I think this would be the right section considering that this is the manual section . Here in this post everyone and anyone who has taught someone else to drive manual usually has some crazy scary *** story about ssomthing that happened while doing it. So if you have any crazy story, scarey moment, wtf, or good laugh from doing it please post it here. Let the stories commence.

Mine would be a WTF moment. Someone tried to shift using the E-Brake. you can guess how that ended.

 

Teaching girlfriend to drive her shitty standard Saturn, she flat out COULD NOT make it up a hill taking off from a stop sign. She kept either stalling out or going backwards.

Had to end up getting her to reverse it into a parking lot where I drove it out

 

i took some one in their moms neon an they stoped on the hill when they went to take off agian they saw smoke and was smiling after a few breiff seconds i was like what are you smiling about they where like im doing my first burnout i was like no thats your clutch.....lol well i had to help them change their clutch about a month later

 

i dont have any good stories but im enjoying these ones

 

This isn't exactly a manual story but it's still amusing. I was taking the test to get my drivers liscense and I caught a car going backwards down the correct side of the road going 25... the car made a couple of turns and turned into the parking lot/drive going back wards. The instructor got out putting a huge x on the entire sheet and the girl came out crying and asking if she was going to pass. I just wanted to say. "what do you think."

 

I was teaching my brother to drive a manual using my SS. We pulled up to a light on a pretty good hill, and someone tucked their nose right up behind the car. At the same time a St. Louis County police car pulled up next to us. I told him, "Don't roll into the car behind us. Smoke 'em if you have to, we will deal with the cop later." He did very well. He turned the tires over a couple of times, but the cop didn't seem to care.

 

Learning how to drive a standard when I was about 12 years old, I was in my aunts 87 Tercel hatchback. Ugliest car I've ever seen. Anyway, she's got a red snowcone in her hand and she's trying to explain to me to push down on the as as I'm letting off of the clutch. Some how, I basically floored it and dumped the clutch, throwing both of us back and soaking in interior of the car with red cold ice.

Trying to teach my sister how to drive in my tacoma, which was brand new at the time. I get her started fine, rolling into first. I tell her to shift to second, she accidentally shifts to fourth, the trucks starts shuddering horribly. I get excited and start raising my voice, telling her to hit the clutch, only she panicks and hits the brakes so the truck starts shuddering worse. By this time I'm yelling "THE CLUTCH, THE CLUTCH" she starts crying, the truck finally dies, she gets out and refuses to ever let me try to teacher her again.

 

I bought my girlfriend her current eclipse she had never driven in her life and I was teaching her to drive it and were driving down a fairly busy street and she left it in third gear so the car starts stuttering horribly just like yours and I'm a yelling the same things you were... she finally throws into first, parks the car and I get the silent treatment for the rest of the day. Also found myself bying her a boquet of roses... what a suprise.

 

HAHA, I'm just glad it was my sister and not a gf. I hate how they mess up but its our fault.

God I can only imagine what would have happened had we been in my formula.

 

well when i was learning to drive in my dads 82 toyota pickup, no pwer steering pos, i was learning pretty quick. We were in a local college parking lot early on a sunday morning. I was doing good enouh that my dad decides he'll get out and set up a parralel parking course for me to try. As I pull out to turn around i get the red and blue lights flashed behind me. I freaked. I had never been pulled over or ever driven by myself. I drove all the way around the parking lot to get back to where my dad was (a good 100 yards) with cop still behind me, pulled a little ahead of the cones, and parralel parked in. The cop walks out and was like, "Son, not bad for a first timer, but please leave the premisses before i tow your dads truck for letting a 12 year old drive."

 

Swift PWNAGE

So i was learning to drive manual as well cept I didn't have the benefit of anyone teaching me, my drivers ed was on a manual but that was a geo metro... I don't like to talk about that. Anyways the hospital I was working for owned some ford pickup with no power steering. I was driving it back to the back of matinence where we parked it. In the back there is the cafeteria on one side and all of the hospitals oxygen on one side. Well I was turning into the parking spot in the middle between the two and I reached down to downshift and negelected to remember that the car was not power steering... i lost control of the steering wheel and it went flying like a airplane propeller back into place and the car angled it self going towords the oxygen tanks going 15 miles an hour with the tanks 50 feet in front of me. So I slammed on the brakes squeeling the tires and the car comes sliding to a stop. Well I look to the cafe and realize everyone is dead silent and looking at me. I look at the front of the car and realize I'm litterly one inch from hitting the hospitals oxygen supply that would of blown a hole the size of rhode island in the side of the hospital.......................................... ............................ I went in the back door. Didn't tell the boss. Needless to say I woulda been swiftly pwned had I hit those things.

 

i wasnt teaching this guy to drive a stick, he "basicly" NEW how too!! but all he ever owned was auto's
BTW, this is in a v6 mustang.
after ridding with him for a hour or so, i get tired of bobbing back and forth in the seat at EVERY stop. so i tell him "give it a little more gas when you take off".
then he is doing it in every other gear, so i tell him "don't bang every gear like you racing, ease out on the clutch and in on the gas to make a smooth transition"
he gets offended and tells me to stop telling him how to drive his car.
lol, then we are on the freeway, he's going to go show his cousin his new toy. on the on ramp he gets in it, wines out first, then second, get to the top of third and holds i there, i mean this lil pony is 60-70mph, 1-2k rpm from rev limit!! i was like "DUDE!!! shift already" he looks at me all sour and says, "it's ok, i like the way the gas feels, and i said quit telling me how to drive!!" he finally shifts, after 10 minutes or so, and so on goes the day.
i don't talk to the guy again for a week or two, then i see him in a store and i ask him about his car and he tells me it is in the shop because it blew up on him. but he did get lucky, ford had some sort of recall on the heads or something on those year cars. never rode with him again. lost touch with the guy, maybe he learned.
well, the story is funny to me and this thread reminded me of it, enjoy

 

First time I drove a clutch was in my uncles old early 80's Nissan car. I was 12 and killed it 10 times before I could actually get it moving... Fast forward to about two years ago... My dad just got his 87 Fiero GT running and he thought it would be neat to teach me and my brother how to drive the 5 spd. After I get moving with the car I am slamming the car into gears like it is a damn racecar. My dad yells at me "wtf you doing you TRYING to break something?!" I looked at him puzzled and told him, I thought you had to force it into gear and stuff it seems to go in hard, and I want to make sure I get it into gear ok. He then tells me to go easy on it and shows me how to shift with me operating the clutch and him shifting, basically telling me "use three fingers and let it guide itself." Same method I use today when driving my TA and I will pat myself on the back saying I have gotten pretty damn smooth at driving a Manual!

While talking about the Fiero though, I was slamming the car into gear and such and I guess my brother thought the same thing as I did. After he and my dad came back my brother was all pissy,always gets pissy if he gets yelled at or told he is doing something wrong. I asked him how it went and his words to me were, "it sucked." What sucked? The car? He glares at me and says "NO! I was driving like dad told me to and when I went to go from 3 - 4 I accidently went to 2 and dad got all pissy and yelled at me on being careful to go into the right gear! " Luckily he wasn't going to fast so he just revved it really high.

I have tried to give him more practice with my wife's Ford Probe with a bad clutch. I first thought, it should be easy and smooth for him to take off so he wont have any problems. Well when we were driving around he went to go up a hill and tried to accelerate more the clutch started slipping bad and he gave me a weird look. I told him to go into a lower gear and he did it slow, forcing him to have to go to the next gear. By the time we are halfway up the hill he is in second at about 4500RPM afraid to shift any higher because he will just have to go back to second gear again.

 

I was teaching my g/f at the time to drive stick in my old 94 Wrangler in our townships winter storage shed type deal (lots of big piles of stones and salt with a big road down the middle). She was doing really good, I showed her how to let the clutch out slow and give it just hte right amount of gas. I was completely impressed when she started going on the third attempt.

After she felt comforatable in first I had her shift into second. This is where all hell broke loose. I explained to her we were going to start in first then shift into second, then press the clutch and break to come to a stop. She said ok and we were off.

We shifted into second gear perfectly. Once we were there I waited a moment then said okay press in the clutch and start to break. This is where she proceeded to accidentally mash the gas! While she was doing that she started to panic and hit the break. So this poor jeep started fishtailing in the gravel then starts shaking violently as she starts to slow down. This whole time I'm just going nuts.

Eventually she mashed the break hard enough to make the Jeep stall at which point she started to cry. I about had a heart attack because we were about 15ft from a small stream that would have made for a really bad day had we fallen in.

I did end i'm talking her into trying again and from then on she did great . Oh the memories.