How do i drive a stick????

Answer 1

Driving a standard trasmission vehicle takes practice to become profficient. There are several things your mind and body need to learn to do at the same time or close to the same time. Using first and reverse gears are the most difficult, and down shifting can take a while to get the hang of as well. First you need to get the car moving. This is where first gear is utilized. While slowly letting up on the clutch you will feel a small pressure point in the clutch. This point is where you know to push in the gas just a tad bit and the car (if done correctly) will move forward slowly. It takes getting a full mind and body "feel" of the car, of how the clutch and gas engage each other. While you practice you will jerk a lot and kill the engine. It is getting that combingation of the right clutch release point while giving a bit of gas which starts the car in a forward movement. Once you get the car moving you then shift to second gear. The only gears you need to engage both the gas and clutch at the same time are first and reverse. The other gears can be changed just by pressing in the clutch, changing the gear, letting up on the clutch completely and engaging the gas pedal. Finding the engagement between first, reverse and the proper amount of gas to apply can be difficult at first. Go to a large parking area or a long dirt road and practice. I taught all my kids (8) to drive a standard. We always started with the standard as I feel strongely that once a person masters a standard they will not have any problems with automatics, or trucks, etc. Downshifting is important and can be a bit difficult to master too. Driving a standard requires using much more of your mind and body than an automatic. You have to be aware of the RPMs so you can know when to shift, either up or down. Listening to the vehicle with your mind and feeling how it is responding with your body is required with a standard much more than an automatic. Automatics are easily driven, requires less mental and physical joining with the vehicle and is not as fun. There is more advantages to driving a standard than getting better gas milage or being able to push start it. When driving a standard you can have much more control of the car, and it is simply fun to drive when you are focusing so much of your mind and body with the car. Like I said, just find that point where it feels the clutch has a bit of resistance, slowly press a bit of gas and the car will either go forward, or jerk a lot and then die. As you practice finding that point with the clutch use your whole body to "feel' the car and what it is doing. That is the best advice I can offer anyone who is getting ready to learn to drive a standard. Now, some are just naturals and it comes to them easily, while others have to practive a lot. Do not allow yourself to get discouraged or think you can't do it. Anybody (unless mentally handicapped) can learn to drive a standard. Just remember that even after you have the car functioning and on the regular road you will still require time to get all the proper shifting down pat with further practice. Try downshifting prior to stopping and making the stop as smooth as possible. Also try making your "take off" as smooth as possible as well. By working to make these transistions smooth you will be taking good care of you vehicle. Those who get cocky and refuse to believe they need to learn more finesse in standard transmission minipulation after getting it onto the road are very hard on their vehicles which wears the clutch and other parts more quickly but also put otheers at risk by failing to fully master this type of driving. It is so fun to drive a standard with torc and horse power on a windy road!! It feels like you are one with the car, joined together and it is a blast!!

Good luck in learning this type of driving. It is a real skill and if you are patient with yourself and allow yourself to fully master this you will have so much fun and feel so much more powerfull.

Answer 2

You must have known that question was going to be totally twisted. Anyway, start your car, push in the clutch, shift into first gear. Now this can sometimes be the hardest part:ok you have to lift up on the clutch, but dont do it very fast or you will kill the engine. when you have the clutch almost all the way up, push down the accelerator and go. once your engine starts revving pretty high/loud (or when your RPMs get pretty high if you have a RPM gauge) let up on the gas, push in the clutch, shift to second, and once agin let the clutch up easily and depress the accelerator. Do the same all the way until you get in your top gear (usually 4th, 5t, or 6th)Once you do it a few times its pretty easy. I think its fun to drive a stick!!!

Answer 3

Drive a stick into the ground? A mallet

Answer 4

Driving a manual transmission car is all about feel and timing, and every car has a different feel, and a different timing. Another thing to remember is: too much clutch is better than not enough clutch.

Answer 5

Start the car. Press your foot on the clutch (the pedal on the far left), shift to first, start driving, and as your engine revs up, press your foot on the clutch again and shift to second. Keep shifting gears until you get to 4th or 5th or until your engine stops revving really high.

Answer 6

it just takes practice.... match the speed of the motor to the speed of the transmission to change gears ......

the practie is how to use the clutch to change gears as well as slowing-down w/o using the brake (going into a turn w/o using the brake)

I think its more fun to drive a stick !!!

Answer 7

Define "stick" you can drive MY stick!