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I've done that to my third gear a few times where I haven't pushed hard enough and I crunch gears. Quickly learnt to push a bit harder. My gears used to be really smooth, but very crunchy. We added some helper fluid to the gearbox and while it doesn't crunch anymore, it is a little harder to select ...

Recently all my gears were crunching badly - I guess because the car hadn't been driven regularly for a long time before I got it. My mechanic added some "helper" fluid and now they don't crunch at all. Except for reverse gear...no synchro...sometimes it crunches really badly even though I...

I wouldn't be overly concerned unless the noise gets worse. My clutch pedal has recently started making a little noise when I move it. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doens't. I was more concerned that my engine oil had gone a rather black colour shortly after a service...

Yeah, I'm back.

Some people on here should know by now that neutral is NOT a gear...

Im confused, i thought that you were suppose to add some gas as you let up on the clutch?? There is a difference between giving it a little gas to rev-match and just planting your foot. The Mazda 3 does seem to take a bit of practice to drive smoothly as the engine seems to be extremely sensitive t...

Know your car. I haven't yet met a speed bump that I couldn't get over in second gear. Know at which point your car will stall and only clutch in and downshift if you can't get over it.

Maybe there was something good about digging this thread back out after all!

Welcome back StandardShifterMz3s. (and I'm not being offtopic, that's what's on my mind!)

Well...there's the story of a V8 Holden Commodore belonging to a friend...a/c would always cut out whenever we got onto a hill and revs got over 1500...

The car was an auto.

Can be quite dangerous in a small car - got a shock once when the a/c cut out and I suddenly jumped forwards!

I use my toenail.

Well you're the one who is obviously worried about looking "like the tards who hit their brakes every few seconds". :roll: So either you're a tailgater or you were just asking a random question. Myself, I've done handbrake stops a few times, and I do it particularly when I've just lifted o...

Don't tailgate or "gas it" too much. Problem solved. Sheesh.

ETC is the reason why a fleet of buses were off the road recently over here -they would randomly and dangerously accelerate at full throttle without input.

jomotopia wrote:AWD tends to buck and stuff more than 2WD as well.

Are you serious?