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Originally Posted by Danny86
My car turned off on me 3 times as I was leaving the Toyota dealership :facepalm: the look on the sales reps at Toyota was priceless. It's not my first time driving a manual but definitely the first time in a long time. Also, since my sales rep didn't explain the reverse lock mechanism I thought first was reverse and kept putting it into 3rd. I quickly got the hang of it though. 
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Funny story, pretty much the same thing happened to me. However, I was having issues because when I learned to drive stick (8 years ago), my uncle's classic beetle had a jacked up gear shift, so when in neutral, it was constantly leaning to the left. Therefore, when putting it in first, you just pushed directly forward. When I applied this to my 86, third gear over and over.
I also didn't know about the reverse lock out... which got me wedged awkwardly in the middle of an intersection with no way to back up.