Hello there. My name is Shaq and welcome to this lesson on clutch control. If
you're learning to drive a manual car, understanding the clutch is vital. So
what does the clutch actually do? Well in a simplest form it connects and
disconnects the engine from the wheels. When the clutch pedal is down the engine
is separated away from the wheels. However, as you raise the clutch pedal up
the engine connects to the wheels and makes them turn. So when you first start
a car you want to put the car into the first gear, press the accelerator about
the thickness of a pound coin. And then raise the clutch up to the
biting point. Now there are a few instructors out there who would advise
you to come off the clutch pedal first to let the car move and then press the
accelerator. I would not agree with these instructors. The reason being is a lot of
them who advise you to do that have diesel vehicles or have modern cars with
the latest technology. Now I've got a diesel vehicle here. So when I start the
engine when I start the engine you will notice you will notice the meter
goes up to a thousand revs. Because I've got the thousand revs going it is
possible in this vehicle for me to start off by simply raising the clutch. However,
the problem with learning this method is that if I move to a different vehicle
and I did the same thing, I would have a very high chance of stalling. So if your
instructor is advising you to come off the clutch pedal first, it'll be okay for
the driving test but you will have problems after you've passed the driving
test. You will find that you will continue stalling and stalling etc. So
I'm going to show you the correct way of starting. So firstly you want to press
the clutch pedal fully and completely down. Into the first gear and then press
the accelerator about thickness of a pound coin. And then come slowly off the
Clutch, about the halfway mark until you get to the biting point. You will notice
that you've got the biting point by the change in the sound of the engine. Also
at the same time your front bonnet will raise up and the rearview mirror
will dip down. That's the biting point and then you simply release the
handbrake and the car starts moving. When you're in slow moving traffic we tend to
control the speed of the vehicle using the clutch. So in order to move the car,
very very slowly once again we press the accelerator slightly and simply higher
the clutch. We then lower the clutch and come off the accelerator to slow the
vehicle down.
If you want to stop the car completely, again we'd come off the accelerator
lower the clutch pedal first and then press the brake secondly. It's most
important to remember that we only do this in slow-moving traffic in first
gear. If you're in any other gear, we must brake first. We must get the speed down
first before you press the clutch pedal. I hope
that's clarified some of the the doubts that you may have using the clutch. If so
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