SirTidus

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??

KpaBap

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.

SirTidus

"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

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

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...

firefly

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.

silver_p5_owner

Also if your foot ever slipped off the pedal while going backwards with the clutch fully released, disaster could happen as you try to get your $hit back together before hitting something or running someone over. I, too, give just enough gas/clutch to get the car rolling backwards as needed and let 'er coast.

walight01

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

douggie

hahahah, if you really heard KABOOM! while you're reversing, then you better shift to 1st quickly and speed away (you probably hit someone's car)

coolboyian

"R" means "R ace"

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

Patio

what if i spray in reverse?

silver_p5_owner

No-one said anything about "riding the clutch", they talked about using the clutch long enough to get the car rolling backwards.

walight01

but to someone who doesn't know how to back up, they will ride the clutch until tought otherwise

SirTidus

what does "riding the clutch" mean?
what's the "proper" way to do a reverse then (e.g. parking)?

walight01

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.