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20th January 2015, 19:36 | #51 |
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A young girl in my passed her test a couple of months ago, how she passed is anyone guess, she cant park, cant go round a corner and pulled onto a roundabout a few months ago and ended up facing into the oncoming traffic!
best part is she was complaining there was something wrong with her car,said the engine noise was very bad, so I took the car for a spin round the car park at work, couldn't fault it, got her to drive it whilst I was in passenger seat, nothing wrong, so I said take me where it makes the noise.......she pulls onto the motorway and proceeds to scream her little Corsa down the motorway in third gear! she didn't know how to get in fourth or fifth as she had never been on a motorway before!
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My 17 yr old son is currently just about to take his test... he is taught block changes and to use the brakes to stop.....
Like most young lads, he has a small engine car, a 1.3 Fiesta. We live on Exmoor, he tries to go up hills in to high a gear, engine straining, he doesn't seem to grasp the concept of changing gears constantly using all ratios to suit the road. And then we go down a hill towards a sharp bend and he doesn't change down gears... I tell you, it's TERRIFYING to me... but his instructor rates him highly and thinks he'll pass first time.... !!!! Maybe I'm just a terrible passenger.... |
20th January 2015, 21:57 | #53 |
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I think us older drivers learned to drive so many diff ways, some were gate change, some column change, some pre selector, most you had to double de clutch, some were syncro, and most were tall cars and had thin wheels with crossplys so you could fall over if you cornered anything but slowly.. but it was never boring innit... lol ..
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20th January 2015, 22:21 | #55 | |
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I always feel safer in a gear which offers me some ability to change my mind when braking and be able to pull away. If I need/want maximum acceleration, I use the full range of gears on the way up, if not I will block change, maybe 1, 3 then 4 or 5. I normal drive, in the highest comfortable gear for my present speed, unless there is a good reason not to.
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20th January 2015, 22:30 | #58 |
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I had to take one of the other lads vans to our mechanic today because his clutch had gone and I am the only person in work who can drive without the clutch. So I freely admit that today I was block changing 1 to 3 and so on. It made for an exciting drive coming off the motorway at Preston and going up an icy hill with no clutch!
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Pull away on a hill, work through the gears until you get to 3rd and the brow, you no longer need the power, so slip it 3rd to 5th. Likewise on a motorway, 2nd to 3rd to get you upto say 70, then you no longer need acceleration, drop it straight to 5th. In the 1960's, when I took my test, due to the way cars were back then it was a fail to not go through the gearbox sequentially both up and down and use engine braking when appropriate.
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I have always taken a great deal of pride in my own driving and I really do enjoy it. I too hate being driven, because with many drivers I just don't feel entirely safe and that they are in full control. So many on the road today, treat the act of driving as a chore. They drive badly, they get nothing out of it so its a chore, something they just have to do, so they minimise the effort by omitting to signal, avoid turning the wheel by cutting corners etc...
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