one of the most common questions that comes up in the comment section is
is what gear do i stop in Dane
do i stop in first or second or can i stop in any gear it's a very good question and
i'm going to give you a very simple answer right now normally you should stop in 2nd
gear because stopping in 2nd gear is more suitable to the speed that you're driving at
just before you stop it's always good to have the gears matching the speed so that means if you're
driving at 110 or 120 km on a motorway well then you should be in fifth or sixth gear
and as i said if you're about to stop slowing down about to stop then
2nd gear is the best gear to correspond to the speed that you're driving at just
before the car comes to a stop
now there's always going to be exceptions but that's the general advice anyway
i'm going to show you some clips now from when i was out driving yesterday
and you're going to see me giving you a practical demonstration of how to stop a car properly
and safely and i'm going to clearly explain what my hands and feet are doing as i'm stopping
so i'll be coming to a stop on the other side of the car park now and you'll notice that i'm going
to keep my two hands on the wheel the hand is not going to drop down to the gear stick
i'm also going to stay in 2nd gear as well & you'll see that this will be the best and
most efficient way to stop the car so i'm just going to stop down here now i'm going
to straighten the wheel up first and i'm going to just stop
kind of before that silver car there so
here's what i'm going to do okay just check the mirrors so i'm going to press the brake lightly
first and then a couple of seconds before i stop i'm going to put the clutch in there now
car is going to roll to a nice gentle stop now if i want to move off straight away
again i just go into first gear i give it a little bit of acceleration bring the clutch up
and then off she moves like that so there's no need to flick the car into neutral to flick the
gear stick into neutral i mean there's no need to have a left hand resting on the gear stick that's
not going to do any good and you're going to lose marks on steering/gears if you do
so what i did back there was i kept two hands on the wheel
to show the maximum control possible
i just braked first clutch in and then because i wanted to move off pretty much straight away
i just put it in the first gear and just went this time now i'll be doing the same thing but
i'll be using the handbrake instead because that's kind of the other
alternative way of moving off depending on the junction of course so
i'm going to stop now so i'm going to brake first clutch in
a couple of seconds before i stop nice gentle stop two hands on the wheel as you'll notice
now i'm going to go handbrake first and then i'm gonna go into first gear and get the bite so
I got a bit of acceleration clutch up you might see the feel the car lifting there and off
i go again then nice steady feet moving off and that's the second way of moving off so that's
like similar to the first way but i used the handbrake in the most recent time there i used
a handbrake and that's just to illustrate that sometimes you could be stopped at a junction or
roundabout or whatever and you may be on a slight hill so both ways are pretty much the same
method of moving off but the most recent way i did there was the handbrake just for extra security
and just so the car doesn't roll back because all junctions are different i mean you you might stop
on the flat where you don't need the handbrake and then the hill then you do need
it you have to kind of take each junction as it comes each road as it comes
stopping again here now so brake first
clutch in a couple of seconds before i stop two hands on the wheel as you'll see here
nice gradual gentle stop and this time i'm going to secure the car
so it's hand brake first and then neutral
and that's the best way of doing it like if you're parking the car for example on
the side of the road you just stop like that you pull in brake first and clutch in and then
secure the car handbrake first then neutral & then
whatever is next on your list of things to do then
do then as i said at the start of the video there will always be exceptions to stopping in second
gear for example let's say you're approaching a blind junction and it's a blind yield junction
like a blind roundabout let's say in that case you may well be better off approaching and stopping in
first gear if you need to stop because as i keep saying it all depends on the situation
now i've made a great video on approaching certain junctions in first gear and creeping out
in first gear and i'm going to leave a link in the description and the
first pinned comment so make sure you watch that video
after this because as always we're driving there is no one one-size-fits-all
rule you have to be flexible and practical and each situation is different
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