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Originally Posted by jd666
Well take a manual course/test or wait 1 year and apply for manual license and give the test directly.
It's a separate endorsement on the license.
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Wow, that second option is involved. It's just a one time thing though, huh? Does it make your license more expensive each time you renew it? In Mississippi, getting your motorcycle endorsement is free (I think), but then you have to pay like $5 on the spot so they can print you a new license. From then on, anytime you renew your driver's license, it has the motorcycle endorsement on the back.
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Originally Posted by 504
Do all the obvious things like check for accident history, money owing, cosmetic and mechanical condition. Educate yourself with known issues with the car such as DI seals, rough idle etc. and have a good look at maintenance history. You should more importantly assess the owner themselves and see what kind of a person they are because you can tell alot from how the car has been taken care of from that. Do they sound knowledgeable and know what they're doing? Do they granny shift or are they double clutching like they should  . Let them drive the car to see how its been driven. Also you must drive at least one other 86 to have something to compare it to, it'll give you a really good indication on what's normal what's not
Really the car is still pretty new so most of the information you'll get on its condition is the owner assessment |
All of that is good information, but I bolded the parts I thought were extra good. Concerning double clutching, my daily driver is a 2005 Hyundai Tiburon. I bought it used with 10,000 miles on it back in 2006, and have been driving it
hard ever since. Tiburons were notorious for premature clutch failure. I still see random Google ads that say stuff like, "Tiburon clutch failure!?!? Click this flashy button for super good deals from Chinese Sketchball Website!!!1!"
No clue who the original owner was, since I bought it from a dealership, but I learned to drive a manual with this car. Probably after about 10,000 miles, I learned to double clutch. I finally replaced the clutch at 130,000 miles because I thought it was slipping. I pulled it out and looked at it and thought, "huh... that doesn't look bad at all. Oh well!" and I threw it away and installed a new Clutchmasters FX200. Which immediately was slipping as well. I'm deployed now and can't look at it, but after thorough research on it, I suspect there is a leak that is allowing oil to get onto the friction surfaces of the clutch and flywheel. Apparently it's really common. So even after 130,000 miles, it was still good!
TLDR: So the moral of the story is, by
double clutching, I made my clutch last more than twice as long as most people with the same car, even though I beat the hell out of it otherwise.