I’m practicing for my driving licence and I’m going to driving school, just out of curiosity though I’ve looking on YouTube how to start and run a car and I’ve seen at least 3 different methods, I dunno which one is the correct. Things like the order when you release a pedal or when you need to press the clutch keep switching…
think less, practice more
Put your feet on the brake (right foot) and clutch (left foot), press both fully. Release the handbrake.
Put the first gear or the reverse gear in, depending on the direction you want your car to go at first.
Remove your right foot from the brake completely, the left one from the clutch at the same time very slowly until you can feel that the car is moving. When that happens, keep it in that position for 2 or 3 seconds, you will get a feeling for it over time. Then release the clutch completely.
After you’ve released the brake, you can already slowly and carefully press the gas pedal if you want, that will cause the car to get moving faster than if you don’t.
Wait. This isn’t correct. You need the handbrake engaged to start this process.
You do this on a hill and the car is going to roll backwards and you’ll never get the engine in gear without stalling it.
- Clutch fully in, Foot brake in, handbrake engaged
- Footbrake off, right left shifts to gas pedal (in case you need to rev the engine for more power)
- Gently back off the clutch until you feel it bite into half clutch. Slowly release the handbrake as you progress into step 4.
- Gently give it some gas while you continue easing off the clutch until clutch is fully engaged.
- If you are going uphill, you need to give it more gas in step 4.
Edit: this might be helpful.
You are right that if your car isn’t level (especially if you want to move uphill), the process is somewhat more challenging and you need to be careful not to roll down the hill, but I have never been taught to use the handbrake even in those situations and have not ever done it that way (for context, I live in Austria, i.e. I have driven a manual transmission car on mountainous roads many times by now).
It’s been a few years for me but the last manual I had would stall if you didn’t give it a little gas before the clutch was fully released. Maybe I wasn’t holding it in that sweet spot you mentioned long enough, before letting the clutch go completely?
OP’s instructions are incomplete and will lead to a stall, especially if car is uphill.
You are right in that most cars need to be given gas between half clutch and full clutch or it will stall. There are some vans and trucks where the engines have enough torque to allow you to dive from half clutch to full clutch without ever giving it gas. But again that would never work uphill.
There are cars where you might need to add gas, and ones where you don’t. The above definitely worked in the car I learned to drive in.
Some cars won’t start unless the clutch is pushed in. Some will. If you are in gear, it will push the car forward.
The most complete and safest way for all cars is.
Foot on brake. Clutch in. Put in neutral. Start car.
That should work and be safe in all manual cars. It is likely the “correct” way for a driving test.
Once you get to know a car, you might just use the brake and clutch and leave it in gear when starting the car.
No. If the clutch is in, there is no need to put in neutral. (You would not pass the driving test in Germany)
The correct steps are:
Right foot press down on the brake
Left foot press down on the clutch
Start the engine
Release the hand brake
Check that the 1. gear is in
Then release the brake, get on the gas just a little, release the clutch carefully, and there you go.
(edited, because I forgot the hand brake)
Lol, I’m not from Germany but I seriously doubt they’d fail you in a driving test because you put the car in neutral before you start it. That’s just ridiculous.
It is OK if you put the 1. gear in before you start the engine, but you should not put in neutral.
Justify that, please.
I hit a barn with a dump truck because the clutch pedal failed to disengage the clutch, and I was in first gear when I tried to start. In neutral, the truck would not have lurched forward, and I would have discovered the problem when I couldn’t slip the transmission into reverse.
The transmission should be in neutral until the hand brake/parking brake is released, and you are ready for the vehicle to move.
I hit a barn with a dump truck because the clutch pedal failed to disengage the clutch
Then your right foot was not firmly on the brake, see step 1.
Why would they fail you for putting the car in neutral and pushing the clutch in before you start the car?
What are you supposed to do if you want to let the car warm up or you’re waiting for someone or any other reason you want to start the car but not immediately start driving? Are you supposed to put it in first, push in the clutch, start the car and then just leave the clutch pushed in for 5 minutes?
What are you supoosed to do if you want to let the car warm up
LOL
Guess what: You are supposed not to do it.
That is explicitly forbidden in Germany, for the sake of the environment.
…how do you demist your cars?
Not sure if I understand. Tell me more details.
Until the engine warms up, I can’t keep the windscreen from misting up in the winter. Especially if it’s frosted on the outside!
You fix your leaky weatherproofing and put a dehumidifier inside overnight to get rid of the leftover moisture. Afterwards your windows will no longer mist up.
Fix the issue instead of treating the symptoms
Modern car engines would need a very long time to warm up in idle anyways, and modern cars usually have electronic defrosters for the windshield
push down clutch pedal
put car in fifth gear
start the engine
push down gas pedal until you hit the rev limiter
slowly release the clutch until it smells rightI honestly don’t find this sort of disinformation funny.
Wait until it shows up in a Google AI result. Superket is playing the long game
I think it is pretty entertaining because they said they were going to driving school, so why are they asking here, and they knew they would get text when what they really want is visual instruction.
Presumably they could go watch YouTube or listen to their driving teacher, but they chose to post here, because I think they wanted to see what kind of nonsense would show up.
