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Old 10-11-2019, 06:03 PM   #15
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Talk about old habits, I was following my son in one of my louder cars in my truck. Not really paying attention to the world and he wound it up and shifted, My natural habit was to step on the clutch and reach for the shifter. Sudden panic no clutch pedal and no shift knob. Oh s--- felt like an idiot.
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You should have seen the confusion at the tire shop when they went to fix a flat on my 4runner and there are 4 sticks in the center console.
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Old 10-11-2019, 06:41 PM   #17
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Could be worse. Could be car from pre 1970 or so that didn't have the switch and could be started in gear.
Bam! as he goes through the back door before it opens

I actually had to use that "feature" a few times like when the throwout bearing carrier melted on my 72 Chevy Luv and you couldn't put it in 1st unless it was off. Pretty much the same thing when I almost completely snapped off the shift fork because the tob seized on my 79 Fiesta Sport. The Luv wasn't too bad, it had a super sloppy tranny anyway so a little slammin' around got it to a shop, of course it was 5:15 on a Friday afternoon in the middle of the eastern Oregon desert. Made for a long weekend The Fiesta left me with a 300 mile overnight drive through the central Rockies, thankfully there's no traffic at night on US 40 so I just milked it up to 4th gear by accelerating up, turning it off and gently shifting it to the next gear and turning it back on. Then I didn't stop for the next 5 hours. There are only a couple of small towns and at the time only 2 of them had traffic lights so no biggie
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Talk about old habits, I was following my son in one of my louder cars in my truck. Not really paying attention to the world and he wound it up and shifted, My natural habit was to step on the clutch and reach for the shifter. Sudden panic no clutch pedal and no shift knob. Oh s--- felt like an idiot.
i was going to post this one as well. that momentary panic when your left foot slams to the floor!
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Last Friday after dining out with my wife, I go to the valet to pick up my car amongst the hundred or so parked there.
He asks me which one, and I tell him "The black Subaru with the big wing."
He looks at me a second, then goes "Ohhhh, THE MANUAL."

He then proceeded to take five minutes trying to figure out how to start it, and immediately stalled it, then kept going into reverse instead of first.
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Dropped off my car at Subaru awhile back for a warranty issue and oil change. The tech said he can't drive stick very well and asked if the BRZ Clutch is light (it is).
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I originally bought and registered my BRZ in Louisiana, which has an inspection program they call "brake tags." To get your brake tag, they do a quick safety inspection, then test the brakes by driving it 15 feet or so and making sure it stops.

The day I took my BRZ to get the brake tag there were two people working there. The girl who inspected my car stopped and said, "He gonna have to test the brake. I can't drive no stick." I offered to move it myself, but she said, "No, we gotta drive it. He be here in just a minute."

If your job involves driving literally thousands of vehicles per year of very make and model on the road, I would think that operating a manual transmission would be a required skill. That same girl had been there by herself when I took my Jeep in to get the brake tag. What would she have done if the other guy hadn't been there when I took my BRZ in, deny me a brake tag because she couldn't do her job?
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Last Friday after dining out with my wife, I go to the valet to pick up my car amongst the hundred or so parked there.
He asks me which one, and I tell him "The black Subaru with the big wing."
He looks at me a second, then goes "Ohhhh, THE MANUAL."

He then proceeded to take five minutes trying to figure out how to start it, and immediately stalled it, then kept going into reverse instead of first.
Whoa that's BAD. Knowing how to drive a manual should be a requirement for that job as much as med-school is for doctors. That was completely irresponsible hiring that guy into that position.
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Whoa that's BAD. Knowing how to drive a manual should be a requirement for that job as much as med-school is for doctors. That was completely irresponsible hiring that guy into that position.
All the more reason to never vallet your car.
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The lot car jockeys that move the vehicles around are often young inexperienced drivers not the techs. Not surprising at all that it could happen even on a Subaru lot.
Gonna watch who posts derogatory remarks here and see if at least one of them didn't post "New to MT any tips?" within the last couple of years on here.
Lol that used to be me at a salvage dealership. The one time we had a manual Integra to move I had to get help.
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Old 10-24-2019, 07:47 PM   #25
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Whoa that's BAD. Knowing how to drive a manual should be a requirement for that job as much as med-school is for doctors. That was completely irresponsible hiring that guy into that position.
Valet is a low-skill, minimum wage job. It's not as if employers can be all that picky.

Those job interviews would go like this:

"Can you drive a stick?"
"No."
"Sorry, we'll have to keep looking."

"Can you drive a stick?"
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"GOD DAMMIT! You're hired anyway. Welcome the fuck aboard."
Candidate thinking: "What have I gotten myself into?"
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Lol. Dammit. It can't be all that rare. That's hilarious though.
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Crazy. I find it tough to believe people working in an automotive scene wouldn't know to use the clutch
You would be surprised how little some so called "automotive professionals" actually know.
I know I've told this story but... the dealership where I bought my tS had a problem trying to unlock the trunk. I phoned in advance about coming to see the car. They had several hours to go over things but didn't. When I asked them to open the trunk they couldn't because the battery was dead. They had to drop the back seat to get at the release button and of course the seat release is in the trunk so they couldn't. First, they were going to remove the battery and put it on a charger for a couple of hours. Then they decided to bring in the portable booster/trickle charger. It took about a half hour before it had enough juice to pop the trunk. I went back a couple days later and made the deal on the car. I had to wait another three or four days until they could get it in to do the PDI. Funny thing, during the delivery process I asked about the owners manual. Well they turned the dealership upside down but they couldn't find any of the books that should have been in the glove box. It took me about eight weeks, numerous phone calls to the dealer and Subaru Canada's Customer Service before I got a complete set of the correct year books. There, in the manual it talks about the hidden key in the fob and the lock under the rear lid to access the trunk should the battery fail.
No one in that dealership, not sales staff, service staff or techs seemed to know anything about it on the day I first looked at the car.
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This supports my already strong conviction to never ever leave my vehicles in the hands of "professionals."
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