I got a new car recently, it's a '16 6-speed manual Kia Soul. It's actually got a pretty slick transmission. I've been driving sticks for 14 years. But oddly enough this is the first blatant mistake I've ever really noticed myself making and I can't stop thinking about the possible effects of it.
What happened was I was doing something completely uncharacteristic, I was coasting in neutral and didn't realize it and had several conversations going in a full car. The light coming up turned yellow so I accelerated hard for a sec to try and get through it. Of course revs when up but the car wasn't moving, and it took me a second to realize with how quiet new car engines are. When I realized the light was well into being yellow, and so I quickly shifted to a gear to get through the intersection. That gear was 3rd. Bad choice, considering I dropped from about 5500k RPM and was only going about 25-30mph. I slipped it over a time interval of about a second, so not a hard drop, and heard a couple blips of cutoff which I thought was traction control. I don't hang out in neutral like that normally, it caught me by surprise and I just didn't make the right gear choice under the pressure of the moment.
Ever since I've been noticing that my clutch shudders when I accelerate from a stop in the morning when it's cold, but only on the first 4-5 starts from stop. Shifting is 100% normal at all other times. Maybe the car is just like that and I didn't notice in the few weeks of prior ownership, but does anyone think I could have warped it or glazed it at all from my mistake?
Semi-dropped clutch from 5k+ into 3rd gear at 30mph
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Re: Semi-dropped clutch from 5k+ into 3rd gear at 30mph
I don't think you did any harm. To really build up some heat, you would have had to slip the clutch at a relatively high rpm for an extended period of time. Also, I don't think that with the type of driving you were doing previous to "the Event" that your clutch disk, flywheel or pressure pate were significantly pre-heated.
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That sequence of events sounds 100% harmless.
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watkins wrote:Humans have rear-biased AWD. Cows have 4WD
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thicksetRope-Pusher wrote:No harm, no fowl
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You out-Rope-Pushered Rope-Pusher.
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watkins wrote:Humans have rear-biased AWD. Cows have 4WD
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No, that's not what I said.
I said "If you don't give back my Procol Harum album,
You don't get any more Popeye's Chicken"
I said "If you don't give back my Procol Harum album,
You don't get any more Popeye's Chicken"
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+10 internets for posting Procul Harum.
-5 internets for not posting Conquistador or White Shade Of Pale.
-5 internets for not posting Conquistador or White Shade Of Pale.
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Hominy internests fur leavin' the dour white open fur ewe too make a comment on weather Popey's did or din' choke their chickens?....theholycow wrote:+10 internets for posting Procul Harum.
-5 internets for not posting Conquistador or White Shade Of Pale.
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He's choking...on chicken.
Olive Oyl probably choked on Popeye's chicken.
Olive Oyl probably choked on Popeye's chicken.
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watkins wrote:Humans have rear-biased AWD. Cows have 4WD