If your car is out of control and the brakes have failed, will putting it in the reverse gear slow down the car, and what would the best alternative thing to do be in this scenario?
The ans is. " no "When you are driving forward, the gears are connected to the driving shaft(which is connected to tyres and is rotating in same direction.)Putting it to N (neutral) disconnects the drive shaft from the engine.So if you will put the gear selector to reverse,it will force the drive shaft to move in the other direction. (Opposite to that of the wheel)As a result ,the excessive force will break the connecting shaft or the gear box.(but not stop the vehicle)*this happened to me about 2 months ago.While I was returning from shopping suddenly I heard an unusual sound . "bang"I was like "what was that??"I tried to press the brake pedal to look what had happened, but found me in shock and teror.The brake pedal had frozenIt wasn't moving even a mm .I Felt this was the end .I could see my loved ones in front of my eyes.But .......I didn't want it to happen( my speed was around 70 kmph )I took a deep breath and engaged it to neutral , pressed the button located on the handbrake and kept pulling it slowly and slowly.(Remember : pulling the full hand brake quickly can drift your vehicle and you can lose control. )So this gives you the answer :Do the following stepsBe calmEngage in neutralPress the hand brake buttonPull it slowly slowlyThank-you.This is the button(which I am referring to) :But in the modern cars this lever has been swapped away be electronic handbrakes .EDIT 1 : I saw lots of people saying to shift to a lower gear. I want them to know that there was traffic behind me and doing that could have resulted into severe accidents.EDIT 2: thanks Biishwajyoti dutta majjumdar for the correction
Why does my car lurch forward just a bit after I park it and step off the brake?
Mechanical play. The parking “pawl” which is usually a small hardened metal rod that slides into a gap on a toothed ring inside your gearbox, thus blocking the rotation of the main driven shaft that is directly connected to your wheels, does not fit perfectly into those gaps. So there is a little bit of mechanical play there, add that to the mechanical play right through the drive train which is taken up as slack once the torque converter has finished its job of moving you along.You have your foot on the brakes, you select park, the converter stops pushing and releases all drive to the wheels, it stops thrusting, the drive train may still be under stress as George Gonzalez states, but not much, as the central drive turbine has freed off the thrust inside the box, transmission wind up maybe present though.You turn off the engine, take your foot off the brakes and the car will usually lurch, parked uphill, it will lurch backwards as the play is taken up according to gravity, and forwards if you are parking downhill. The net transmission wind up will add or subtract to that lurch, which is also a good guideline for a mechanic to see how much wear is in a driveline. My old Range Rover used to lurch a lot, as all of the suspension bushes, driveshaft/propshaft spiders and shaft splines were shot.
Will I end up ruining my car if i practice learning how to drive a manual and the car stalls??
Hi KnowMe, If you have a manual transmetion that sits in a stall without moving, yes. your boyfriend is right. You do need to take it out on the road and even a empty parking lote would be even better so you can get the fell of changeing your gears and you won't hit anything, like cars or me hahaha. take your boyfriend or someone that drives a stick shift because they can tell you when to shift and how to use the clucth. but when you do do it in a parking stall with out moving at all, just make sure you keep the clutch pressed down the whole time as you practiceing changing gears. if your on the road and your stalling is because you letting the clutch out to fast and or not enough pressure on the gas peddle as your engading the clutch.. your car should aslways be moving as your changing the gears from 1- 2- 3- 4- 5? as long as your clutch is pushed down as your changing to the next gear. remember 1.Clutch pressed to floor foot on gas peddle. just alittle bit. 2 press gas smoothly as your releaseing the cutch from the floor to the up right passtion, do the same steps each time you change gears, and that is your going from gear 1-4or 5 and if your down shifting from 5 or 4-1 gear. one more time, press clucht in put in the Ist gear press gas as your letting up on the cluch peddle think of it like this.... since the gas peddle is up closer to you and the clutch is pressed farther then you what you want to do is try to relese the clutch and press the gas at time same time where the meet in the middle if the preeing anf releaseing as long as your doing them together in a smooth timeing at the same time. and the you won't stall"? of course it easyer for me to show you then to write it... e-mail me if you need phone instrucctions? hope this all made sence and best of wishes wiyh your new rabbit and happy driveing>
Should you turn an engine off first before putting it into gear and parking, in a manual transmission car?
I rarely put cars into gear after parking. It is always possible that someone (or yourself) can get back in, turn the key and the car will lurch forward. I often start my engine to get the heaters going and de-ice the car on cold days and on one occasion opened the o, turned the key and the car jumped forward and very nearly rammed the car in front…Similarly, after putting maybe 6 cars away in our workshop after a day’s work, having someone come in thew next day, turning the key only to have the car jump into the one in front, would be a disaster!No I just use the parking brake…It is what it is there for.As regards which order, it doesn’t matter . Just stop the car on the footbrake,, switch off the engine, put the handbrake on, release the foot brake.Or, stop the car using the footbrake, put the handbrake on, release the footbrake, turn off the engine…It really doesn’t matter and anyone who thinks it does needs to get out more!Here’s a tip…For many cars with a handbrake lever, if you are depressing the footbrake (engine running) when you apply the handbrake, the handbrake will come on more securely with less effort from yourself as the car’s main braking servo system is ‘helping’ you
Stopping and driving on a steep road Help & Advice please?
i know to put more gas when i'm on a hill, i understand the concept of this but me being me i'm not that good at it. i will use my brake when i stop at a junction on a steep road. but when i remove my brake and go back on the gas and find the bite, i take way tooooooo long and i end up rolling :( i really want to make that quick transition of stopping and moving off on a steep road. Note: I've also been told of pull my handbrake if i do roll, but i don't want to rely on that all the time, because me being me i take too long and i don't want to keep car waiting. I really must stress that i don't like keeping car waiting because i wouldn't want to be held up by a stupid car and i don't want to end up with that label :( overall i just want to be a better driver.