Is this hurting my car?

[Ridin13]

I'm teaching my girlfriend to drive my car. So obviously she stalls out in first and the car jerks a lot because she is learning.

My question is does the constant stalling and jerking hurt the car when you are learning to drive stick.

[fastcelica]

I dont think so. Of course grinding your gears is bad, but so long has she uses the clutch right its all good. Just killing it wont hurt, your engine. .... it could hurt your clutch a little, but not as bad as revving it up and droping the clutch to burn out or "take off". Dropping the clutch at idle is better on the clutch than dropping it at 3g's. Hope she learns fast.

[Ridin13]

Thanks for the info. I thought it was hurting it, but thanks for the reassurance.

[Jake_VVTL-i]

I'm not so sure that a six speed celica is a good car to learn to drive stick on. Very close gearing. Just hope she don't misshift it.

Jake

[chameleon]

don't worry, even if she does miss shift it it wont hurt anything. The reason people destroy their engines from misshifting is because they are racing and the engine is already near redline. During regular driving at normal rpm's, a miss shift will just make the car rev high, but it will still be below redline.

[Ridin13]

I'm just letting her get the basic feel for driving stick. I really want her to learn to get it into first. Thats where she has trouble.

About misshifting, she freaks out when the car starts going fast, so I dont think she'll get up that fast :)

[da wacky paki]

Yah its not gonna hurt your car. Dont worry about it.