my attempt to answer some of your questions
hope i make sense. hehe
Originally posted by Paulo #1) Let's say, your car is parked at the basement, for example, in Robinson Galleria basement parking...
As soon as you pay your parking fee....you are faced with a Long Deep inclined road way up...
If your driving your car, what do you do?
Dunno about pickups pero with most cars it's more or less you raise the clutch a bit slower than usual and press harder on the accelerator. I stay in first gear, unless hinahataw ko where I can shift to 2nd. If I remember correctly dyan sa galleria
lets say your driving up to the parking runway of SM Megamall, it's a long curve drive di ba...How do you used the clutch and gas pedal and gear shift?
Stay in gear. I could get up to 2nd gear going up. Downshift to 1st as required.
Pero sometimes first lang. Clutch fully released.
#4) eh kung pababa na, lets say, pababa ka na sa runway, what do you used to go down...clutch and brake lang ba?
engine brake usually. Stay in first or 2nd, clutch fully released. Brake as required. The thing is medyo weird kasi for you to drive normally knowing na you're rolling down naman. Pero you have to in order to engine brake.
Pero brake naman ang mauubos or iinit dito not clutch
#5) Kung pababa ka sa isang slippery road, what gear shift is safe? and how do you apply clutch and brake?
don't go too fast and stay in the lowest gear possible. Foot off the clutch as usual. Dyan mo gagamitin engine braking
#6) Lastly, if you are running so fast, lets say, naka 120 ka sa speedometer...then stop light na, within 10 meters ahead...what do you do to properly stop your car? as in from 5th gear...oaano mo gagawin...at paano ka mag-preno?
10 meters? dapat a few meters back nagbrake ka na, yellow na yun e. hehehe.
But for braking usually brake first, para makapag engine brake ka ng konti don't press on the clutch. Last na dapat yung clutch. Try to learn how your car behaves, at what speed at what gear tipong "nagchochoke" na yung engine dahil nakagear ka pa while decelerating.
Mauubos naman yung clutch mo agad if you drive with your foot always on the clutch pedal. Lagay mo sa foot rest. Is this actually the reason why may freeplay ang clutch pedal?
Frequent gear shifting din siguro pero d naman maiwasan yan sa everyday trafik natin sa manila.