Teaching someone to drive a manual

[MConte05]

If you teach them properly, then it shouldn't be a problem. I've taught a lot of people how to drive sticks, no blown up clutches. This car is rather easy in comparison to my rally car, a 1994 Subaru Legacy with a race clutch and AWD, ha.

[Ghostrider 310]

I used to teach people to shift at a dealership, lots of different people. The Boxster would be a more difficult car to teach someone on than say a VW. For starters the clutch is very grabby, can be an handful in a parallel park situation and will likely produce many a stall for the beginner. Furthermore, a missed shift and other unavoidable learning curve experiences are going to at the very least, beat your machine's transmission up in a myriad of ways. If it were my kid, I'd find a craigslist fixerupper Sbox, that could be resold as a winter rat and let it rip, might be cheaper in the long run and hey if you get stuck with it you can use it to learn speed shifting.

[jmatta]

I taught my son to drive a manual transmission, but chose to have him learn on lesser cars, than the Box S. First we went out out in an older 3 series BMW...very easy to work mechanicals. Next we borrowed my nephews VW Golf; again very easy to drive. We finally went out in the Box S and he had a very difficult time, constantly stalling. I think he lost interest thereafter and has not been out since and prefers an automatic (he drives a Ford Focus).

[deptotpr]

Here is your answer:

01 2001 Porsche Boxster Clutch Kit - Clutch - Beck Arnley, LUK, OES Genuine, Sachs - PartsGeek

[Coffinhunter]

Originally Posted by deptotpr

Here is your answer:

01 2001 Porsche Boxster Clutch Kit - Clutch - Beck Arnley, LUK, OES Genuine, Sachs - PartsGeek

Where are you in Tampa? I am north in Spring Hill, but looking for a good shop.

[grubinski]

Interesting. My wife still can't drive a stick, mostly due to mental issues. I have taught her in the past on my old Datsun 510 and later a Miata, but she's been too intimidated to go out on the street.

I was thinking the Boxster might be a great car for this ... the flywheel is heavy enough that you can get started really easy. I don't see why some above have said it's a bad choice to teach someone in ... to me I think it's probably the easiest I've ever owned.

[blue2000s]

Originally Posted by grubinski

Interesting. My wife still can't drive a stick, mostly due to mental issues. I have taught her in the past on my old Datsun 510 and later a Miata, but she's been too intimidated to go out on the street.

I was thinking the Boxster might be a great car for this ... the flywheel is heavy enough that you can get started really easy. I don't see why some above have said it's a bad choice to teach someone in ... to me I think it's probably the easiest I've ever owned.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. The Boxster clutch is much easier to handle than most sports cars that I've driven. Fairly low force and plenty of friction range.

Try teaching a kid to drive a pre-964 911, now that's a tough clutch to learn on.

[Ghostrider 310]

Originally Posted by blue2000s

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. The Boxster clutch is much easier to handle than most sports cars that I've driven. Fairly low force and plenty of friction range.

Try teaching a kid to drive a pre-964 911, now that's a tough clutch to learn on.

Not in my opinion, a direct cable clutch has tons more feel than hydraulic, as for Boxsters every one I drove I craved for the clutch to grab closer to the floor, they all release too high, makes them all feel like the need a disc.

[Coffinhunter]

Originally Posted by blue2000s

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. The Boxster clutch is much easier to handle than most sports cars that I've driven. Fairly low force and plenty of friction range.

Try teaching a kid to drive a pre-964 911, now that's a tough clutch to learn on.

My dad taught me on a 1974 911. It took a minute....lol