How can I learn how to drive a manual???

Where do you live user? For a pizza and gas money, ill teach you.

You don't even need a car to understand and pin down the fundamentals of it. If you've ever rode a bicycle with multiple speeds, you already have a feel for how a manual transmission should behave.

Shit, it's one of the few things that video games are useful for. Literally any decent sim will help you understand what to do if you have to drive stick.

TL:DR; It isn't in any way shape or form difficult. Ignore all the self-celebrating faggots online who try to make it sound like the hardest task on earth.

>Confirmed for not driving a manual

Driving a manual is nothing like riding a bike, retard.

That inbetween feeling? Kinda similar if you're slow on the clutch

But he's not wrong though. the two experiences are very comparable.

>you already have a feel for how a manual transmission should behave.

>implying bicycles have clutches

>dat pic
top kek
clutches are so insultingly easy to use that they don't even warrant a discussion. It doesn't require ninja-like coordination to operate and a shift lever.

Semi-unrelated question:

Would I be retarded to learn stick on a new car? I don't want to go through the cost and hassle of buying, registering, paying tax on, etc, a cheap POS seeing as my current cheap POS is getting replaced with said new car soon.

I mean worst case scenario (baring shifting from 6th to 1st at highway speed) is I need the clutch replaced and some transmission work but all of that would probably pop up before the warranty runs out, right?

Make a Craigslist add offering 50 bucks an hour, seems like alot but other person is taking chance with you learning with their car

Nah you're just a faggot who drives an auto.

The damage you do to a clutch as a new driver isn't usually enough to kill it outright on a new car but might reduce its lifespan noticeably. With some bad luck, the problems will only manifest after the warranty has run out, leaving you stuck with the bill.

Ive been asking myself this for a while user.
What i really need to learn is if i throttle while shifting what happens?

Chevy has bulletproof tranny. Learn on a new Chevy if its new. Otherwise buy a pos as a backup/manual/learner.

If you throttle while shifting you will rev the engine and pop the car forward when you let the clutch out and it will be jerky as hell

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The best and cheapest way to go about this is to learn how to ride a motorcycle. It will teach you all the fundamentals you need to know for operating a manual transmission.

Once you understand the underlying concepts like friction zone, rev matching, etc.... you will have a very easy time applying them to a car. It's the exact same fucking thing albeit in a different format.

You can take a motorcycle safety foundation course for $250 (sometimes less) and you'll learn everything you need to know. You will also learn how to ride a motorcycle on the side and get your license (this course doubles as a road exam for the DMV).

Really the only thing to note is that the clutch in cars are a lot less forgiving than motorcycles since they aren't encased in oil, but it's not a big deal cause you're a fucking retarded pile of shit if you drive a car these days

Why do you want a stick shift car so bad? Once you get over the 17 year old need for speed mentality, you will eventually realize that manual transmissions are stupid. It looks fun and engaging to watch someone else do it but it really isn't, especially in traffic as you're upshifting from 1-3 or back down a million fucking times.

Stick shift is mostly a meme.

Because I've been driving auto for the past 15 years and I'm bored with them and I enjoy learning new skills.

There are no manual rentals here

Post your craigslist.

Just play some fucking forza or any game where you can shift manually.

Congratulations you know how to drive a fucking manual. The only thing you will need to learn in real life is clutch control

I can drive manual, but isn't a manually shifted motorcycle pretty different?

I had the same problem OP.

I posted a couple ads on CL with exactly what I wanted, and got about 50 responses before I got a legit one:

>heey i can teach udrive manual thiss is carlos u have to com to my brothr house thouh i get off worrk at 2 i ave ford ranger its ok to dirve simpel
>Hi, I'd be more than happy to teach you. I charge $500/day, which I think is fair.
>TAKE THIS AD DOWN YOU STUPID CLOWNFUCK YOU THINK SOMEONE WILL LET A STRANGER INTO THEIR CAR AND FUCK THE CLUTCH UP LMAO KILL YOURSELF
>I dont have a manual car for me to teach you with, but if you buy one, Ill teach you and it will be free but I keep the car

I finally found a nice dude who let me pick a fair price ($40) for about 2 hours. It's really, not hard at all once you can get the car moving, the basics at least.

These. Its shockingly easy to do.

dude named john taught me how in houston. i posted in Veeky Forums Veeky Forums and he replied

if you're already comfortable in traffic, manual should be real easy to learn. Takes some time to master it, but not long to actually get to a functional level

>Takes some time to master it, but not long to actually get to a functional level
while destroying your transmission in the process

>but i keep the car

all of my kek

Well, I can give you a tip. There's a rather inverse relationship between the throttle and clutch (for the most part) on a start. Tip in throttle, slowly let off clutch. I sometimes hold the clutch halfway for a smidge, let inerta break without jolting the car (best for econoboxes).

Granted, as for learning, if nobody you know has one, either rent one with a stick or buy a cheap POS and try to learn on that. If you can drive a cheap POS with a stick, just about any car is open to you.

>drive a manual
>future
>live in america btw

I really wouldn't bother learning, If you don't know how to by now you're already too late. The amount of manual cars in america is dwindling at an alarming rate. Your only option would be buying a cheap $500 beater and scrapping it after.

Watching videos or playing video games will do dick all. Thats like preparing for the "real thing" by using a fleshlignt and pornhub.

Personally I prefer a manual in traffic

Y-you mean that doesn't work?

You clutch with your hand and change gears with your foot, otherwise it's pretty much the same.

wai?

OP here

richmond.craigslist.org/

For starters

richmond.craigslist.org/cto/5687874543.html

isn't 700 a bit much for a car with 277k miles?

Also
richmond.craigslist.org/cto/5692963404.html
richmond.craigslist.org/cto/5617561726.html

Gotta talk em down.

It is an American board so yeah. Euroshits are the unwanted ones tho

hey 804 bro

Land of the FREEDUMBS!

You're like 4 years late

>richmond
Wanna come learn in my RX7?

you cant make an omelette without breaking a few eggs

I PLAYED COLLEGE BALL YA KNOW

>while destroying your transmission
Pffft. It should take no more than 3 weeks total to get to the point where you can do starting from stop, up and downshifting, and hillstarting. After that it's all minute detail. You won't wreck a tranny that fast.

>Thats like preparing for the "real thing" by using a fleshlignt and pornhub.
your imagination and your inner elbow*

that's how I learned to kiss

Today is the day for me. I bought an old, cheap firebird this morning and I killed it many times over the course of the day.

I do not feel confident in my ability and this is quite demoralizing and embarrassing to do in my late 20's. but I shall push on.

I learned when I was 17 and it was difficult man, but I can drive manual now! and I have a cool car to do it with.

I look forward to the day that I am as capable as you.

>did my driving licence 5 years ago
>didn't own a car or drive for ~4 years
>bought a 316i for ~300€
>had to drive back 120km on east european backroads at night

And that's how I learned stick. To be fair I did my driving test in a manual, but that was longer ago than me touching a woman

isn't it like riding a bike tho

Kinda, depends on where you touch them

Depends on how much practice you had, my practice was 1 hour weekly for 8 weeks and then 15min ride for people who came in earlier and wanted some free practice before the exam, and it was a 1.9TDI Fabia, so it was basically impossible to stall even on a hillstart. I still had to look up a youtube video just to get out of the seller's driveway.

I bought a 2016 Versa to learn on and even got a friend to drive it home for me. Learned enough in one day to take it to work and back and after a week I was comfortable enough to take it elsewhere. After a month, I no longer stalled it and now I've had the car for a couple of months, and the only trouble is revmatch downshifting, but I'm getting there.

what part of RVA are you from bro?

Basically practice and git gud

i practice on sims a bit and on a old tractor before i got the hang of it.

Still its a PITA for traffic and city driving but GOAT on back roads

Honestly though i prefer tourqe converters.

Give the old 4l60e a tune and its good as gravy

Play vidya. I'm not joking, I literally got the hang of a manny tranny thanks to playing Forza using manual.

THIS

also rally sims teach you how to let the gears hold you in a corner as well as drift and different grip levels while shifting

Go get a g27 used for shit all and load up fucken sims for days.

Try to find open road point to point tracks for daily and circuits for technical shit

Just keep at it, you'll get the hang of it.
I've found that newer cars with throttle-by-wire are harder to drive than ones with a mechanical throttle. Especially on more ordinary cars.

I literally just watched a fuckload of YouTube videos and then went out and leased a wrx. I got the car, took it to an empty parking lot next to the dealership, practiced a little, then drove it home.

I posted this anecdote to indicate the ease of learning. I forgot to complete that thought though.

Not OP, i offered $20/hour for the same thing once and had multiple responses.

I understand the basics of when to shift. The only thing i struggle with is, what do you do at a red light? Do you slow down and stay in like 4th gear and then shift straight into neutral?

Then what? What happens with the clutch at this point?

I feel like i would forget what to do at these little transition points and i hate that i dont know how to do this

wow no dude this is like BASIC shit you need to know this

go to a car park or empty road and practice start stop on hills and whatever

I dont have a manual

Just go like 1 2 3 4 5 and push it in R. The R stands for Racing

R actually stands for Rocket.

t. europoor

Okay...
Look, I got my license like 2 weeks ago.
3 months ago I couldn't distinguish between a gear lever and a walking rod. 2 months ago there was nothing I couldn't do with it. You can post your email if you want, I'll send you a mail with some instructions to begin with
and you can ask me whatever the fuck you want as long as it's not about road laws since I live in Europe and I dont know the US laws.

Unless you're a big fuck up, you're fine. I bought my dream car, E39 540i, and I learned stick in one afternoon. Just be easy on the clutch and take it slow.

The controls are self-explanatory. You start in the low gears and go up to the high gears as you go faster. You press the clutch all the way in to change gears. R is reverse and is usually too fast so you have to grind the clutch for precise maneuvers unless you are backwards dagumi.

Things like smooth starts and shifts are car specific and you have to learn by doing. The two most useful pieces of info you will ever get are "the clutch presses against your foot harder near the bite point, give it gas there" and "match the RPMs to the gear and MPH combo - you learn where they match up through experience". Otherwise, instruction is pretty pointless.

You learn by getting in a car with a stick and doing shit. Then you're stuck with it. Welcome to life and manhood. Now you understand why your dad is grumpy.

Some people just rev match/heel toe down to third or second and then go into neutral when they go below 2kish RPMS
Some people just pop it into neutral
Some people violently mismatch their way through every single gear because they learned to drive in britain.

At some cushy Ivy league school!

people go to neutral? I just hold the clutch down while in first for like 30 mins

Jesus fuck dude, or you enjoy it as part of the driving experience because they're fun. Banging a few power shifts on an empty road? Dropping the clutch and lighting the tires? I commute in a stick, stop making it seem like it's this terrible arduous task.

>Rev match down to second

Yep, that's me. Mostly because it's fun.

Probably don't want to do that. The clutch in my Mustang is just a little too stiff to do that comfortably at long lights, but even if you have a light clutch, you'll be saving yourself a lot of wear on your throwout bearing.

>be Malaysian
>be poorfag
>have choice to pick between manual and auto
>manual is 5x cheaper to learn and to test
>have to deal with manual even though I'll be getting an auto car
Have problems balancing both clutch and the gas. Keeps killing the car while doing an uphill start.
This is worse when you're asked to switch between multiple manual cars so you can't just get used to 1 type of clutch/pedal but you have to adapt yourself to many manuals.

But it's called MANual for a reason

This. Except it takes roughly 20 minutes to learn.
If you cannot grasp it after then you have the iq of a starfish

Shite opinion: The post

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same

>auto
>hold brake
>release brake a tiny bit
>press it down again
>repeat to maintain 3 inch following distance
>RIP leg

>manual
>clutch in
>pop it into first
>wait a minute
>wait a minute
>but not long enough for someone to cut me off
>start creeping ahead
>laugh at the guy behind flipping his shit and screaming "JUST MOVE ALREADY"
>nothin personnel kid

>shut off car
>inch car in neutral from incline using brake

Having driven both, yeah..pretty much.

And when you need to swerve out of the way of something, like the massive pile up being plowed in your direction by an assault truck?

Two less seconds between you and a mad dash over the sidewalk of safety can matter