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To answer your question, if you take your foot off the accelerator quickly while you are in first gear, the car will jerk in most cases because you transition from engine power to engine braking very quickly, and since first gear is so low, everything is amplified. The higher the RPM, the more pron...

I always park my car in gear with the ebrake on. Started doing this after seeing someone's car at school roll back and block the parking lot. Luckily the car didn't roll back and smash someone else's car or injure someone.

Hey everyone. I am wondering if it is normal for my car to jerk when I take my foot off the gas in 1st and proceed to push the clutch in so I can shift to 2nd? This is what happens. I take off in 1st and go to 2500-3000 rpm, then I take my foot off the gas and before I push the clutch in the car jer...

To avoid mis-shifting search this site for threads about grip or hand position. If you change your grip depending on which gear you want, you can be almost assured that you won't get the wrong gear. I will definitely search this site for information about grip/hand position as well as other things ...

Yea going into 2nd while getting on the freeway was enough to make me very careful to find the right gear after that... I'm sure we all did something like that when we were first learning. Good for you for driving the stick and sticking with it! What kind of car is it? Its a 95 civic. Got it as my ...

You're fine, just don't make that a habit. When I was first starting out I threw mine into 2nd gear going onto the freeway....rpms sure shot up in a hurry! Truck still running good over a year and a half later on the same clutch and everything. You'll get better the more you drive. Btw, Welcome to ...

Hi all, today I was merging onto the highway and when i went to shift from 4th gear to 5th gear i accidently went into 3rd gear. When this happened the car jerked and the rpms shot up to 5k! I have been driving manual for 2 months and this has happened to me a couple of times but not recently until ...