Might as well enjoy the car, just keep it reasonably within the limitations specified and do the maint. necessary to keep it pristine. High rev downshifts are not a great idea for a new car, or one with 90+K.....as for "riding the clutch"....the only way to prevent this is to take yuor foot OFF the clutch pedal after every shift.

 

Bump to Rev matching... i love it. But NO high rev down shifts. Practice at heel-toe'ing. Braking with your heal and using your toe to tap the gas to match the revvs for the downshift. When your good at it, it sounds awesome, easy on the car, and makes friends jealous.

 

Well here's another question on "riding the clutch". What do you do when you're uphill at a stoplight? Most people I know will keep the vehicle in first gear and give a little throttle and release a little clutch until the vehicle doesn't move forward or roll back. I know that's probably hard on the clutch, but what else can you do? I've tried putting it in neutral then shifting to first when traffic starts moving, but I roll back quite a bit when moving my feet from the brake to the clutch and accelerator.

 

you can heel toe it here too, keep your heel on the brake while you start to give it throttle with toe, than transition fully. some people will also use hand brake on hill starts, then you just let off clucth with your left foot as you engage throttle with right and relax the hand brake, not something im practiced with though. i definitley do thesub par half cluth hold sometimeswhen traffic is up my backside way too close.

 

^^^ you learn to be quick, my friend...
Honestly, after a week or so of doing it you'll get a lot quicker at it.
Both my parents ride the clutch on an uphill in their cars.
My dad had an E46 318 and that thing got to 100K on the stock clutch.
Downshift deceleration is supposed to help the clutch I heard, b/c it wears it the other way and roughens it...[&:]

 

Heel on the brake and toe on the gas...something tells me you don't actually do this...especially not on the TT [&:]

 

^^yea really. The pedals are so badly spaced for heal-toeing.

 

my foot is straight up and down between both pedals. throttle is regulated by rocking my foot to the side.
I feel a 'how-to' vid coming on... after i take a nap, of course.

 

Great advice all...thanks. When I learned to drive stick in '88 (dating myself), my parents told me never to ride the clutch.

When I sold the Honda Civic I had w/32K miles, it already needed a new clutch. So sad...

 

I was in 1st grade in '88 ; )