Originally Posted by 370Zvetlana

i learned to drive manual 3 weeks ago, only had the smell once: in traffic on a fairly steep hill (i was maintaining the friction point in the stop and go traffic in fear of rolling backwards into the car behind me), but i go up that hill everyday, and havent had the smell since. got used to keeping foot off the clutch until time to move, find the friction point with foot on break then hit the gas.... god knows if im doing it right, but i want to learn without the ebreak, and no bad smell except that one time, so hopefully no damage lol