Experienced manual drivers please step in..

[TexasRebel]

Whatever works for you, but you wouldn't pass the driving test over here with your method. Not joking.

How does that test work without a hand operated parking brake?

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[Burkey]

What do they do if the manual trans car doesn't have a variable parking brake? My Cadillac has a tiny lever where the hand brake would normally be. Pull up to engage and push down to disengage. But its just an electrical switch. Full on or full off. I hate it.

But it does automatically release if you let out the clutch in gear, so I guess it could serve as a hill assist, if someone needed it.

You sit the test in a car that DOES have the old school type. You'll also typically be doing it in a gutless shitbox. The allowable roll-back is ZERO.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

You sit the test in a car that DOES have the old school type. You'll also typically be doing it in a gutless shitbox. The allowable roll-back is ZERO.

Okay. Everywhere I lived you are tested in your own vehicle. I like the idea of the govt providing the car. But now I'm curious about the hill. Do they actually construct a hill just for the tests? I can imagine testing places that have no natural hills withing a short distance. I'm assuming they must have a technical spec for the slope of the artificial hill.

 

[Stripler]

OP, I started driving a manual 21 years ago. I've never used the parking brake method or hill assist. I don't consider myself super human, but I guess I've just always been able to move from a stop with minimal rollback (some on severe inclines).

You just need practice and it will become less intimidating over time.

I find hill assist very intrusive in the two cars I've tried it on (mine and a Jeep). In both cars, I found the hill assist held the car briefly keeping me from moving forward compared to when it was deactivated. I hated this feeling and sometimes I felt it when I was on nearly level ground. My engine would rev, I wouldn't move and think"WTF?" then the hill assist would release and I'd move forward.

 

[Gnfanatic]

Thanks for the feedback guys. I will be working on it and do like the ebrake trick. Question is what kicks in the hill assist?? When the car detects it rolling back or every time you apply the brake???

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