Driving with manual transmission questions

Im 5' 2" and 105 lbs lol

 

I'm ambivalent. I was annoyed by it at first. There's a traffic light at the top of a steep hill on my way home from work. A favorite pastime while waiting for the green light was, if the vehicle behind me was right on my bumper, I would slowly let up on the brake* and roll back on them. I would award myself 1 point if I could get them to lay on the horn. Good times.

edit: not clutch, brake FTFM

 

thats definitely funny and people should learn to stop riding people's bumpers.

 

Btw guys, any particular reason only the sport has the hill assist feature?

 

Gah! You're a tiny thing. No wonder this is somewhat of a challenge. Maybe someone else here with a petite wife or whatever can add some insight as to seating position, etc.

 

I'm going to take a guess that it may get in the way of offroad capabilites where sports are meant to be your pavement princesses. Could be totally wrong tho

 

I actually like it without. My old Subaru had it and it drove me nuts when parallel parking on a hi, which I did a lot of when I lived in Pittsburgh. I ended up turning it off.

 

@tonered would be the definitive source on that but I believe it has to do with the brake booster in the ORs / Pros that’s not in the Sports

 

You don't have it.

Nope. Only Sports. No way to do it on the OR/Pro

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It's better. Also the brake booster on the OR/Pro is larger and has the ATRAC system.

Supposedly. The hill hold is fantastic on uphill obstacles. Brakes on the OR/Pro are far superior though.

Yup. ATRAC for the win/loss.

 

Yessir. The Sport and 2016 / 2017 SR MTs are the only ones. It seems like it could apply to all vacuum boosted ATs, but apparently not.

The OR and Pro AT has a different type of HA that does not hold well. It sounds like it slows coast back but definitely doesn't stop it.

 

My 2017 SR, MT has hill hold.

 

lol See the post above yours.

 

To me it's just a reminder that what matters is the end result. I specifically purchased this specific vehicle for a reason. To offroad and not show off some 20"chrome and lay down stories. Now truth be told I did wait 3 yrs and until my bumper to bumper was out till I balled up and started modifying it.

Anyone ever told you that 10k doesn't really go that far really? I have dropped that since Feb. And as many places that truck went stock. And has been since... I feel some imposter syndrome. I still have so much more I need and want to do to it.

But I do it because it makes me happy. And that is all that needs to be said.

 

Exactly!

 

Off road models have a hill-holding feature - just slip the clutch

 

I take the make go stick and I shove it in a general direction, then I mush on the go stepper while I unmush the moving the go stick stepper.

 

1 year update... manual is a piece of cake and fun as heck and never going back to auto lol. Funny to look back at this thread now.
I'd say it took a solid 5 months to be completely confident.

 

Good stuff. Busted mine out today too