My old car suddenly lost first gear one day (seriously it was fine when I parked it one evening and from the next morning on it simply wouldn’t shift into 1st, super weird and out of nowhere). Thankfully that car actually had decent lowend for an economy-box and I was able to daily it like that for another year or so. I can tell you now though that it would’ve been much tougher to deal with that had it happened to my current ride.
Just for kicks I’ll throw in my unpopular opinion: “If you have to use 1st gear then you don’t know how to drive manual”
This one depends a lot on the gearing. Most cars you can start in 2nd gear but there are some where it kinda falls apart
A Hyundai Excel can start in 5th. You shouldn’t, it’s bad, but it works.
My old car suddenly lost first gear one day (seriously it was fine when I parked it one evening and from the next morning on it simply wouldn’t shift into 1st, super weird and out of nowhere). Thankfully that car actually had decent lowend for an economy-box and I was able to daily it like that for another year or so. I can tell you now though that it would’ve been much tougher to deal with that had it happened to my current ride.
That gets trough technical? Or are you in a country where they don’t do that?
The second one
Probably still use the clutch though right rookie?