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Originally Posted by Sensisnow
This sounds completely normal to me and has been the case with every manual car that I've ever owned. It would be different if this happened with the clutch pedal depressed, but if you're just coasting along in first gear with the clutch engaged, then it should coast along very slowly at around 1k RPM on a flat road. I do this in heavy traffic on the interstate all the time.
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I was thinking the exact same thing -- reason why is if you let the clutch up slowly while the gear was in 1st, once the clutch engages it will slowly move you forward. If you're on an incline, it'll most likely stall if you just let it go. If you're on a flat surface, it wouldn't just die since it'll just keep going based on it's momentum and the way the clutch works.
If you slowly apply your brakes then it will just die eventually and stall out.
unless I have this thought process wrong, I think it's normal.