Originally Posted by jewpac42

Mine ground the gears in first and reverse and occationally into other gears too, although that might have been some operator error. But it would not go into first while in motion, ever, no matter what I tried to do even when rev matching.

Originally Posted by glenspen

Make people pass their test in a stick shift and you'll see a lot less broken subaru gearboxes.

This is the only country I've ever been to where you can pass you test in an auto and then jump straight into a stick without further training!!!!

What about hillstarts? what about e-brake control?? what about holding a car on the biting point of the clutch??

I've heard of plenty of 5MT's that go way past 100K.

Originally Posted by JArnaud

I still have the same problem (02 WRX Sedan). Its just something I got use to and now drive accordingly.

Originally Posted by jewpac42

Yeah, I delt with it for a long time until I sold. But it was a pain in the *** considering I was living in the Berkeley Hills and often need to engage first gear to get enough torque to get up some sections of road and having to come to a complete stop to do that was a pain in the ***.