xDUMPWEEDx
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6th is a freeway gear for me. I never use it on any city roads. 5th can easily handle anything below constant freeway speed.
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Any more . . . do the drivers' ed instructors themselves even know how to 'drive stick'?The only time you are slipping your clutch is at start off.
Who slips a clutch while driving because you are in the wrong gear?
Do they teach manual driving in drivers ed?
Best answer to date, NoVaHonestly, the lack of mechanical sympathy around here is astounding. Like, unless it's a written instruction, it's impossible to figure it out for yourselves. It's like some of you are robots, with no feel or flow to what you're doing.
Look, you shift into 6th at low RPM when you are cruising gently and quietly, relaxed. You shift at 7000RPM when you are out-running the cops at max attack down the road. And then there are a million points of light between those two.....
Shifting, when and how and at what RPMs, is situation dependent.
. The service manager at the dealership told me 1st gear is a launch gear and to use in 2nd if I am not racing. .
And you're better off for having learned it that way.I learned to drive stick on an '81 Fairmont wagon. No tach. Just had to listen and feel my way through it.
Mine was my dads 67 Beetle...And you're better off for having learned it that way.
In my case, it was a 1956 Chevy (six-cylinder, 3MT, no tach).
No tach on my Dacia Logan. I just press the pedal until that little 898cc turbo engine hits the red line. 90hp of bouncy fun.My 97 civic hatchback didn't come with a tach lol. A good friend later gave me one from a higher trim civic that he junked.
throttle lever on the steering column... spark advance on the dash.Respect to anyone who learned to drive in a Ford Model T.
Morris Minor for me.
Have you driven one?throttle lever on the steering column... spark advance on the dash.
One pedal for high-neutral-low, one pedal for reverse, and one pedal for a brake...
easy peasy.