I stalled out 3 times at a light with a hill. Had cars go around me and the moment no one was behind me I drove off with out a hitch. People need to give room in general, wether it’s manual or automatic.
I always try to roll back a little if I see someone approaching from behind. It works for the most part but you always have those idiots who wanna just be buttholes!
Matthew R.. most manual cars that aren't powerful needs half clutch with a little bit of gas when starting up a hill.. If I have a V6 diesel car, hill start is no problem because I can just release the clutch without giving it more gas while the clutch pedal is half way
Although hill starts can be scary when you're learning, soon you'll feel confident and not think too much about it. Parking on a hill, however, always makes me stressed.
I learned how to drive manual in a couple of minutes and after a couple days my dad let me practice on the back roads at night and there was a stop at a hill. Most embarrassing thing ever is when i had to put it in park right there to switch seats
@@jseiragames8371 damn, i’m from Puerto Rico and you can find hills everywhere, where i live we have a lot and i’m still learning manual, i don’t like them😂
@@jonatan_1325 hey Jonatán my name's actually Johnathan hahaha. Been 3+ months since I got my manual car and I'm loving every single bit of it rn since I'm used to it already. I've brought it through some windy/twisty roads and did some really enthusiastic and spirited drives. Once you get the hang of driving manual, there won't be any regrets!
I've never been a "car guy" but recently bought a 2002 Honda Civic from a family friend and HAD TO learn manual... your videos have been incredibly helpful! Especially regarding hill starts. Oh man, there was one time I literally just put my emergency lights on and waited for the cars to go around me because I had already stalled from panicking and trying to shift too quickly. Some people told me that you break method is a cheat and not worth using once you're an experienced driver, but you have open my mind and I am going to practice it on some empty hills. Most of the on-ramps and off-ramps in Ventura County are pretty steep, which is literally been the most terrifying part of my 1-month manual driving career thus far
when i first started driving stick around a year ago i was pulling out of a REALLY steep intersection and somebody was literally a centimeter away from my bumper. there was nobody behind them so as i was waiting at the red light i put on my hazard lights and shifted to reverse real quick. i looked in my rear view mirror and he looked confused but didn’t get the hint. i put it back in first as the light was going to change soon and turned off my hazards. the light turned green i gave it a lot of gas and pulled away just fine and as i looked back he had stalled 😂
Easiest way is to be patient if you practice on small hills slowly you’ll understand how fast to release the clutch and how much gas to give on hills versus flat roads. Please be patient it’s very important as soon as you start to panic you will most likely stall so please be patient you will roll back a little but not too much
I've been practicing driving stick this past week, and what I found works for me is holding the brake pedal while releasing the clutch and then quickly transferring my foot to gas pedal as soon as clutch hits the bite point.
Honestly I bought myself my first car and it was a manual. What really sucked was it was a 2003 with 170k miles on it, what made it worse it had the factory clutch with 170k miles on it. I planned longer more inconvenient routes just to avoid hills
Here to share a story. First time driving a standard I was driving it home from buying the car. I came to a stop on a somewhat high hill, and when I started to go again I dropped the clutch to quickly and hit the car behind me. In the end no real damage was done and neither of us cared enough to get insurance involved
@noahjo8 Dump the clutch anyway because the car has a muffler. He stops you for your tires spinning a bit? Say your new and fight that in court, probably wont be able to get you off of 1 or 2 occurrences of this as long as it isn't frequent. (Which it wont be.)
ThePlaystationCriminal yikes, my automatic has an e brake handle but I learned it doesn’t work the other day lol. Had a suspicion for a while so I tried it out one night coming to a stop sign. Drove rest of the way home pulling and pushing my e brake for fun cuz it doesn’t working
Yeah, last time I was at the intersection between Fraser and King Edward, you probably know that hill, and I was turning left on a hill with a manual car.
I just bought my FRS 2 days ago. I have first gear down, and started practicing hills on my driveway. This is what I figured out: 1) Step on brake and clutch. 2) Slowly release clutch until it bites. 3) Let go of brake and apply gas slowly. Not sure if it's "correct". I'm holding the clutch at the biting point and applying gas to move forward slowly.
I've always known how to drive manual since I was a kid but when I got my license recently I've had to learn all this stuff, the strategy that I use is, I hold brake (pedal brake) and then go to my bite point and then let off break and quickly apply the throttle, I've only just learned this and it's actually a really good technique if you practice a few times Edit: let me fix what I meant, so once you are at your bite point, let off break and then apply throttle whilst letting the clutch out
Just bought a manual and this is such a good video, thing that messes me up the most is I get super nervous but as long as I stay calm I’m good. Thanks for the tips! I prefer to find the bite point before letting off the brake, e brake is just one more thing I have to pay attention too lol
The scariest shit ever for me was bumper to bumper driving up to the top of a parking garage because there was no parking below......damn near shat myself. The entire drive was an uphill battle to not 1. Stall and 2. Roll backwards. The good thing is my car was a performance tuned 2016 Dodge Challenger RT and the engagement point w/ no gas is enough power to pull the car up, so I only drove using clutch right at or slightly below the engagement point and the break pedal. That car does not come with a handbrake; that shit has one of those foot e-brake pedal with a pull latch to release it. I never want to do that shit again.
Hey man, new learner here. Recently had bought my dream car! It’s a RHD 93 skyline. I’ve known a lot of the basics and how to use a clutch and shifting. But This is one thing I’ve been scared to death about. Just tryna learn as much as I can and put it into practice to be more efficient in driving a manual. Thanks for sharing! Very useful and helpful and quite clear on how to start on a hill! Thanks again (:
I know you posted this 3 years ago but I greatly appreciate it because I just bought a Fiat 500 sport 2 days ago and I haven't driven a manual in about 10 years and it's super stressful but I love the car.
I just bought a manual toyota corolla and I am SO scared of going up hills. I try to avoid them as much as possible but I can't keep doing this. I really want to learn how to drive up a hill using manual, so thank you so much for the video.
Thank you so much! This makes things so much more darn easier than the gas first, release clutch till biting point and release your e-brake. This is like, release clutch till biting point, gas and then release e-brake! So much more easier! Thanks again! :D
Little bit of advice: when your on that hill just ease off that clutch and let it grab then give it some gas or more if necessary. Just be confident. No need for an e brake but people like to use it which there’s nothing entirely wrong with that.
Excellent video on handling hills. On point! Beautifully explained. Teaching my son to drive stick shift., so glad I found this video. Thank you for making it.
It has been a while since I drove stick shift, my first 3 cars were sticks. I don't remember a situation where the clutch wasn't strong enough to hold the car. Release the clutch until it grabs and depending on the steepness, use more gas on steeper hills etc. Never thought of using the brake but thats a good trick
I was taught to watch the hood of the car. When your gas and clutch is at the right level (about 1500 to 2000 RPM) your hood will rise up, at the point you release the parking brake, the car should stand still, you then increase the gas and decrease the clutch and the car will move forward. I learned this in 1970 and used it since then without problem. You need to practice it a few times to get it right.
It's been six months since I started driving, but still struggle with the clutch. Uphill start is quite challenging! It's so embarrassing sometimes even though I have big L stickers, front& rear 😀
I haven't driven a stick shift since the nineties. I got a 93 Ford escort, (from the nineties) today. I was able to pick it up quickly. But I had a moment of panic. I got to the top of a steep snow compacted road, which had an intersection at the top, so I had to stop. And a car got right behind me. When I would take my foot off the brake, I would roll back, there was what seemed like a long time, where they were waiting for me to get my shit together and go, as it was a stop sign intersection. I was so nervous I would go back into the car behind me, first hour I got the car. I finally sort of bolted out, putting too much on the gas, but made the turn. But that is why I am here.
Happened yesterday... I hit the hazards and waved them off! 😂☠️ then I rolled back and finally made it up, will likely practice this or avoid at all cost!!
Man, those are tiny hills, where I live, hill starts are mandatory and strict in learner assessments. Handbrakes are a must as letting go of the brakes would make the car "drop" down the hill. In the city (yes, city) alone, had 35 degree hills with lights and some hills 45 degrees, and even our driveway is around 40 degrees. But funnily enough, there's a 50/50 between manual and auto, but we still get idiots who will almost bumper to bumper on those damn hills. Used cars usually had failing handbrakes and for parking, the 1st gear was always used. This is Tasmania, Australia by the way.
Hey thanks for the video I do panic when someone gets behind me, I did yesterday and it was a small hill, but I was going backwards 😱😱 so I gave it gas and was gone. Will maintain to be calm and pretend as if no one is behind me. Thanks again for the video.
Once you know where ur grabpoint of the clutch is, its pretty easy to hill start, but if you are knew to the car or to driving in general its pretty hard, even more with the selfmade pressure when seeing cars behind you
Thank you so much. I just bought a mazdaspeed3 and never driven manual before. I'm good at everything else except I panick when I am on hills and there's cars behind me. Thankss ❤️
I didn’t even realize you live in bc too. I’m getting a manual car and I’m stressing about driving on the hills man. Not to mention how great Vancouver drivers are 👍🏼
Thank u so much. your videos are really helpful, even if i want to know some small tips about the manual, i do get back to your videos, definitely there so many videos out talking about manual's related, but some of them are so formal and complicated. Big support from Saudi Arabia
I just started driving manual here in BC too, usually I just tap the gas before starting and the rev hang is enough to not use the handbrake but man when trucks are on my ass I still freak out and do a burnout 😂
I hope this video helps, my school has a very steep hill and that is usually packed with traffic. I start driving to school in 3 months and im trying to get all the tips I can get.
Yeah, in my country motorcyclists and even heavy trucks love to get too close behind cars. I wish I will find a right way to tell them to keep their distances.
I remember having a Peugeot 206 with a weirdly adjusted clutch that completely disengaged when you pressed it down 1/4 of the way. My mum tried to drive it and hated it. Hearing the revving between gear changes was funny.
Okay, so it is perfectly fine to get it to the bite point just before I know I’m about to start moving. I’m just too worried about wearing out the clutch quicker than it needs to.
In Germany you learn in every driving school to hold the E-brake/handbrake on an uphill. Eventually some time you'll be able to do this with your foot and simultaneously press gas. Like heel-toe
BMW M2 and golf r has hill start assist, it will hold the car for a short duration, kinda acts as an auto e-brake. I was surprised by this feature when I bought the golf R and I'm very happy with it.
Thank you for living here!!!!!! I have watched but a lot of other videos are based in UK.... Other side of the road...a little confusing for a beginner like me!!!! Subscribed!!!
I know this is kind of a relevant but I’ve been watching you to help me learn standard and it’s helped me out a lot I’ve also moved from Ontario to Alberta which I thought was also kind of funny 😄
the brz has hill assist function, just touch TRC OFF 30 seconds, when we look TRC missing in the screen and then sharply touch TRC two times in following 5 seconds
2 yrs later and here I am at 31 yr old still looking into videos like this cuz my ass still has not driven a stick shift car thanks for the video explaining it all
second time driving a manual out on the road it was a huge hill very steep and i had to experience in the past so i pulled the e brake put it up to 3500 rpms and let the clutch out a little bit and dropped the e brake. got up the hill but was not ideal
I wish you'd said what you did at 6 minutes (faster isn't faster) at the start...I was about to hit close as you said that...which actually helped confirm something I was starting to wonder after practicing in a slightly sloped empty parkinglot. That theory also may come into play with Subaru's implementation of the assist feature...too fast seems more likely to stall I'm guessing because of the 2 second delay in releasing the brakes and the engine can't overpower 4 disc brakes. Still debating shutting that feature off.
Just bought a manual and I'm having so much trouble on the hills... I live in a valley so it's nothing but hills ;-;-;-;-; ... I learned manual a few years ago but on mostly flat land ;-;
4:10 pro tip: if you are on your e-break, let your clutch out till the point you see your car shift a bit. Check your rear view mirror. If you see the view on your rear view mirror shift, then you should release the e-break.
Brenwin Vette my ebrake is a foot pedal and handle release. So I never use it and can't anyways. You should never use your ebrake while driving. If you can't handle the hills then you need more practice. I should make one these videos and show this guy how it's done on a really steep hill and in winter with RWD
HighStreet Killers while driving? Who said anything about driving and using your e-break?. Whilst you are standing still, on a hill, look at your rear view mirror. If it shifts release the brake and drive away. That's how we do it on steep hills on 10% and up. Also yes I do use the e-break while driving, but that's just for drifting.
Brenwin Vette if you took your driving test like me in a manual you would fail using your handbrake. I can drift no problem with no handbrake. Cause I drive rwd. Handbrake on a hill is for posers, you don't drive a manual if you need you're handbrake. Anytime your engine is on and you're on the road you are driving
I also drive a manual and my e-break doesn't work properly and guess what I live in a extremely hilly area.. that's why sometimes i sweat alot.. sometimes i even smells my clutch burning but nothing i can do..
HighStreet Killers : Sometimes when you have to stop on uphill in a traffic jam and there are cars behind you then you have pressure to not go backwards not a little bit.. then it is obies to abuse clutch little bit.. even if you don't want.. and i don't even have a e break..
Abhishek your doing something wrong, I can do a burnout and not smell my clutch ever! It will last forever. And handbrake on a hill is wrong. Only time I could see maybe using you're handbrake is if you were towing a heavy load and dint have the horsepower
Stalled on a hill today. Hit the hazards, and used your first method. A grand total of 15 seconds to keep moving lol. How can I use your second method with an e-brake?