutch is so light that I have a harder time judging it than with other cars. That however does pay off by not tiring your leg out in traffic.

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