New member from Toronto

[deronald]

HI everyone!!Sup~ My name is Ronald and I just got a 2004 Mazda 3 GT last Monday. It's red and manual, my first car Yahhhhh. Also it gave me my first time manual stick drive experience. I parked the car at my frd's place uptown for the first 3 night and everyday i took subway and bus to his place to practice. Learning stick is a pain especially I stalled 10 times in a row at a stop sign lol. Thur night I drove my baby home ( I live downtown) and I have been driving at rush hours fri and sat. Right now I rarely stall my car (may be once in while when I am thinking about something else). Still a lot to learn and I am driving so slow......my frds refer as grandma driving lol. I will post some pix later on and more HQ pix after I wash my car.

PS: I hear some abnormal noise coming from the engine part, dunno what it is. Plz help bro & sis

http://www.torontomazda3.ca/forum/showthread.php?41383-HELP-WITH-MY-2004-GT&p=565779#post565779

[horto]

:welcome smiley

give it two weeks of regular practice and you'll be driving like a pro

[DumpInfo]

Welcome. There's nothing like driving under the pressure of traffic!! :chuckle

[stevenma188]

welcome.

[iGOzoom]

:welcome smiley:

[kimro]

Welcome to the forum!

I only learn how to drive a manual tranny couple years ago and as horto mentioned, you should be doing fine after two weeks. Driving in traffic for an hour at a time also helped me get the practice I needed!

[silverspeed2.5]

I used to stall all the time, until I was shown how to get into 1st without touching the gas, then how to do that on a hill...afterthat, no fear of rollback or stalling.

[cwp_sedan]

:welcome smiley

[poke65]

Welcome aboard

[deronald]

Thx guys, i just practiced 3 hrs on the road, didn't stall once lol. Now my only concern is that noise coming from my engine. Plz have a look of my problem here:

http://www.torontomazda3.ca/forum/showthread.php?41383-HELP-WITH-MY-2004-GT

Thanks so much guys

[mazdaskit]

welcome to tm3

[DualSoul]

:welcome smiley
Enjoy learning stick on your new car, you'll get the hang of it. :D

[kal-el]

eh guys wazzup!!!

[Uni-Body]

welcome!

[deronald]

Hi, I have my preliminary check up from my mechanic, to see more details, please click on the link below

http://www.torontomazda3.ca/forum/showthread.php?41383-HELP-WITH-MY-2004-GT

I also wanna know why my dealer let me to take the car without getting any insurance info from me( like the paper work or policy #)??? Now I am afraid my car is a lemon.

[silverspeed2.5]

I also wanna know why my dealer let me to take the car without getting any insurance info from me( like the paper work or policy #)??? Now I am afraid my car is a lemon.

did u pay cash? cash deals don't require paperwork from ins

[deronald]

really?? I thought by law they have to get a confirmation from the insurance before they release the car. They also mentioned that before I went there but it was a bit rush and my insurance stuff wasn't ready at that time. They didn;t bother to ask for it and let me to drive the car out without insurance.

[rurocking]

Welcome to the board.

[Default User]

Welcome to the board!

[urbanjoe]

Welcome. No worries about the stick driver. When I bought my car this summer I couldn't drive stick , but its all good now lol.

[gretzky]

Welcome. No worries about the stick driver. When I bought my car this summer I couldn't drive stick , but its all good now lol.

basically the same, mazda's have really easy clutches

and welcome

[mazdilla]

Well, you got gumption to learn stick driving in Toronto, where most people don't know how to drive... PERIOD !!!

Uh, Oh! Did I say something wrong?

:gone



(just kidding)


Welcome!

[seelsy]

Welcome to TM3, throwing yourself in head first is actually a pretty good way to learn stick, its forces you to make mistakes and learn from them. Goodluck with the new Ride!

[Reegs]

Welcome aboard!