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How do i prevent myself from rolling back on a hill when starting off in my 5-speed?

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How do i prevent myself from rolling back on a hill when starting off in my 5-speed?

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  1. Practice-Practice-Practice  Over time you will learn how far you can let clutch out (without using gas pedal) before it kills the engine.  On flat groung practice taking off without using the gas pedal, let the clutch pull you forward.


  2. all the other posts are bang on...but don't forget to start in 1st gear, not second...

  3. Use your parking/e-brake.  Give it some gas and bring the clutch up to the friction point.  When the clutch begins to grab, release the parking brake and away you go.  You have to do this simultaneously but it becomes second nature in no time.

  4. If it is by your house you could put a block of wood behind your tire by the curb to roll back against.

  5. I know your problem....When I first learned how to drive a stick it happened to me too.....Ok when your on a hill all you do is take your foot of the clutch until you feel it "catch" a little, about half-way. Then you take your foot of the break and push on the gas a little and get the RPMs up. Then take your foot off the clutch slowly and your good to go. Something else you might want to practice is when your on a hill, balance the throttle and the clutch out to where you stall. This is NOT something you practice in traffic.hahahaha. If your driveway is slanted use that, or just find a hill somewhere and practice.

    Hope I helped

  6. It's really been quite a while since I did it, actually, but I had gotten pretty good at it.

    If I remember correctly, I kept the car in neutral till the light was about to change, then I'd shift to 1st and let the clutch up to almost the "catching point".  Obviously, I had depressed the brake with my right foot.  As the light changed, I struck the gas petal with my right heel to rev the engine before popping the clutch and switching my right foot to the gas petal.  I had gotten pretty good at running both gas and brake with my right foot at the same time.

    You could also set your emergency brake and drop it once your feet were in the right position.  I've done that in a pinch. (The incline was pretty extreme and the jerk behind me left me little room for error.)

    Other than that, practice, practice, practice!

  7. A good way to start is to use the e-brake aka. hand brake to hold on to the car while you're slowly releasing the clutch. How you do this is to hold on to the button of the e-brake and then when the clutch is closing on engaging point slowly release on the clutch and be sure to add a little more gas than usual as you are on a uphill, but remember don't release the e-brake so slowly that you will stall, but enough to keep the car from rolling downhill.

  8. use the hand (emergency) brake until you are skilled enough to do without......

  9. I learned a stick shift in San Francisco, lot of hills.  What I did was put the parking brake on and gradually released it as I started moving forward. Kinda odd but it worked!

  10. May have to hold the car with the hand brake for a bit until you learn how to coordinate gas/clutch a bit better.    Be careful not to ride the clutch and burn it.

  11. My technique is a little different from others. I have my right heel on the brake pedal and toe on the gas pedal. I let out the clutch until the car wants to go while gassing it with right toe. When everything in in go mode, I slide my heel off the brake.

    I also use this same heel and toe method when downshifting to slow down. I brake with my heel while blipping the gas pedal with my toe to match rpm's to road speed for the downshift.

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