Manual "Reverse" gear?
I've bought the manual stick but I did test drive w/ auto (kinda weird, right?) cuz I'm just learning to drive manual last week!!
Planning to get a couple more lessons from my uncle but a friend brought up today a question of how to do "Reverse" in P-5 I guess I can check it out when I've got the car but anybody else can let me know in advance? I've driven an old Civic for my lessons and how would that compare to the P-5 one?? |
Press the clutch, shift into reverse, feather the gas, slowly release the clutch... KABOOM! You're moving backwards!
P.S. Please don't ever fully release the clutch while going into reverse. |
"P.S. Please don't ever fully release the clutch while going into reverse." -- Why?
also, is there special mechanism to put the stick into Reverse gear? I think other cars have special ways to prevent drivers from accidentally shifting from 5 to R |
If you fully release the clutch in reverse you will do one of two things:
1) Go faster than you ever need to in reverse 2) Stall the engine There's no special way to engage the reverse gear. There IS a mechanism to prevent you from shifting from 5th into R. Try this with your car turned off: Press the clutch to the floor, shift into 5 and then move the shifter straight back (as if to go into reverse). It won't work. You have to go from 5th to N and then into R. Why you'd want to be driving in 5th and all of a sudden shift into R is beyond me... |
On the P5 you can't go straight from fifth to reverse as there's a lockout mechanism. Once you pull it out of fifth you need to move it to neutral before you can shift into reverse.
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Originally posted by KpaBap If you fully release the clutch in reverse you will do one of two things: 1) Go faster than you ever need to in reverse 2) Stall the engine |
u pretty much have to be sitting still for the car to go into reverse, if you moving at all, don't put it in reverse or it will grind the gear, even if you are rolling backwards
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Originally posted by KpaBap Press the clutch, shift into reverse, feather the gas, slowly release the clutch... KABOOM! |
"R" means "R ace" :D :rolleyes:
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Originally posted by KpaBap If you fully release the clutch in reverse you will do one of two things: 1) Go faster than you ever need to in reverse 2) Stall the engine Jay |
what if i spray in reverse?:D
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Originally posted by neuromancer This is true if you don't know how to drive or aren't paying attention. Riding the clutch is a bad thing. Jay |
but to someone who doesn't know how to back up, they will ride the clutch until tought otherwise
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what does "riding the clutch" mean?
what's the "proper" way to do a reverse then (e.g. parking)? |
riding the clutch means that you give gas, let out the clutch enough to that it start to engauge but not all the way allowing the car to start moving, but when you start "riding" the clutch is when you get the car moving you either A let it out completely or B push it back in, riding is when you just let it sit there partialy engauged. kinda like using a drill to put a screw in, the drill is spinning faster than the screw is going in, it stripps the screw but the screw still goes in. thats the best was to describe it. Just ask a friend or someone you work with to show you, its alot easier that way telling it to you.
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