I have been driving stick for 2 years and last night I grinded going into 5th! Stupid me

 

That's nothing. Yesterday I was driving and accidently hit the windshield wiper switch. IT WASN'T EVEN RAINING!

 

You Doing That Made Baby Smurf Cry Irl

 

I've been driving stick for 4 years, grinded going into 2nd last week. I wanted to cry

 

That's nothing. I don't know how to drive stick and I stalled a manual at zoom-zoom live 7 times in 15 seconds and then drifted forward into a cone at 2mph.

Ok, so that wasn't actually me, but I saw it happen right in front of me. The RX-8 cried for help.

 

lmao the 8 cried for help

 

Hehe, I love people who think ZoomZoomLive and RevItUp are a place to learn manual... at least it makes waiting in line more entertaining.

 

How do you stall a video game.. Everyone goes full throttle in a game.. Even if you don't drive stick.. Push gas all the way down and then let off the clutch.. not like your going to blow the engine in a video game... Good thing I wasn't watching.. I would have gotten fustrated and I'm not even the one driving..

 

Who said anything about a video game?

 

that's nothing, i took a girl for a date and after parking my car in a kinda hill i forgot to put the e-brake so we got down and when i slam the door the car started rolling backwards i ran open the door and lift the e-brake and parked again....first date and 4 years of experience with stickshift.

how stupid can i be!!

 

I've done that a lot lately. It's because I can't bend my pinky finger and when I turn sharp corners my finger bumps into it. It doesn't happen every time but it has happened several times now. LOL

 

shift happens

 

NOOB!!!!! haha

 

My daughter constantly reminds me that her Mazda 3 is only a 5 speed after I attempted to shift into "6th" twice in one day.

 

Thats nothing, try stalling a Porche Carrera GT2 in front of the owner and having him notice........and you knowing how to drive manual, you drive a manual everyday and your job is about driving!!!

 

I must have hit R twice now while trying to get into 6th, usually when not paying to much attention to shifting... good GOD did I feel bad for my car, I took it to get washed right after cuz I felt dirty.

 

Even after 15 years driving manuals (maybe because they were all turbo-diesels), my shifthing is not exactly as Stirling Moss' (as one of my friends likes to point out). The good point is that I am getting much smoother in my shifting with normal cars, by better rev-matching and timid heel-toe...

 

Sadly enough the longer I drove stick the more often I ground my gears.

I don't do it often though. Just cuz when I was still a newbie, I was extra careful during driving. Now, I'm less careful and sometimes I do stupid things. :D I hate grinding though. Sounds like you really really mess up your car.

 

I had a similar "oh sh8t" moment last week as I went to close my door and had to jump back in b4 my 8 rolled away.

 

Recently I've flashed my wipers at someone recently... twice.

...instead of the high beams.

 

yeah every now and then i doa grind but sicne the i installed the RP short shifter it hardly ever happens, not once since i got it.

 

What is heel-toe shifting? lol Sorry for being nooby, ::slaps face with fish:: but I havent drove a stick in 7 years and want to get back into it. Im looking to buy an rx8 auto, but should I jump into the manual and relearn with this car? Or will I be doing more damage to the car then I should be?

 

bwahaha... for some reason I just visualized that and now I can't stop laughing... especially the "drifted forward into a cone at 2mph."

lol

 

Heel - toe shifting is when you use one foot to control two pedals.

Heel on the brake, to on either the clutch or gas, depending on which foot is being used, also depending on Manual or Automatic.

I never drive that way. People who do tend to go through brakes faster.

With the heel constantly hovering over the brake one tends to use it alot more. Often incidentally.

btw: Get the manual and re-learn. Buying an Auto8 is like buying a bicycle with one pedal.

 

I learned stick on a 3000GT about 9 years ago, so im decent. The up shifting is not really a problem... I think I have grinded into 2nd a couple times in rush hour traffic because I was super tired of shifting and didnt press the clutch all the way. The down shifting I have been working on... I have rather large feet so heel-toe is real hard for me to get down everytime... I normally just give the engine a quick rev to my estimate of the match a split second before shifting while applying the brakes.
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