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Old 05-10-2017, 02:30 PM   #10
paulca
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It weird, but your first manual car you obsess about remembering where the bite point is. Then you drive someone else's car and the bite point is in a different place and another car and it's different again. After a while it stops mattering and your foot finds the bite point pretty much instantly. You maybe move the clutch quite slowly at first in each unfamiliar car, but you adapt to each new clutch bite point faster until you don't notice it any more.

I'd just get used to it unless it's causing any ergonomics issues or foot strain.

Personally I find the accelerator free play more tricky to master in new cars. I stall my 86 the first time i drove it off the dealer lot because I couldn't quite feel the accelerator free play. I could have just rev'ed it instead but was trying to be a smart arse.
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