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Originally Posted by NESW20
one thing you should NEVER do is sit at a light in gear with the clutch pressed in. that's terrible for the throwout bearing.
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That can be discussed. Have you encountered this: cars pile up before the red light. You stop behind it, and then the cars in front of you then start moving slowing so that they leave a gap in front of you. Then you have to start moving again and stop. And the whole thing repeats until the green light.
This is easily done with an automatic: brake, release brake and brake again. It is very painful for a manual car.
So in order to cope with this, one has to clutch in and in gear for these little movements...
For some reason, people would stop short on their cars/suv/van/whatever and then keep closing in in slow speed, as if they cannot determine how much brake they need to stop the car in the right place behind it. What is the deal of leaving a car length space in front of you while there are cars behind you?