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thanks for the replies.

i'm not 100% sure on this, but if i attach a car power adapter into my 12V outlet, the power to play my mp3 player will be regained bythe alternator and never wear down my car battery?

so is there a definitive consensus here...its a bad habit...but it's not bad for the car/??/

lol i do this too....i don't think it's bad.....

mississauaga here...and yep, another civic owner

I had to pick Peter. Soo many funny flashbacks. Stewie was a REALLY close second. After that, ...... that old pedophile guy that likes Chris. (LOL his voice is hilarious)

i'd say in my first month i stalled maybe 8-10 times
i'd say in my second month i stalled maybe 4-6 times
in this month i've stalled once and the month is almost over

the problem is getting it TOTALLY smooth during shifts.

thanks for the help jomotopia and papyrus...i wasn't sure of the terms here...it turns out I do gas starts. Is it good for the clutch to be revving up before releasing the clutch all the time, or is the rev supposed to be low enough to not cause any damage? ( Sorry about the questions, just trying t...

now im confused about the terminology,,am i doing no gas starts (let clutch to FP, add gas while release clutch)..and which would be the best, easiest for me. I've got a 98 civic ex,127 hp.thanks.

I've been using "no-gas" starts since i've had my car (Let clutch to friction point, then slowly add gas while releasing clutch). In some above posts I was reading about "gas" starts. Does this involve revving the engine with the clutch still up before the friction point and rele...

I don't double-clutch reguarly. I single-clutch rev match my downshifts. So this means when I need to go from, let's say, 4th to 2nd, I downshift twice. If I were to double clutch, would I be able to shift to neutral from 4th, clutch out, blip to somewhere around 4000 rpms, shift to 2nd, clutch out ...

is it a bad thing to be adding some gas while releasing the clutch?..My 1-2 shift also is my worst (getting better though), and I learned to keep my right foot away from the gas anytime my left foot is on the clutch. Obviously, when I launch, I add gas at the friction point and release the clutch, b...

You're not supposed to put the car in neutral at a light?

lol..i saw that one. He also called the engine - The Ranch, because thats where his 200 horses live.

Kyromoto wrote:DUDE YOUR ONLY 15 AND GETTING A CAR... you must have well off parents... I barly got my beat up jeep at 18 years old and it was only an incentive to graduate lol

some of us buy our own cars...