hey... this may be useful to anyone buying any manual car... but Im planning on buying a new infiniti g35 and my friend brought up the topic of how bad it is to stall a car and what are the effects... it made me think so i decided to bring forward the question to anyone that might know... thank you

 

Its ok once in a while or the first few times when learning.....but I would assume after MANY time it would affect the engine/tranny.

I learned stick on my last car (2000 Honda Civic) and stalled it around 20 times in its entire life (including during learning. I also thought my bro how to drive it so add like 10 more times. Over all its prob been stalled 30 times...the engine has 30K on the ODO and the clutch is still good as new...you do the math.

 

I'm still new to the facts about that stuff so can you be a little more specific? What if a new person driving a car stalls say about 6-10 times a day for about 2-3 weeks... will that cause a bad effect? if it does.... what exactly will be the result?

 

Thats excessive, on a luxury car with an already "$hitty" transmission, it MIGHT affect your mechanical components....that is over estimating....do you really do it that much in the first place or are you giving us your worst case of what you "think" you will be doing?

 

it's not my car. He drives an acura rsx. I'm planning on buying an infiniti in a month or so... he just asked me to ask... so here i am. I'm also curious about the question though cause i've never really heard what could happen.

 

If your are somewhat human, you wont stall it that much. Trust me. No one thaught me nothing when I drove off the lot the first time....errr I mean stalled it off the lot the first time. You get better and better. You just need someone by your side to give you the basics. Google it and see if you kind find info. I don't know of any solid studies done on it, but I can tell you it is NOT good for the engine if you are constantly doing it. Sorry I couldn't help.

 

I don't think stalling has too much negative effects on the components. The only wear i can really think of would be on the clutch depending on how you stall. If you're stalling slowly i think it's okay, but if it's one of those sudden jerks like when your car is in first gear and you forget and you just bring your foot off the clutch, that kind of just digs into the clutch there. But that's pretty small too.

 

Ok thats good then.... Im currently still learning.
I just purchased a 2002 rsx type-s so im kind of scared about the stalling situation. I was learning on my g/fs plymoth turbo but its not the same when you sit inside the rsx. So much power to it and its so much fun to drive e

I guess i should just pratice more on car before i use it

 

You are better off stalling the car than burning the clutch.

 

Yeah thats true...
Thanks for all the help i appreicate it.

 

first thing i tell everyone that ive taught was that when you feel that you're about to stall, just clutch-in and gently re-release the clutch.

a little clutch burning's not going to kill the car.. imho, that's better than
stalling.

 

i dont think its too harsh on the engine or tranny, these thigns are built to last. though repeatedly it will prob due some damage.

i would say act like you want to buy a civic or some other stick at a dealership and test drive those to practice. i've stalled mine a total of 4 times, but then again i learned driving on a stick.

best of luck to u, get the 6mt no matter what

 

Hmm.. could you explain why? What harm comes from stalling the car? i can't see any really, it's not really any stress or anything on the car

 

kenchan i dont agree with you about rather than stalling out, burning the clutch is better. stalling is just the incorrect way to turn off a car, if you burn a clutch you smell that terrible scent and it becomes hard to shift. it is okay to stall when you are learning, i did it when i got my g and learned how to drive on it. the MOST important thing to learn when learning how to drive a stick is the clutch engagement point. do a search on google about manual transmission cars. there is a forum dedicated to teaching how to drive a stick.