Car rolling back

Car_54

Hasbeen wrote: »

The instructors are wrong then or have been watching to much American tv.
Or do they say gaselerate when wanting the pupil to go a bit faster?

OK. You're obviously right and 36,000 instructors, and indeed the DVSA, are wrong.
When I wanted a pupil to go a bit faster I would usually say "Go a bit faster".

Car_54

alembicbassman wrote: »

Some automatic cars are fitted with a mechanical clutch that is operated by electric motors and sensors. A standard auto (torque converter type) won't roll back. The auto clutch types will roll back until the clutch bites. You have to treat these like a manual and use the hand brake until the clutch bites.

I had a Ford Fusion Durashift with an auto clutch box - terrible hateful gearbox.

Buy a torque converter auto - much better.

The gear stick should look like this:

My Honda CRV's gearstick looks like that, but it's a CVT, not a torque converter.

cajef

Car_54 wrote: »

OK. You're obviously right and 36,000 instructors, and indeed the DVSA, are wrong.

Indeed as an ex ADI that is the term that instructors are taught to use, it far easier to say more gas or less gas when teaching pupils use of the accelerator.

Car_54

onwards&upwards wrote: »

If this is serious and not a wind up, please call a driving instructor (not the one who taught you before your test) book a few lessons and tell them you need to work on hill starts.

In my experience it shouldn't need more than one lesson.

Car_54

illusionek wrote: »

Hi Guys

Many thanks for all the feedback some more useful than others. I learnt on full automatic indeed and hill start was never mentioned to me. It wasnt also part of the test even though there are plenty options to do so around the test centre. I will try to use the handbrake next time as suggested.

It will have been part of your test. They don't do it as a separate exercise if you've had to do it as part of your normal drive, e.g. at an uphill junction.

UKSBD

Can you legally drive a semi automatic if you only pass your test in a full automatic?

Car_54

UKSBD wrote: »

Can you legally drive a semi automatic if you only pass your test in a full automatic?

The definition of 'automatic' for licence purposes is the absence of a clutch pedal or lever.

UKSBD

Car_54 wrote: »

The definition of 'automatic' for licence purposes is the absence of a clutch pedal or lever.

Yes, I have vague memories of asking the same question here before but couldn't remember the answer (due to my mother having a Yaris)

EssexExile

UKSBD wrote: »

Yes, I have vague memories of asking the same question here before but couldn't remember the answer (due to my mother having a Yaris)

Yes a Yaris can sap the memory.

Hermione_Granger

SHAFT wrote: »

I think you know exactly what they mean and you're just trying to look cleaver.

By "trying to look cleaver", are you implying that they have a knife like wit?