Badly

Very very badly. Probably riding the clutch whilst driving. I'm coming up to 100k miles on my first clutch (car is now 22 years old!).

By riding with your foot on the clutch causing it not to engage the flywheel fully resulting in a worn down clutch plate.

Pretty much full throttle and letting the clutch come up every single time.. like 10 years ago in the garage I worked we had an old man get 5 or 6 clutches within the first 1000 km of his brand new car. He ended up buying another car after pulling out the parking lot of our garage and hitting a bus..

( Part 2) Now, imagine that you tried to slide your disc, into one of the spinning disc-but you didn't stop that disc from spinning? Can you imagine the sound of metal grinding on metal....no oil or lubricant to prevent friction, and that disc is going to continue to spin......That's what happens when you do not push the clutch in to shift gears-do not push the clutch in all the way to shift gears, or, let the clutch out before you are done shifting gears. And it sounds just like you think it would. You can also " ride the clutch" meaning, keeping your foot on the clutch, while you are NOT shifting gears...it doesn't make a grinding sound, but it will still tear up your transmission. The only time you use a clutch is to change gears. I know this is not a perfect technically correct explanation, at all- but hoping it helps to understand just the very, very basic idea of how you ruin a manual transmission. Hope u have a great day!

Hi. (PART 1 of reply) I don't know how much you know about manual cars, and I can't give you all the technical terms and correct car part names, but I can explain how to make this happen. Just imagine this: you have four or five, fast spinning, metal disc, with teeth. (Like a gear in a clock)They are all grouped together. You also have another metal disc, that is not spinning, that also has teeth-off by itself, that you control. That's your disc. You can fit your disc's teeth in with any of the fast, spinning, disc's teeth, by first, stopping that disc from spinning. Your disc will then easily slide together with that disc, and when that disc starts spinning again, they both spin, because both disc' teeth line up. You do the same thing, to take your disc back out. Stop the spin, slide your disc back out, and that disc will begin to spin again, just like it did before, before you stopped it temporarily to slide your disc in. ( Continued-please look for part 2)

Badly. Very badly.

Dear Lord, how badly do you have to grind your gears to do that? I have done it occasionally, by accident, but never that badly. I've driven standard for...uhm...more years than I want to think about.

With an industrial shredder

The wrong way

I agree. Manuals don't have clutches!!

Shifting gears is hard and people who dont know how to drive a manual will force it. Or drive in one gear and burn it up.

Looks like “if you can’t find it, grind it” handiwork!

Well, you know the meaning of the writings on the stick? 1-first, 2-second, 3-third, 4-forth, 5-fifth, 6-sixth, R-Rocket!

You just shift. Clutch? What is that? I did not need that on my last car.

Badly.

Not a mechanic either, but I'm guessing it's the shredding around the edges of the clutch, especially at the top of the photo. That means it's been grinding against something beyond the way the part was designed for, and that's not how driving us supposed to work.

Maybe not in your country. In the UK I think most, if not all, driving instructors have manual cars.

Here in Germany you can decide if you wanna drive manual or automatic when you start to learn how to drive. But when you choose automatic you're not allowed to drive a manual even with your license. Otherwise you're allowed to drive both.

Wow, haven't heard that one in a while.

Since it's your choice... Here in belgium too you choose what you want. Only downside is in Belgium if you pass your exam with an automatic you are withheld of driving a stick shift car (it's mentioned on your driving license)

Most US autos sold in the USA have automatic shift and manual shift is not taught in driver's school here. I learned to drive on an automatic, but once I switched to manual, I won't go back. I love being "one" with my VW GTI.

That's not a flywheel