Tips for starting up a hill: Step 1.) release the brake with the clutch in, in 1st gear. Step 2.) roll and smash into the person behind you Step 3.) explain that the RUclipsr told you not to use the clutch or you’ll hurt it
"never brake without engaging the clutch" nope. Engine braking is important. It helps you slow down faster and save your brake rotors. Brake, then push in the clutch as the engine RPM drops below 2000 or so. That way you get good engine braking without causing any harm to the drivetrain.
And then if you need to slow down more you can always downshift unless you're in first although if you're on the highway in first gear you're going to have a lot more problems than a slightly worn out engine.
Italian here: I never had an automatic vehicle so I always drove manual. Some of the points are right, but some are a little bit too much, like resting your hand on the gear stick. You are right that it can damage the gear box, but only if you push...and the damage is near to nothing, compared to, for example, grinding gears. Just enjoy manual shifting, do not feel the pressure of other cars and take your time.
It's actually very desirable to have your hand on the gear stick (as long as your hand isn't adding pressure on it) in order to switch immidietly up gear or down depending on what happens on the road.
@@ahmettanriverdi5238 Just the fact that in my country manual transmission was normal. The automatic transmission is only becoming the standard in the last 10 years or so.
no it is not. You can change the gear without using the clutch. "clutch-less shifting" is a real thing. Before changing gear, you get the car in a state where the engine is neither applying force to the transmission, nor the wheels are back feeding torque back to engine. In that state, you can simply take out the gear. Then will in neutral, you RPM match the engine to the transmission and then you can engage the gear without using the clutch. Yeah that needs training. Yeah it is not intuitive. Yeah it is unnecessary. But: Some people drive that way and if nothing else: The clutch wear is almost nothing (you still need the clutch for full stop and start from full stop), so there is a benefit.
If you touch the shifter too long: DEATH If you rest your foot on the clutch: DEATH If you release the clutch too slowly: DEATH If you don't park in gear: DEATH If you drive a manual: DEATH
When I first learnt to drive, I remember I was bit confused about the right gear. My friend told me your vehicle will tell you which gear she wants. I applied this trick to both car and scooter and it became easy. Actually the engine noise and stiffness are the indicators.
Your completely right, I was told the gears represent the speed you want to go for example 1st gear you would never go more than 10mph, 2nd gear 20mph, 3rd gear is 30mph, etc, never had a problem using that as a rough guide
@@saswatmohanty8132 actually the engine makes a bizzard sound like khar khar or rrrh. Sometimes I don't shift down intentionally I get such sound and apply brakes to slow down and then pump the clutch pedal to gain speed again
@@saswatmohanty8132 Basically the same: if you are slowing down and want to shift down, the stick will actually 'tell' you if you can do so: if you go to fast, you will feel that the stick will provide quite some feedback in a way like 'No way I'm going into a lower gear! You're going too fast!'. You will feel the stick protesting your requested action: if you get to a speed where it gets possible to do so, the stick will almost automatically slide into the right position but if you are just below the limit where it will just restrict you shifting down, you will hear the engine revving up quite a lot and cause quite some engine-braking, even in such manner that you will know you were a bit early. You can always try this by speeding up to 3rd or 4th gear and than try to go back to 2nd in one go: getting it from 4 to neutral will be no problem, but you will definitely feel the stick protest if you try to get it to 2nd gear while you are still at speed. Ofcourse, do not force the stick into position, it's doing all this for a reason, telling you to slow down more.
When you know how to WHiiiiiiiP a vehicle......I repeat WHIP....you can drive a manual CORRECTLY if you're barefoot or have on heels!! It's all about seat and steering wheel placement..... I know cuz I've done them BOTH and not just once.
Just a tip for begginers. R stands for race. The car goes automatic and its so fast then. Edit: I just visited my old RUclips account almost 4 years later and... HOW THE F*** DID I GET 10K LIKES!?
Watching this was like watching a cheap horror movie where no one on screen does or says anything right and we're all just laughing the whole time at how bad it is 😆
Well the older transmission gears weren’t as sleek and in unison as the newer transmissions. In fact I believe their design never intended for the gears to match the same speed before shifting, causing a grindy, terrible noise every time you shift gears but im recalling this from my bad long-term memory.
Just an american term i guess, I have never heard anyone call it an emergency brake apart from americans. Where I live everyone calls it the hand brake since its a brake you operate with your hand.
8:00 "never slip your clutch! it will destroy it!" ... Uhm... the point of the clutch is that it slips to enable smooth gear transitions. I agree with "don't drive with your foot resting on the clutch", since that WILL fuck it up, but using the clutch as it was intended and designed to handle (to start from a standstill & to absorb the difference in RPM between the engine and transmission when changing gears) isn't going to kill it. A clutch is a consumable. Consuming it in less than 100k km usually means you abused it (or used it predominantly in heavy city traffic or while towing large loads on hills often). If it lasts you 150-200k+ km, then it served its purpose.
I’m pretty sure he didn’t literally mean don’t use the clutch as intended. I’m assuming he’s simply saying don’t slip it more than you need to. I can hear a lot of manual drivers slipping their clutches while rowing thru the gears. That is NOT how the clutch was intended to be hsd
I drive my car whit It's original clutch in it, It has 300k km and I think it will least another 50k km and I do used it some times to prevent roll back from a hill
My major disagreement here is using your parking brake at a red light or on a hill. Why use your hand brake? If I'm going to be at a light for more than a few seconds, I always shift to neutral and hold with the brake.
Btw don't disengage the clutch everytime you brake, but only when you're about to stop. Braking while clutch is disengaged denies engine brake, resulting in longer braking distances and more brake pad wear. Also, if you happen to oversteer, or lose traction to the rear tires while braking, it's pretty hard to correct if you can't accelerate.
Also keeping the clutch engaged for long periods of times puts strain on it`s components, mainly the friction disc, and it wears a lot faster. Whilst the car is moving, you should only press the clutch when shifting gears and press the clutch whilst braking only when you`re about to stop to a standstill, even if you could put it in neutral and brake to a stop.
@@mariusrutza agreed, but it's not the friction disk that wears, in fact if the clutch pedal is fully depressed then there won't be ANY wear at all on the friction disk just the bearing.
Are you insane the clutch should be always pressed with the brake or you want to stall every time you loose enough speed, thats unless your speed is way over your top gear then you don't need to press clutch.
@@vinportobg tell me u nvr driven a manual without telling me!..haha bro the engine aint gonna die unless it drops below idle...an aslong as ur revmatching very lil wear is happening to the clutch..its normal wear
@@MelancholicSaiko he’s saying that coasting in N means the car is idling. I guess if you do that too long, you can harm the engine. It’s a dumb statement because you’d need to be coasting down a mountain the size of Everest to coast for that long.
9:42 A manual transmission is just a simple gearbox. There is no oil pump in a manual transmission, so coasting downhill in neutral doesn’t starve a gearbox of oil.
It's for the US market, so they must make it look like it is hard to do. Not sure why they complain about the gas price, it's 1 third of what we pay, but hey.
1:53 Should be renamed to: "NEVER STOP THE CAR WITHOUT ENGAGING THE CLUTCH" Like hell I'm gonna be doing 120kph down the highway and press the clutch if I have to brake down to 100 kph.
yeah, clearly they haven't drove manual in their life, engaging the clutch before braking is flat out dangerous, staying in gear (or downshifting if not a sudden situation) actually helps braking and keeps better control of the car. most average manual drivers know when to clutch so the engine doesn't stall. btw, i haven't seen anyone doing this.
@@levguguchkin1580 this!!! I was cruising 100kph and just over the hill there was a long line of traffic backed up because there was a massive hedge trimmer clearing the trees up ahead, I slammed on the brakes immediately lmao, I was taking my mates for a road trip 3 hrs away, anyway I have a 96 civic so not the best brakes but I stopped mere centimeters from the car infront of me, and that shook me to me core and foe the rest of the drive all I could think about was, damn should have downshifted to slow quicker but didn't even cross my mind at the time, anyway story time over
When braking, you should use your clutch pedal just before stalling the car. While in gear the car holds itself a bit so it is safer to brake while on a gear. If you press the clutch before braking, nothing will hold the car so it will be much more dangerous and unstable to brake.
I laughed so hard when he said if you coast in neutral your gearbox doesnt get lubricated with oil because there is low oil pressure in the engine... i was like hold up thts not right engine oil pressure had nothing to do with gearbox oil
Yes my thoughts exactly... the real dangerous issue is the increasing speed and zero engine breaking causes the physical breaks to overheat quickly and fade and he didn't even mentioned it
I think in some autos that might be true but coasting is not an issue in a stick shift. In fact coasting can be handy when you don’t wish to slow down via engine braking but don’t need to be on the gas either.
9:42 "Coasting in neutral cuts the engines oil supply"...... No bud, it doesn't, lol. That's not how oil pumps work. Can't even use that argument for the transmission either.
@@She1lby it does lower it but you are directly lowering your transmission use so it doesn't matter, there's nothing to be lubricated so why should the car lubricate
@@She1lby dude, the transmission's gears spin as the car goes no matter what, so if the car goes, the gears get oil, period, doesnt matter if the clutch is down or up
@@hephaistosthesmith2069 "lowering transmission"? What do u mean, on neutral engine just gets it's normal lubrication because it still rotates and transmission rotates with the speed of the car as well.
Also, don't change from 5th gear to reverse because even though it's faster than waiting till you're in first gear, you could cause a slight damage to the gearbox
@@cloudshifterit sounds horrible and leaves you feeling stupid and nervous (its my 1st week owning a car) i was trying to downshift from 5th to 4th and accidentally caused a loud grinding noise that shivered up my whole arm… i was doing like 80km p/h ended up ‘coasting’ and shifting to 3rd (avoiding that lower right corner) why tf isnt the gearbox more visually intuitive LOL thar weird leather cover over the gearstick seems to make it harder to feel what gear you’re selecting (I drive an old berlingo btw)
@@cloudshifter my car wont let me shift to reverse if the wheels are spining forward, even if just a bit. id say in high speeds you would just hear a nasty grind but wont let you shift
@@waldolemmer Replaced clutch costs in most cars (family cars Europe) like 250 to 400 dollars depending on your engine displacement, complexity of the operation etc but this is the average lol. You also change it once what every 200 thousand kms or 150? Its expensive when you have a V6 sports car yeah the price can like triple from that (even that isnt super expensive considering how long will it last you).
DOABLE! It requires 1.stong enough engine to pull the car up without stopping on the step 2. 2.stong enough neck(so it wont get snapped when you suddenly release the clutch) 3.weak enough hand brake so it will fail if you accelerate without releasing it :D
Never brake without engaging the clutch...? Why make completely incorrect statements if you're attempting to educate...? Edit: I'm going to assume he means if coming to a complete stop.
I wondered about that one too. Downshift, of course, but keep the engine engaged. With modern synchronized transmissions you can go all the way down and clutch finally just before stopping. In my first cars sixty some-odd years ago, going into first (of three back then) required double clutching, and the first I had that synced first gear was a 1967 Chevelle my wife and I bought new when I graduated from college. I've never had to replace a clutch on a car, though some have gone 150K miles, sometimes without needing brake jobs.
Never brake without engaging clutch ... YES and NO !! At high speed emergency braking, use engine braking (in addition to the brakes) and then engage clutch once vehicle speed is down to reasonable speed.
And probably most other continents. As far as I know North America is the only region where the majority drives an automatic transmission car, in Europe and most African and Asian countries people drive manual, and probably the same thing in South America.
I tried to teach my son-in-law how to drive manual. I gave up trying after 45 minutes in a church parking lot. It was an old chevy S-10 that was a junker so I didn't really care about him ruining it. He must've put about 50K on that clutch that day and never got it out of the parking lot. Sad. He's from Trinidad, so it's not just an American problem.
about the keeping your foot on the bite point when stopped on a hill. keep your clutch down or have it in neutral while your waiting. when your ready shift into first, find the biting point and release the brake and give some gas. don’t sit there holding at the biting point for more then around 6 seconds. that’s what messes up the transmission.
@@assassin_asa yeah, since you should just go straight, i honestly hate 10 and 2 or 9 and 3, its uncomfortable for me to have both arms bent for long periods, unless something is under my elbows
For the gear grinding one, there's a synchronization process that happens to prevent it, but you have to hit the clutch before you shift, otherwise, you'll grind the gears.
Honestly in manual cars, the gear switch is the easiest thing to learn. You simply let go of the gas, slam clutch, change gear and then slowly let go of clutch. The bigger shift the faster you can let go of clutch.
The best thing you can do for your clutch is rev the engine to redline and let your foot slip off the clutch pedal while in 1st gear. This will help to resurface the flywheel allowing for smoother shifting in the future. 👍🏼
As in, if someone is about to rear end you, or you're in a turn about to get T boned and need speed to get out of the situation..Yes, extra speed is often needed during emergency situations
Many of these 'tips' are not applicable in every situation. 1:20 - clutches aren't that expensive, obviously you don't want to needlessly damage a clutch, but after 10-15 years most clutches start to wear to the point they need replacing shortly anyway. 2:45 - no need to leave car in gear UNLESS you're on a hill. Also, most newer cars have a safety feature that prevents the car from rolling when the engine is off, mine from 2011 is one of them. 4:00 - depends on whether the lights are about to change. There is no point in putting your car in neutral at a red light if you're going to be changing again 5 seconds later. 6:00 - No point in handbraking on a hill if you're literally moving a few seconds later. 7:30 - you would always use the brake first before the clutch, the only difference in the winter is that you should drive in a higher gear to avoid skids and also avoid harsh braking where possible
"Never brake without engaging the clutch" Complete mis-interpretation, it's completely unnecessary to engage the clutch when breaking unless you plan to stop, change gear or the RPM falls to a speed where stalling will occur. If your gonna educate, get the facts right. Furthermore, for anyone in the UK seeing this, you are taught to keep your car in gear at a red light, UNLESS your expected to be stopped for 5 or more seconds, again, get the facts right - different countries have different rules, and honestly, as long as the clutch is de-pressed, it does it no harm keeping it in gear at a red light.
@@dieter2889 agreed, but the release bearing can take the stress more than they let on. I used to always stop with the transmission in gear. Had to replace the clutch before the bearing went bad. Then the vehicle got totaled by a rear ending🤷 But it's better on everything overall to be in it's "natural" position, as it is with most things.
@@dieter2889 yes this, in pole position, you need to be the fastest as to ensure the most cars can pass during a green light. It's the polite thing to do
I have driven manual transmissions for many years. First was a Chevy Pickup with 3 on the tree. I can even drive an unsynchronised transmission without drama (Ford A). Years ago, I was scolded by a mechanic for keeping my foot on the clutch and my hand on the shifter. Really good advice. My clutches lasted a long time, except for the XJ.
@@theunknownguy265 nah mate, VW diesel, cylinder head cracked and had to get a used engine, didn't bother replacing the clutch. Fitted the original onto the new engine still hasn't let me down
@@dsntrllymttr it is still very literally one of the very first things you learn while learning to drive manual. Even when you a using a tractor on a farm: People learn that quickly as it is strictly necessary.
Lol, i started taking manual motorcycle lessons before car lessons and I have to admite than during the first half of the lesson everytime I stopped the moto just died lol
@@dsntrllymttr They don’t anymore. I just got my first manual car and having to throw out automatic and restart is actually far worse for someone who has driven only automatic for almost 15 years compared to a teenager with a Clear slate. I was the only one in my family that was never taught and I feel so hopeless because they never bother to teach manual. I learned how to gear shift as a kid but that’s it. Everything else I fuck up and don’t want to wreck or ruin my engine. 🥵 I wish they would have forced us to learn stick cause I’ve always wanted to learn but never had the chance until now.
1:47 I’m guessing you’re referring to, pushing the clutch just before the car stops. 2:40 It is okay to leave the car in neutral if you’re parking on a flat road while still having the handbrake up. 4:27 Does the brake pedal mean nothing to you? 9:05 Coasting in Neutral is sometimes bad, but it doesn’t damage anything. Maybe for automatics, but not manuals.
But a lot of modern commercial trucks with automatic transmissions actually go into neutral automatically if you come off both of the peddles to save fuel, if it was harmful to the drivetrain why would they be engineered to do that?
Coasting in neutral won'T overheat ur engine lol, ur engine is "idling" then, yet air flow through radiator is what it would be if u were "working" the engine so...
@@mikalarrington8112 Yeah but, ur engine is only making more heat when u accelerate, initiating combustion, that's where the heat comes from. I get the oil is pumping at an engine spin rate, relative to crank and cam and all the in betweens, including water pump. But at an engine idle, ur not causing more heat to be made and that alone beginns to increase cooldown. I get ur pumps are slower, but the airflow is also faster, cooling it at a higher rate than it normally does in a stand still position. I've literally watched my temp gauge go down when I coast so... I know my instruments is crispy cuz I keep them, proper, at least I try to within my limits...^^
@tiny ate I get what u saying ur just forgetting that the throttle is closed and the air getting through is a small amount and the oil going through is not enough to cool it efficiently the damage is minute and over time components will break down faster than what it is supposed to
If it's bumbler-to-bumper on the freeway I take off in second gear.most of the time from a dead stop so that I don't over rev as I would if I take off in first gear. I do engage the clutch and brake on a hill at a red light. No problems after 20+ years of doing that with my two cars, 1999 M3 & 1992 Nissan Sentra SER.
Over here in Ireland, the vast majority of people drive manual. An automatic car is almost as rare over here as a manual is in the US. I agree though. A manual car is a drivers car.
No problem for the engine really. It's just very unsafe and you'll wear your breakpads/rotors prematurely + worse MPG. I live in the EU (Portugal) before you say you know better.
In Europe (or at least in The Netherlands) you’re taught to put your car in neutral and engage the handbrake instead of putting it in first gear when parked. The reason for this is because a lot of people forget to push down the clutch before starting the engine. Which causes your car to shoot forward a bit and stall the engine right away.
It's fine to put it in gear on a hill or something, but on a flat it's better not only because you stall but mostly because most people forget the handbrake and park the car only on a gear.
@@Vert_GreenHeart you want your car stable, that is a standard in germany, everyone puts it in first gear, probably because of poland they just roll it unto their truck lmao
Putting the car into a lower gear when slowing down helps a lot with braking, so I disagree with the "hold the clutch while braking" it just causes more wear on your brakes.
Either a good thing or a bad thing depending on where you were taught to drive. In France, for example, they teach you to use the gearbox to help slow down; in the UK the advice is "Brakes are for slowing; Gears are for going." Today's brakes are so efficient I don't really see any need to use the box as well. And which would you rather wear out: a £100 set of brake pads, or a £2,000 gearbox?
@@MSM4U2POM And those people are teaching others? If you don't know how to shift, then you will destroy your transmission regardless. If you are good at shifting then actually cause bigger wear on the clutch. Not to mention you loose the ability quickly accelerate.
@@Megaranator I think he explained it badly. The way they teach it in the UK is to use engine braking and work down through the gears but do it without slipping the clutch, using the brake to match speed to revs. That saves clutch wear, keeps your gear appropriate to your speed and uses cheap brake pads to absorb excess energy. Exactly the same way that good drivers everywhere do it.
It amazes me that some people don’t know to leave the gear in first when parked facing uphill and reverse when parked facing downhill.It’s one of the first things I was taught when learning to drive.
@@masssssy sometimes handbrakes need to be tightened (as is the case with my car i'll have to tighten it again soon) so sometiems the handbrake slips because it's not putting enough pressure on the brakes and the weight of the car just pushes it down
@@trainiax Are you saying if you turn the engine off on a hill with no handbrake it won’t make any difference to the car rolling away whether it’s in first or reverse?
There are still a few manual transmission trucks that don't have synchronized transmissions. The last one I drove was in a tri-axle dump truck. I loved that truck.
The never clutch while braking is arguable, when you're going downhill, especially those steep ones, you can use the engine brake to control your speed when going downhill, of course this is not something to rely on, but it's less trouble for your brakes as you aren't getting too much speed. However, this is something to pay attention as the video's point is true, if you got yourself too slow for the gear you are on, the car may end up wanting to gain more speed, so do by all means clutch when you really want to slow down especially for the curves on the road. Now the last tip is weird, never heard of oil being affected by having the gear on neutral, the point that was supposed to be there is to reduce stress on the brakes as on neutral the car will keep trying to gain speed, the engine brake prevents you from going over the speed you wanted.
Brakes are a lot cheaper to replace than transmissions. Loading the gears on the opposite sides of the teeth from using engine braking has been known to cause wear on the teeth,
I've done 4:41 a lot in my grandpa's old truck. It has a very shallow pedal, meaning there isn't a lot between full throttle and no throttle. It also has a heavy clutch with a hard bit point that can be hard to release right. That thing has shaken so much I might as well be a smoothie.
I can agree with most of this other than the coasting in neutral in a manual transmission car. It can save gas on some older models because fuel cutoff is not a standard across the board so some used cars with manuals older than 10 years don't have it. Also, neutral coasting a manual transmission causes no harm; it does not have a pump. that's automatic transmissions. and even then, it depends largely on the auto transmission itself. Just look up flat towing for a list of automatic cars that are ok to neutral coast.
being in gear is far safer and better than coasting in neutral, and uses less fuel as the wheels are basically turning the engine. have run into brake fade going down hills in an automatic which was pretty much like being in neutral
@@jassenjj none of these manual transmission cars had fuel cutoff. 1993 mercury topaz . 1999 Ford escort zx2. 2005 kia. Rio. 2010 Chevy Aveo. Only manual car I have with fuel cutoff is a 2012 mini Cooper Clubman. And even then, coasting gets better mpg. I get 42 mpg out of the mini.
Joost de Bruin my cousin used to do that. i somehow managed to convince him how dangerous it was. it’s not worth risking your car into an accident for that.
4:00 Here in the Netherlands you are literally forced/taught to always be in gear. Shifting your car to neutral at a traffic light makes you instantly fail your exam. The idea is to be ready to take off immediately and not to slow down traffic. Funny how an entire nation is taught to destroy their cars.
I learned on a manual trans. It's a trans swapped S-10 from the year 2000. And my dad apperntly has been teaching me well as I know all of these things already.
I've owned 32 vehicles, 31 were manual. Still own a manual except for my truck since they dont make it in manual. Knowing how to drive a manual is a must if you want to ride a motorcycle. Also, buying a preowned manual vehicle in america is scary because you never know if the previous owner learned on it or not lol since manual transm isnt too common here.
when going downhill you should just use the engine itself for breaking. if you take your foot off the gas, the engine will try to go down to lower rpm but through the transmission the wheels will force it to stay at higher rpm. this way the engine will work as it normally would without using any fuel and the tug of war between gravity and the engine's attempt to slow down will keep your speed almost constant (depending of the steepness and the gear you are in).
@@orlandoanderson123 Yeah, I learned how to drive many in a week. Of course, little situations like launching off a steep uphill I haven't gotten to try yet, but I've learned the mandatories in a week, it was very easy to adapt to it.
djxr177 gamer its not as hard as it sounds. It’s kinda like tying your shoes. Once you learn it you’ll never forget. It’s like second nature for me at this point.
The main reason, by far, for not coasting downhill in neutral is that you must use your service brake to maintain speed, heating up the brakes that can lead to brake fading( braking power sererly reduce to almost none). When going downhill use engine braking, especially on heavy vehicles, like vans and trucks. In an automatic, if your car doesn't want to engine brake( speed keeps creeping up, even if the gas is not pressed), change it to manual shifting and downshift if rpm permits it
Never clutch and never leave neutral downhill. You're just leaving your car at a free fall state and removing control from yourself to anyoen who is reading this in the future. Plus why the hell would you go leave it at dead? You can already go downhill with second gear and make it buttery smooth easy for the car.
2 out of 3 in my fleet are 5-speed. So much more fun to drive, feel more connected to the vehicle. Especially in my 4x4. You can change gears without the clutch, “floating” them. Had to do it once on my ‘85 Honda when the throw out bearing went bad on the way home. Got it home with very little grinding of the gears. This is a lot harder on a car with high revs than a big truck with a narrow rpm band.
6:00 unless your car is a honda civic. I been doing this on my 2006 honda civic for 10 years now and the clutch still has no problems I still do it today.
@@briansilva6857 It rolled out of the parking space, into the alley, and up against the building. I drove around with a scratched bumper for the next two years. It was the only new car I ever owned. The bumper was replaced, after somebody found out their brakes were inferior to mine.
I'm not sure what to believe anymore. Perhaps this could vary from car to car. Perhaps like you say nothing is really affected besides brake pads wearing quicker
@@ivancastillo9174 Depends on the hill and depends on the brakes. Getting brake fade while going down hill might scare the sh*t out of someone who doesn't realize that he still has options. Keeping it in gear is the safer way to go. If you're going downhill but don't want to waste fuel or engine brake too hard, put it in a higher gear and let it coast. If the grade is high enough, you'll either maintain speed or even speed up, but in all that time you're using the car's built-up kinetic energy and gravity to power everything your engine would normally power by using fuel. Also, if your engine stutters and stalls when going downhill in neutral, you're shit out of luck - you get maybe 1 good press of the brakes (vacuum pump still armed) and then it's manual brakes all the way. You also lose power steering. If you're in gear, everything will still work as the engine is being turned by the wheels. In older cars you could restart the engine by shifting into the proper gear and releasing the clutch. Newer cars might not like getting push-started and fail to start, leading to the beginning of this paragraph -> shit out of luck.
Ivan Castillo I’ve been working on cars for years. Manual transmissions don’t have a pump they rely on the internal gears spinning to move the fluid. As long as the wheels are spinning so are all the gears the only thing not spinning would be the input shaft. But if the engine is running even that would be spinning too just nothing is connected to it. There for causing no damage to any parts inside the transmission.
@@tonyburns5388 There's still no point to coasting in neutral. When going downhill, if you want to save fuel, put it in an overdrive gear and let it coast that way. 0 fuel consumption, proper engine lubrication, no possibility of the engine shutting down and losing assisted brakes and power steering, not to mention that you get to spin that oh-so-useful A/C compressor for free). It's also more fuel-efficient to maintain speed than it is to let the car slow down due to friction and air resistance and then accelerate it again.
Nothing will break, sure. But it's less safe than to stay in gear. And I'm pretty sure most manual gearboxes are not lubricated by the engine/pump. More like splash lubrication.
I'm sorry, but I'm not convinced about "never park your car in neutral". I've seen a lot of parked cars hit by another car and the result was: broken gearbox. If the handbrake works fine (as it should be) there's no point of inserting a gear for "the fear of the fading handbrake". Otherwise, if the handbrake doesn't hold fine, get it checked. That's my point of view.
If your car is hit hard enough to break the gearbox, it was probably totaled anyhow. I drove a Saab (worked in a luxury hotel's valet parking lot) some years ago that had such a weak parking brake as well as clutch that we had to chock the wheels to keep it from rolling on the valet pick-up drive.
1:50 No, do brake without clutch, if you always push the clutch you are wearing out your brakes faster because you aren't breaking with the engine, in fact brake as much as possible with the engine. When you need to switch to lower gear simply push the clutch and do it then release it again. If breaking in emergency then it really doesn't matter if your engine chokes when you stop, it's unlikely to happen anyway because it's the habit to push the clutch when rpms are too low.
This actually taught me some things! I've had two manual transmission cars, and had to replace the clutch in both of them over the course of some years. I have had a bad habit of leaving the clutch engaged at lights. Boooooo.
Andrew Denisovich Clutches are a pretty tough part to break. Just ask a few drift car drivers how often they change theirs. Not that much and drifters are the cheap skates of motor sport. I’ve had a Greddy clutch in my car for close to ten years. Couple hundred bucks and 3 hours to install it. My car takes a beating on a regular basis. Never had a problem.
@@vapenation7061 clutches are extremely easy to repair, the only hard part is learning to do it which may take a day or so but after that it's an easy job.
Also, don't drive off the edge of a cliff. This will definitely damage the gearbox.
No shit jason XD
yeah no kidding
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Good joke, dumb replies
nah i thought it would fix it
Tips for starting up a hill:
Step 1.) release the brake with the clutch in, in 1st gear.
Step 2.) roll and smash into the person behind you
Step 3.) explain that the RUclipsr told you not to use the clutch or you’ll hurt it
I may need to practice it a little before master it so I hope I don't get my clutch destroyed
Step 1 pull the handbrake
Step 2 put the car in gear and begin to slip clutch while relasing the hand brake.
@@lucasfrench1841 while applying gas because the car may or may not stall if you don't add any
I usually let of the clutch while braking, and when I feel the car wanting to go, I hit the gas.
"never brake without engaging the clutch" nope. Engine braking is important. It helps you slow down faster and save your brake rotors. Brake, then push in the clutch as the engine RPM drops below 2000 or so. That way you get good engine braking without causing any harm to the drivetrain.
And then if you need to slow down more you can always downshift unless you're in first although if you're on the highway in first gear you're going to have a lot more problems than a slightly worn out engine.
Italian here: I never had an automatic vehicle so I always drove manual. Some of the points are right, but some are a little bit too much, like resting your hand on the gear stick. You are right that it can damage the gear box, but only if you push...and the damage is near to nothing, compared to, for example, grinding gears. Just enjoy manual shifting, do not feel the pressure of other cars and take your time.
It's actually very desirable to have your hand on the gear stick (as long as your hand isn't adding pressure on it) in order to switch immidietly up gear or down depending on what happens on the road.
Also it can be a good habit to leave the car in neutral when parked on a flat hill, that way you aren’t wearing tf out of first gear.
Italian? what does that have to do with anything?
@@ahmettanriverdi5238 Just the fact that in my country manual transmission was normal. The automatic transmission is only becoming the standard in the last 10 years or so.
@@ahmettanriverdi5238 🤣🤣
Changing gears causes wear and tear on the gearbox. Simply leave that car in first everywhere you go to prevent this from happening.
Using clutch to get it in first causes unnecessary strain on the gearbox. Leave in neutral and just push
Exactly
Getting a new car causes unnecessary wear and tear on its transmission, simply don't buy a car
Yes and the best way to break is to put it in reverse while it goes forward
dang lmao, also the accelerator pedal is optional , you can use only clutch to get your car forward
engaging clutch before changing gears is just like pulling your pants down before pooping
bruhhhhh this killed me lmao
Exactly, you don't want to shit yourself now do you
no it is not. You can change the gear without using the clutch. "clutch-less shifting" is a real thing. Before changing gear, you get the car in a state where the engine is neither applying force to the transmission, nor the wheels are back feeding torque back to engine. In that state, you can simply take out the gear. Then will in neutral, you RPM match the engine to the transmission and then you can engage the gear without using the clutch. Yeah that needs training. Yeah it is not intuitive. Yeah it is unnecessary. But: Some people drive that way and if nothing else: The clutch wear is almost nothing (you still need the clutch for full stop and start from full stop), so there is a benefit.
@@sarowie Yes we (well I) are aware of that, it was a joke
@@sarowie the only people I know that do this is truckers
If you touch the shifter too long: DEATH
If you rest your foot on the clutch: DEATH
If you release the clutch too slowly: DEATH
If you don't park in gear: DEATH
If you drive a manual: DEATH
If your battery is low and you push start: Jumanji.
...brought to you by a consortium of automatic transmission manufacturers....
:D:D:D:D:D:D::DD
LoL
Death:DEATH
When I first learnt to drive, I remember I was bit confused about the right gear. My friend told me your vehicle will tell you which gear she wants. I applied this trick to both car and scooter and it became easy. Actually the engine noise and stiffness are the indicators.
Your completely right, I was told the gears represent the speed you want to go for example 1st gear you would never go more than 10mph, 2nd gear 20mph, 3rd gear is 30mph, etc, never had a problem using that as a rough guide
Ya your engine will tell you when it's time to shift up but if you are shifting down then how to know
@@saswatmohanty8132 actually the engine makes a bizzard sound like khar khar or rrrh. Sometimes I don't shift down intentionally I get such sound and apply brakes to slow down and then pump the clutch pedal to gain speed again
@@nilanjandasgupta2718 Ohh I understand sir. Thanx for the guidance
@@saswatmohanty8132 Basically the same: if you are slowing down and want to shift down, the stick will actually 'tell' you if you can do so: if you go to fast, you will feel that the stick will provide quite some feedback in a way like 'No way I'm going into a lower gear! You're going too fast!'. You will feel the stick protesting your requested action: if you get to a speed where it gets possible to do so, the stick will almost automatically slide into the right position but if you are just below the limit where it will just restrict you shifting down, you will hear the engine revving up quite a lot and cause quite some engine-braking, even in such manner that you will know you were a bit early.
You can always try this by speeding up to 3rd or 4th gear and than try to go back to 2nd in one go: getting it from 4 to neutral will be no problem, but you will definitely feel the stick protest if you try to get it to 2nd gear while you are still at speed. Ofcourse, do not force the stick into position, it's doing all this for a reason, telling you to slow down more.
"never brake without engaging the clucth"?
engine braking is a thing
Ig so
Motorcycles do it constantly
Lmao
He probably means "brake to full stop". Most likely nothing will happen if you hard brake without clutch, your car will just stall.
They use engine braking all the time in Rally’s and Moto
You begin to doubt the seriousness of this video when you realize there's someone operating the pedals wearing high heels.
When you know how to WHiiiiiiiP a vehicle......I repeat WHIP....you can drive a manual CORRECTLY if you're barefoot or have on heels!! It's all about seat and steering wheel placement..... I know cuz I've done them BOTH and not just once.
That’s racist
It's a girl
bannedfahim the gaming blogging legend The letter R and a loud wind blowing over your head.
@@nikkimcd5729 Don't know if sarcasm but how can you brake fast in an emergency with heels or bare feet?
Just a tip for begginers. R stands for race. The car goes automatic and its so fast then.
Edit: I just visited my old RUclips account almost 4 years later and... HOW THE F*** DID I GET 10K LIKES!?
LMFAO
Wilmer Klevborn 😂👍
It works better at higher speeds, too
@@dorchadas63 And its super hard to shift into so only for the most experienced. 😉
I put it in race and now my trans sounds like there’s glass inside
Watching this was like watching a cheap horror movie where no one on screen does or says anything right and we're all just laughing the whole time at how bad it is 😆
"Never grind gears" NO WAY, I THOUGH IT WAS GOOD TO GRIND THE GEARS, THANK YOU MODER MUSCLE FOR YOUR ADVICES
Lmao
Well the older transmission gears weren’t as sleek and in unison as the newer transmissions. In fact I believe their design never intended for the gears to match the same speed before shifting, causing a grindy, terrible noise every time you shift gears but im recalling this from my bad long-term memory.
Lmfao
AHAHAHAHAHAH
@@holdmybeefstew7131 Sounds like you had a problem in with the Synchromesh.
Emergency brake? It's a parking brake. It's designed to be used when parking.
stan hope Back in the day, and I do mean back. They were an E brake. As brakes failed on a regular. But now it’s a parking brake.
ha if you used the hand brake for an emergancy stop you would just slide into the obsticle.
Just an american term i guess, I have never heard anyone call it an emergency brake apart from americans. Where I live everyone calls it the hand brake since its a brake you operate with your hand.
@@dieter2889 same!
No it's the *DRIFT LEVER*
8:00 "never slip your clutch! it will destroy it!" ... Uhm... the point of the clutch is that it slips to enable smooth gear transitions. I agree with "don't drive with your foot resting on the clutch", since that WILL fuck it up, but using the clutch as it was intended and designed to handle (to start from a standstill & to absorb the difference in RPM between the engine and transmission when changing gears) isn't going to kill it. A clutch is a consumable. Consuming it in less than 100k km usually means you abused it (or used it predominantly in heavy city traffic or while towing large loads on hills often). If it lasts you 150-200k+ km, then it served its purpose.
Yeah, good luck using the clutch without any slipping. Any difference in speed means slipping to some extent.
I’m pretty sure he didn’t literally mean don’t use the clutch as intended. I’m assuming he’s simply saying don’t slip it more than you need to. I can hear a lot of manual drivers slipping their clutches while rowing thru the gears. That is NOT how the clutch was intended to be hsd
Well yes but actually no
I drive my car whit It's original clutch in it, It has 300k km and I think it will least another 50k km and I do used it some times to prevent roll back from a hill
I also seen drivers redlining the engine and barely slipping the clutch just to start from a stand still
My major disagreement here is using your parking brake at a red light or on a hill. Why use your hand brake? If I'm going to be at a light for more than a few seconds, I always shift to neutral and hold with the brake.
instructions unclear, accidentally learnt how to drift
XD
I learned how to clutch kick😂
instructions unclear, accidentally played deja vu
vapeclients lol, I did that when I was 9.... on assetto with a sim racing wheel and pedals.
ahahaha
Btw don't disengage the clutch everytime you brake, but only when you're about to stop. Braking while clutch is disengaged denies engine brake, resulting in longer braking distances and more brake pad wear. Also, if you happen to oversteer, or lose traction to the rear tires while braking, it's pretty hard to correct if you can't accelerate.
Also keeping the clutch engaged for long periods of times puts strain on it`s components, mainly the friction disc, and it wears a lot faster. Whilst the car is moving, you should only press the clutch when shifting gears and press the clutch whilst braking only when you`re about to stop to a standstill, even if you could put it in neutral and brake to a stop.
@@mariusrutza agreed, but it's not the friction disk that wears, in fact if the clutch pedal is fully depressed then there won't be ANY wear at all on the friction disk just the bearing.
Are you insane the clutch should be always pressed with the brake or you want to stall every time you loose enough speed, thats unless your speed is way over your top gear then you don't need to press clutch.
@@vinportobg dude...
@@vinportobg tell me u nvr driven a manual without telling me!..haha bro the engine aint gonna die unless it drops below idle...an aslong as ur revmatching very lil wear is happening to the clutch..its normal wear
"nEveR CoAst iN NeuTral"
Stick Owners: "LMAO~!!!!!!!!!"
Hahhahahaahahhaahha thats a huge ooof
I only do that when im about to go on a full stop and im a car gap away from another car but its constantly with all the stop signs in here
im a non stick owner and idk if you mean wehat he was saying is obvious or stupid?
@@thegooglearchipelago8253 I'm super confused man
@@MelancholicSaiko he’s saying that coasting in N means the car is idling. I guess if you do that too long, you can harm the engine. It’s a dumb statement because you’d need to be coasting down a mountain the size of Everest to coast for that long.
I lost braincells and Iq points watching this
9:42 A manual transmission is just a simple gearbox. There is no oil pump in a manual transmission, so coasting downhill in neutral doesn’t starve a gearbox of oil.
Next tip: do not idle a car it will destroy it😂
Next. Dont buy a car as it won’t last forever
that last "advice" was pointless like for real bro why is there a neutral then ??
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@God Trojan and it will lead to a lot of expensive repairs down the line!!
Why are you giving such a scary atmosphere for operating manual.. you should show its fun and engaging not something trying to kill you
He just showing tips but not all of them.
It's for the US market, so they must make it look like it is hard to do. Not sure why they complain about the gas price, it's 1 third of what we pay, but hey.
@@abba9462 hahahaha patric stop your scaring him
Like dude wait have you very driven a car
@@libhongo894 yep
1:53 Should be renamed to:
"NEVER STOP THE CAR WITHOUT ENGAGING THE CLUTCH"
Like hell I'm gonna be doing 120kph down the highway and press the clutch if I have to brake down to 100 kph.
yeah, clearly they haven't drove manual in their life, engaging the clutch before braking is flat out dangerous, staying in gear (or downshifting if not a sudden situation) actually helps braking and keeps better control of the car. most average manual drivers know when to clutch so the engine doesn't stall. btw, i haven't seen anyone doing this.
It's stop, not brake or reduce speed
@@mattdniels Bruh, why people don't understand that if you try to avoid an accident you won't even think about the clutch... 🤦♂
@@levguguchkin1580 this!!! I was cruising 100kph and just over the hill there was a long line of traffic backed up because there was a massive hedge trimmer clearing the trees up ahead, I slammed on the brakes immediately lmao, I was taking my mates for a road trip 3 hrs away, anyway I have a 96 civic so not the best brakes but I stopped mere centimeters from the car infront of me, and that shook me to me core and foe the rest of the drive all I could think about was, damn should have downshifted to slow quicker but didn't even cross my mind at the time, anyway story time over
@@tomgush noice
When braking, you should use your clutch pedal just before stalling the car. While in gear the car holds itself a bit so it is safer to brake while on a gear. If you press the clutch before braking, nothing will hold the car so it will be much more dangerous and unstable to brake.
Good tip thanks !
I laughed so hard when he said if you coast in neutral your gearbox doesnt get lubricated with oil because there is low oil pressure in the engine... i was like hold up thts not right engine oil pressure had nothing to do with gearbox oil
A better argument for not doing it would have been that it wastes fuel compared to not giving it any gas and leaving it in gear.
Maybe he confused it with 2 stroke
right. the last part is kind a funny.
Yes my thoughts exactly... the real dangerous issue is the increasing speed and zero engine breaking causes the physical breaks to overheat quickly and fade and he didn't even mentioned it
I think in some autos that might be true but coasting is not an issue in a stick shift. In fact coasting can be handy when you don’t wish to slow down via engine braking but don’t need to be on the gas either.
You know what really grinds my gears? Shifting without using the clutch.
edit: YES I KNOW ITS TECHNICALLY POSSIBLE I HAVE ABOUT 100 PEOPLE TELLING ME
Oh, well done.
If you match the revs well you can shift without the clutch without grinding
@@michielvorster53Used to do this, drive using only wheel, accelerator pedal, gearstick, and handbrake.
Fun.
Americans: “i don’t get it”
@@donniefleuryy.29 Ahhh exactly, no one in the Americas drives standard.
9:42 "Coasting in neutral cuts the engines oil supply"...... No bud, it doesn't, lol. That's not how oil pumps work. Can't even use that argument for the transmission either.
Could you explain it pls? i'm really insterested, never heard that neutral lowers transmission lubrication!
Yeah like lol the engine is still running even in neutral
@@She1lby it does lower it but you are directly lowering your transmission use so it doesn't matter, there's nothing to be lubricated so why should the car lubricate
@@She1lby dude, the transmission's gears spin as the car goes no matter what, so if the car goes, the gears get oil, period, doesnt matter if the clutch is down or up
@@hephaistosthesmith2069 "lowering transmission"? What do u mean, on neutral engine just gets it's normal lubrication because it still rotates and transmission rotates with the speed of the car as well.
Also, don't change from 5th gear to reverse because even though it's faster than waiting till you're in first gear, you could cause a slight damage to the gearbox
@@hunterpinson807 if you are moving yeah lol
One shudders to imagine what it would feel and sound like to do that when moving at those speeds.
@@cloudshifterit sounds horrible and leaves you feeling stupid and nervous (its my 1st week owning a car) i was trying to downshift from 5th to 4th and accidentally caused a loud grinding noise that shivered up my whole arm… i was doing like 80km p/h ended up ‘coasting’ and shifting to 3rd (avoiding that lower right corner) why tf isnt the gearbox more visually intuitive LOL thar weird leather cover over the gearstick seems to make it harder to feel what gear you’re selecting (I drive an old berlingo btw)
@@cloudshifter my car wont let me shift to reverse if the wheels are spining forward, even if just a bit. id say in high speeds you would just hear a nasty grind but wont let you shift
The ultimate money shift
Worrying about clutch slipping it's like walking barefoot because you don't want wear out your shoes
Thanks g I have to keep having to remind myself this when getting into 1st
Except replacing your shoes doesn't cost the price of a used car
@@waldolemmer Replaced clutch costs in most cars (family cars Europe) like 250 to 400 dollars depending on your engine displacement, complexity of the operation etc but this is the average lol. You also change it once what every 200 thousand kms or 150? Its expensive when you have a V6 sports car yeah the price can like triple from that (even that isnt super expensive considering how long will it last you).
2:17 - My car has never shown me a revelation before... let alone per minute.
@@dieter2889 your's also 😂😂😂
This comment is the best
Lol 😹
I can feel the KNOWLEDGE coming to me with EVERY SECOND!
@@konnorkuznetsov1035 lol
"Revelations per minute"? After watching this I think I just had a few, lol
i felt like an oracle after hitting the redline
I had so many rpms my turbo just shat the bed.
I like flooring my gas petal and smelling rose pedals.
Don't forget the clutch PETAL either,
Amen lol
“Never park in neutral” okay mr. Smarty-pants, explain to me how I’ll use my remote start when my truck is in gear 🤣😂
"Clutch slipping will destroy the cluth" Well mr einstein then tell me how to start on a hill.
DOABLE! It requires
1.stong enough engine to pull the car up without stopping on the step 2.
2.stong enough neck(so it wont get snapped when you suddenly release the clutch)
3.weak enough hand brake so it will fail if you accelerate without releasing it :D
@@Ev0ltion hehehe
"You don't"
Just do like me and dump the clutch and hope the car stops doing a burnout and you go up the hill
@@_Boobz that's amazing 😂😂😂 made me lol
Never brake without engaging the clutch...? Why make completely incorrect statements if you're attempting to educate...?
Edit: I'm going to assume he means if coming to a complete stop.
I can understand what he says
Your reply gives complete misinterpretation of exact what he means
I wondered about that one too. Downshift, of course, but keep the engine engaged. With modern synchronized transmissions you can go all the way down and clutch finally just before stopping. In my first cars sixty some-odd years ago, going into first (of three back then) required double clutching, and the first I had that synced first gear was a 1967 Chevelle my wife and I bought new when I graduated from college. I've never had to replace a clutch on a car, though some have gone 150K miles, sometimes without needing brake jobs.
He just increased 90,000 people’s breaking distance by 15%
Imagine if that results in an accident 😶
@@afoxwithahat7846 well I don't...
"You shouldn't rest your hand on your shifter because you need both hands to steer" 🤣
Yes , that's right but not because you need both hand on the steering wheel.. ...LOL
@@ssssssss6889 no, if your not incompetent it’s pretty easy not to pull or push it
That’s why I put both hands on the shifter
Ever since I’ve started using my feet to drive my stuck has been in excellent condition
So leaning my knee against it is perfectly fine then. Ok cool :D
Never brake without engaging clutch ... YES and NO !! At high speed emergency braking, use engine braking (in addition to the brakes) and then engage clutch once vehicle speed is down to reasonable speed.
That's gonna be hard to apply since old habits die hard. Thanks for the info sir
4:10 WEARING OUT YOUR LEG MUSCLES .... Yes guys be careful, or else they might break
and are hella expensive to replace
Yeah ok i be careful with ford fiso raptor OFF-ROAD
😂
Laughing from Europe!
Yeah everythink he told is normal for Europe
Dakako pozz iz Hrvatske
And probably most other continents. As far as I know North America is the only region where the majority drives an automatic transmission car, in Europe and most African and Asian countries people drive manual, and probably the same thing in South America.
Here in EU we know our manuels
I tried to teach my son-in-law how to drive manual. I gave up trying after 45 minutes in a church parking lot. It was an old chevy S-10 that was a junker so I didn't really care about him ruining it. He must've put about 50K on that clutch that day and never got it out of the parking lot. Sad. He's from Trinidad, so it's not just an American problem.
Damn I never knew u can die while changing ur gear to the second one
Lol
BMW driver's famous last words "watch what it can do in second gear"
I suppose you can die from just about anything
writing this from heaven, i died while shifting from 1st to 2nd gear at 10km/h
about the keeping your foot on the bite point when stopped on a hill. keep your clutch down or have it in neutral while your waiting. when your ready shift into first, find the biting point and release the brake and give some gas. don’t sit there holding at the biting point for more then around 6 seconds. that’s what messes up the transmission.
Americans with their humor😂 gotta say I laughed the hardest when he said you NEED both hands to steer
Taking both hands off is how you see when its time to get an alignment 😆
@@assassin_asa yeah, since you should just go straight, i honestly hate 10 and 2 or 9 and 3, its uncomfortable for me to have both arms bent for long periods, unless something is under my elbows
@@charlescourtwright2229 dat is tru
i have logi g920 and i use one hand to steer when i dont need to use the other one.
I laughed at that part as well. 😂
" never brake without using the clutch "
Unless you know... you know how to drive....
😂😂😂
is this some kind of american joke Im too european to understand
8:28 🤣
18 gears?
Well yeah, the level is different indeed.
Maybe it's an age thing, a childs information film.
i think the european version should include one that says dont expect u own the perfect theft proof vehicle if its a manual
For the gear grinding one, there's a synchronization process that happens to prevent it, but you have to hit the clutch before you shift, otherwise, you'll grind the gears.
Honestly in manual cars, the gear switch is the easiest thing to learn. You simply let go of the gas, slam clutch, change gear and then slowly let go of clutch. The bigger shift the faster you can let go of clutch.
Double clutch, saves wear, I O synchros, in box🎉
Learn to float gears bro
My clutch pedal went dead 10 miles from home and I made it back. I must be a wizard
The best thing you can do for your clutch is rev the engine to redline and let your foot slip off the clutch pedal while in 1st gear. This will help to resurface the flywheel allowing for smoother shifting in the future. 👍🏼
dont forget it will resurface and warm your tires and give your transmission a nice little stretch
Am I dense or is this sarcasm. Maybe both.
In 5th or 6th gear
It also removes oil and debris from the tires, giving them more grip for braking.
Instructions unclear - found myself in the back seat
Clutch for my truck is like two three hundred bucks and I could change it in an afternoon done it before
All I understood was " I'm still gonna do all of those things" 🤣
Changing a clutch aint hard😂 Remaking the electric harness is worse
True
@Carlos carbajal_1210720 same. I just paid 1700 for mine.
@Carlos carbajal_1210720 2019 gti
9:33 if an emergency happens, try to speed up even more 👍
Exactly, like when some crazy meth head in a geo metro tries attacking you and chases you down the mountain pass.
As in, if someone is about to rear end you, or you're in a turn about to get T boned and need speed to get out of the situation..Yes, extra speed is often needed during emergency situations
I love how the emergency shown is drifting XD
Like an RX-7 in your way while on a tofu delivery run
Many of these 'tips' are not applicable in every situation.
1:20 - clutches aren't that expensive, obviously you don't want to needlessly damage a clutch, but after 10-15 years most clutches start to wear to the point they need replacing shortly anyway.
2:45 - no need to leave car in gear UNLESS you're on a hill. Also, most newer cars have a safety feature that prevents the car from rolling when the engine is off, mine from 2011 is one of them.
4:00 - depends on whether the lights are about to change. There is no point in putting your car in neutral at a red light if you're going to be changing again 5 seconds later.
6:00 - No point in handbraking on a hill if you're literally moving a few seconds later.
7:30 - you would always use the brake first before the clutch, the only difference in the winter is that you should drive in a higher gear to avoid skids and also avoid harsh braking where possible
at start: why there is dislikes???
at the las point: ow, i understood.
Me i understood it as soon as 0:36
@@fahmisahar haha, I thought to give it chance
May be there is something more
@@ernestdits1324 i drive an old crappy manual honda and i can assure you there are some "interesting" points here.. stay tuned!!
Always have the clutch in when you brake? Is this made for teenage girls to watch who have never driven a car?
no, it is made for people who have never driven a manual before.
It is made for 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑠
@@Charzilian For americans you had to say..
Right? so dumb
@@stonelp699 “never use the incorrect gear to gain speed“ only americans can try to drive slow in 5th gear and blame the car if it stops
"Never brake without engaging the clutch" Complete mis-interpretation, it's completely unnecessary to engage the clutch when breaking unless you plan to stop, change gear or the RPM falls to a speed where stalling will occur. If your gonna educate, get the facts right. Furthermore, for anyone in the UK seeing this, you are taught to keep your car in gear at a red light, UNLESS your expected to be stopped for 5 or more seconds, again, get the facts right - different countries have different rules, and honestly, as long as the clutch is de-pressed, it does it no harm keeping it in gear at a red light.
AGREED.... from the US too
I agree with most of this but keeping the clutch in at red lights does cause excess wear on the throwout/release bearing
@@dieter2889 agreed, but the release bearing can take the stress more than they let on. I used to always stop with the transmission in gear. Had to replace the clutch before the bearing went bad. Then the vehicle got totaled by a rear ending🤷
But it's better on everything overall to be in it's "natural" position, as it is with most things.
@Tulkas Astaldo if im at the front of the lights ill leave the car in gear otherwise it takes almost no time to get into gear.
@@dieter2889 yes this, in pole position, you need to be the fastest as to ensure the most cars can pass during a green light. It's the polite thing to do
I have driven manual transmissions for many years. First was a Chevy Pickup with 3 on the tree. I can even drive an unsynchronised transmission without drama (Ford A). Years ago, I was scolded by a mechanic for keeping my foot on the clutch and my hand on the shifter. Really good advice. My clutches lasted a long time, except for the XJ.
"Clutch slipping will destroy the cltuch" well mr einstein why has my clutch outlasted my engine
Lol
Maybe u drive fiat if clutch lasts longer than engine
@@theunknownguy265 nah mate, VW diesel, cylinder head cracked and had to get a used engine, didn't bother replacing the clutch. Fitted the original onto the new engine still hasn't let me down
@@dieter2889 I was just joking, hope I didn't offend you
@@theunknownguy265 if you drive a fiat your socks last longer than the engine
“Never brake without engaging the clutch”.. never? Do you know how to drive aggressively? Heel toe?
That one pissed me off the most.
i bet its a challenge to do in high heels
You do heel toe when gearing down so yeah, you do wanna engage the clutch. But I think he means to a full stop.
@@TheRealDr.Mabuse then why say never?
When car going on top gear with high speed u easily use brake without clutch
"When you come to a stop you have the clutch in" Literally the most basic shit you learn the first time you drive manual
@@dsntrllymttr it is still very literally one of the very first things you learn while learning to drive manual. Even when you a using a tractor on a farm: People learn that quickly as it is strictly necessary.
Lol, i started taking manual motorcycle lessons before car lessons and I have to admite than during the first half of the lesson everytime I stopped the moto just died lol
@@vascosaldanha602 Then how did you take off if you didn't realize that the clutch needs to be depressed when stationary?
@@dsntrllymttr They don’t anymore. I just got my first manual car and having to throw out automatic and restart is actually far worse for someone who has driven only automatic for almost 15 years compared to a teenager with a Clear slate. I was the only one in my family that was never taught and I feel so hopeless because they never bother to teach manual. I learned how to gear shift as a kid but that’s it. Everything else I fuck up and don’t want to wreck or ruin my engine. 🥵 I wish they would have forced us to learn stick cause I’ve always wanted to learn but never had the chance until now.
@@Ozubura Stick is shit anyway
Resting your hand on the shifter doesn't hurt the gears or syncros, it does however wear out the shift forks.
1:47 I’m guessing you’re referring to, pushing the clutch just before the car stops.
2:40 It is okay to leave the car in neutral if you’re parking on a flat road while still having the handbrake up.
4:27 Does the brake pedal mean nothing to you?
9:05 Coasting in Neutral is sometimes bad, but it doesn’t damage anything. Maybe for automatics, but not manuals.
But a lot of modern commercial trucks with automatic transmissions actually go into neutral automatically if you come off both of the peddles to save fuel, if it was harmful to the drivetrain why would they be engineered to do that?
Exactly what I wanted to say 😂
Yeah the fucking part when he told to use handbrake in every red light broke me l would go crazy if I actually had to do that
@@emu8113 right and how many time do you do that before you forget that the hand break is engaged and you try to drive
@@salahdehina9733 diesel 18 speed for industrial use vs probably 5-6 speed small gasoline engine
This just told me to not do everything I do
I laughed when I saw the chick broke down with the rx8.
Right, I have my doubts that it broke down by the transmission
@@plank2718 Yeah with metal on metal seals and all. I love rotary's but those cars are a money pit.
Haha right?! Those godDAMN APEX SEALS
@@stanselldev the rotarys is literally the more you know the longer they last especially if you know how to tune right
Like she do something with rotary engine XDDDDDDD
About that last one you’re telling me I should never let my car idle because it hurts my transmission 😂😂😂
bro really said don't idle your engine while moving because it will overheat. genius!
This is gonna be so confusing for ppl who don't know a thing about how to drive a manual
Not confusing. FUNY !
Yeah I’m super confused lmao
2 and 10 say the opposite of each other
@@Detcimal Or even FUNNY
It's super confusing for people who do drive too!! haha
i love how he tried to hard to sound serious but i couldn’t take him seriously when he said petal🤣
Holy revalations.
Finally someone mention it.. thank you.. english is not my first language and i find this funny
@@mohamedbasel5249u 8
Coasting in neutral won'T overheat ur engine lol, ur engine is "idling" then, yet air flow through radiator is what it would be if u were "working" the engine so...
thats true BUT if your car was over heating then costing in neutral wouldn't help..
It can make ur oil heat up more then it should. As the oil pump is not spinning at the speed the car is going
@@mikalarrington8112 Yeah but, ur engine is only making more heat when u accelerate, initiating combustion, that's where the heat comes from. I get the oil is pumping at an engine spin rate, relative to crank and cam and all the in betweens, including water pump. But at an engine idle, ur not causing more heat to be made and that alone beginns to increase cooldown. I get ur pumps are slower, but the airflow is also faster, cooling it at a higher rate than it normally does in a stand still position. I've literally watched my temp gauge go down when I coast so... I know my instruments is crispy cuz I keep them, proper, at least I try to within my limits...^^
@tiny ate I get what u saying ur just forgetting that the throttle is closed and the air getting through is a small amount and the oil going through is not enough to cool it efficiently the damage is minute and over time components will break down faster than what it is supposed to
@@mikalarrington8112 I've taken that all into consideration...
If it's bumbler-to-bumper on the freeway I take off in second gear.most of the time from a dead stop so that I don't over rev as I would if I take off in first gear. I do engage the clutch and brake on a hill at a red light. No problems after 20+ years of doing that with my two cars, 1999 M3 & 1992 Nissan Sentra SER.
It's sad that drivers education isn't mandatory and learning how to drive a stick shift isn't important any more.
because auto is just easier. in today's generation of easily distracted people, it's also safer.
Considering manual cars are a minority in a lot of places (mainly north America), it doesn't make sense to require learning how to drive stick.
Is in the UK
I consider it an anti-theft feature at this point
Over here in Ireland, the vast majority of people drive manual. An automatic car is almost as rare over here as a manual is in the US. I agree though. A manual car is a drivers car.
I've been coasting in neutral for 48 years. No problem. And the engine gets nice cooling air flow while at an idle.
No problem for the engine really. It's just very unsafe and you'll wear your breakpads/rotors prematurely + worse MPG.
I live in the EU (Portugal) before you say you know better.
if you coast in gear the engine will enter "overrun mode" and shut down the injectors, no combustion means no fuel consumption and zero heat
For 48 years!?!? That must be one big hill you're coasting down. Update when you get to your destination!
i was told to NEVER coast in neutral and would never ever do it in loaded wagon i like to have control not the car or wagon control me
In Europe (or at least in The Netherlands) you’re taught to put your car in neutral and engage the handbrake instead of putting it in first gear when parked. The reason for this is because a lot of people forget to push down the clutch before starting the engine. Which causes your car to shoot forward a bit and stall the engine right away.
NL is flat. :)
I leave in neutral on the level, and in gear on a hill. :)
@@ArcanisUrriah to european standards. NL is high from weed
It's fine to put it in gear on a hill or something, but on a flat it's better not only because you stall but mostly because most people forget the handbrake and park the car only on a gear.
@@Vert_GreenHeart you want your car stable, that is a standard in germany, everyone puts it in first gear, probably because of poland they just roll it unto their truck lmao
So this is why the clutch has to be pushed in modern cars to turn the engine over in gear. Thanks I hate it
Putting the car into a lower gear when slowing down helps a lot with braking, so I disagree with the "hold the clutch while braking" it just causes more wear on your brakes.
Either a good thing or a bad thing depending on where you were taught to drive. In France, for example, they teach you to use the gearbox to help slow down; in the UK the advice is "Brakes are for slowing; Gears are for going." Today's brakes are so efficient I don't really see any need to use the box as well. And which would you rather wear out: a £100 set of brake pads, or a £2,000 gearbox?
@@MSM4U2POM And those people are teaching others? If you don't know how to shift, then you will destroy your transmission regardless. If you are good at shifting then actually cause bigger wear on the clutch. Not to mention you loose the ability quickly accelerate.
@@Megaranator I think he explained it badly. The way they teach it in the UK is to use engine braking and work down through the gears but do it without slipping the clutch, using the brake to match speed to revs. That saves clutch wear, keeps your gear appropriate to your speed and uses cheap brake pads to absorb excess energy. Exactly the same way that good drivers everywhere do it.
It amazes me that some people don’t know to leave the gear in first when parked facing uphill and reverse when parked facing downhill.It’s one of the first things I was taught when learning to drive.
Makes sense.
Or you know... Use the parking break?
@@masssssy sometimes handbrakes need to be tightened (as is the case with my car i'll have to tighten it again soon) so sometiems the handbrake slips because it's not putting enough pressure on the brakes and the weight of the car just pushes it down
Whether you're in first or reverse won't change much - the engine compression is the same either way.
@@trainiax
Are you saying if you turn the engine off on a hill with no handbrake it won’t make any difference to the car rolling away whether it’s in first or reverse?
You dont grind the gears in any modern transmission they are always engaged what you are grinding are the brass synchros when you change gears.
You can still grind gears in modern cars.
Even in my 98 Prelude is the syncros that grind, not the actual gears. I wonder if it depends on the transmission
yes, the synchro-mesh gears
Rev match, easy as
There are still a few manual transmission trucks that don't have synchronized transmissions. The last one I drove was in a tri-axle dump truck. I loved that truck.
The never clutch while braking is arguable, when you're going downhill, especially those steep ones, you can use the engine brake to control your speed when going downhill, of course this is not something to rely on, but it's less trouble for your brakes as you aren't getting too much speed. However, this is something to pay attention as the video's point is true, if you got yourself too slow for the gear you are on, the car may end up wanting to gain more speed, so do by all means clutch when you really want to slow down especially for the curves on the road.
Now the last tip is weird, never heard of oil being affected by having the gear on neutral, the point that was supposed to be there is to reduce stress on the brakes as on neutral the car will keep trying to gain speed, the engine brake prevents you from going over the speed you wanted.
Brakes are a lot cheaper to replace than transmissions. Loading the gears on the opposite sides of the teeth from using engine braking has been known to cause wear on the teeth,
At some point it becomes a habit to automatically downshift as you slow down so you are always in an appropriate gear for your speed.
@@aphextwin5712 that is the correct way to do it
@@aphextwin5712 Richard.....is that you? .....
@@Vpmatt No
I've done 4:41 a lot in my grandpa's old truck. It has a very shallow pedal, meaning there isn't a lot between full throttle and no throttle. It also has a heavy clutch with a hard bit point that can be hard to release right. That thing has shaken so much I might as well be a smoothie.
I can agree with most of this other than the coasting in neutral in a manual transmission car. It can save gas on some older models because fuel cutoff is not a standard across the board so some used cars with manuals older than 10 years don't have it. Also, neutral coasting a manual transmission causes no harm; it does not have a pump. that's automatic transmissions. and even then, it depends largely on the auto transmission itself. Just look up flat towing for a list of automatic cars that are ok to neutral coast.
being in gear is far safer and better than coasting in neutral, and uses less fuel as the wheels are basically turning the engine. have run into brake fade going down hills in an automatic which was pretty much like being in neutral
I have a 25 year old manual. It definitely has fuel cutoff and uses less gas when going downhill in gear. I have confirmed this with an odbii reader.
Fuel cutoff is a standard since early 90's and many cars have it even before that.
@@jassenjj none of these manual transmission cars had fuel cutoff. 1993 mercury topaz . 1999 Ford escort zx2. 2005 kia. Rio. 2010 Chevy Aveo. Only manual car I have with fuel cutoff is a 2012 mini Cooper Clubman. And even then, coasting gets better mpg. I get 42 mpg out of the mini.
@@jdangberg OK, this is probably in the US. My 1994 Opel Corsa B had fuel cut off and as far as I know it is mandatory in the Euro standards.
You shouldn’t press clutch while braking till you get close to a complete stop. for using the max brake force.
I used to put it in neutral when braking to a stop
This is correct.
Joost de Bruin my cousin used to do that. i somehow managed to convince him how dangerous it was. it’s not worth risking your car into an accident for that.
True drivers know about engine braking
@@rickysubie hell yeah, downshift once or twice and just let the car slow it's pace to get in the flow of traffic
Who watched this to see if you already knew most of the stuff or to possibly learn something new?
That's just why I watched.
Looks like I’m just going to drive a automatic where I don’t have to worry about heating up my clutch.
yeah and then i realised that there was no need
Don't watch this to learn anything. He practically told you not to "heel-toe" aka rev match downshift.
I'm young and knew not of this stuff it's not that hard to drive a manual it's like it's not hard at all people are just lazy anymore
for someone who's is still fighting with the transmission this is way helpful
4:00 Here in the Netherlands you are literally forced/taught to always be in gear. Shifting your car to neutral at a traffic light makes you instantly fail your exam. The idea is to be ready to take off immediately and not to slow down traffic. Funny how an entire nation is taught to destroy their cars.
wait so do you hold the clutch in the whole time your waiting for the light?
@@arcanevoid9199 Yes in first gear, not neutral
@@miketakular7443 whats the point of that? unnecessary wear on the throwout bearing and annoying to hold it especially in anything but an econobox
Same always been taught to hold it in and keep her in gear
@@arcanevoid9199 I have done it for years. Never a problem.
Makes my knee hurt though
never put your gear on reverse when moving forward downhill. unless you want to wake up in another planet.
8:48 Not only did she blew her transmission, but along with the Apex Seals XD
I learned on a manual trans.
It's a trans swapped S-10 from the year 2000. And my dad apperntly has been teaching me well as I know all of these things already.
I've owned 32 vehicles, 31 were manual. Still own a manual except for my truck since they dont make it in manual.
Knowing how to drive a manual is a must if you want to ride a motorcycle.
Also, buying a preowned manual vehicle in america is scary because you never know if the previous owner learned on it or not lol since manual transm isnt too common here.
7:35 "and this is something that you definetly wanna do because its hella fun"
*Eurobeat Intensifies*
*DAYTONA INTENSIFIES*
when going downhill you should just use the engine itself for breaking. if you take your foot off the gas, the engine will try to go down to lower rpm but through the transmission the wheels will force it to stay at higher rpm. this way the engine will work as it normally would without using any fuel and the tug of war between gravity and the engine's attempt to slow down will keep your speed almost constant (depending of the steepness and the gear you are in).
I don't think it's that complicated to not press Gass when your car is on a downhill road.
BRAKING NOT BREAKING FFS
3:40 yeah, I did a few grindings when I first learned to drive one around 1989. It was my uncle's Camaro, and he sure had a fit when he heard that!
For someone who doesn't drive a manual but wants to this is kinda confusing
Yep
It's not that serious. You could be a pro in a week
@@orlandoanderson123 Yeah, I learned how to drive many in a week. Of course, little situations like launching off a steep uphill I haven't gotten to try yet, but I've learned the mandatories in a week, it was very easy to adapt to it.
djxr177 gamer its not as hard as it sounds. It’s kinda like tying your shoes. Once you learn it you’ll never forget. It’s like second nature for me at this point.
It’s really easy. If you want to learn it would take a few days at least. I learned on a bike
The main reason, by far, for not coasting downhill in neutral is that you must use your service brake to maintain speed, heating up the brakes that can lead to brake fading( braking power sererly reduce to almost none). When going downhill use engine braking, especially on heavy vehicles, like vans and trucks. In an automatic, if your car doesn't want to engine brake( speed keeps creeping up, even if the gas is not pressed), change it to manual shifting and downshift if rpm permits it
Never clutch and never leave neutral downhill. You're just leaving your car at a free fall state and removing control from yourself to anyoen who is reading this in the future. Plus why the hell would you go leave it at dead? You can already go downhill with second gear and make it buttery smooth easy for the car.
2 out of 3 in my fleet are 5-speed. So much more fun to drive, feel more connected to the vehicle. Especially in my 4x4. You can change gears without the clutch, “floating” them. Had to do it once on my ‘85 Honda when the throw out bearing went bad on the way home. Got it home with very little grinding of the gears. This is a lot harder on a car with high revs than a big truck with a narrow rpm band.
true my 92 f150 floats alot better than my 95 civic i can float 1st gear and California stop without using my clutch in my 92 f150
Most semi trucks dont need "double clutching" as they teach you. You can float them and it works the same.
6:00 unless your car is a honda civic. I been doing this on my 2006 honda civic for 10 years now and the clutch still has no problems I still do it today.
Just watching them change gears hurts my eyes
You get used to it after awhile. You didn’t drive if you couldn’t back in the day!
Soy.
Guilty of parking in neutral , cuz I forget if it’s in first and stall it out
Facts lol
I forgot to put my car in gear once. Once.
@@ThatsMrPencilneck2U what happened?
@@briansilva6857 It rolled out of the parking space, into the alley, and up against the building. I drove around with a scratched bumper for the next two years. It was the only new car I ever owned. The bumper was replaced, after somebody found out their brakes were inferior to mine.
I refuse to park in 1st here in NYC because with my luck and modern day insurance companies I’ll total my car just starting it and bucking forward.
Coasting in neutral in a manual causes no damage to anything. Other then maybe sum extra wear on your brakes due to a lack of engine braking
I'm not sure what to believe anymore. Perhaps this could vary from car to car. Perhaps like you say nothing is really affected besides brake pads wearing quicker
@@ivancastillo9174 Depends on the hill and depends on the brakes. Getting brake fade while going down hill might scare the sh*t out of someone who doesn't realize that he still has options. Keeping it in gear is the safer way to go. If you're going downhill but don't want to waste fuel or engine brake too hard, put it in a higher gear and let it coast. If the grade is high enough, you'll either maintain speed or even speed up, but in all that time you're using the car's built-up kinetic energy and gravity to power everything your engine would normally power by using fuel.
Also, if your engine stutters and stalls when going downhill in neutral, you're shit out of luck - you get maybe 1 good press of the brakes (vacuum pump still armed) and then it's manual brakes all the way. You also lose power steering. If you're in gear, everything will still work as the engine is being turned by the wheels. In older cars you could restart the engine by shifting into the proper gear and releasing the clutch. Newer cars might not like getting push-started and fail to start, leading to the beginning of this paragraph -> shit out of luck.
Ivan Castillo I’ve been working on cars for years. Manual transmissions don’t have a pump they rely on the internal gears spinning to move the fluid. As long as the wheels are spinning so are all the gears the only thing not spinning would be the input shaft. But if the engine is running even that would be spinning too just nothing is connected to it. There for causing no damage to any parts inside the transmission.
@@tonyburns5388 There's still no point to coasting in neutral. When going downhill, if you want to save fuel, put it in an overdrive gear and let it coast that way. 0 fuel consumption, proper engine lubrication, no possibility of the engine shutting down and losing assisted brakes and power steering, not to mention that you get to spin that oh-so-useful A/C compressor for free). It's also more fuel-efficient to maintain speed than it is to let the car slow down due to friction and air resistance and then accelerate it again.
Nothing will break, sure. But it's less safe than to stay in gear.
And I'm pretty sure most manual gearboxes are not lubricated by the engine/pump. More like splash lubrication.
What you definitely should do is down shift from 5th to 2nd while going 70mph your gearbox will explode and will be good story to tell grandchildren
I'm sorry, but I'm not convinced about "never park your car in neutral".
I've seen a lot of parked cars hit by another car and the result was: broken gearbox. If the handbrake works fine (as it should be) there's no point of inserting a gear for "the fear of the fading handbrake". Otherwise, if the handbrake doesn't hold fine, get it checked. That's my point of view.
Or just use both, if it's cold you shouldn't use the handbrake tho
i agree, just out the car in gear if you park on a hill, if you park on a flat surface theres no need to put the car in gear, just use the handbrake
Andrei S le Jude always put it in gear and use the hand real at the same time. Then if one of them fails the other will catch it.
If your car is hit hard enough to break the gearbox, it was probably totaled anyhow.
I drove a Saab (worked in a luxury hotel's valet parking lot) some years ago that had such a weak parking brake as well as clutch that we had to chock the wheels to keep it from rolling on the valet pick-up drive.
Its funny to hear American talkin about manual 😂
Why’s that?
How???? I don’t understand is this supposed to be a joke???? I really don’t get the joke lol not upset just confused
Why? Im american and know several people that only drive manuals.
@J C same
@J C I fuck with manual hard but nobody can shift as fast as a computer
1:50 No, do brake without clutch, if you always push the clutch you are wearing out your brakes faster because you aren't breaking with the engine, in fact brake as much as possible with the engine. When you need to switch to lower gear simply push the clutch and do it then release it again. If breaking in emergency then it really doesn't matter if your engine chokes when you stop, it's unlikely to happen anyway because it's the habit to push the clutch when rpms are too low.
This actually taught me some things! I've had two manual transmission cars, and had to replace the clutch in both of them over the course of some years. I have had a bad habit of leaving the clutch engaged at lights. Boooooo.
Laughs in Brazil 🤣
This is gonna make people who wanna drive manual drive automatic
i wanna drive manual but after hearing this idk
@@blakemarlatt278 Manual is fun, if you like it, that is.
Blake Marlatt It’s easy.
marvin martin But there Is a dozen freaking ways of wearing out your clutch.
Andrew Denisovich Clutches are a pretty tough part to break. Just ask a few drift car drivers how often they change theirs. Not that much and drifters are the cheap skates of motor sport. I’ve had a Greddy clutch in my car for close to ten years. Couple hundred bucks and 3 hours to install it. My car takes a beating on a regular basis. Never had a problem.
"...lots of moving parts" while showing a rotary 😂 Loved the video. Good to see some manual educational content out there explained very well
Of all the types of engines that they could have gone with to prove their point . It had a a rotary, do you think they know?
He could for example not have shown his brain, because that is dead. So he chose a Rotary
I keep thinking back to the shots of the white sneaker pushing the throttle in a car that appears to lack a clutch pedal.
My man's said a clutch is "an extremely expensive repair" no, its 50-150 for the clutch and some tools
Here in the UK I was quoted£1500to replace the clutch,the clutch itself was £250.rip off merchants.
when i had a clutch job done on my audi, it cost just over 1000 euro, because you have to pull the engine to change the clutch. genius!
@@vapenation7061 clutches are extremely easy to repair, the only hard part is learning to do it which may take a day or so but after that it's an easy job.