Some tricks when driving a manual car pt.1

Just me doing some things in my car. A friend of mine bought his first manual, and I wanted to show him some things you could do to teach yourself better clutch control

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Fiat
• Cinquecento
• Sporting
• Driving
• clutch
• manual
• shifting

[mrice102888]

Hey, Gooney87, please help me out. I have a 1997 Honda Prelude 100% stock. Is it normal and/or safe to very slowly and easily take the car out of gear without the clutch? I did it by accident driving down the road, and heard no bad sounds, but somehow it feels in my mind to be bad for my transmission. Is it?

[Gooney87]

@mrice102888 It kinda is and isn't. Non-answer, I know.

If you accidentally do it once, it's ok. You can do that without hurting the gearbox, as it's 50% of shifting without a clutch. But if you do it too roughly, or hear griding noises coming from the gearbox, that's bad.

So don't do pull your car out of gear without the clutch, as it's bad habit and can potentially damage the gearbox, but once by accident is no problem.

[Gooney87]

It's a '96 Fiat Cinquecento Sporting.

[Dynamicedeception]

Where are you from? Very subtle accent o.O

[Gooney87]

@Dynamicedeception I'm Dutch! :)

[Zeroto90]

Dont you mean let the clutch caught up with the engine? but anyways what kind of car is that, i cant reconize it at all

[Gooney87]

About your first question, yes, that's what I meant. I thought I said that too, but I might have worded it wrongly. It's a '96 Fiat Cinquecento Sporting. It was never available in the United States, but in Europe they're pretty common.

[qpalzmqm]

"...when you release the clutch, the car goes slowly forward..." -_____-

"pt.1"

I thought I was going to see a tutorial for rev matching, double clutching, heel and toe, clutchless shifting, e-brake drift, quick shifting, power shifting, gear skipping.

[goodlife6942]

mm trust me once you star off with a manual car u never want to switch to auto i have 2 cars one is a Toyota Camry S 5 gears and the other one is a pontiac GT sport, Both manual. And in my opinion the Toyota Camry is the perfect car for a beginner is really a tough car to brake and easy yo learn plus u don`t waste any gas at all the pontiac in the other hand its more costly but a damn good car.

[MrVlammende]

Lol, zit ik random schakelfilmpjes te checken, kom ik op dit filmpje uit dat opgenomen is in Amsterdam Noord hier in de buurt :P

[mrice102888]

@Gooney87 Cool, thanks! That was bugging the crap out of me.

[withaspoon94]

theres like no foot space

[joshster89]

The pedalbox is very small on this car (as in your three pedals are in a very small space). What kind of car is this?

[captaindroid]

That engine really purrs.