Stalling a car

[Ben106]

Hi this is my first post

i was sitting behind a learner driver today at some lights ( no probelem with learner we were all one oncle lol) and he stalled the car 4 times in a row. i woundered what if any damage this did to the car

Ben

[Rawwr]

Probably not and the repeated stalling was probably just due to increasing pressure on him on each successive stall. Poor mite.

[Jasandjules]

Ben106 said:

Hi this is my first post

i was sitting behind a learner driver today at some lights ( no probelem with learner we were all one oncle lol) and he stalled the car 4 times in a row. i woundered what if any damage this did to the car

Ben

Well, many moons ago when I had a Metro for the week between picking up my MR2, I let a mate drive it. He stalled it about 6 times at three different sets of lights. He then stalled it pulling onto the driveway of the house we were visiting - the car refused to start again....... Ever...

[Ben106]

i didnt mind we've all been there

[Rawwr]

Ben106 said:

i didnt mind we've all been there

Well, I haven't personally. I am to driving what Jim Davidson is to casual racism.

[T16OLE]

I think they should teach basic clutch control in areas out the way before heading onto the roads tbb

[Ben106]

T16OLE said:

I think they should teach basic clutch control in areas out the way before heading onto the roads tbb

i think he just got stressed at that point he was fine after

[Blakewater]

When I was learning and I'd just started going out in my mum's car I once suffered the embarrassment of stalling several times at a junction on a tricky slope in front of another learner in an AA driving school car. The clutch was much less forgiving than on my instructor's diesel Golf and an old woman in a Metro barging past got me a bit freaked out.
My instructor was very good and the first thing he taught me was clutch control on a quiet back road. I had a brief drive of the car with him changing gear for me and I only graduated to changing gear myself on the second lesson.

[McSam]

T16OLE said:

I think they should teach basic clutch control in areas out the way before heading onto the roads tbb

I don't think it should really be instructor-taught at all, I'm always amazed that someone will pay £20 an hour to have their child taught what the controls are, you know? I learnt how to drive my mum's A6 on various bits of non-public road and car parks and so on at the age of 14 or 15, so by the time I was 17 I was confident with the car control road driving needed. Ten hours of lessons to learn the test routes and how to pass and we're done. Don't think I inconvenienced anyone much in the process either, so that can't be bad.

How many people here taught, or plan to teach, their kids the basics before they're 17? I taught my ex-girlfriend before she could have her first lessons, just made sense..

[gareth.e]

It won't cause any serious damage.


I stall my car sometimes.. Although my idle control valve needs cleaning/replacing

Someone tried to laugh at me for stalling slowing down to about 20 mph.. 'So how exactly would you stall at 20mph?' They soon went quiet

[T16OLE]

McSam said:

don't think it should really be instructor-taught at all, I'm always amazed that someone will pay £20 an hour to have their child taught what the controls are, you know? I learnt how to drive my mum's A6 on various bits of non-public road and car parks and so on at the age of 14 or 15, so by the time I was 17 I was confident with the car control road driving needed. Ten hours of lessons to learn the test routes and how to pass and we're done. Don't think I inconvenienced anyone much in the process either, so that can't be bad.

How many people here taught, or plan to teach, their kids the basics before they're 17? I taught my ex-girlfriend before she could have her first lessons, just made sense..

Fair point, I also learned to drive before 17 on my friends farms, but not alway possible for people in the inner cities

[McSam]

T16OLE said:

Fair point, I also learned to drive before 17 on my friends farms, but not alway possible for people in the inner cities

That's a good point - I'm not out in the sticks, but I did have a great big car park and some semi-private roads nearby. Finding somewhere quiet in daylight in the city could well be a problem!

[anonymous-user]

McSam said:

don't think it should really be instructor-taught at all, I'm always amazed that someone will pay £20 an hour to have their child taught what the controls are, you know? I learnt how to drive my mum's A6 on various bits of non-public road and car parks and so on at the age of 14 or 15, so by the time I was 17 I was confident with the car control road driving needed. Ten hours of lessons to learn the test routes and how to pass and we're done. Don't think I inconvenienced anyone much in the process either, so that can't be bad.

How many people here taught, or plan to teach, their kids the basics before they're 17? I taught my ex-girlfriend before she could have her first lessons, just made sense..

Er, how old was she?