Re: Suggestions on learning to drive a stick shift
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Keep your foot off the gas. Let the clutch out slow until you feel it grab. When you feel it grab, just hold it there. This is not how you're normally going to drive once you learn, but you got to get used to that grab point.
So hold it there, still keeping the foot off the gas and let it out slightly slightly more, too much and you'll stall. This is just to get the feel.
Once you do this for a while and get the feel then you can do it the right way which is to give it just a little gas when you feel that grab point.
If you do it wrong, you'll either stall or the car/truck will buck like a bronco. When women learn, they always have a problem with the bucking thing.
Good luck and don't be intimidated.
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Try this on a slight incline so it'll roll gently backward and just get the car/truck to stop. Once you get better, try it on a steeper hill. This was the single biggest help to me when I was learning how to drive.
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