Thread: Manual E90 help
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      05-21-2005, 07:27 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by ogrady
Why would you need to do that? If you got the clutch in and stay in gear you at least can move your car if something dangerous happens. If you're in neutral you're not giong to be able to take any action if you need to. By the time you kick the clutch in, get it in gear and take off, it'll have taken too long.
The reason, I always thought, is that it's bad for the clutch to be in for long periods of time- say, stopped at a light.
So you should just put it in neutral.
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