>Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 17:31:34 -0700
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>Subject: Re: Friday A couple of things
>From: "sailingfc @dslextreme.com" <sailingfc@dslextreme.com>
>To: David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
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>David has a good point.
>
>My daughter bought her 2012 Golf TDI (6 speed), with minimal stick
>experience.  The dealer sales guy offered to teach her when we went
>for a test drive.  Not after we decided to buy the car, but at the
>test drive stage.  I could see that she was receptive to all of his
>instructions (probably more than she would have been for me) and I
>think he was more patient than I may have been. After 15 minutes in
>the parking lot, we hit the streets.  She did real well. At one stop
>sign he told her to floor it from a stop, to show off the torque of
>the TDI. She was hesitant, but did it. Later she said that scared
>her a bit.  When we finally went back and bought a TDI, we spent
>about a half an hour in the adjacent empty parking lot practicing
>starting and stopping without the sales guy.  It was pretty easy at
>that point because she had the basics and I just helped her fine
>tune her technique and explained the mechanics of how the clutch
>worked. (and we made calls with the bluetooth feature,:-))
>
>-Dick-
>87 Vanagon Syncro

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