Manual transmission (hills)

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by tooter

I use the emergency brake on every slope where I run the risk of rolling backwards more than I want before engaging the clutch. It's a simple skill to learn, and can add thoudands of miles of useful life to your clutch.

I also don't slide the clutch between gears. I let the engine revs fall to about where they would be if engaged in the next gear before I engage the clutch.

^^^^^ Great description. This describes me as well. I've only encountered hills (with stop signs, and or lights, and or a need to park on that extreme an incline) where there is a need the use the emergency brake in: San Francisco, a few places in the Oakland/Berkeley hills, a few places off of I-280 on the San Francisco Peninsula, a few places along the Enchanted Circle in New Mexico, Eureka Springs in Arkansas, a few places in the Sierra Nevada, and in your neck of the woods (and I've driven my Yaris in D.C. and in every state but Montana, Idaho, and North Dakota).

[tooter]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

^^^^^ Great description. This describes me as well. I've only encountered hills (with stop signs, and or lights, and or a need to park on that extreme an incline) where there is a need the use the emergency brake in: San Francisco, a few places in the Oakland/Berkeley hills, a few places off of I-280 on the San Francisco Peninsula, a few places along the Enchanted Circle in New Mexico, Eureka Springs in Arkansas, a few places in the Sierra Nevada, and in your neck of the woods (and I've driven my Yaris in D.C. and in every state but Montana, Idaho, and North Dakota).

Hey nook,

Man, that's a lot of travelling... and it pays high tribute to your car.

Greg

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by tooter

Hey nook,

Man, that's a lot of travelling... and it pays high tribute to your car.

Greg

.....I meant all of the lower 48 except those three states. I've never beeen to Alaska, and I think I'm virtually the only person in my family who has never been to Hawaii. I've been to ND, MT, and ID...just not in my Yaris. But yea, I think it is a tribute to my car.....and thus to Toyota!