Hello, so in this video, we're going to take a look at how you can improve your clutch control.
Seven years ago in 2014 I parked up just a few meters back from where i am now and i made a video
which has had over 800 000 views with loads of comments from people saying how much has helped
them and i thought it's just time to redo it and to update it a bit a lot of what i
say is going to be the same but let's get going and let's see how you can improve your clutch
control so just to be clear so we all know what we're talking about clutch control is when you
creep your car forwards using the clutch and the gas as you'll know if you watch my other videos
so gas then clutch and if you see loads of other videos about gasoline clutch it was me
that started all that and loads of people have copied me since but i was the first one to do it
go and check the dates on the video my video was up first and it means a lot because obviously so
many people have copied my work and copied my videos it just proves that what i say is true
so you should always do gas first say revs and then your clutch comes up that's the
main reason people have trouble and again i'll stress the point that i made in the other video
people who say it's clutch first listen i don't know if you're here on this microphone i might
put one of the microphones on now listen to what the engine does when i lift the clutch
can you hear that the engine revs listen to how it revs when i lift my clutch
again people you say you don't need a gas you do it's just the car is doing it for you so you do
need the gas first as it says in the official box in the car's manual i've been over this
many times before so you rev the gas then you lift the clutch if you're not ripping the gas
there you go that explains why you're having problems with your clutch control
straight away so you've ever gas lift the clutch until you feel the car pull slightly like that
this is a slight pull now i know in the video you can't see just as well as when you're in
the car but the car dips to the back because the handbag's holding the car still so do a gas
clutch the front lifts so the front's lifting and dropping you probably sit on the camera
lifting and dropping you want to find the point where it's just lifting a little like that not
like that it's growling making horrible sounds that's going to go flying forwards or stall
not likely no it's so low there's no power to move so i do gas clutch i'll check around
the aim is that when you release the handbrake the car moves barely at all so it moves like that
slightly i'm not going very far because this car like that you'll notice then when i did
it you had a tiny bit of roll back does that matter if you roll back a millimeter or two
well the thing is this car actually allows you to do that what i mean by that is if i press separate
pedal now and release the hand brake what this car does and all cars since about 2012 do this
when you come off the brake pedal you will hold your still for two and a half seconds
then it rolls back now the idea that is it allows you to set your pedals without the
need of the handbrake but when you do that watch what happens see when the back of it
see i'll do that again break break off gas clutch see it rolls back that amount of rolling backs is
acceptable in fact is what the car is programmed to do if you roll back that much a millimeter
and someone hits you well they were probably going to hit you anyway if they were that close to your
car before you even moved they'd probably already hit you because they're that close
so does it matter if you are back you don't have right back along by like this if i do this
deliberately wrong this is no good that's rolling back too far that could be dangerous but if you
roll back a millimeter or two we're not bothered about that but to avoid it gas clutch high
check hammock off this time i'll go forwards too far deliberately so it goes forward i'm going to
cut down then clutch up and down notice that i'm forwarding down the long way but now it's only
going up and down in millimeter time my clutch is going up down up down up down you might not have
some foot moving i'm trying to move the bottom end of my forward my heel is more to emphasize
the movement but my pedal is moving up and down a millimeter the time it's hardly moving at all
and i'll see you keep it slow my speedo is reading zero but the car's moving that's
what you want if i move too quickly and i'll do that clutch down a bit you won't stop much
so i move off clutch fully down that slows you down more
gas clutch back up to the point and i creep so the idea of this exercise is to make it
so your car creeps very slowly so i'll check around again there's a bus coming so i can't go
and then my gasoline my crutch find the point if you find you're getting a horrible sound like that
it's too high to clutch it too high put it down in millimeter and down another millimeter if
you're feeling nothing at all it's too low you want to find the point where it's like
and i know in the video this doesn't come across too well you can't feel what i'm feeling in the
video but it feels like that's pulling when i release the handbag it will go forward
clutch down a millimeter up a millimeter down a millimeter up a millimeter that's what you do
and a common thing you don't want to do is don't do with the brake you can't have your brake on
then be doing clutch control because it just grows the car going out doesn't like it at all
you're telling the car to stop with the brake and move off with the clutch it's confusing
you never do brake clutch stuff like that in some cars are this one with a hill still
assist he'll hold he'll start whatever you want to call him you can't come off the brake
then do your gas clutch it's programmed to do that for the first two and a half seconds you
won't roll back one two half roll there you go 2.5 seconds is programmed to hold the car
still full you probably won't hear this as well but there's a really high pitched sound
not my voice but in the car there's a really high pitched sound he goes like that you can't really
hear on the video i don't think but when that noise goes off is when it's going to start rolling
back if i can i'll turn the volume up on the microphones listen for really high pitched sound
no it's not there this time but you're kind of hearing the karma high pitched some cars have a
light on here which is like a picture of a car on the hill and it tells you when it's going to
hold you still and stop you rolling back i don't know why they don't put one in this car so you're
left guessing as to whether or not it's actually going to do that but the idea of that system is
you can know because this has been you know updated a bit since where the car didn't have
this when i made that video you can just come off the brake you've got two enough seconds to
see your pedals and off you go there's a slight while back you can't avoid that it's just the
way the car is programmed to do it that's like a newer way of doing it but the old-fashioned way
is gas clutches to the point and then handmade comes off and the amsterdam car moves slowly
clutch up a millimeter down a millimeter learners off moving like this too much up a day and see i'm
jumping and they're going bang bang bang bang jump jump jump that's what's called kangaroo driving
it's jumping clutch up a bit down a bit millimeter up millimeter down millimeter up millimeter down
just like that and that's how you make your car creeper junctions
so just a quick video i will be doing more on this i am getting some new cameras soon but
when i get those they'll be like 4k and whatever i should do more on this thing and remake them
and i do plan on remaking all my videos from start to finish i never finished my ultimate
guide years ago i started making something called the ultimate guide to driving and i think i only
got about less than five and then i just got so busy with work and i ended up teaching lucy
on video and i just didn't have time to complete it but i will be doing more of those videos soon
so please let me know what you'd like to see in these videos um because these videos are
done mainly by requests from viewers who say can you make this can you make that
i'm gonna go up and do them so check out his other videos on the screen now for more help
with your clutch work thanks for watching and as always i'll see you again soon for more videos