Teaching stick

[Muddycowboy]

sje said its hard cause shes just use to mashing on the gas, and she gets freaked out when the truck starts rolling backwards

 

[koda6966]

I love just being able to put the pedal to the metal
Automatics so easy, and i got a free hand.
Sticks more fun though

 

[Sunk]

Im re-learning stick (kinda) on my bike now, and the same ideas apply, but its way different. It's kinda weird shifting with the foot and doing the clutch with my hand, but as with a car, once you do it a few times you get the hang of it. Now when I drive the automatic truck at work my left foot is REALLY looking for something to do!

 

[kunar]

Now when I drive the automatic truck at work my left foot is REALLY looking for something to do!

i know it man! its annoying when youve gotta drive an auto and youre used to stick. also, if the auto's a floor shifter, ive got a habit of shifting out of drive at a stop sign without noticing it. next thing i know im in neutral or reverse

 

[koda6966]

First time my dad drove my brothers little car (Mitsubishi Mirage), he slammed it into park going about 50. Not a good idea with him in the passenger seat.
I don't even know how he did it honestly

 

[Hahnsb2]

Im re-learning stick (kinda) on my bike now, and the same ideas apply, but its way different. It's kinda weird shifting with the foot and doing the clutch with my hand, but as with a car, once you do it a few times you get the hang of it. Now when I drive the automatic truck at work my left foot is REALLY looking for something to do!

I kinda learned backwards from you. I started out riding motorcycles when I was like 12, it teaches you how to manage the throttle and clutch at the same time smoothly so learning on a car didn't take long.

 

[Black'03LevelII]

my first car (of my own) was a '71 VW Beetle, I bought the thing and had to have my mom drive it home because I didn;t know how to drive a clutch yet. She got it home and parked it, shut it off and handed me the keys, and then told me to figure it out. so I practiced getting it rolling from a stop both forwards and reverse. once I figured that out I backed it out the drive and took off down the road (with no plates yet, not even temp tags) and got the hang of it real fast as our street had a nice grade to it and I ended up with a car behind me at the stop sign. 15 yrs later I can;t stand to drive anything else but a standard, and I too have the same problem of "BORED" left foot when I'm in an automatic.

As far as tips for teaching goes, my best tip is to use someone elses car to teach in!!

 

[Kdawg532]

my pops started me out right in a 99 Ranger Sport was the first stick shift(vehicle) i ever drove. i didnt even stall out, he explaned it "Good and Simple" as he put it

 

[odie1969]

i've been trying to teach my fiance. she started doing really well the other day so i stop paying attention then at the next start of she stalled it 30 times and got really pissed off, and made me drive home when i jumped in the drivers seat i realized that she was in third gear. which intern was some how my fault. i really like the idea of lo range im going to try that next time. you guys got any other good tips

been there but mine car was a 91 sho putting out about 230hp with a race clutch in it. not my best idea. so after about 3yrs of trying to teach her I just gave up. I think she dose know how to drive just like to piss me off trying to teach her how. do to the simple fact of one night when I was shit face I gave her the keys and she drove home just fine.

 

[Twitch57]

ever had trouble starting an auto trans because you can find the clutch
and refuse to try to start the vehicle until the clutch is pushed in?

It happens to me every now and then when i drive my dads car early in the morning

Its kinda funny and embarrassing at the same time

Personally I love driving stick- otherwise it gets boring and it becomes easier to not pay attention.

 

[Redneckryder]

i drove my mom's grand am after only my truck for 6 months, coming up to the first stop sign, left foot went all the way down to push in the imaginary clutch, and somehow got the brake pedal instead.......abs worked in that car, i know that for a fact now.

on a side note, my mom ALWAYS wears her seat belt.....now

 

[Wicked_Sludge]

ever had trouble starting an auto trans because you can find the clutch.

my best one was when i jumped in an older f-100, left foot subconsciously found a clutch pedal and pushed it, right hand turned the key, then i looked down to discover there was no shifter to be found on the floor. i looked up in despair at what i instantly identified as a 3-on-the-tree..but not knowing how to shift it i had to shut the truck back off and walk inside to ask the old guy that owned it how to shift. luckily he found my youthful ignorance humorous and seemed to enjoy describing the shift pattern to me.

didnt have much of a problem teaching myself to drive my 5 speed s-10 (oh ya, im an ex-s-10 owner!) when i was 15 though. i think having a pretty good understanding of how the truck worked before attempting to drive it really helped me figure out what needed to be done to get it to move.

 

[Mark_88]

I did teach an ex g/f to drive my Skoda 5 speed (don't ask...)

But a reversal of the above I think is funnier...I was driving my new ex g/f's brand new 1991 Ford T-Bird and we were uptown going for dinner...I pulled into the left turn lane to enter the restaurant and was doing about 5 Kph when I forgot I was driving an automatic...

I hit the clutch, which turned out to be the brake because it was so large and slammed the auto tranny into park...we stopped rather suddenly and she almost hit her head on the windshield...the look she gave me was priceless and then she asked, almost innocently, "What are you doing to my new car?"


I felt like a total idiot...but somehow she forgave me for that one...

 

[RedRanger888]

Tried to teach my cousin to drive stick in an '89 VW Jetta diesel I used to have, and was selling to her. She had taking off in 1st down, the trouble came with the shift. Let off on the clutch instead of the gas, and tried to ram it into 2nd. CRUNCH!
Managed to limp it back to the house in 1st & 3rd, but it'd pop and jerk some. When her dad took it in they found chunks of 2nd in the bottom of the tranny!
Once she learned it though, she loved that car.

 

[ryan]

i taught a girl on my B2 with 33s and 3.45s. She stalled it once and then got it right away. I like to think it's because I'm an excellent teacher, not just because she was very smart