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Taught someone to drive stick in their tour...

Today, I took the bold step in letting someone else drive my car... I let my girlfriend get behind the wheel of my contour, without any prior experiance of driving stick, and I taught her how to drive it... Even with her bad left knee. She did a really good job, only stalled a couple of times... How many other people have taught people to know how to drive stick in their tour?

For some reason that would worry me... Invested to much money into the car for it to be a teacher...

I tried to teach my brother. He only stalled once, and it didnt leave the parking lot. I was just teaching him how to feather the clutch, because after first its all downhill

He did decently, but his legs were shaking because he was nervous, knowing full well if he broke the car id have to do the brotherly thing and whip the [censored] out of him.

My parents had 5 kids learning/relearning how to drive stick on the mystique and it was still on the orginal clutch/transmission when my brother totaled it at 150,000 miles. So I had no problems teaching people how to drive stick in my tour (142,000 miles on orginal clutch/transmission before that damn volvo rear ended me)

i taught my 14yo little cousin to drive a stick in my tour when our family when to glamis(desert) over xmas. she was not the first person i have taught but she was the youngest and the only one to use the tour to learn. she actually did very well and only stalled it once. the only bad thing she did was accidently dump the clutch at 3000 rpm, a stock diff btw. thank god we were in the desert and not on the road where the tires might have caught enough traction to start hopping.

I don't even like my parents driving the car, let alone teaching someone

~Alex

Aw, hell no. Clutches are too expensive in our cars. When someone wants to learn stick, they need to provide they're own car.

as much of a hardass as i am with most people i am pretty much a big softy when it comes to my little cousins

WAnan teach someone, rent a car, plus it's more fun anyway, or borrow someones zx2, those things are supposed to have some of the strongest tranny's around, jsut cause it's a younger target market, so they know it's gunna get a beatin.

~Alex