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Hi everybody, I'm new to this community, I'm posting here because I think there are a lot of stick shift veterans around. I bought a new car, a Fiat Panda 2009 1.2 LPG with 60 HP. It's from a while that I own this car; and I have a question about the clutch control on launching (or start). From wha...

Lol, fair point. I don't find myself in many parking garages these days, although I'd also be a bit annoyed if I regularly drove into a garage and had to either turn on my lights or just live with the fact that I can't see my gauges while I park. I probably am in the minority of having to use a par...

Perfection? Smurfection! Perfection is over-rated! http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/smurfs/images/6/6f/Smurfette_-27.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120331014333 What do they call the most mediocre athlete at the Olympic games? The guy who earns the most points in 10 events that he couldn't even qualif...

The lack of backlighting doesn't bother me too much, although it can be surprising when you drive through a dark area (like a tunnel or parking garage) and it's like "where did the gauges go?" This might actually be directly why I feel like I'm effected by it because I go into a parking g...

I do think that's why but it still doesn't always work. My truck uses the headlights as DRLs. My brother (who has a vehicle with autolamp but no vehicles with DRLs) borrowed it once after dark for some reason I don't remember. When he returned he informed me that the cluster lights weren't working....

I was rifling a ton of questions but I do that for pretty much everything that requires me to learn. If I ask and voice the questions and answers it just helps me learn things. I ranted many a times when I registered here how I would research advice on other various sites and a lot of it kind of hi...

MH, ask all the noob questions you can think of. We've all been there. Teamwork was a fairly new member when he started answering questions for other newer members. It's reassuring to have a place to hang out where the members don't bro out (sorry enniroc and keyboard avatar young woman - I've forg...

That's interesting that you've got sensitivity settings for hill start assist. My menu doesn't offer settings, so my bill start assist will just have to stay. I only "have it" because I went through Vag-Com menu's on my friends computer and stumbled across it accidentally. I really don't ...

I'm still uneasy about rolling back, unless I can see the entire front of the car in my rearview mirror (which isn't too frequent. That's a ton of space and how often does anyone give you THAT much space? Try this: Back up to a car in a parking lot until it's in your mirror at the spot where people...

You lot habe me wondering if my hill assist cancels upon application of the petrol pedal. I'll have to play around. Curious to know the response also- I mean it makes sense that would be a pretty easy implementation to make the guidance unobtrusive. I've actually confirmed in MK7 Golf/GTI's there i...

I know what you mean about those "practice runs." Even when traffic is moving, I often find myself in situations where traffic slows to 15-20 MPH, which can be handled in 3rd gear if I don't need to speed up at all (which isn't usually the case). I've found that downshifts to 2nd gear nee...

184 torques (1500 Copernicans per sol). Holy much torque near the clutch fork! With that kind of muscle in a smallish car, is there any need to ever exceed 2000RPM? In many cases, no, although I sometimes stay in slightly lower gears around 2200 RPM if I'm driving in traffic, partly out of laziness...

:lol: A moo horn would be awesome. my car has a decent amount of torque (I think 184 lb-ft at 1400RPM) You might want to double-check that...I'd believe it at 4100RPM maybe. At 1400RPM that would be a large diesel engine. If I recall he has a turbo of some sort. This isn't out of the realm. Ms. Fri...

That second picture makes me think of cowpower (kinda like horsepower, except a cow instead). Those engines would really moo from cowpower! That's what my car has, 125 cowpower. It's kinda like horsepower, but it's usually pretty lazy unless you really manage to incite a stampede, then nothing in i...

Firstly, I was not sure where I should put this, so moderators, feel free to move this post to a different section. Today marks exactly 3 months since I got my first manual car. I had some very anxious moments, driving around the mean streets of Queens and Long Island (which are both reasonably hil...