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piyush123 02-26-2011 12:52 AM

140ps 6sp 1st gear a stupidly high ratio or is it just me?
 
I've been struggling with mine in slow moving traffic, I'm an engineer so I simply can't hold a clutch half engaged for more than a few milliseconds without seeing images in my head of burning friction disc's. I find that with the clutch engaged in 1st gear when she's close looping the idle speed to a solid 900rpm she's trotting along at about 1.5 times the speed of the average car in "creep" mode.

So rather than just creep along with the rest of the slow moving traffic I'm having to leave a sizeable gap in order to get off the clutch, she then chases the car in front down then I have to immediately clutch her again and wait for car in front to creep away again, has anyone else noticed this or is it just me?


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