Stupid things non petrolheads say... Vol 2
Discussion
Blown2CV said:
are we saying that people who are learning in manual diesels are being taught to pull away just by lifting the clutch??
Yep, guy in the office in his early thirties just passed his test and bought an elderly 1.6 Astra for £800. He said there was something wrong with it as it stalled all the time and that it had no power. He'd learnt to drive in a diesel which meant he wasn't using any throttle to pull away (hence the petrol Astra stalling) and it had no power because he was changing up at about 2500rpm. Blown2CV said:
are we saying that people who are learning in manual diesels are being taught to pull away just by lifting the clutch??
Yup. I learnt to drive in 2012 in a diesel Focus with a well-known driving school. I was told to just use the clutch when having to pull away slowly, do 3-point turns, parallel park etc. Even at the time I knew it wasn't quite right, but I just did as he says. Passed my test first time and the examiner didn't mention it either.
Krikkit said:
Levin said:
Blown2CV said:
this cannot be true.
It is. Can't be good for the clutch, but it's what gets taught.People have always been taught to drive with techniques that are some flavour of b
ks. When it was my age group, it was all about telling people to drive small modern 16v engines lugging away at 1500rpm (at least learning in diesels makes that actually applicable). I'm sure it'll be something else that's completely odd in another ten or twenty years.
The problem is people not recognising that you're taught/learn to pass your test, and then you learn onwards from that point.
ks. When it was my age group, it was all about telling people to drive small modern 16v engines lugging away at 1500rpm (at least learning in diesels makes that actually applicable). I'm sure it'll be something else that's completely odd in another ten or twenty years.The problem is people not recognising that you're taught/learn to pass your test, and then you learn onwards from that point.
InitialDave said:
Small modern 16v engines lugging away at 1500rpm (at least learning in diesels makes that actually applicable). .
One of the things that annoys me when a passenger is people who drive like it's a race to be in 5th gear by 20mph an cant seem to go over 2000 revs. the same people are often the ones joining the fffin motorway at 40mph to.aka_kerrly said:
One of the things that annoys me when a passenger is people who drive like it's a race to be in 5th gear by 20mph an cant seem to go over 2000 revs. the same people are often the ones joining the fffin motorway at 40mph to.
Go on then, finish the sentence. The motorway to... to where?
aka_kerrly said:
One of the things that annoys me when a passenger is people who drive like it's a race to be in 5th gear by 20mph an cant seem to go over 2000 revs. the same people are often the ones joining the fffin motorway at 40mph to.
I'm usually in 5th by 30 mph and don't go over 2k rpm until the car has been driven for a good 5-10 minutes and everything is warmed and lubed.That being said, I still probably reach 30 faster than 90% of cars and join motorways at "sensible" speeds.
Strudul said:
I'm usually in 5th by 30 mph and don't go over 2k rpm until the car has been driven for a good 5-10 minutes and everything is warmed and lubed.
That being said, I still probably reach 30 faster than 90% of cars and join motorways at "sensible" speeds.
Labouring the engine at low revs is worse than using a few revs. There's nothing wrong with going above 2k rpm even when the engine is flat cold.That being said, I still probably reach 30 faster than 90% of cars and join motorways at "sensible" speeds.
aka_kerrly said:
One of the things that annoys me when a passenger is people who drive like it's a race to be in 5th gear by 20mph an cant seem to go over 2000 revs. the same people are often the ones joining the fffin motorway at 40mph to.
Same aholes dont look for a gap to join into and then get all in a panic when they realise a big lorry is there. They had all that slip road to build up speed and get ahead, or they could have chosen to back off and get in behind. But nooo they are blinkered fking idiots who go through life just acting as something happens, never planning ahead. Strudul said:
I'm usually in 5th by 30 mph and don't go over 2k rpm until the car has been driven for a good 5-10 minutes and everything is warmed and lubed.
That being said, I still probably reach 30 faster than 90% of cars and join motorways at "sensible" speeds.
Half throttle, half revs is fine on a cold engine.This should see anyone being able to do 60 mph happily in topThat being said, I still probably reach 30 faster than 90% of cars and join motorways at "sensible" speeds.
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