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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Try not to cruise in neutral. Better to be in gear whenever possible to reduce brake wear/make it easier to brake and ensure you have power to the wheels when you need it (e.g. an emergency situation).

Also, as fun as popping the clutch is, it’ll eventually kill your car.

Some advanced stuff since everybody else probably already covered the beginner stuff:

When you get the hang of driving stick, which you will pretty quickly, you can try matching revs on downshifts to smooth things out and then you can try heel toe with matching revs.

When you get really good you can shift gears without engaging the clutch just by rev matching, but don’t try that til wayyyy later. Can mess up the gears.

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  • [+] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Save gas, don’t have to shift through gears when coming to a stop, laziness.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Cruising in neutral doesn't save gas at all, the engine still has to run so gas is injected. When cruising with a gear, the wheels make the engine run so it doesn't need gas (not true for carburetors though if I'm not wrong)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    True, but living in a country where the majority of cars are still manual I can tell you that that myth still stands.

    We have electronic injection engines, you can stop with that neutral crap now.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Yeah, plus even carburetors engines don't burn more fuel being on a gear than on neutral so there's literally never an advantage to do that.

    People should just remember that cruising in neutral is not good, period.

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