How to Hill Start a Manual Car the REAL way - with *NO* Handbrake

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Nice Video

How come you recommend finding the bite first instead of setting the gas first? Is it because it will roll back slightly if you set the gas first on a hill?

I’ll stick with the handbrake for now but as you said my learner car must have been a decal as I literally just held the clutch at the bite no handbrake no gas! And it just stayed. Just passed my test, did that in my own car and stalled it 😂😂 just needed gas and it was fine! Think I’ll stick with the handbrake though for now until I am more used to the car. Plus when I don’t use the handbrake and do it this way I do slightly roll back as I’m repositioning my feet is this normal? Or if I do it quicker would that stop that

On Mild Hills I use one of these Techniques.

On Steep Hills Though I use the Handbrake

What's with the neo-soul music? 😂

finally it took me a year looking at hill start videos and yesterday i finally tried it out and it really works
thank you bro

I have trouble keeping my heel down. I have a golf Mk7 and the clutch travel is pretty damn long, if I push it all the way in and put my foot down, I don't seem to have enough angle in my heel to actually release the clutch. if anyone has any tips that would be really helpful, I only passed my test a couple weeks ago 😅

Isn't riding the clutch like this hard on the transmission?

I have an old pick up with manual transmission with no handbrake. The emergency brake is on the floor. I came across videos on how to start on an incline without rolling backwards at all, and this was all new information to me. I practiced a bit after watching the videos and then I told my boyfriend who had been complaining that I roll backwards too much when starting on an incline. I wasn’t rolling too much but that’s besides the point. The boyfriend who had been a truck driver for 14 years said that this was a technique used for vehicles with handbrakes and that using this technique in my vehicle, with emergency brake on the floor, would wear out my clutch prematurely. I can’t find a single comment or any info on this at all. I have to know if he has a valid point or is he just trying to make me feel as if I can’t do anything right once again??

I hate hills

I came here not because I hate handbrake haha but because some time I don't have enough time for a handbrake. For example, reaching a stop sign and stopping just before it tells you to go again

Hill starts just make me want to quit driving as a whole

I have a horrible handbrake. It it on the dashboard as a tiny button and it takes about 2 seconds to release after being pressed

This will help the coming generation

Without using handbreak on hill start.. the clutch suffer alot .. handbreak is alway the best...

2 months ago i stalled my car on the traffic light on the hill. The first thing inside my mind was i need to restart my car immediately so I fully pressed my clutch and turn the car on without realising that im not pressin the brake, thus my car went down hill quick and almost hit the car behind me. Dang, i got traumatized because of a lot of the honkings did by the cars behind me

I don't understand why this is even such a contentious issue. This is what the handbrake is for, so use it. It makes hill starts faster, safer, and easier. It's a no-brainer.

Wish Paynos would come back to make more videos🥺 These are so useful!

You summed up 3 different videos in under 6 minutes, Thank you

thanks for this I’ll have to try it out. This week in my driving lesson I had to do a hill start on a roundabout and i stalled 4 times 😖 I wanted to disappear

I stalled twice on a hill today on 2 diff occasions. My car is 1.0 and im still getting used it. Its so stressful knowing that it might roll back or the people will use their horn at you!

Great vid, never liked rhe use of hand brake dats too kids like, where im from we dont use hand brake at all

Heel on the floor on clutch is really good trick and it helped me a lot and it's much easier to hold bite point that way

why is every manual driving video a British guy in a seat

Watching this because my handbrake doesn’t work

Biggest problem I have is my clutch is hydraulic and the biting point can vary depending on the density of the fluid. That changes with time & weather conditions.

My driving school requires me to do this without handbrake lmao

What about if i on really high uphill and the clutch doesn't hold rolling back??

Me redlining and my loud ass exhaust crying and causing a scene 😂😂

Well, what I do is to operate brake and accelerator simultaneously with heel on accelerator and toe on brake. Let my small petrol engine rev and slowly release the break while increasing preesure on accelerator and simultaneously releasing the clutch. With small petrol engine, with low torque, it's really easy to stall without it, engine doesn't hold car on steep hills unless I rev it. With diesel, it's different game altogether, needing no accelerator input thanks to their low end torque

What a stupid video
Instead of your stupid lecture. You should demonstrate this a few times.
Senseless video

Lol what if you have manual brakes and can't press the clutch and brakes together all the way?

As I have a front wheel drive car, and the handbrake locks only the rear wheels, I prefer going with the handbrake.

because the brake pedal locks all the wheels, which means my front wheels get more resistance, which means my clutch disk will die faster. AAAND my vehicle is kind of heavy, so jumping off the clutch and revving it, will make my first wheels spin while I'm sliding backwards down the hill (mainly in winter) :)

(I'm amazed, how easily I can spin my first wheels on a flat surface when I'm just trying to start from a stop)

My dad hits me if I pull the handbrake

I'm currently taking my drivers license. Just wanted to say I love your videos. They really fill in the gaps perfectly ! thanks

Hi, did you do your test in St Albans. Any tips for the exam, and how do you deal with Holywell Hill? Thanks

this wont work in a 53 plymouth when all 3 pedals are at very different hights.

What's bad about using the hand break method? Is there a legit reason why people moan about it? New to manual.

The SINGLE worst thing about manuals. Everything else is great.

For a small engine Petrol car. In case theres no handbrake applied. Our other leg is on the Brake. How do i give extra revs to increase Rpm.

Anyone, does puttig ur clutch into the bikepoint and then let go of the break, does it move too?? Without handbrake i nid to know cause im afraid to try it on hills

You have took my fear being on a hill thank you so much for your video....

I'm a beginner but since I've started driving I've never used the handbrake. For me it's easier to just use the clutch to hold the car and then move off. Ofc I don't hold the clutch like that the whole time. I only bring it up when I know I'm going to move

Laughs in European manual car

there's this one huge hill on my way to school, and there's a traffic light right at the top. still haven't gotten there without stalling on that hill.

Ye the real way to reduce the life span your clutch if you have an old car. Otherwise for new one they have built in hill start up assist so you can do this but the handbrake method is still the real way. Anyway nice vid for new drivers 👍

"...they can wait"😅i like that😁

Just got my first manual car, and my dad(who happens to be my teacher) thinks using the handbrake is cheating