I know I'm opening up the gate on this one but iI'll ask anyways....

Does anyone know of a school that will teach individuals to drive manual transmissions? I'm not even talkin aggressive driving or anything...

I've got a friend tryin to buy a new Acura TL.... yea.. he's never driven stick and believed he could easily since he 'understood the concepts'. Sure enough.. never made it out of the parking lot of the dealership as the dealer pretty much said hell no. He'd really like to learn so I was teachin him, but after his first lesson i have decided to discontinue rather than risk damage to my tranny (he REALLY can't drive stick). What alternatives exist?

ONCE AGAIN -- THIS IS NOT ME. I was forutnate enough to learn on a pickup truck growin up.

 

a good alternative would be an automatic.

 

After the first lesson i gave him I was thinkin the same. However, he'd like to buy the stick cause it's cheaper (i didn't think it would be?) and everyone tells him sticks are better.

Sorta agree.. but just figured i'd ask about schools and such in case anyone knows of anything.

 

When it comes to what the goverment says about better gas mileage, yes a manuel transmission will yeild better numbers, but in this case it would prob. be more cost effective to just go with an auto. Yes, a automatic in most cases (not this one) is more expensive ($850 more in my case), but if you think about it it makes sense. In an auto there are many more parts to the tranny which in turn would lead one to believe that it would cost more.

BTW check this out.....
2004 TL 5-Speed Automatic Starts at $32,650

2004 TL 5-Speed Automatic with Navigation System Starts at $34,650

2004 TL 6-Speed Manual Starts at $32,650

2004 TL 6-Speed Manual with Navigation System Starts at $34,650

2004 TL 6-Speed Manual with High-Performance Summer Tires Starts at $32,850

2004 TL 6-Speed Manual with High-Performance Summer Tires and Navigation System Starts at $34,850

I think he wants a manuel b/ it's six speed, and it would soooo much cooler to have 6 gears

 

Wow, It really isn't that hard. I feel sorry for your friend. If he is gonna pay 35 for a car he should buy a beater for cheap and learn on it. He is not gonna wanna fuck up his clutch or tranny in the new. Maybe he just has horrible cordination. I only stalled twice while learning, and then the ocasional fuck up.

 

werd dude automatic for those of us that are less coordinated

 

thats all i can think of

 

Some people just aren't meant to have a stick. Kind of like girls. I do kind of find it hard to beleive that he is incapable of driving one though.

 

find someone with a manual tranny car that they just don't give a shit about. preferrably a car that's on it's last legs anyways, so that grenading the transmission won't be a tearjerker.

if your friend has enough loot to buy a TL, he should spend a couple hundred bucks to get a piece of shit manual beater car to practice driving with first.

and if he still sucks at it, he might as well just go automatic.

 

please don't make useless multiple posts like this if it can obviously be kept within one post.