Please explain the Gear shift on how to drive a standard.?

Question

i got in a big argument with my mom and now she doesnt want to spend time teaching me man am i so lucky ugh i hate it , oh ya well its not an automatic give me tips on standard gear shift cars. thanks

Answer 1

Memorize the gearshift PATTERN. Usually it is up (toward the dashboard) and to the left for first gear, back (toward the rear seats) and to the left for second gear, up and to the right for third gear and back and to the right for fourth gear. "Reverse" will hae a different and deliberately awkward pattern so you won't shift into it while driving forward.

With the gear in neutral and your seatbelt fastened and the emergency brake taken off, depress the clutch to the floor with your left foot and hold your foot down. SHift from neutral into first, then ease off the clutch with your left foot as you ease ON to the accelerator with your right foot. The car should slowly and steadily move forward. It's a sea--saw motion of depresing the clutch, shifting, and easing off on the clutch as you ease on to the accelerator. For second gear, depress the clutch and hold it, shift into second, and ease off the clutch while easing on to the accelerator.

You don't have to do this more than a dozen or two dozen times to do it smoothly.

Answer 2

First put the car in neutral on a flat spot, preferably an open parking lot. Then push in the clutch and start the car. Keep the clutch in and put the car into 1st gear which should be all the way to the left and up. All this time keep your foot on the brake. To start moving take your foot off the brake and put it on the gas pedal but don't push down yet. Slowly let the clutch out until you can feel the car shake a little. This is the point where the engine is engaging the transmission. The point right after where it shakes is where the car will slowly start rolling. Keep in mind you need to release the clutch very very slowly.

Once you get the car rolling slowly push the gas pedal down slowly as you let the clutch out. Remember when you stop you need to push the clutch in or the engine will jump erratically and die. All you need to do is practice over and over. Once you get driving down good practice on a hill. You will really need to know how to feel where the engine engages when you are stopped on a hill to keep from rolling backwards.

Answer 3

Learning to drive a manual transmission takes some patience and practice. See if this helps:

First, find a flat wide road or parking lot where there's a minimum of traffic, obstacles and distractions, etc. Turn off radio, and roll down a window or two so that you can hear the engine, and possibly be able to smell a burning clutch. Next, start the car in neutral with clutch depressed, let the car idle and begin by not touching the throttle, just hover your right foot over the brake.

Select first gear, and with your left foot depressing the clutch pedal, very slowly release the clutch pedal; the car will move forward. As you release the clutch you will notice the engine will pull the car forward, and, if your car has a tachometer, you will see the engine speed begin to drop. At that point depress the clutch pedal back in and repeat this process until you get a feel for exactly the point of travel in the clutch pedal where the engine begins to transfer power to the wheels.

As you're learning to do this, you might stall the car a couple of times; just restart and keep practicing, but if you notice a burning smell, stop the car and let the clutch cool down before you try again.

Practice the take-off from a start without adding throttle until you're comfortable, then try take-offs from a stop by now using the throttle in combination with the clutch. You'll find that once the clutch begins to grip and transfer power, that in a see-saw motion you can apply more throttle; As the clutch is being engaged, with left foot moving up, the throttle should be depressed with the right foot moving down in a smooth kind-of rocking motion.

Once you've gotten the take-off mastered, it's just a matter of upshifting as you gain speed; use the same motion as with the take-off, only shift from 1st to 2nd, and so on up through the gears. Keep in mind that you want a smooth transistion of power from one gear to the next so that there is no damaging driveline shock OR clutch slip.

Downshifting is similar, and is where a manual has an advantage over an automatic, because you can use the engine as a brake which saves brake wear. This is a particularly important technique for mountainous driving. To downshift, lift off throttle, disengage clutch, shift into one gear lower, engage clutch, apply throttle.

In downshifting, be aware that you're trying to match the ground speed and engine speed up as the clutch is engaging so that you get a smooth, but quick, transition of power transfered to the wheels as you switch gears. If you have a tachometer in your car this will be easier because you can not only hear and feel what is happening, but see this displayed, too.

Whenever starting on a hill, you'll need to apply the handbrake to hold the car as you take-off; just hold the handbrake with pin depressed so you can release the brake evenly as you take off. Also, you might try a heel-and-toe technique where you depress both brake pedal and throttle simultaniously by holding both with right foot and use a sort of rocking motion to apply more throttle while releasing brake. This will take some more practice to master without frying your clutch.

When parking, whether your car is facing up or downhill, always put the car in Reverse and set the parking/hand brake, because reverse is usually a lower ratio gear than first. This way, if the brake doesn't hold, the engine will usually hold a car in place.

Finally; The absolute worst thing you can do to an engine is to stress or lug it (the car will "buck" or shutter when this happens), much less to stress it to the point that it stops. It is easy to ruin an engine by over-stressing or over-reving, too, but damage by over-reving usually only happens at high RPM near red-line. So when driving, it's better for the engine speed to be too high than to be too low.

Hope you find this helpful.

Answer 4

if you're talking about a standard 5 speed gear manual transmission car, like 99% of us use over here then you won't learn on here, it takes practice and patience and best get professional tuition. Clutch control is easy and becomes natural, but only when you've had the practice and tuition!

The pattern is usually

1 - 3 -5
2 - 4- R

or

R-1 - 3- 5
-- 2 -4

or

1-3-5-R
2-4-6
(on 6 speed boxes, like in the Renault Megane and new Clio)

The r = reverase, and usually you have to pull the gear stick up or push it down to allow it go into reverse.

Answer 5

The standard gear shift operates in a pattern of the letter "H"
The top left corner of the H is first gear (up to 20 mph)
The lower left point of the H is second gear (20-30mph)


Switch up to just the middle and then to the right and up to the far right top point of the H for third gear.

From third gear, slide the stick straight down to the lower right point of the H for fourth gear at higher speeds.

For Reverse. Place the stick in the middle and press it down into the floor. You feel a release, then move it to the right of the H and pass over it and pull it back to the far lower corner.

Push the clutch in before each change, and gradually lift back off of it during the maneuvers.

Best wishes for you!

Answer 6

push in the clutch,start the car,put your right foot on the brake, let off the ebrake. place the car in Reverse.Ease off the clutch You will not have to hit the gas at all, you will feel the car ( you can feel/hear it start to die) When you think your gonna kill it, sadly in this case you will, just push in the clutch.And if needed let off that accelerator, you dont want to rev the motor up for no reason.

As for other gears it's kinda the same,push in the clutch put it in the first gear, let off clutch give a littlepush on the gas. You will learn when to shift by the car, you will learn this later on grass hopper, good luck dont panic

Answer 7

you want prepare. Get going swifter before you shift and that engine stress received't ensue. this is referred to as lugging once you shift too quickly and the engine speed isn't quick adequate yet to provide the quantity of skill necessary for the equipment you're in. you would possibly want to do nicely to discover someone who's sturdy at employing a common to demonstrate you what to do and what now to not do. it would impressive once you spot and sense and hear even as issues are correct. Drivig it incorrect can mess the automobile up. severe harm can take slightly time, yet on the top of one hundred,000miles, what you probably did at present counts as a lot as what you do 10 years from now even as all those zeroes line up after the "a million".

Answer 8

MOM'S ARE NOT THE BEST DRIVING INSTRUCTORS.. ASK YOUR DAD.BASICALLY USE THE CLUTCH SHIFT THEN CLUTCH OUT EASE IT IN AND OUT. WHEN THE ENGINE GETS LOUDER USUALLY 2500-3000 RPMS THEN SHIFT WHEN ITS STARTS TO LUG THEN SHIFT DOWN.TAKE YOUR FOOT OFF THE GAS WHEN UPSHIFTING ITS OK TO GIVE IT GAS DOWNSHIFTING YOU WILL NEED EXTRA RPMS UPSHIFTING UPHILL IE 3000 RPMS ETC IT USUALLY TAKES ABOUT A WEEK TO GET THE HANG OF IT.IF YOU BRAKE W/OUT CLUTCH CAR WILL STALL.YOU CAN ALSO PUSH START A MANUAL BY PUSHING CAR WITH CLUTCH IN AND IN 1ST GEAR LET OFF CLUTCH AND VOROOOM WITH IGNITION ON OFF COURSE GOOD LUCK!