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Originally Posted by Dippydog
During my driving lessons and test[many moons ago] I was always taught to put car in neutral and engage handbrake when at traffic lights
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On a manual is important to put it in neutral at a traffic light and not to keep the clutch pedal depressed. I don't know if the industry has improved, but by the past the weak part of the manual transmission was the clutch bearing: not designed to be regularly kept under pressure (clutch pedal depressed) while waiting at traffic lights. It would had failed well before the clutch plate would.