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Re: Be happy and drive it all the time

To: "MG List" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Be happy and drive it all the time
From: "Charles D. Sorkin" <cdsorkin@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 08:56:44 -0500
CR said:

>That business of having to depress the clutch pedal to make the engine
>start has been around for many years on various cars, since long before
>the Audi incidents.  I first ran across it on a 1950's stick-shift
>Studebaker.

Isn't it true that clutch and bearing wear is almost directly proportional
to the amount of time in which the pedal is depressed?  When sitting in
traffic for instance, I always leave the car in neutral and take my foot off
of the pedal.

Regards,

Charles
'74 Midget
'68 Sprite
cdsorkin@ix.netcom.com
Bloomfield, NJ


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