View Poll Results: What do you do when stopped for longer than a stop-go
Downshift to 1st gear - sit there with the clutch depressed & brakes on.
9
9.57%
Shift to neutral - release the clutch - use the brake to hold the car still.
85
90.43%
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5-Speed owners - when stopped at a stop light (or a train) do you.......
04-21-2006, 12:58 AM
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Originally Posted by 84-928S-inChicagoland
My boss is the proud owner of a 2002 BMW Z3. It's in his nature to be kind of chesty about his sports car
Does he pluck his eyebrows and shave his legs?
04-21-2006, 01:20 AM
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I'll idle in neutral at lights unless I can see that I'm next to get the green. I take it easy the first couple blocks from home, putzing along in 1st and holding in the clutch if I have to wait a few seconds at either of the first couple stops. Once I'm past that point, things have warmed up/loosened up enough I can get it back into first from neutral and I'm good to go. I've checked the clutch many times, I don't think it drags. More likely there is some drag in the various bearings until the grease has moved around a bit, and this keeps the TT spinning with the clutch held in.
04-21-2006, 02:46 PM
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Dave : Have you ever had any "issues" with your flexible clutch cable , because mine has split twice, once on the bad side of town and once in the boonies, so I use neutral and the brake pedel at stop lights and take it easy on my clutch.
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04-21-2006, 11:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim bailey - 928 International
I often slide the trans into neutral long before the stop light and coast but I drive even older than I look !
