Question for the experienced manual drivers..

[Gen]

Just practice on this.

[itisthumper]

After several weeks/month of driving the car, you will barely roll back. Just takes practice and it becomes second nature.

[gmookher]

Originally Posted by ML

The absolute first attempt I ever had in a manual at 14 was up a hill in reverse in the grass....sideways....with no shoes on....in the snow....and there was a cougar in the car with me.

how old was your friends mom?

[Miniata]

Practice. My wife grew up in the hills of eastern Kentucky and learned how to drive on a stick and had it mastered at age 16, because she had to. I grew up on a farm and was driving manual transmission vehicles by age 13 on the street, and pretty much had down driving a stick on hills by age 14 or 15. Practice makes perfect.

[Max Schnell]

If you don't want to use the park brake and don't want the car to roll back the trick is learning how to let the clutch out quickly and coordinate it with your brake release without stalling the car.

You can practice this on a flat surface. Try to get comfortable with getting on the gas and engaging the clutch as soon as you get your foot off the brake. Do it as if you are trying to get the jump on someone at the light but with minimal gas input. If you can get the car to be rolling forward slowly within one second of releasing the brake you are pretty much there. Then start doing it on a hill because the gas input will have to change depending on the slope.

Leave a bit of space in front of you when you are in traffic on a hill. This way if you lurch the car a bit due to too much gas input you won't hit the guy in front.

Practice is as others are saying is the only way to get it down.

[wheelhaus]

I use three techniques in increasing severity of incline. #1 does the trick 98% of the time, so just keep practicing and it becomes second nature.

1- Just slip the clutch and get in the gas quickly.

2- Get the clutch to the point where it just begins to grab, and then do #1 more quickly.

3- Use the handbrake and then do #2, releasing the handbrake when the car wants to pull away.

[rainmonkey]

havent tried this in the brz yet but i'm assuming its the same (used to do it in the civic)

if you have the parking brake on, when you're going into first and putting on some gas, you can usually see the front of the car lift a little bit, that'll let you know when to release the parking break without sliding.

actually come to think of it, maybe the reason the front would lift is because civic's are fwd.... if that's the case, then sorry for the useless advice lol

[worfworf]

With four guys in my integra in San Francisco - where the hills are like roller coaster - that's how I learned. Ha ha...I even had to shift down to first because it couldn't get going in second.






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[brz7400]

If I lived on the hill that goes up to Lombard st in SF, I would just get an auto.

[enjoi23]

Originally Posted by Gen

Just practice on this.

that's pretty much the reason I want to learn...and it gets heavy traffic at times...

[enjoi23]

Originally Posted by dsmx17

hard to practice on hills in houston I would imagine, more so, how is this a problem in houston anyway?

you're right there aren't hills. but there are highway ramps to get onto other highways that go pretty high and inclined. AND they have traffic at times. I wouldn't need to use it all the time, but I just want to be prepared for when I do.

[TheSt|G]

Originally Posted by 86_ZN6

its just learning how to mix the accelerator and the clutch.

once you've mastered it, you can conquer any slope

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You just need practice, like anything with manual.

[Tanuki]

The first time I was at a stop sign on a hill, there was an F40 behind me. I learned to operate the clutch very quickly.

[NOHOME]

Originally Posted by ML

....sideways....with no shoes on....in the snow....and there was a cougar in the car with me.

Uhmm....we are talking about "Driving "right?

Not "parking".

The mental images are not going away.