Changing car gears when moving?

I am having car driving lessons, and i am encountering some difficulties with regards changing gears.i am feeling that i am too slow when i come to change gears, when it is on a flat road, it is ok in a way cos the car still keeps moving forward but when i am going up a hill or something, then i am not so quick and car starts going backwards!





They tell me i will learn since i am still in my second lesson but now i am panicking, i need some tips|||Second lesson? If you%26#039;re not stalling out almost every time you start, and lurching in first, you%26#039;re doing better than average. Panic time is when you can%26#039;t get it going fast enough to need to change gears - after 5 lessons.





Relax, and %26quot;become one with the car%26quot;. It%26#039;ll get so easy that you%26#039;ll probably hate driving an automatic - you have no control over the car.|||i assume that by when you say on the hill you start moving backward, you are at a stop and trying to begin moving. Hills may seem like your biggest enemy right now as you have just started. My advice is to get familiar with the clutch before doing hills just to make it easier on you and the car. Do not go to a hill and practice by continually trying to start especially if you are slipping the clutch which most people who are new will do if they do not stall on the hill. In short time you will know right where the clutch friction point is and hills will be 2nd nature.





No need to panic, it seems much harder than it is at first, and whoever is giving you lessons is correct to say that you will improve vastly.





Also you do not need to shift very fast, it will feel natural at a certain %26quot;speed%26quot; and thats just fine. Also make sure you have the clutch pedal pushed down fully during shifts and try not to remove depress the pedal too slowly after shifting.





Good luck and don%26#039;t worry!|||Learn to listen to the sound the car is making. It will tell you when you need to change gears. When you are going uphill or downhill just take your left foot and push down on the clutch and catch your next gear smoothly yet quickly. You will get the hang of it I promise. It just takes a lot of practice. I live in east TN and we have hills, hills and more hills. I always took my children in a 5 speed, stopped middle ways on a steep hill and made sure they could release the clutch and give it gas until they got up the hill. After many many tries they all learned to hold a car on a steep hill and never roll back an inch.


You can do it. Just keep practicing and practicing!


Good luck and have fun driving.|||When you first start to learn how to drive a manual transmission car, it may seem intimidating. After you%26#039;ve driven a few years, you%26#039;ll be able to engage the clutch really quick. Just keep practicing and don%26#039;t give up. Hills are fun to drive.|||If you are slow then practice up hill go faster before shifting. You cannot shift too fast the engineers thought of that decades ago.|||It takes practice and can be a problem for everybody when going slow, Automatics are better.