Hills starts - up and down

Hill starts - uphill

Assuming that you're stationary maybe parked at the side of the road facing up a hill, you have to:

-Press the clutch down

-Change into first gear

-Find the biting point

-Observations around including blind spots

(Indicate if necessary)

-Then with the accelerator press down harder and firmer than you would normally do when pulling off- you have to do this in order to help the engine move the car to get up the hill.
-Take the handbrake off slowly.

-Then pull away like normal.

If you take the handbrake off and don't use the clutch and accelerator correctly it's likely you will start to roll backwards, if this does happen press the clutch and then the foot brake down quickly and put the handbrake on to secure the car. Then try again.

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Hill starts - downhill

Again assuming that you're stationary maybe parked at the side of the road facing down a hill, you have to:

-Press the clutch down

-Change into second gear this time

-Put your right foot on the brake pedal

-Release the handbrake

-Observe and indicate if necessary

-When it's safe put your right foot on the accelerator and press down whilst removing your left foot off the clutch

-Then pull away like normal (use the foot brake if you feel you need to slow down).

The reason you would go straight into second gear when facing a downhill start is that if you went into first gear and moved off the car would build up speed very quickly which is unsafe, so by going into second gear straight away the car will build up speed slower than it would do in first gear which is obviously safer to do.

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