How To NEVER STALL A Car & The Best Way To React To Stalling

Hey guys, welcome to another video. So in this video I'm going to show you how to totally avoid stalling and if you do stall, what the best way to react is. So yeah, let's get straight into it. Okay right, so the first thing I'm going to show you is the two main reasons why people stall a car. So the first reason is selecting the wrong gear. So if I select gear 3 now, obviously to move off I'm supposed to be in gear 1 but I'm in the wrong gear now. So if I try to move off now in gear 3, what happens is the car will stall. Okay and the other reason is if I bring the clutch pedal up too quick. So now I'm in the correct gear which is gear 1 to move off and if I bring the clutch up quickly, that's what happens. The car stalls. Okay so those are the two main reasons why a vehicle stalls. Okay now I'm going to show you how to avoid stalling. So the key is to have good clutch control. So you need to practice clutch control and the way I do is I use an uphill road like this. So once you release the handbrake the car will start to roll back and this this kind of road is good to practice clutch control. Obviously make sure it's nice and quiet and it's safe. And for those of you who want a lot more detail about this, watch the videos where I've been teaching Moniz Taz and the lesson that we did on uphill junctions and hills. We used all these techniques and you'll see how well it worked with her. Okay so practicing clutch control. So firstly we're not going to use any gas. It's going to use the clutch so this is a one litre petrol car and even with this car you can practice clutch control without the gas but in a lot of cars you will need the gas with it. We will move on to that in a bit as well. Okay so select gear one, my clutch pedal is fully down. Obviously we're on a slight uphill gradient. As soon as I release the handbrake the car will start to roll back. So it's rolling back, it's rolling back. If I bring the clutch up that's just above the avoiding point now so it starts to move forward. If I dip it down that's too low it's rolling back and now there that's at the correct point. You can see I've just been at the correct biting point now with the clutch. The car's still. So again if I put the clutch pedal down it'll start to roll back. If I bring it up to the biting point it's at the correct point. There you go, you've got to play around with it. If it's, if the car's moving forward, dip the clutch down, the car's rolling back, bring it up. So this might take a bit of time but get used to doing this in any car that you're driving. There now and you've got to be good at knowing where that point is where the car stays still. Okay so again clutch down, clutch back to the bite, just there. Okay so practice doing that on your lessons. Okay now we're going to do the same thing but this time we're going to press the gas with it as well. So some of you may have been taught by your instructor just to use a clutch pedal first, bring the clutch up and then accelerate afterwards. That's not the correct way to do it. Even if it works in some cars it's not the correct way to do it because all cars are different. After passing your test if you're driving a different car you'll need to use this technique. It'll help you move the car a lot quicker as well and it will definitely prevent stalling as well yeah. Okay so this time what I'm going to do is before I bring the clutch up I'm going to set the gas which means just pressing a little bit just about one and a half thousand revs. Okay and now I'm going to practice the same thing. So this time I'm pressing the gas and I bring the clutch up to the that's it back down with the clutch and back to the point. So I'm doing what I did earlier but this time I'm pressing the gas as well yeah. Okay so what this helps you it helps you get that coordination of pressing the gas and bringing the clutch up yeah. Okay so definitely definitely practice that yeah. Okay and so now if I want to move off all I'll do is I'll keep the gas where it is and I'll bring the clutch up very slowly heel on the floor and now press a bit more gas to move off. Okay so that's what you need to practice to avoid stalling yeah. So that clutch control and then using the gas with it okay. So now let's move on to the best way to react if you do stall. So this now depends on what kind of situation you're in yeah. So here now look like I said when I stall the vehicle the car is going to start to roll back. So you will need to obviously control the vehicle press the brake or use the handbrake. So a lot of instructors do teach every time you stall handbrake neutral. Me personally I don't like using that. I try and avoid that if possible because I feel it just takes too long. So say if you're in a situation where there's traffic behind you and you've stalled. So for example like here now I'm about to move off. So say if I was waiting in traffic now and I've stalled the car yeah. I don't want to be handbrake neutral then restarting the car and then gear one again then getting my feet ready. By that time you're going to hold up all the traffic behind they're going to get frustrated. So the way I like to do it is so say if you do stall. So I'll stall the car control you with brake clutch down restart the car yeah select your gear to double check your gear yeah because you might have stalled because you're in the wrong gear and then that biting point and gas and move off. So I prefer doing it that way yeah. But if you are in some situations you may have to if you're on a steep really steep hill and you feel you can't control it and then you will require to use the handbrake. But like I said you don't have to use the handbrake every time you stall. Like I said some instructors do teach that. I've had learners come to me saying oh my instructor said always you always have to use the handbrake after you've stalled. No it's all about keeping control. You can keep control by pressing the brake pedal. Okay so if I turn the car around now and we're in a situation where we're downhill you may not even need to use the brake at all. You can restart the car while it's rolling and just continue. So some of you might say you shouldn't restart the car when you're rolling but again let me give you a scenario. Yes I'm going to turn the car around first. Okay right so this time when the car stalls obviously we're downhill the car will go forward. Obviously if there's stationary traffic in front of you then you will need to use a foot brake yeah or the handbrake if you want. But if the traffic in front of you is has moved you don't you don't really need to press the brake and stop the car because there could be traffic behind you who will not be expecting you to just hit the brake yeah okay. So cars behind you won't really know you've stalled yeah especially if your car is rolling forward. So for example now look so what I'm going to do I'm going to stall the car. So the car stalled yeah I'll put the clutch down won't brake or anything restart the car just check and then just continue yeah. Whereas if I'd hit the brake there could be a car close behind me that wasn't expecting me to hit the brake like that yeah okay. Okay so that's it really yeah like I said if you want a lot more detail on this yeah just watch the videos where I've actually taught a learner on this topic and all the other topics really yeah okay. So hope you guys found that video useful and like always don't forget to like and subscribe and I will see you in the next video.