When To Change Gear in a Manual/Stick Shift Car. Changing Gears Tips. Learning To Drive.

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Hello I'm Chris. On one of our previous videos we  had a look at how to position your hand correctly   using the palming method. In this video I will  show you what to do with your feet and when to   change gears in a manual car. But why do we need  to change up gears at all? Well as you speed up,   you'll have to change up gears to match  your speed. First gear is powerful,   it's also the slowest. First gear is used  to get you going, slow crawling situations   and steep hills. When to change gears can vary  from car to car, whether you're on a flat road,   uphill or downhill and how much weight is in your  car. Let's start on a flat road. In this car,   first gear will take you up to about ten miles  an hour before the engine starts getting too   loud and you'll have to change up to second. The  engine sound is important. When it sounds like   it's starting to work too hard or is starting to  get too noisy, then change up gears. Second gear   will take you up to about 20 miles an hour  before the engine starts get noisy. Again,   then change up to third at about thirty miles  an hour. We can then change up to fourth gear.   Forth gear is not powerful but it can go a lot  faster than first, also the higher the gear that   you're in, the better for fuel economy. But how  do you actually change up gears? What do you do   with your feet? Well, you'd firstly build up speed  and momentum with the gas pedal, hear the engine   sound get louder which then tells us to change  up. You'd have to come off gas, clutch down,   change up to second, clutch up gently and then  back on the gas. Make sure you don't look at the   gears when driving as that could be dangerous.  Also, don't force the gears. If you feel any   resistance then you're probably trying to change  to the wrong gear. Once you've changed gears, then   both hands back on the steering wheel. Let's have  a look at when to change down to a lower gear.   You'll have to change down gears if you've slowed  down and there's not enough power to drive at that   slower speed. I'm about to turn left. I'm slowing  down for this turn to about 15 miles an hour and   now second gear will be best at this speed. I'll  be driving too fast if I was to turn in third. But let's see what happens if we do turn left  in third gear. The engine doesn't like it,   it shakes the car, feels uncomfortable, feels  out of control. So second at that speed works   perfectly. Be prepared to change down to first  gear for a left turn if the road you're turning   into is very narrow or if it goes up a steep  hill. Always make sure that you've slowed   down before changing down gears. I can see  a mini roundabout coming up, so I will slow   down and then change down to an appropriate  gear which will be second for this speed.   I'm making sure that I come off the clutch before  the roundabout so that I don't coast. Coasting is   driving with the clutch still down which could  make you free-wheel and lose a bit of control. But what happens if I don't slow  down before changing down? Well   then you'll get a very jerky  motion in the car like this. But what happens if you pull away in any other  gear but first? Well, unless you going downhill,   there's a good chance you're going to stall the  engine. Block gear changing is simply when you   skip gears. For example, you can change from  third gear to first as long as you've slowed   right down to an almost stop. There's no need  to change down through the gears when stopping.   Block gear changing is better for your gearbox  and your clutch and it's less work. Block gear   changing down is a lot more common and block  gear changing up. I'm in fourth gear and going   to be stopping on the left. I won't have to  change down through the gears because I'm   stopping. I can just leave it in fourth gear  and get the clutch down just before it starts   to shake and judder. Low gears are normally  best if you're going uphill as they have the   most power. Build up speed and momentum before  changing up gears. If not, then the car will   struggle. If you're going uphill and the car does  start to struggle then change back down gears Let's find out what happens if we don't build  up enough speed and we're going uphill. So I'm   changing up gears too early here and the car  is struggling little bit, it's a bit sluggish,   now I will change up to third gear and now  the car is very unhappy. Really struggling,   so I'm going to change back down to second and  it's still not enough power so I go back down   to first. Sounds a lot better. So I'll build up  a bit of speed before changing back up gears. I could use fifth gear in this car at 40  miles an hour, plus I'm turning onto a   dual carriageway which has a 50 mile an  hour speed limit. I'm on the slip road,   which is normally used for acceleration  and to match the speed of drivers on   the dual carriageway but the driver in  front is preventing me from doing this. Increasing speed slowly. I'm in third  gear at the moment, get up to fourth,   checking my mirrors and blind spot, then signal  right to join the dual carriageway. Still slowly   increasing the speed. The driver in front  is still accelerating slowly but I can get   more speed out of forth then I can get up  to fifth and overtake because it's safe. Planning ahead, I can see traffic  building up. So I'm slowing down,   leaving the gear as late as I can. Now I can  change down to third gear and that matches the   speed I'm going at so I've gone from fifth  to third. Gently increasing speed. Watching   the traffic lights as they could change at any  moment and now I kept in fourth gear. Okay the   traffic is starting to clear now. I'm building up  speed, watching this white car cutting in front   and now I can get up to fifth gear. Speed limit  on this dual carriageway is 50 miles an hour. I'm going to leave the dual  carriageway now still in fifth gear. I'm going to try and avoid changing down through   the gears so we'll leave the  gear change as late as possible. I'm still in fifth gear. Slowing down. Clutch  is down. Straight to first gear as I'm stopped.   Well that's the end of the video. We really  appreciate you watching this video. Hope it's   been useful. Please subscribe to our channel  for our latest videos and hopefully see you   soon thanks again. [Music]
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Length: 9min 7sec (547 seconds)
Published: Sun Mar 29 2015
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