Auto to Manual license No claims

It's certainly an interesting topic and to be honest one I never thought about.

How much difference are you paying going from 5years to 0 claimed?.
 
Despite having a manual licence, The Wife drives automatics only, mainly because she's a lazy ****.... Every time I drive her vehicles, I habitually 'stomp air' because it has no clutch pedal.
All her vehicles (Corsa, Merc, CRV, Insignia, Superb, Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag) have had pretty normal width brake pedals, though.
 
Mickey said:
Right, I've only driven an XE once, but I'm 99% sure it had a wide brake pedal, google image search agrees too :p
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Not especially.... and certainly not so big that you'd be likely to hit it, to such an extent that you're an insanely lethal risk to a car insurance company!!
That'd be like saying women on birth control blink 32% more and so present a serious danger because they're effectively driving with their eyes closed, before doubling the premiums on any non-Catholics...
 
ttaskmaster said:
Not especially.... and certainly not so big that you'd be likely to hit it, to such an extent that you're an insanely lethal risk to a car insurance company!!
That'd be like saying women on birth control blink 32% more and so present a serious danger because they're effectively driving with their eyes closed, before doubling the premiums on any non-Catholics...
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Calm down dear, I just picked up on a statement which seemed incorrect, I'm not saying anything more than it isn't a normal width brake pedal that you'd find on a manual. Some automatic cars do have a normal sized pedal (e.g. my F10 M5), but the norm is double width like the XE has.
 
adolf hamster said:
please don't give the insurance companies ideas :p
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Think they'd give me a job thinking up more such ideas?
I could probably make a tidy living off that!! :D

Mickey said:
Some automatic cars do have a normal sized pedal (e.g. my F10 M5), but the norm is double width like the XE has.
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Most manual car brakes I've driven are about that wide, especially the fancier models. Still not enough to catch your foot on often enough that you're some kind of insurance liability requiring masses of training and mitigation, though... and I do have feet big enough for such things!
 
ttaskmaster said:
Most manual car brakes I've driven are about that wide, especially the fancier models.
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Really? Not a single manual car I've driven has had a wide brake pedal.

Here are some Jaguar pedal covers, auto & manual, this matches my experience of auto & manual across all brands up and down the range, with few exceptions.
 
ttaskmaster said:
Most manual car brakes I've driven are about that wide, especially the fancier models. Still not enough to catch your foot on often enough that you're some kind of insurance liability requiring masses of training and mitigation, though... and I do have feet big enough for such things!
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Not in my experience.

I remember the first time I drove an auto - stepped out of a 205 GTI which has quite dainty pedals into a lumbering old Ginetta auto and nearly put my head through the steering wheel the first time I stopped at a junction :p
 
Mickey said:
Really? Not a single manual car I've driven has had a wide brake pedal.
Here are some Jaguar pedal covers, auto & manual, this matches my experience of auto & manual across all brands up and down the range, with few exceptions.
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Fine, I concede entirely to your superior Google skills and delete all my own experiences. You win whatever it is you think you've won.
I assume that, because of this massive difference in auto pedal width, you are utterly unable to drive a manual... or am I just really special in that, even wearing clompy size 12 combat boots, I've never had a problem with either pedals in any car?
 
ttaskmaster said:
Fine, I concede entirely to your superior Google skills and delete all my own experiences. You win whatever it is you think you've won.
I assume that, because of this massive difference in auto pedal width, you are utterly unable to drive a manual... or am I just really special in that, even wearing clompy size 12 combat boots, I've never had a problem with either pedals in any car?
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As I said before, I'm not saying anything other than you're wrong about the pedal widths, if you have examples which are different then feel free to show them.

I have no problem switching between auto & manual, you'd have to be pretty slow if it's an issue keeping your leg still for more than the first couple of times you drive an auto. Like a lot of people though, I definitely had the moment on one of my first outings where I caught the double width brake going for the non-existent clutch pedal.
 
Mickey said:
As I said before, I'm not saying anything other than you're wrong about the pedal widths
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Well they all still look pretty normal and decidedly non-foot-catchy to me...

Mickey said:
you'd have to be pretty slow if it's an issue keeping your leg still for more than the first couple of times you drive an auto.
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Depends how long (in terms of 'road hours') you've been driving a manual for... Same for cars with the indicator on the wrong side.

Mickey said:
I definitely had the moment on one of my first outings where I caught the double width brake going for the non-existent clutch pedal.
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Had you previously driven exceedingly small cars, or something?
I've not once hit even the larger pedals.
 
ttaskmaster said:
Well they all still look pretty normal and decidedly non-foot-catchy to me...
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If you say.

ttaskmaster said:
Depends how long (in terms of 'road hours') you've been driving a manual for... Same for cars with the indicator on the wrong side.
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Not in my experience, after the first couple of times I've never had an issue switching between them, no matter how long it's been or how much time I've spent driving the other.

ttaskmaster said:
Had you previously driven exceedingly small cars, or something?
I've not once hit even the larger pedals.
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My first experiences of autos were being given Audi A6 autos as courtesy cars when my A6 manual was in for service, so no.
 
Mickey said:
Not in my experience, after the first couple of times I've never had an issue switching between them, no matter how long it's been or how much time I've spent driving the other.
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At the first point where I'd usually need to operate the gears, I typically reach for the pedal or the shifter. It's not an issue, but it is reflex, because it's not 'my' car.
 
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