No one I know can drive a stick shift. I want to learn but I dont have a stick to practice on. Ive been reading a bit and while it sounds different, it doesnt sound too hard. Im about to buy a car so whether or not I can grasp the basics makes a difference in what car I get.
Any advice or tips would be great.
Learning stick
Liam Cook
Lucas Gonzalez
It's not hard. But no amount of reading will do more than give you the basics of how it works. To learn to drive stick you must go and try to drive stick
Kayden Diaz
Most of what you learn will be stuff you find out yourself while driving.
Carson Bell
You will stall. Many times. Look up youtube videos, they help more than we ever could.
Jaxson Hernandez
Watch every youtube video about it and you'll learn super fast. Then just buy the car, and lug it home and practice. You'll suck for maybe a week or two,but you'll pick it up real easily and it'll become second nature.
Hudson Martinez
Practice
heres basics
>Smooth shifts
>Practice clutch bite point
>Practice shifts
>Practice hillstarts (Essential and uphill as well)
>Practice shift points
Just practice practice practice mate i am around a month in and just starting to feel "normal"
Christian Anderson
sit your ass in the driver seat and drive it. That is how you get good at it.
Protip: start off in 1st gear, SLOWLY release the clutch until the car starts moving barely, and finally balance it out smoothly with the gas. Don't melt your clutch by slipping like a retard or dump/lurch start. It's all about balance.
Jeremiah Baker
Only way to learn is to do it. Either find a car with a stick, rent one, or even go to a driving school. After doing it a thousand times, it'll be automatic, and you'll be doing it subconsciously.
Juan Torres
I dont have a car to practice with.
Im going to buy a car within the next 2 weeks. Im more concerned with being able to use the car at all than being good at manual.
Renting sounds like a good idea.
Sebastian Wood
depending on your budget and your value of your money, you may feel regret or buyer's remorse.
It'll pass as long as you stick to it and practice driving stick. It is basically like learning how to drive again if you've only driven automatic.
After a couple days or so, you'll learn when and how to prevent a stall just by pushing the clutch back in. Once you learn that, it's a long process of learning how to be smooth between gears (like the difference between 1&2 and 2&3) and not lurch everywhere.