Driving a Manual car?

Question

Lets say you are driving a maunal trasmission car, and you want to inch the car up. will the car move if you are still on the clutch? how is that possible. Ex: driving at parking lot speeds, driving around 3 mph, gently letting the car move, moving into a parking space.

Answer 1

If you hold the clutch in the car will roll. Use the brake to determine how fast you go.

Answer 2

Yes, it's actually called riding your clutch. You are basically letting the clutch out gently while giving it a smidge of gas, but instead of going all the way out on the clutch, you hold it in so the gears (and this power) do not engage completely.

I don't suggest doing this often, as it does wear the clutch (and a new clutch is expensive). However, I have certainly had occasion in which I've had to do this -- such as being in a line of cars at a stop sign, with the stop sign at the top of a steep hill. As a new clutch diver, I had to get out and warn the drivers behind me I had still not mastered this skill, so please don't inch up. Take it easy, take it slow, and the manual transmission will start to become very second-nature. Good luck!

Answer 3

Understanding how a clutch works helps a great deal here.
Imagine two plates on top of each other.
When you press in the clutch, the two plates separate.
One plate is connected to the engine, and the other to the wheels. As you let out the clutch, the two plates come together.
The one attached to the engine is spinning, and the other one is stationary.
When the plates come into contact with each other, just slightly, the the spinning plate will begin to turn the other plate a little, but will slip quite a bit.
This point I call the biting point. As you let out the clutch just a tiny fraction more, the first plate will grip the second a ;little more, and make it spin a little faster.
When the clutch is let all the way out, then both plates spin at the same speed.

You need to learn where is the biting point on your car, and then just ease the clutch out a little and then in a little, just tiny fractions, to experience total control over your car.

Good luck.

Answer 4

Ease off the clutch (in first gear) very slowly and the car will begin to move. You have a bit of leeway before the car's gears fully engage and it begins to either move faster or starts bucking. If you seem to be moving a bit too fast push in the clutch more before you apply the brakes. Applying the brakes without clutching as the car moves will make it start bucking because it will be in gear. When it is running in any gear besides neutral it must be moving. The clutch is used in creeping to keep the car from being engaged in a particular gear.

Answer 5

If you are sitting on an incline and the clutch is still in the car will move but if you are sitting on level ground you will have to barely push the gas while letting the clutch out. Leave your car in first gear and you will go slow. If you are not too careful you will give it too much gas and hit something. Maybe you might need an automatic. My mustang is a 5 speed so I drive it everyday.

Answer 6

You can gradually let the clutch out just a little until you are creeping along, but it is hard on the clutch so you want to minimize driving this way and try to coast to where you are going. It takes a little practice but it works.

Answer 7

If you don't understand the mechanics of how a clutch works in a car go to a bar where some mechnics hang out and they can explain everything and answer all your problems. Right now your question shows you may be a very dangerous driver for lack of knowledge.

Answer 8

They clutch is in an open position when it is in and when you let it out it catches the gear and propells you forward or reverse. The gears will turn as the fly wheel will turn also you might be on an incline

Answer 9

You use the clutch and the gas to inch forward

Answer 10

yep the car will move if the clutch isnt full engaged , let it out just a little and real slow, this is how you do a slow manuver in a manual tranny ...........