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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Handbrake start is for noobs. Learn to use your clutch.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago

Roll backwards into the person behind you to establish manual dominance.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There’s a nightmare scenario if I ever heard one.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Cars are for nubes, real chade walks🫡. Talking about the true manual here.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

true! although wouldnt manual be walking on ones hands ?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yeah but manual is an adjective often meaning 'to do with hands' or whatever. like a teeth are dental

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"That Sign Can't Stop Me Because I Can't Read" meme

BTW, I think you can technically drive a car with only hand, but that sounds like a bad time in most cars.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, it comes from the latin word for hand

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was the case 20 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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 😂

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

A good indicator for learning this – especially if you don't have the feel for your clutch yet – is to watch your RPM counter. If it starts to dip, the clutch is starting to engage. From there on, continue as described.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Awesome. Thanks. I've down Heel-Toe before in an automatic up a mountain road in the snow, so I'm familiar with that a little.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Heel-toe is used during downshifts to match rpms

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yep. I also used it a lot when starting on a hill on vehicles without handbrakes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No, but my family hails from the Ozarks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.,

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

On flat ground, agreed. On a hill, my car just doesnt have the power to do that without some gas.