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How to Shift Gears

You can move a car using only the clutch, and that’s Step #1.  That’s the “bite point,” your new BFF.

As is the emergency brake when parking, manual cars don’t have a “park gear” like automatics.

Read in online at Autonet.

Favourite line:

Lastly, don’t be intimidated. Europe is the opposite of North America in that the majority of cars there are manual; so there’s no way an entire continent is better than you, you got this!

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That 'Grinding the Gears' Sound

When you “grind the gears” while shifting,
the sound is these two plates rubbing together.

It’s a Honda, from their first ever Manual Driving School.  I blogged it here.

I did not grind the gears.

(click the link above to see an opposite POV video)

With me is Alen, the gentleman behind the event.  We’re in a 2012 Honda Civic Si HFP.

 

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