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I've driven stick for a while, and the best advice I can offer if you find hills, like your driveway, challenging from a standstill, whether going forward or reverse, is

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Old 10-29-2015, 09:55 PM   #19 (permalink)
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I've driven stick for a while, and the best advice I can offer if you find hills, like your driveway, challenging from a standstill, whether going forward or reverse, is this:
1. pull the hand brake up and hold it there
2. press the clutch pedal down fully
3. get in gear, first or reverse as needed
4. release clutch pedal up slowly and get ready to press the gas pedal down when the clutch engages
5. when you feel the clutch biting, bring the hand brake down, press a bit more firmly on the gas and remove your foot off of the clutch
Can and should be practiced on level ground until you get it down pat. Eventually you might find it unnecessary on steep grades to use the hand brake at all. The danger of course is forgetting the hand brake under duress, like I did once at the drag strip (car kept rolling forward at the line).
Montreal has a couple of really steep hills in the downtown area, and I still use this trick there when I get caught at a red light. Stalling and rolling into the person stopped behind you is not a good thing.
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