anyone living in Toronto can teach me manual?

[grape]

Now decide to take on a serious step, owning a manual subaru.... but, I
still haven 't driven any manual stick yet,though I know the concept.

sooo, any one of you are willing to teach me manual lessons ? I live in
Toronto, and willing to pay a bit.

best regards,
Me

 

[Kurt C. Hack]

Only if your a hot brunette and make it work my drive from Detroit!



-Kurt

 

[ed]

Whoever teaches you, make sure they don't tell you to downshift the car to
slow down to "save the brakes". This will eat up the clutch and transmission
syncros quickly. Brakes are cheap to replace, clutches and transmissions
aren't.
Same when waiting for a light on a slope, use the brakes to keep the car
from rolling back, not the clutch.

Just remember this: anytime you are letting your foot off the clutch is when
there is wear (a small amount, mind you), not when it's all the way up or
down.

Ed B

 

[grape]

yuck!

I'd be very pleased if you r a hot brunette to teach me manual....

 

[Googler]

I just taught my 17 yr old son. Here's one tip... on level ground,
learn to get the car moving by using just the clutch, in other words,
no gas, just ease off the clutch enough to get it moving smoothly -
once you've got the feel of it, it will make the rest of the process
easier to master - good luck!

Jay M
Hillsboro, VA - USA
'03 Baja

 

[Dominic Richens]

I just taught my 17 yr old son. Here's one tip... on level ground,
learn to get the car moving by using just the clutch, in other words,
no gas, just ease off the clutch enough to get it moving smoothly -
once you've got the feel of it, it will make the rest of the process
easier to master - good luck!

I'll second that tip - seems to be the clincher

 

[Dominic Richens]

Now decide to take on a serious step, owning a manual subaru.... but, I
still haven 't driven any manual stick yet,though I know the concept.

sooo, any one of you are willing to teach me manual lessons ? I live in
Toronto, and willing to pay a bit.

Look up driving schools in the yellow pages. Almost all of them will put
you in contact with a teacher who in their own car (i.e. save your clutch),
will spend as much time with you are you think you need, for a mere 40$/hr

 

[grape]

how about rent a manual car? 40 dollar can be rented for the whole day.

 

[k. ote]

Whoever teaches you, make sure they don't tell you to downshift the car to
slow down to "save the brakes". This will eat up the clutch and
transmission syncros quickly. Brakes are cheap to replace, clutches and
transmissions aren't.
Same when waiting for a light on a slope, use the brakes to keep the car
from rolling back, not the clutch.

Just remember this: anytime you are letting your foot off the clutch is
when there is wear (a small amount, mind you), not when it's all the way
up or down.

Ed B

Rev-matching is okay though: clutch down, out of gear, rev engine, into
lower gear, clutch up, and let engine compression slow you down.
Downshifting directly and easing slowly up on the clutch so the engine
whines.. yea, bad for the clutch. A clutch != a brake.

Plus if you get used to revving while the shifter's in the neutral position,
the additional step of a double-clutch is easy to introduce to the learning
driver.

 

[Carl 1 Lucky Texan]

Count me in for this. Taught my wife this way in a big parking lot -
just forward stop reverse stop over and over again. Start in the drivers
seat and purposely dump the clutch and stall it, make it chatter/buck,
also demo releasing too slowly. That way they'll know before hand what's
gonna happen a few times instead of being shocked by it.Then let the
student takeover after they know what to expect.

Also, cemeteries often have nice enough roads for a little 1st-2nd,
2nd-1st stop and go practice with turns.

Carl

 

[amanda]

A clutch != a brake.

Wow, "!=" has become a part of standard English usage? I mean ..no one
complained about it. Cool.

 

[amanda]

Find a driving teacher who teaches foreign students. Typically the
instructor would be Chinese. They are much cheaper than driving school
but you have to use your won car, I think. Usually, you can find them
through Int'l Student Community at a university. If you don't know how
to go about it, follow this step if Canada also has similar programs
like in most US universities.

Sign up with Int'l Student Office to be a host to a foreign student.
Usually, the host invites the student for dinner on major Holidays.
Some goes further and extend invitation on other occasions, including
some picnics activities, etc.

My suggestion: say preference is a Chinese student because they are the
largest foreign student community and resourceful. (Indians also have a
large community but I don't think Indians tend to work as driving
teacher.) If the student is not too secretive, he/she may help you find
an instrcutor.

 

[BobN]

Find a driving teacher who teaches foreign students. Typically the
instructor would be Chinese. They are much cheaper than driving school
but you have to use your won car, I think. Usually, you can find them
through Int'l Student Community at a university. If you don't know how
to go about it, follow this step if Canada also has similar programs
like in most US universities.

Actually, you use your won car if the instructor is Korean. If he is
Chinese you use your yuan car.

Neigh...