Hill Assist

[twistoffat]

Like any manual car use the handbrake. Even have to do it on a AM Vantage with sportshift.
Hold the brake till the clutch starts to bite, release it and off you go

[Bill Douglas]

Again... You guys over complicate it

Relax. Leave the brake (foot brake) alone. You are holding the handbrake to stop the car rolling backwards. The light changes so you drive off as you normally would. And once you are moving forward - no need for fancy smancy timing here, let the had brake off.

Trust me I've done it a thousand times

[pmax]

Originally Posted by Reuben911

The Porsche has its pedals off the floor board my DD has suspended pedals like every other modern car

Personally, I notice no difference whether the pedals are hinged above or off the floor.

Perhaps, yours is adjusted wrongly ?

[adias]

Hand brake use is the correct way: (i) Hold the car with the hand brake.(ii) Release the clutch and apply throttle and at the same time start releasing the hand brake.

Europeans did that for ages, until the current auto hill-assist systems.

[Autoban]

When I taught my two daughters to drive, they first had to learn in our 2004 Golf with stick shift. They were first terrified starting on a hill. After a couple times using the handbrake they thought it was cool.
Today they both still drive stick shift cars and they make fun of the hill assist function. They love to drive my Porsche and do it the old way.

Juergen

[porsche930dude]

I prefer the floor it and dump the clutch method myself. But ill admit the parking brake method is a bit more graceful

[Bill Douglas]

Yep, back in the Ford Escort days I'd let it roll back until I got up to about 10mph then full revs and dump the clutch.

[Coastr]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

Hold the hand brake on, and drive off normally as if you are on the flat. Once the car is well and truly moving forward release the handbrake.

The tip comes from Bill who lives in the world's steepest city.

Moy blay (spelling?), Bill.

I don't understand how this has to be said? It was the way I was taught in my first lesson. I had to do this to pass my test. Do people get taught another way? Honest question ... how else would you do it?

[Joe Bob]

Flatlanders and Democrats....

[smadsen]

Don't over-think this and re-engineer the car. Learn the technique. Hold the car with the handbrake, button held in. Release when you feel pressure on the drivetrain. Drive away as if you were on the flat. Sheesh.

[gremlin]

Handbrake is the classic method to do this, but in my 911 the pedals are so perfectly placed I can also just do it by doing a sort of heel-toe method, where I can give it some gas while holding the brake pedal, as I ease out the clutch, once the car starts to pull I just smoothly feed the clutch and brake off at the same time while continuing to feed throttle and it'll drive right away.

[MichaelSJackson]

Handbrake. My '78 has a lightened flywheel so stop lights on Seattle hills could be hard on the clutch. Think of it as a handbrake; not a parking brake.

[Craig]

My dad taught me to drive stick shifts on a VW. He used to race 356's back in the day and knew how to work a clutch pedal. He taught me to learn the feel of the clutch pedal, get the real feel of it, so you know it so well that you can just let out the clutch to just the point where it starts to grab, and then hold it there. You can hold yourself on a hill this way, and when it is time to move, just a little gas and start releasing the clutch a little more and you are on the way. I hardly ever use the handbrake on a hill. I never thought about using the handbrake until many years later. If I am at a long light, I don't hold the car with the clutch the whole time, I hold myself with the brake pedal, and then I just anticipate when the light will change and then work the clutch into position a few seconds before.
Craig

[spuggy]

Originally Posted by Craig

you can just let out the clutch to just the point where it starts to grab, and then hold it there. You can hold yourself on a hill this way

Uhhh.... Really good way to wear out - if not burn out - a clutch. I used to do that - right up until I had to replace my first clutch... Parts for a 510 were cheap, but it still took me most of the weekend, so I pretty much never did it again...

Almost everyone drove stick when I learnt; hill start was a standard feature of the driving test. Can't hill start? No license. Take your test in an automatic? Take another test to get a license to drive manual.

I struggle to believe some of the habits I've seen folks who weren't taught to drive stick pick up. Like the girl I was riding with one day, going down a long hill, who put the trans in neutral and coasted for about a mile. She wouldn't have it that it was a bad idea. Actually illegal many places...

[Craig]

Yep, it would wear out the clutch, if I did it often.....

Craig

[pmax]