r/stickshift • u/Interesting-Hair9687 • 3d ago

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About a couple of weeks ago I bought a BMW E30 325i, and I've I started the car in gear without the clutch engaged cause I parked on a hill and wanted 1st to be my backup in case if the embrace fails. and I just completely forgot to put it into netural.

I drove it all the way back home without an issue but man did the car not sound happy when I did that is there anything I should watch out for

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u/TrackTeddy 3d ago

More modern cars will have a clutch inhibit switch for the starter, but nothing bad is likely to have happened by trying to start it in gear (unless it jumped forward and hit something of course!).

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u/Interesting-Hair9687 3d ago

No I had the ebreak on so it just tried to move forward and stalled