Car Clutch Tutorials
When learning to drive a car with a manual transmission, one of the most challenging procedures is the clutch. Often the best way of learning how to use something can be to gain an understanding of how it works. These car clutch tutorials explain the basics of what a car clutch is, how it works and how to use it.
What is a Car Clutch
This tutorial explains what a car clutch is in its basic form. Diagrams illustrate what a car clutch does when the clutch pedal is pressed and released.
Which Pedal is the Clutch?
This guide explains which pedal is the clutch and how to remember it, which foot you use to operate the clutch and how to correctly press it.
What Does a Car Clutch Do?
For learner drivers and new drivers of manual cars, an explanation of what a car clutch does along with a diagram.
Why Does a Car Need a Clutch?
The more understanding of the car clutch you have, the better you’ll get the hang of using it. Here we explain why a car needs a clutch.
How Does a Car Clutch Work?
This tutorial explains along with diagrams how a car clutch works when the clutch pedal is pushed down and what happens when it’s lifted up.
Learning the Car Clutch for Beginners
This section offers step by step tutorials with diagrams for new drivers to learn the car clutch. Tutorials are easy to understand and should help with learning clutch control.
Why Do I Keep Stalling My Car?
In this tutorial we explain with the use of diagram, the basics of what the clutch does, which helps you to understand why you keep stalling your car.
Holding the Car on the Clutch Biting Point
Holding the car on the clutch biting point means the car is ready to go and you just need to release the handbrake. This technique is taught by most instructors to allow learners to gain clutch control.
Moving Off Without the Handbrake
In order to have a good standard of driving, two clutch control techniques are required. Holding the car on the clutch bite point (above) for hill starts and this technique which is moving off without the handbrake.