Clutch Control at Slow Speeds - This will help your Parking Skills.
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Learn how to keep a manual car slow using the clutch to help you manoeuvre in tight spaces, park better and deal with traffic. Should you use the gas?
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Arguably, this is the most important skill in driving a manual car!
True.
Try uphill and downhill parking
The most important 👏
What about being able to start the cat
I'm kinda impressed that I learned to do this EXACTLY the way he describes all on my own by having a standard for my first car and no one really to help me. I pretty much had figure it all out on my own.
Once you master the clutch, you've solved 99% of the car problems. All my issues came from poor clutch control and now they're all gone. Excellent video!
If you were my math , science , physics, chemistry, history,geography teacher i swear i would have been the first in my class .
The note about the gas not controlling the speed was REALLY helpful. As I'm learning I have been really reluctant to up the gas when doing manoeuvres in case I shoot forwards. This is soo good to know!
I’m 24 & I just bought my first manual here in the U.S. & not a lot of people drive manual here anymore. This was super helpful, thanks!
You're welcome. I hope you enjoy your manual.
I'm 20 and I've just got my first manual too I got a 2004 jetta tdi and I love driving manual and ive only drove manual for like a week. And yeah people look at me like something is wrong with my car when I have a hard shift every now and then.
I really like your teaching style! Your really informative, pick up on common errors and provide solutions and alternatives in a really simple way. I cant wait to watch the rest of your videos now. Cheers x
Thank you!
Believe me he is the best
Omg nobody told me about these details of gas + clutch pedals, so I was always confused when my instructor told me to add gas every time when I needed to move just a little bit because I thought I'd go too fast by adding gas! It's so important to know details like that to understand how to really control the car. Richard, you are the best!!!
Saaaaaaame now I finally understand😭😭😭
Accept Jesus Christ ❤
This is exactly what nobody ever explained to me ,I
passed the test(!?) ,got my licence and didn't drive for 18 years because I knew that I coudn't control the car at all.People say that I lack practise and I do,but also I was not told any of these things .I was paying for my lessons but it's expected to understand this on instinct.
Thanks for the information.😃
I hope the videos helps you become a better driver then.
The point about the heel on the floor was SO helpful, my first instructor didn't explain it to me thoroughly soI always keep my heel on the floor trying to find the bite and the pedal position slips just as you explained - I only just realised from your explanation why this was happening! Thanks so much.
I'm happy to help.
Yeap currently I was learning hill start and first couple of times I stalled the car than instructor told me to keep heel on the floor and it helped a ton
You're absolutely amazing !!! I'm from India, and learning clutch control is so much essential here because of extreme traffic density. I watched your video at least 4-5 times and practiced clutch control which had immensely helped me gaining accuracy and command over it. Just like you said, lifting the clutch the same height as the thickness of a schilling gets the job done. I felt so related as I also used to make the same mistake of using it in reverse direction. Thanks a lot again for making this video.
You're welcome, I'm glad that I helped you.
I just want to say thank you man!
All my driving instructor did was yell at me when I asked how to go slow, so this was an incredibly useful video.
thank you.
Glad it helped!
Your videos are like a Christmas present. I really enjoy watching your video, super easy to follow and explained well. You are the best x
Thank you!
That's good cos #BoJo has cancelled Christmas this year! 😔 #ChristmasCameEarly! 🎶 🎊
As far as teaching driving online is concerned, you are the best teacher. I have learnt so much from your videos. Thank you so much.
I just bought an old manual car and have been learning on the fly - these videos are a godsend. Hands down the best series on the basics of manual driving, with a fantastic instructor
Thank you ☺
I'm learning how to do this with not much success and it really affects my confidence.😭Small nudges to your clutch!! Now that's something I'll try next time. Thank you so much.
Watching this and just now learning about the ECU. My instructor teaches me in a Kia Picanto that has an ECU, but I just bought my first car which is an '03 KA that most likely doesn't. Really glad I clicked on this
I literally use to face the problem with my heel slipping on the clutch!! This was some good advice!!🙏🏾🙌🏾
Thank you, I hope it helps.
You are the best teacher out there because you don't take anything from the learner's perspective for granted. You explain it! I wish Colchester was a bit closer :-)
👍👍
Thank you very much for this. Very helpful!
I did all the common mistakes you've mentioned during my last lesson and want to improve.
1. Prevent the clutch moving to the middle arch of foot and keep it steady by positioning the left heel on the floor once at bite point.
2. Moving the clutch: Up=faster, Down=slower
3. You can control the speed with clutch instead of gas.
Im taking down notes! 📝
Mr Fanders I can't thank you enough. I've been struggling with moving slowly for quite some time (totally new driver) and your video really helped. I used the clutch like you said instead of pressing on the gas and it was like magic was happening. I couldn't believe it.
Again thank you so much for this video🔥🔥🔥
Just had the most embarrassing driving lesson of my journey. I was practising manouevers and my car kept accelerating even though my foot was nice and steady on the clutch. This video is a lifesaver! I will try to implement the advice.
My driving instructor did not tell me what to do to control the car better. All she said was “you are losing control a lot today” and i kept asking is it because I am doing xyz? And she never told me what exactly is the problem.
First 1 minute of this video is exactly what was happening during my lesson.
I am glad to know I am not alone!
I hope it helps!
you are a godsend. teaching things will always be plagued with information that is unclear, and i always appreciate teachers that don't.
i purchased a diesel car from 2009 and i'm glad i found this channel, i really love your explanations. cheers from Spain.
This guy is the best teacher on UA-cam.
Best driving channel on youtube. Thanks a lot, not only this one, but every video helps me so much!
Thank you so much, it's very nice to hear this.
Wow! thank you soo much Richard. I am from India and I am learning to drive four- wheeler. In just 13 days of driving, I had learnt everything except this. My dad is just yelling at me when I am trying to learn parking to go really slow. I was so frustrated at how can I go really slow. I very much appreciate your effort. It will really help me. Thank you, again. ❤️😀👍
I'm happy to hear I've helped.
This is a very important technique, especially in traffic jams when you do not necessarily need to stop completely.
Agreed!
This was hugely helpful. I was lifting the clutch all the way off because I didn't understand that at that low of a speed holding it at the bite point really won't damage the clutch
Conquer Driving is the best channel for beginners to understand how to handle the car. Well, cars are categorized as with manual or automatic transmission, but as I watch these series I came to conclusion that cars are with the clutch, and without a clutch, because this part of the car really plays the main role I guess. Thanks a lot for awesome videos Conquer Driving. This channel is the best!
You're absolutely right, the clutch is what makes it a manual.
Just got my first manual, C6 vette and this helped SOOO much with slow speeds. I feel like I subconsciously understood this concept but wasn’t really putting it into practice. Just spent an hour in the parking lot practicing crawling and got a lot better really quickly. Thanks man!
Thank you so much for this you are a life saver. I took a day off from work today, because I am still traumatised by my bad driving experience. Yesterday I stalled 3 times in the middle of traffic the cars infront of me were moving at a low speed I couldn't slow down without completely stopping my car, I ended just crying.
I'm sorry to hear that, this video may help you and I have two more coming in June on the subject:
ua-cam.com/video/0yKXFrpGAM8/v-deo.html
Amazing and underrated teaching. Thanks on my journey to learning manual
You're welcome
New driver here, about 2 months in, learned Manual as a first time driver and I just want to say, learning Clutch control (Pretty much everything he mentioned here) is when I fully acknowledged the fact that I truly know how to drive manual. My car has an ECU, but I barely rely on it. Knowing how to do Clutch control to slow down and speed up is useful for almost anything. In any clutch scenario (Pun intended) like tight turns or going uphill and suddenly encountering something on your way up, using the clutch to control your speed is super helpful. Not to mention that in bumper-to-bumper traffic or stop lights this helps you get faster starts than doing Clutch-bite-point first, relying on the ECU to accelerate then adding gas later. This is 100% an essential skill for any manual driver, new or old, ECU or no ECU.
THIS WAS THE "I UNDERSTAND IT NOW" moment for me! THE CLUTCH CONTROLS THE SPEED AT 0. NOT THE GAS!!!
Thanks!
Thank you for your generosity and thank you for watching. I hope you continue to find the videos interesting. I apologise that my reply is late, I've only just noticed your comment.
you explain so clearly and make driving a manual car seem so easy! i wish i had you as my instructor! keep up the good work!!
Thank you!
The best teachers are those who enjoy teaching
was looking all over UA-cam for a video covering this! I have my test in a few weeks and this video has really helped me understand something i couldn’t get the hang of. can’t wait to show my instructor what i’ve learnt! thankyou!
I hope it helps.
Maybe if you made a video like this in 2018, my student driver’s license wouldn’t expire! Haha. Im about to get my Driver’s License and your videos are really helpful! Keep it up! 🚗💨💨💨
New Driver here so i recently just started my first day and first time of practicing driving and after practice ,i kinda feel like wanting to not drive again because of my fears,nervous on driving and tests but i do wanted to try go back but i just cant bring myself to do so and also these videos does help me alot learning about the clutch ,handbrakes and more :)
Take your time and take it slow. Gradually build yourself up, confidence comes after knowledge, skill and success.
Passed a month ago. Mainly just stuggle with stalling now in my new car. The 7 minute mark pretty much addressed where I keep going wrong 🙏🏻
Thanks for your videos. No instructor tell all these tricks, they just say to drive slow while parking, but never explain how to do that.
I always enjoy your teaching. Your students must be very proud of you. Great job, thanks for all tips you give in your videos. They have helped a great deal.
I went ahead and bought a 02 civic with a manual transmission, have learned so much. Don’t stall anymore, this little car always needs gas. It stalls so damn easy lol, I’ve always been scared of hurting my clutch by doing what you’re demonstrating
There will be a video at the end of May on riding the clutch. Doing what I'm doing in the video isn't what your clutch is designed to do.
@@ConquerDriving great thanks!
This was really helpful. For the last few weeks of my lessons i didn't realise I had to push the clutch back down to keep it slow I thought I was bringing it up to high which was why it was picking up speed
Great to hear it helped! Thank you for watching.
Thanks for this super helpful video, I kept going for the brakes and accelerator out of muscle memory.
There’s also the fear or adding too much gas when it was the clutch that I had to control instead. Well explained 👌🏻
This is all very common, many people do exactly what you're doing, practise will get you there.
Thank you for all your videos sir, I managed to pass my driving test using the methods you teach about clutch control, very helpful indeed, thank you very much....
Big thanks from a silly old american trying to finally learn the manual!
I hope the videos help 😊
They do! Sometimes I forget the videos are designed to not only teach someone to drive a manual, but to also just drive in general lol only in the States could those two things be confused
I love your videos mate they're vey detailed and helpful,thanks and keep up your great work.
Thank you, I will try.
First video where Richard says his now famous line "...until the next one, cheerio!"
this is the best channel in my opinion 👌👌👌
this video was a GODSEND. thank you so much my guy 🙏🏾
I passed my test with a few minors on 3rd of March just before lock down. I didn't get a chance to drive or buy a car until recently. I have been feeling anxious about driving my car and no one understands, everyone keeps telling me to just drive my car and i couldn't explain why i feel anxious. I just know i cant control my car and you explained perfectly in the few minutes in the beginning of the video! Hopefully going to practice this now. Thank you.
I recommend refresher lessons. If you pass the test and don't use the skill it will fade quickly. It's OK to have a break from driving when you have already been driving for a number of years because the skill will stick. But if you just learnt it and never used it you will forget it.
I love this guy I just got a 5 speed manual 2014 Scooby WRX a few months ago and I already intuitively learned a lot of these things just from practice but he has a lot of little tips that I have absorbed into my memory banks. Super helpful dude. And my other car is an automatic with paddle shifters, so I am able to take my time to learn and also practicing when to shift with my paddle shifters so I don't waste too much gas in the high RPMs in the WRX, which is a bit of a gas guzzler especially with the mods on there.
I really wanted to hear what you will tell us about keeping slow and I’m not disappointed. My instructor told me a bit different approach - I learn in a car which doesn’t required extra gas at the start, so I’ve been told to keep one foot and the clutch and second one on the brake. Fully lock the wheel, find the bite point and slowly release the brake, holding the clutch steady and moving the wheel - basic rule is “fast hands, slow feet”. Well, it works as recently I am getting better with angle start, but... I keep in my mind that very important point you remind us all the time - to use some gas before finding the bite point. However it is easy to forgot about it, especially that our car even release the hand brake for me 😳 I’ve got a feeling that after passing my test and having my own car I’ll have to learn some things all over again as I’ll have different habits... unless I’ll buy similar car 😂 but I really don’t want to be a lazy driver from the other side 😉
That's true, you may need to learn some different techniques when you drive a different car. This is why I like to make sure my customers can drive any car. My car will also easily let you lift the clutch without gas. I get my customers to practise both methods.
I know and that is one of the reasons why I like your teaching methods soooo much 👍at the end of the course your clients have a broad knowledge and understanding of different cars and they are ready to go, no matter what they may buy - and this is superb 👍👍👍
Brilliant brilliant The best ever explaination conquer Know exactly what learners need
Just watching this having driven into a garage door on an uphill parking spot this evening - better late than never!
Really great info as always. I learned this the hard way cause I have a very tight parking space. Also my Mustang gives me alotta help. It actually would scare me cause my Pony wants to run!!!! 🐎
Don't mind me. 5:40 had a great tip
I use it like that, I just wasn’t sure it if was the right way to do it, thank you
Best explanation ever for clutch control. Thank you
You're welcome ☺
This is so helpful and this type of info will never get old💯💥💥
Awesome video, much better and clearer explanation than the one my instructor gave me!
This made something click in my mind, thank you
Great video as usual.
Can you make a short video about buying a first car?
Mainly the things like buying insurance, taxing it, etc. What you need to do before you can (legally) drive it away, and how to do it.
Like... do you buy the car, then insure it via phone? Insure it before you buy it? What paperwork is involved? Etc.
Plenty of videos from other channels show what to look for in a first car, but not really much about the the "boring" paperwork.
Great idea, I will.
I never went to driving school..jus watched his videos and went for tge the test😂
this is really helpful! I have just started learning my manoeuvres, starting off with reverse bay parking and this has helped me understand clutch control better as I have been lifting it too high
I commented this 1 year ago and I am back watching these videos before my test 😩
Wow thanks! I wonder why my instructor never told me this 🤣🤣🤣
After watching you video for the first 2 days of driving a manual I haven't stalled at all in the past 5 days
Just what I was looking for! Thanks mate
You're welcome
Thank you this video was very helpful thank you taking Time out of your life to do these videos
Thank you very much
You welcome
You're more than welcome. The channel takes about 12 hours a week to run at the moment.
Thank you, now I can drive smoothly in Beamng Drive😂
By the way nice video, keep up the good work👍🏻
😂
Thank you for your video. I just got my driving license (in France) on a brand new diesel car and was heartbroken when driving my own petrol 2011 car for the first time, realizing I needed to learn the pedals all over again :( it took me ages to learn to use the clutch in the first place and now it turns out I've learnt it wrong for the car I have
Very helpful vid. Exactly what I was looking for. Just started learning and having trouble at junctions as cars are parked so close that I've no view of any oncoming traffic. I need to know how to "creep" forward a little before driving off. Thanks. Ray.
You're welcome, I hope it helps.
Embarrassingly as 32 year old man who's just learning to drive manual these videos have helped me tremendously.
Thank you mate
Nothing embarrassing about that, I'm happy to hear my videos aren't helping!
Thank you very very much my dear! It is too helpful.
Thank you ☺
thank you . i wish you the best . you are an excellent teacher.
Thank you!
Thank you soo much for this your videos have saved me now I don't jerk downshifting.. Alil Rev matching 🔥🔥💪
Hats off for him to avoid trouble! 🤣
This guy really helps me alot , Thank you 🙏
You are awesome man. Great work, keep up.
Thank you.
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Thank you for this lesson
Thank you very much sir for your great videos, keep up the awesome work !
Really good video Richard. This is something I have noticed since passing my test and trying a different car. In my examiner's car, I could do manouvres and go very slowly purely just by using the clutch and no gas from my input. I assumed this was in all cars but quickly found out this is not the case! 😂 I always use gas then clutch in every other aspect, I just thought when going very slowly you could just use the clutch but I now know this isn't a universal thing. Thank you
This video may be of interest: ua-cam.com/video/UdTSRBJrw7Y/v-deo.html
Thank you so much. I needed to hear this.
thank you for this. clear explanation 😊
Very instructive tutorial! Thanks a lot!
This is video is brilliant! Thank you for this!
my brother just taught me stick shift and he calls it “feathering the clutch.” when he said that it clicked in my brain :)
Thank you so much, this has been incredibly useful.
Thank you for this video just what I need
Absolute legend
Excellent bro it’s really very very helpful hints you are a great 👍🏼 thank you 🙏🏼 so much
Thank you ☺
Really superb video bro@Conquer Driving bravo bro👏👏🔥🔥...btw when moving off manual car in order to listen the engine go up pitch and revs start to increase do we need to hold the gas still or keep pressing the gas pedal?
Thank you. Keep the gas steady, if you keep increasing the gas your clutch will have more and more work to do and you would maybe overheat it. Maybe increase it a tiny amount if you feel you're not getting anywhere.
@@ConquerDriving thanks bro and really appreciate your reply..👏👏😀😀
Amazing video I've learnt so much thanks
Thank you for sharing this help me a lot
Thanks for the info ✌️. Can I do this when reversing also?
Absolutely!
Great video! It was really informative. I have a question - when you are using clutch control to do manoeuvres like forward bay parking, do you keep your foot on the gas pedal as well or is it the clutch and the brake you use for control? I hope that made sense.
very good tuitorial video
Thank you.