I'm going to check the centre mirror,
left mirror, signal left. Now I'm going to gently brake. Don't rush for the clutch here
because that could speed up your car. That's what we call coasting, getting
a position nice and close to the curb. Now putting the clutch pedal fully down. Hey, guys, welcome to another video. This video, it's going to be informative,
but I'm going to keep it simple as well. I'm showing you how to move a car, a manual car, how to change gears from
one, 2-3, and then how to stop correctly. So I'm going to be showing you how to do
all that and then what would happen if you did select the wrong gear,
the timing of the gear changes. So like I said, it'll be keeping it simple,
easy to understand, but informative. Anybody's got their lessons coming up
and they're starting driving lessons here, I think needs to watch videos
like these before the lesson. It saves a lot of time on the lessons. And those of you who are regular viewers know that's what my driving course,
the ultimate driving course is all about. One final thing before we start, any of you who are watching and have ever
benefited from any of these videos that I put out every week, all I ask
for you guys to do is subscribe. It just helps me out a lot. Right then. For the first part, I'm going to show you how to move off, how to set
the gas, get the biting point. As you'll notice, I've got a camera on the dash there
as well, so you can see the dials. It's important to know what they are. We have the rev counter on the left, which
measures how much acceleration are using. So if I start the car now. So in starting the car, obviously make sure all the lights switch
off and a few of the lights will stay on. You can see the battery light,
the engine light at the bottom. But as you saw there,
the majority of the lights switched off. Now I'm going to turn the key
and as you can see, all the lights have switched off apart
from that red one, which is for the handbraker,
or some people call it the parking brake. Right then, so as I was mentioning, so if I press accelerate now, you can see
that needle on the left going up. This is how much acceleration you
need when we're moving off here. Anything between one and a half and two.
The more I press it, the louder the car gets,
and that's more acceleration I'm using. The one on the right
speedometer measures the speed. That's all you need to know for now. Right, so moving off,
first thing we need to do is clutch pedal fully down, select first gear, and first
gear is away to the left and up. And now I'm going to set the gas. So just like I mentioned,
around one and a half thousand revs. I'm going to bring the clutch
pedal up to the biting point. There we go. I've just felt the car move just a lot. The cars are moved, but you can just
feel when you get the biting point. Yeah, look, if I bring the clutch pedal
too high now, watch what happens? The car starts moving,
which is dangerous because I haven't really done, well, I checked it
was safe here before I did that. But if you do that and you haven't made any observations, you can
cause danger to people here. So you don't need too low because if it's too low, when you're about to move off,
like it's too long. If I release the handbrake,
the car's not going to move and you want the car to move after
you've done your observations. So if you haven't got the biting point,
the car won't move. And then if you spend another few seconds gaining the biting point, by that time
the situation around could change. Right. So I'm going to set the gas
and now get the biting point. There it is. Now I'm going to keep my feet still. It's very important you keep your feet
still, especially that left foot, because if I bring it too high, I've
just told you what would happen there. Now we're prepared,
we're going to do our observations. You're going to check the left blind spot, the left mirror, make sure
nobody's walking on the pavement. You're going to look ahead. There could be an oncoming vehicle
who could park on our side. You're going to check behind using the centre mirror,
make sure there's no one coming. You don't want to move off if
there is anyone approaching. You don't want to slow anyone
down as you're moving off. Check in the right blind,
not the blind spot yet. Check in the right mirror. Now, the right blind spot, it seems safe. There is a vehicle ahead. So what I'm going to do is signal,
but you know what? I'm going to wait because what I want to do is after moving off,
I want to go from gear one, 2-3. That car is totally
blocking that path there. He has moved now. I'm going to do my checks again. Now I'm going to signal because there are
vehicles around and people around ahead. Take the right blind spot again. I'm going to keep my feet still. Because of the biting
point, the car moved. Now I'm going to slowly bring the clutch
pedal up and gently accelerate more. I did say slowly about
the clutch up there. You don't rush off it,
otherwise you can stall. Changing gear now,
you can see on the speedometer, I'm not on the speedometer on the rev
counter, I'm just above 2,000 revs. So now I'm going to come off the gas, clutch pedal down, select second gear,
bring the clutch pedal up and accelerate. So the correct timing of the gear
changes is roughly around 2,000 revs. So again, I'm going to build up speed. And so I'm in second gear at the moment. I'm around 20 miles an hour, 2,000 revs. I've got two markers there
for changing my gear. Now I'm off the gas and I'm trying
to pull the clutch down into gear three. So I went from gear one to two again with 2,000 revs and just
above 10 miles an hour. So that's the right timing
of the gear changes. So to park up, I'm going to check the
center mirror, left mirror, signal left. Now I'm going to gently brake. Don't rush for the clutch here
because that could speed up your car. That's what we call coasting. Getting a position nice
and close to the curb. Now putting the clutch pedal fully down,
gently braking. And now once the car is stationary, then I'm going to secure the car
by putting the handbrake up. By lifting the handbrake means the car is
secure, it's not going to roll anyway. So I can take my foot off the brake. It doesn't mean I can take my foot off the clutch here, which is
what a lot of learners do. Now I'm going to select neutral. Now I can take my foot off
the clutch and cancel the signal. So that's how you stop and notice
the position where I've stopped. So the curve was high, then dipped. I've stopped where the curve is high, which means it's not
an entrance to a driver. So I'm not really blocking a driveway.
Right. So just on that note about not
taking a foot off the clutch pedal. So the clutch is there now. So say if I had left in gear one, and again, let me make sure
it's safe, no one's around. If I take my foot off the clutch,
the car would have stalled. See, I jump forward.
That's what we call stalling. So always make sure you're in neutral before you take your foot
off the clutch pedal. Because just say somebody was in front
of us, parked really close or just walking past that car, we could
definitely scare them. Yeah, worst case scenario
hit them as well. Right. So now let me show you what would happen
if you change gears too early or too late. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn the car back around
and then I'm going to show you what would happen if you change gears
too early or too late. So this is the old turn
in the road maneuver. We used to call the 3.10, which is not in the test anymore,
but still a good skill to have. Okay, so now I'm in first gear. So say if I change gear. Well, I was going to do it early, but I won't because there's a car behind,
which has decided to park up. Right, so I've parked up again,
better position to show you what would happen if I change gears too
early and then too late as well. Obviously early there was cars
around, so I couldn't do it. Right then, so moving off again. This time what I'm going to do, I'm going to change from gear one, 2-3
quite early and show you what happens. I've just moved off and again,
not at 2,000 revs. I've got gear two and the car's jerked
there, and now I've got gear three. Again, the car is shaking a lot yet. Again, if I was slowly uphill,
the car would stall. But he hasn't stalled. It's just been a bit slow
in picking up speed. I'm accelerating and now
it's picked up speed. That's all that happens here. This car is quite giving on the clutch. Other cars would most likely stall. If I change gears too late, so again, I'm checking it's safe, so I'm going to
slow down, not causing anyone any danger. I'm in first gear now. I'm going to continue to drive without
changing gear and see what happens. All that happens is that you can
hear the extra engine sound. It's working the engine more
and just wasting more fuel. That's all that happens when you change
gears too late here, which is obviously not what it's
going to cost you more money. That's it really, guys. So remember the timing of your gears,
I said normally what works in most vehicles is around 2,000
revs for your next gear change. Or say if you're going from gear one to two, around 10 miles an hour, from 2-3,
around 20 miles an hour and so on. Yeah. Yeah.
So that's all you need to know how to move a car, how to stop a car and how
to change gears correctly. Hopefully, guys, that video helped. Like always, don't forget to like and subscribe
and I'll see you in the next video.