Peugeot Partner Tepee - Peugeot EGS6 driving query

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Sun 21 Feb 2016 02:00
Peugeot Partner Tepee - Peugeot EGS6 driving query - tjbantam

Apologies if this is a stupid question, but if I pull up to a set of traffic lights or am in a jam and I stop with the engine running (stop/start not working) and leave the car in 1st without applying the handbrake (just foot on the footbrake), am I damaging anything, such as the clutch?

To me, the logical answer is yes and that I should at least whack it in to neutral, but if someone can tell me definitively, I'd appreciate it.

Tim.

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Sun 21 Feb 2016 06:27
Peugeot Partner Tepee - Peugeot EGS6 driving query - NARU

Yes, you'll be wearing the clutch release bearing.

You're also vulnerable if anyone runs into the back of you and jolts your foot off the brake. And annoying divers queued behind you by having your brakelights on.

But there are worse things you could do. There are many people where I live, who hold the car at the lights on an uphill stretch by slipping the clutch for minutes at a time. No foot on the brakes, just the clutch.

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