standles Posted October 19, 2005 Share Posted October 19, 2005 Simply put.... I HATE people that buy a stick sift and then take it into traffic without a *(&^*(^& clue as how to drive one. I know you have to learn sometime but not in heavy traffic when you can't keep it from stalling. Almost as bad is they work through the stall problem but now wind out the RPM and coast for 10 or 15 seconds while they decide what gear to use next. Of course this induces the sesaw spedometer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Cheely Posted October 19, 2005 Share Posted October 19, 2005 I feel your pain. Had something like that happen to me yesterday coming home from work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Murphy Posted October 19, 2005 Share Posted October 19, 2005 Probably going to see a lot more of this if gas prices keep up. I know 3 of my Apprentice's friends who traded in their SUV's for the new CIVIC w/ manual trans. I doubt they know how to drive it. Ted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooter Posted October 19, 2005 Share Posted October 19, 2005 Imagine if you work in San Francisco. Manual transmission with a newbie driver isn't going to be more fuel efficient than an auto. Most auto are within 1 mpg difference compare with manual transmissions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimel Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 They aught to make people pass a competency test before they can even test drive, let alone buy a stick. Back when I took driver's ed (1976) the fleet of cars the school had consisted entirely of sticks except for 1 auto...a large van. If you couldn't drive a stick when you started that class you sure could by the time you finished...if you finished. One gal put a brand new car (less than 100 miles on it) through the fence on the driving range (1/2 inch steel cable through 4 inch steel pipes set in and filled with concrete, 4 strands) at speed because she couldn't figure out how to drive a stick. Revved it reallly high, dumped the clutch and it, somehow, didn't stall and took off. She freaked and mashed the "brake"...well, you know, that pedal to the right of the brake. Being as the car was a brand new Chevy Camaro and had about 50 yards to pick up speed it was doing a right goodly speed when the catch fence did its job. Several orange traffic cones needed medical attention following the passage of the vehicle. Since the accident happened on state property the state police were summoned and we all got to learn how accident reports are taken. We also got to watch a field sobriety test issued at the request of the instructors. I often wonder if that person ever got her license or just moved to a city with mass transit. Those of us who had been driving sticks since we were old enough to reach the pedals just laughed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caspian_45 Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 Just wait till they get a cell phone call and have to shift in heavy traffic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhgtyre Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 I would be willing to bet that most people can't drive a stick well enough to save any on gas and that they are in fact burning more. I don't have any scientific data to back that up but most of the stick shifters I see are either "gods gift to the driving world" and they are zipping around like Speed Racer or they are the truely clueless and their cars are bucking around while they shift. -ld Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightkrawler00 Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 I just finished putting a new clutch, pressure plate, flywheel, and slave cylinder in a 2003 Chevy Duramax with about 34,000 miles on it. This is the second time I've replaced everything inside the bellhousing of this particular truck. The last manual trans. this guy had went through clutches like crazy also. Couldn't be the way the truck gets driven, could it? Not according to the driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Putty Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 I just finished putting a new clutch, pressure plate, flywheel, and slave cylinder in a 2003 Chevy Duramax with about 34,000 miles on it. This is the second time I've replaced everything inside the bellhousing of this particular truck. The last manual trans. this guy had went through clutches like crazy also. Couldn't be the way the truck gets driven, could it? Not according to the driver. Or its a Chevy...DOH! JK, I heard those Duramax are impossible to beat up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bountyhunter Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 Simply put....I HATE people that buy a stick sift and then take it into traffic without a *(&^*(^& clue as how to drive one. AMEN! TELL IT, BROTHER!They just had to have that "sports car" for their midlife crisis, but couldn't drive it if their life depended on it..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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