• NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Porsche just recalled every Taycan as well for a brake hose that can leak.

    Tesla, Ford and Porshe all back to back.

    Someone, university or something looked into this once, and found that something like 70% of the time recalls happen in groups like this as OEMs wait for others to announce their recalls first as they take the bigger stock /media hit. Then anyone else who had one but hadn’t announced it yet jumps in and doesn’t suffer as much.

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      Eh, not really. The tricky part (which isn’t even that tricky) of learning to drive stick is modulating the clutch, not somehow accidentally downshifting

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          Maybe, if you’re also driving an antique that doesn’t have high-RPM lockouts to prevent overspeeding the engine. But even my old cars going back to the '90s have those.

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            I’m more worried about beating the transmission to death, but I didn’t know about high rpm lockouts so thanks for sharing that.

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              Nah, the only thing that might be worth worrying about learning to drive stick is the clutch, and that’s a wear item designed to be replaced anyway. (Not necessarily often or cheaply, but still, a wear item.)

              Even then, unless somebody’s truly hopeless, they’ll figure it out well before putting on any noticeable excessive wear. (Source: I’ve taught at least five people to drive stick using my own cars, including myself, and haven’t had to replace a clutch due to wear yet.)

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                To be fair nearly all my concerns about manuals are from stories others have told me. We have had two manual cars for maybe a decade now and haven’t had a single bit of trouble with the transmissions or clutches.

                I even taught myself to drive stick driving one of them home from the dealership. Plus I didnt become proficient at it for a bit of time after that.

                I really prefer manuals at this point. Feels simpler.

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        I accidentally shifted from 4th to 1st instead of 3rd when I was first learning. Shit happens.

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    Yo dawg, we heard you like engine braking so we gave you engine breaking in your engine braking!

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    And yet I can’t buy a kei truck because that is supposedly unsafe.

    Can buy a motorcycle, can buy a pedestrian killer, can buy a SUV that seems to beg to want to rollover, but can’t buy a small truck.

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      Found on road dead

      Fix or repair daily

      Failure of Research/Development

      Fucker only runs downhill