• ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca
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      On a steep hill, your clutch will thank you for using the handbrake. Especially in stop and go traffic towing a trailer. Ask me how I know.

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          I know you’re being funny, but to answer the question I posited: every summer, after people came back from towing their caravans up through the mountains, my dad’s shop would be replacing loads of clutches with people complaining about the weird smells their car started making. Or the sudden trouble they had shifting.

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      Handbrake start is what’s taught in countries where the the driving test isn’t “Press go pedal, press stop pedal, congrats you passed”

      In upward inclines it’s better for your clutch too.

      Not having the coordination to use both feet and both hands independently of each other is what’s for noobs

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        Not having the coordination to use both feet and both hands independently of each other is what’s for noobs

        Laughs in knowing how much clutch pressure to apply to start your car uphill without grating cheese

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        I’ve been taught to balance between brake and clutch for inclines. Or is that the same thing?

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          Aye even my poverty-spec car locks the manual transmission on a hill until the clutch bites

          Didn’t even know it did it until I’d had it for over a year 😂

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        You let the clutch up until the rims start to drop a tiny bit, at this point you can let off the brake and move your foot to the gas. You shouldn’t move backwards as long as you are slow and feel for the engine to not stall

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        You get the car rolling with just the clutch. Quite the pain, not a fan of driving stick myself.

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          Tell me you are a diesel driver without telling me. By the time you get an average gas car moving the light is red again if you don’t rev it to at least 1500

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            Ah, you mean that because diesel cars have more torque, you can do things like starting uphill with just the clutch.

            I was wondering, because I certainly didn’t opt for a handbrake start for the fun of it. My car’s engine simply died, if I lifted the clutch too far without accelerating and ‘too far’ was far below getting enough torque to not roll downhill.

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          You give it a bit of gas while letting the clutch pedal go up though. Or a bunch of gas if you lease a car because who gives a shit.

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      Mine has a brief brake assist, about 1.5 seconds it won’t roll backwards on a hill start.

      It’s so subtle and I’ve had the car so long, I completely forget about it.

      Any time I drive a car without it freak out when I come off the brake and the car starts moving backwards.

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        I always stall it with those brake assist features. I’m coming off the clutch and the damn computer still has the brakes on, so it cuts out.

        Y’all can keep your computers. I’m keeping my carburettors for now.

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      Tips for a learner? My stompy parking brake won’t play nice right now, so I kind of need to figure this shit out in my new old truck. Lol.

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        Well, it’s just a trick you need to get the feeling for. Start one foot on the break, and other on the clutch. Let clutch go halfway, without stalling the car, and quickly move your right foot from brake to gas. Press on gas pedal, while releasing clutch. If you do it right, the car starts driving forward, even on a upwards hill. It takes practice, and every car feels different.

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        If you’re on a really steep incline, you’ll have to press both the brake and gas pedal at the same time using your right foot, while feathering the clutch with your left. I’ve heard this called the “heel toe” technique.

        If your engine has enough torque or if the hill isn’t steep enough, you can ignore this and just ease off the clutch while transitioning from the brake to gas.

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      If you can’t hold the brake with your right foot and roll start with the clutch left foot without touching the gas, you need more practice.

      exceptions given for fully loaded old as dirt pickup trucks that don’t like to idle properly, those you can heel toe… not that I’d know anything about that of course.,

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        I haven’t driven a whole lot of cars and none of them were old as dirt pickup trucks but I’ve seen enough where the idle gas was not enough to get the car rolling on an incline without stalling it. Sometimes you just need a good handbrake start

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          The car doesn’t need to start rolling. You need just enough clutch to keep from rolling backwards.