I've never driven Manual
 

The first thing that happended was I stalled, is stalling really bad for the car??

It was a blue 350Z

no its not bad for it...i meen it might cause some wear if you do it 100 times over
but no...

It shouldn't be THAT bad, everyone stalls once in awhile. If you practice everyday, you'll get it down in a few days.

It's not bad. If you want to get good with the manual driving, practice stop and go on the hill....try moving the car forward smoothly without having the car rolling back and try keeping the car stationary without using a brake on the incline hill.

I'm sure that there's a very relieved Hispanic guy right now. :icon18:

(Sorry, I couldn't resist.) :rolleyes:

LMAO! :bowrofl:

In all seriousness, stalling won't due any harm to the car.

Hehe I was gonna say I'm not of that persuasion so I've never driven Manuel myself but I do enjoy driving a manual....

lol... i didnt even catch that at first..

To learn how to drive a "Standard" Trans vehicle is very easy. Have someone that drives one drive you out to a very large (ie. A flat High School lot) parking lot. If this is done on a Sunday afternoon, usually it will be safe to do a lot of stalling and neck jerking etc. Most people try to drive the car right off the bat. Wrong thing to do. What needs to be done first is learning how to let the clutch out and get car moving. (don't give it any gas. do this at idle) Once that has been mastered then you can move on to giving the car gas, shifting and driving. But as I just said "learning to smoothly let the clutch out" is paramount to anything else.:tup:

I'd recommend a "slightly sloped drive way"! Much safer than a hill, and less nerve wrenching!

Sit in a chair, close your eyes. Envision the clutch pedal, gas pedal. Think of what you need to do, to drive the car! Drive a route in your head!

I'm serious, I'm not BS you one bit!

Thanks guys, I'll try all your advice. The funny thing is I didn't know exactly how to operate a "Manual" lol, and the car was parked with the E-Brake. I thought I could just put the clutch down, shift into first while in park just to put it in first, soon as I let the clutch go it stalled. I wasn't embarrassed about the stall but the mere fact that I did something so blind.

Hey Devil Z when I got my 350z I had never even touched a manual transmission and I can tell you I caught on in like a week. With tons of practice I'm now excellent at it but yeah take it slow or you'll risk damaging the cars transmission. The 370z has a reworked transmission but its a good car to learn on cuz of the torque, Hondas for example are hard to learn on cuz you gotta rev the suckers so as not to stall but with the 370 learning should be easy. Maybe practice on a friends car lol!:driving:

If it makes you feel any better, I know a guy who bought a Mustang and did the same thing, except he managed to keep it in gear and kept driving!!! The dude drove for 10 miles with the E-brake still on, and then pulls into the parking lot of the place where I was meeting him for dinner, with smoke billowing out of the rear wheels, and tells me he thinks something might be wrong with his Mustang. And then he realized he never disengaged the E-brake! I about wet myself laughing at him. :roflpuke2:

Those Mustang drivers are a special breed. I'll just leave it at that.

You forget to gas it as you let the clutch go or remember that left foot up, right foot down.