Learning how to use the car clutch tutorial

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 explained

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 floor pedal is the clutch clutch explained

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.

Tutorial explaining what a car clutch does with diagrams

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.

Tutorial explaining how a car clutch works

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.

Tutorials for learning the car clutch for learner drivers

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.

Tutorial explaining why you keep stalling your car

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 tutorial

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 clutch control technique

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.