Great tip!! I would use 2nd gear and get up to about 10mph so it doesn’t slow down as much. If you own a diesel car and if you need to roll/bump start it, it requires to build up more speed and have it in the higher gear due to higher compression in the engine. I love when you drive a different car and teaching us how to drive a different car!😊
Push start was something that was almost always kindda in my mind, actually haved pushed a lot of old cars but never have ask about it from anyone. Thank you alot Your videos are much more helpful than the sum of 10 countries formal educatinal programs on driving.
Great demonstration as always! From my experience, higher gears like 2nd or 3rd or even higher depending on the speed and gear ratios are definitely better for bump starting. Remember that you don't need to spin the engine very fast to start it, the starter only spins it at around 200-300 RPM anyways. My Honda Civic bump starts in 5th gear at about 10 MPH very easily and smoothly and I'm sure it would start even lower than that. This is a good thing to practice before you actually need to do it too, somewhere safe of course.
You make it look so gosh darn easy. Done this with 80s and 90s cars and those old junkers needed like 10 meters on gear to start. Edit. Always start with second gear, especially with old cars that need longer to start.
IT's been a couple years since I had to bump start my car. Thank you, I'd forgotten how easy it is (I park on a steep hill so that part is easy). Funny, I'm in the US and the videos I've watched have had the driver on the right LOL. Good to know it works in reverse, if I can't get it going on the forward run, I'll be lined up to go reverse down the hill.
A manual car doesn’t care if the engine is on or how it turned on this is why this works. As far as the car is concerned this was a normal startup of the engine
Great tips!! This was so relatable! Iv been the one pushing the car to do this many times! (but dint know what was actually going on to get the car started! - just that we're bumpin it!) I just asked my mate, and apparently 2 is the gear that's widely used. :)
Back in Soviet Union, I saw so many times people starting cars using this method. Unfortunately I used as well a lot. We had old cars with unreliable batteries and real winter. Conditions that even a good battery will not start your car in the morning, when outside is -20 degrees. We rather use 2nd gear and 3rd than 1st. 1st is very harsh and could damage your engine and gear when it's cold outside. I remember I time when I started like that every morning my old Fiat Croma.
6:50 well, first gear has very stiff engine braking. Second gear could do if your battery is totaly flat. Or maybe even third. So, you can drive engineless for a few meters, for the alternator to turn a bit, for the battery to come into life that tiny bit thats needed for the "normal" push start
@@scotte2815 yes, so a little roll will "turn the alternator, that will charge up the battery" and then you can try and roll start it again. I've seen a guy who's bike wouldn't even click, and he was on the top of pikes peak. He just rolled it down in gear, that didnt start the engine, but at the bottom he had enough charge to start it up like its a new battery.
@@Lionn8563 That's true if you have enough distance. The fuel pressure required for fuel injection is quite Higher than for carbs (I love a good carb) I'm not sure how much battery power is needed for this but it has to be there to get the fuel pressure the injectors need to operate. Maybe somebody will test or has already tested this out with batteries at various levels of charge. That would be interesting
@@scotte2815 It is a second or so. Just did this in my '87 Trans Am. Battery was DEAD, so is starter. I pushed, wife popped the clutch in 2nd, fired right up. The funny part was as soon as it started the wife took off......so the object I had been pushing against with all my might suddenly was gone.......needless to say the neighbors had a good show. I love that car......I hope she comes back soon.
Dear Richard, Good Day. This is Srikantha Rao from India. I like your videos very much since you explain everything in detail Another common thing is that both in UK and India, it is right-hand driving. I have finished watching all of your videos right from the first video till this video. I have learnt driving in 2008 and got the license too and thereafter I never drove a car !! Now I am thinking of buying one and your videos have really helped in understanding and the technicality of driving and also has boosted my confidence. Thank you so much for your time and effort in creating such an informative videos and please keep up the job. Request you to make a video on night driving and how to judge the distance from other vehicles around during night. Thank you and have a nice day :-)
I always saw people push start their car whenever they have a flat battery but I never know how it was done inside the car, all I know is push the car until the driver successfully started his/her car.. Oh.. so, we need to control the clutch whilst cranking the key until it engine started... 🤭 Well alright thanks for the video mate..
I did this in reverse in the middle of town in the USA. Thank god I grew up with Japanese manual cars lol but I had to do it myself it was a nightmare on a flat road. Pushing the car and then hopping in my 3000gt heavy ass car to pop the clutch.
Re the 2nd gear thing. Fuel injection cars can start at much lower RPMs than you think I've nearly stalled my car a few times, and have seen it claw it's way back into life from a meager 250rpm. Not a happy engine at that speed (250rpm idle would be silly) but it will try..! It just needs to be held above this speed for a certain amount of time to do the start (fuel ignition etc) 2nd gear will slow the car down less (lower engine braking) so it might have a better chance of staying above start RPM. Bumpstarts are rarely smooth though anyway.
@@ConquerDriving yeah i thought the same because my golf sometimes takes a while to start and the rev counter goes to 200ish rpm as its trying to start then fires i to life
Thanks for all your videos they’ve really made me more confident as I have better understanding of what to do at junctions and parked cars and all sorts before I encounter them on the road
I learned to pop the clutch in my beetle (learned to do that before I even knew how to drive the car because it was being by a twerp) but I came here to see if it was even possible to pop the clutch in my new Corolla with a push button start. I thought that was a little trick I lost and it got me out of some binds in my bug. Just a good thing to have in the toolbox
These techniques work like a charm only on DOWNHILL / UPHILL , but when it is flat ground, it needs men pushing the back of the car (or just the own driver muscle force if it is the case of a not heavy car or a musculous driver, haha). I jumpstarted my car 2 weeks ago on flat land. Yes it needed pushing.
drained the battery in the car while camping, no one around with a jump lead but luckily lots of large fields on hills for a bump start XD wouldn't wanna do one of them on a regularly used road though, lack of power steering is stressful....
you can push start a torque converter automatic i believe, you just need to go like 40mph or so would also be nice if DCT/automated manual transmissions had a push-start mode
I've had to do this an awful lot in my Vauxhall Corsa and always use 2nd but would recommend a new battery if it keeps happening rather than keep push starting it.
Oh my gawd! I hate this stressful situation... That is one of the reasons why I hate cars and machines in general because when just one little thing mess up and the whole machine doesn't work anymore...
I think it might be torque related or maybe related to rev ranges? At the 7-10mph speed you're around the lower end of 2nd so it naturally wants to carry on at that speed compared to 1st
If it's a Fuel injected engine, and all modern cars are, you will need enough battery power to operate the electric fuel pump(s) along with the ignition system. The old fashioned Carburetors had fuel in a reservoir, called a bowl, and they handled push starting very well.
@@schwarzerritter5724 Took me a while to figure what you were saying. By "ignition motor" do you mean "starter motor"? It's true that the STARTER motor pulls HUGE amounts of current, butt, we are talking about a situation where we do not have enough battery power to operate the STARTER motor to start the car. My point is that if the battery is completely dead in a modern car then there won't be any power for anything. The fuel pumps won't operate so there will be no fuel pressure to the injectors.
@@schwarzerritter5724 I have. I've seen batteries in such low state that they wouldn't run anything. I've also seen cars and planes that don't have batteries and do just fine without them.
I have a spare battery in the trunk for this exact reason, and I have used it more than once. I don't switch batteries, I just wire the spare battery to the dead one and start the engine. All of this takes two minutes at most without any effort, anywhere.
I literally just learnt how to drive and yet this is such an informative video. You can bump start backwards? I thought if you weren’t facing down hill you were fucked ahaha
You should put it in 2nd gear, not 1st. If you get a bit too much speed up, and it is in 1st then the pullback when you let the clutch out could cause damage.
I think second gear works better because say second gear goes twice as fast as first, the engine would have to spin twice over a set distance is first, whereas in second it would only have to spin once. Therefore u have less resistance from the engine, so less momentum required to turn it over.
I have faced this issue twice in a parking bay. Both times there was hardly any space to move the car even one foot. Not to speak of any downhill or uphill gradient. Both times i had to call the customer helpline of the car who came with a starting kit to help me. Both times i changed the battery the very next moment.
Hi.i just love all of your videos. It's really helpful. I would like to request one video about black box or plug and drive from insurance company. Please make one video for new driver license. Thank you
I’m currently driving, I start when I was 18 and did about 20 lessons with my instructor and was pretty confident, I had loads of work and uni etc at the time so I stopped and lost all confidence when my mum took me out in her car, but 3 years later and I’m learning again. I find myself so anxious to drive now though and get so so nervous before every lesson and I don’t know why because nothing awful has ever happened! i just feel huge pressure to perform perfectly. I’ve brought my own car to practice in with my mum but I’ve had a couple of times when I’ve stalled and then it puts me off again! My question is: does every learner go through this nervousness when they’re learning or should I raise this to someone for extra help
Not everyone goes through this but plenty of people do. You need to accept you will do things badly before you do them well. Trying to do it well from the start is an understandable overload of pressure.
Try 3rd gear. Let's talk about gears and mechanical advantages and why a higher gear is better then a lower gear for push starting. this is going to be wordy but worth it. Why do we have gears? It's Because the Internal Combustion Engine simply does not produce enough torque/power to hook directly up to the wheels and overcome the inertia of a stopped vehicle (that's a lot of mass just sitting there) So we need a mechanical advantage (aka a torque multiplier) and that is produced by low gear ratio. For the typical passenger car first gear is around 4 to 1 (expressed 4:1) which means the engine turns 4 times for each turn of the drive shaft. This will give you the torque advantage and get you moving BUT a torque advantage also yields a speed DISADVANTAGE. The car won't go very fast in first gear, but the engine can turn very fast and use a LOT of fuel. So now we need a second, higher, gear and that will have a ratio of about 3:1 Now the engine is turning 3 times faster than the drive shaft. That's better, but we need to go faster AND save a little fuel, so let's move on to 3rd gear which is about 2:1 and you guessed it, the engine is now only turning twice as fast as the drive shaft. But we can do even better, let's go to forth, it has a gear ratio of 1:1 and we can use this for most of our steady driving speed above 35 MPH (ish) At 1:1 there is no torque or speed advantage or disadvantage. However, when we are on the highway going fast and far we can use this thing called "OVERDRIVE", which is a word to describe a ratio where the output is FASTER than the input, AH!, now we have a SPEED ADVANTAGE! But with a Speed advantage we will also have a torque disadvantage. We will NOT be able to effectively accelerate in overdrive. By the way, that ratio is about 0.8:1 [the engine will turn 8 times for 10 turns of the driveshaft] NOW, in all of this we are looking at power and torque being PRODUCED by the ENGINE and APPLIED to the transmission/driveshaft/differential/wheels (i.e. drivetrain) BUTT when we are push starting then the situation is reversed. In push starting power is produced by the moving car and this rotates the wheels/differential/driveshaft/transmission and that is then APPLIED to the engine. So now we need to reverse the ratios Overdrive becomes 1:0.8 4th becomes 1:1 3rd becomes 1:2 2nd becomes 1:3 1st becomes 1:4 As it turns out 3rd gear is about the best for driving the engine for push starting. Not too high, not too low, it's just about right! 1st gear was rough because you are asking the engine to turn 4 times faster than the drive shaft. Always remember, any mechanical system with a ratio other than 1:1 will produce an advantage in torque AND a disadvantage in speed OR the other way around depending on direction of power flow. Also note-worthy; in general, if we keep the same engine, the things that gives us a SPEED advantage usually gives us a fuel economy advantage. Higher gear ratios, less weight, reduction in friction, reduction in wind resistance, reduction in rolling friction at the tires, and so forth will let us go faster, accelerate faster, and save fuel. Also also note-worthy; there is a limit to overdrive ratios. Back-turning a low gear ratio, say 100:1, becomes 1:100 and is is EXTREME DIFFACULTY! Back-turning is another way of expressing a reverse flow of power. Push starting is an example of back-turning. When ratios are in overdrive we are dividing torque, NOT multiplying it. For road vehicles overdrive gets MAXED out at about 0.75:1 and you will only find that with big torque monster diesel engines.
also note worthy; Steam engines and most Electric motors are capable of running directly to the wheels without the need for multiple stage transmission/gear ratios
Thank you for the detailed comment. As far as I'm aware everything you have said is what I believe to be correct. The reason I thought 1st would be better as it would spin the engine more quickly allowing it to start better. But as it turns out, the extra slowing down affect it has on the car (due to the gear ratio) means it's not an ideal gear as the car struggles to turn the engine at all and just slows the car to a stop. I haven't tried third but I understand the advantages although it would spin the engine even more slowly. Incidentally, my MX5 doesn't have any over drive gears, they're all under drive apart from 6th which is 1:1 as Mazda say this is the most efficient ratio. If 1:1 is the most efficient why have all manufacturers been using over drive gears for decades.
@@ConquerDriving The best gear to use will vary from car to car, transmission to transmission and driver to driver. I would suggest that anyone with a manual transmission practice and figure out what works best for them so that they will be ready should the situation arise. Engine torque curves vary and depending what torque is produced at a given RPM some engines can benefit from an overdrive more than others. At highway speeds a well made car only needs about 25 HP or less to maintain speed once you achieve it. Overdrive will only help if you are running smooth and steady. Any swing in power and speed will cause the engine to work much harder in overdrive. It's actually more dependent on driver technique than engine efficiency.
@@ConquerDriving in fire arms training, martial arts, and any repetitive action, we have an expression; "slow is smooth and smooth is fast" This may very well apply here, 3rd gear will turn the engine at lower speed but it will be smoother than 2nd
There's another (but rather stupid) way to bump start the car in reverse: just throw the gearshift into reverse while the car is rolling backwards, without using the clutch pedal at all; this works because, in many cars, the reverse gear doesn't have synchros - it uses dog teeth to engage the gear (like in racing car transmissions); it will make an unpleasant clack noise, and sure as hell will jerk the shit out of the car, but it will turn on the engine (I actually tried it and it worked lol).
It's smoother in 2nd gear because you are not asking the engine to spin aggressively fast right away like 1st gear does. It also magnifies the power of the hill to the engine at lower speeds. Think of a bicycle and somehow your legs have "stalled".... would you want to restart your legs in forced first gear going down a hill? or a higher gear? Hope that helps!
I had a Nissan example p11 2.0 diesel. I started him up by pushing him off the slide. The car started up, but it didn't go far. The half-axle broke. then I found out that this is a common problem on this machine
The very first commercially produced automatic, the "Hydra-Matic" by GM, had two pumps that produced pressure to operate the transmission. One pump on the input shaft and a second pump on the output shaft. These automatics could be push started because of that second pump. Automatics are NOT made like that anymore, and for good reason.
Hey bro , can you do a video on how you clean the interior of your car . Would be very Interesting. P.s your car always looks so clean In every video mate .
In past I used several times this method for starting and always used 2nd gear. 1st gear can easilly stop car immidiatelly and if someone pushing car from behind it can smash itself on rear.
Hey man you mentioned your old blue Vauxhall Astra, and I took a look at the MOT history. Looks sad, as it looks like someone tried to get it to pass MOT, fixed a lot of problems with it but eventually gave up on it. The car was probably scrapped shortly thereafter...
Hi, do you have a video for those comming from driving on the right hand side ? I need sto start driving on left hand side and I could use a good video on differences and what to pay attention to. Great videos btw!
@@ConquerDriving that would be Great,. I think it would help stating differences between rules and how to adjust to car itself. I just saw your video on roundabouts, that's most helpful
You broke this down in such a way that even amateur drivers can use this successfully.
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Just passed my test with zero minors, I learnt privately mainly using your channel
Thanks for your effort in producing these excellent videos
Also interested to see your track videos
That's great news, congratulations!
As always, more clear and well explained than most videos on RUclips, thank you!
Great tip!! I would use 2nd gear and get up to about 10mph so it doesn’t slow down as much. If you own a diesel car and if you need to roll/bump start it, it requires to build up more speed and have it in the higher gear due to higher compression in the engine. I love when you drive a different car and teaching us how to drive a different car!😊
Thanks!
Push start was something that was almost always kindda in my mind, actually haved pushed a lot of old cars but never have ask about it from anyone.
Thank you alot
Your videos are much more helpful than the sum of 10 countries formal educatinal programs on driving.
Passed my test today definitely partly due to these amazing videos!
That's great news! Congratulations!
Best car instructor on RUclips. Always impressed with how well put together your videos are.
Great demonstration as always! From my experience, higher gears like 2nd or 3rd or even higher depending on the speed and gear ratios are definitely better for bump starting. Remember that you don't need to spin the engine very fast to start it, the starter only spins it at around 200-300 RPM anyways. My Honda Civic bump starts in 5th gear at about 10 MPH very easily and smoothly and I'm sure it would start even lower than that. This is a good thing to practice before you actually need to do it too, somewhere safe of course.
From Croatia here, passed my driving test today, your videos helped a lot!
Congratulations!
You make it look so gosh darn easy. Done this with 80s and 90s cars and those old junkers needed like 10 meters on gear to start.
Edit. Always start with second gear, especially with old cars that need longer to start.
Man this is exactly what i've been looking for !
Same
Like an idiot, I left my lights on in my miata and to my surprise this worked. Thank you for the video
Many of us have left the lights on.
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Thank you for all your amazing videos! I passed today and I feel that watching your videos helped me a lot with my driving journey :)
Congratulations, I'm so pleased to hear that!
IT's been a couple years since I had to bump start my car. Thank you, I'd forgotten how easy it is (I park on a steep hill so that part is easy). Funny, I'm in the US and the videos I've watched have had the driver on the right LOL. Good to know it works in reverse, if I can't get it going on the forward run, I'll be lined up to go reverse down the hill.
got my license in india watching mostly your videos. keep it up
Congratulations and thank you.
A manual car doesn’t care if the engine is on or how it turned on this is why this works. As far as the car is concerned this was a normal startup of the engine
i was just talking to my mate about bump start and then i see this in my subscription, what a coincidence
Great tips!! This was so relatable! Iv been the one pushing the car to do this many times! (but dint know what was actually going on to get the car started! - just that we're bumpin it!) I just asked my mate, and apparently 2 is the gear that's widely used. :)
Very good to know this! I always assumed jump starting from another car's battery would be the only way. May come in handy one day!
Proper helpful, didnt need it right now but its good to educate urself for if ur stuck with no signal to learn how to do this
Thanks, I was so close to calling roadside assistance but this helped me out.
I've always had until 2018 manual cars by choice. In my experience for the reason you mentioned second is better.
Cool video.
Back in Soviet Union, I saw so many times people starting cars using this method. Unfortunately I used as well a lot. We had old cars with unreliable batteries and real winter. Conditions that even a good battery will not start your car in the morning, when outside is -20 degrees. We rather use 2nd gear and 3rd than 1st. 1st is very harsh and could damage your engine and gear when it's cold outside. I remember I time when I started like that every morning my old Fiat Croma.
Sounds like you would need to eat a good breakfast in the morning to give you strength 💪
6:50 well, first gear has very stiff engine braking. Second gear could do if your battery is totaly flat. Or maybe even third. So, you can drive engineless for a few meters, for the alternator to turn a bit, for the battery to come into life that tiny bit thats needed for the "normal" push start
Actually, with a fuel injected engine you will need enough battery power to run the fuel pump(s) and the ignition system.
@@scotte2815 yes, so a little roll will "turn the alternator, that will charge up the battery" and then you can try and roll start it again. I've seen a guy who's bike wouldn't even click, and he was on the top of pikes peak. He just rolled it down in gear, that didnt start the engine, but at the bottom he had enough charge to start it up like its a new battery.
@@Lionn8563 That's true if you have enough distance. The fuel pressure required for fuel injection is quite Higher than for carbs (I love a good carb) I'm not sure how much battery power is needed for this but it has to be there to get the fuel pressure the injectors need to operate.
Maybe somebody will test or has already tested this out with batteries at various levels of charge. That would be interesting
@@scotte2815
It is a second or so. Just did this in my '87 Trans Am. Battery was DEAD, so is starter. I pushed, wife popped the clutch in 2nd, fired right up.
The funny part was as soon as it started the wife took off......so the object I had been pushing against with all my might suddenly was gone.......needless to say the neighbors had a good show.
I love that car......I hope she comes back soon.
@@jasonyoung9559 is she back yet?
Best video on this topic, great camera views and clear explanation.
Dear Richard, Good Day.
This is Srikantha Rao from India. I like your videos very much since you explain everything in detail
Another common thing is that both in UK and India, it is right-hand driving.
I have finished watching all of your videos right from the first video till this video.
I have learnt driving in 2008 and got the license too and thereafter I never drove a car !!
Now I am thinking of buying one and your videos have really helped in understanding and the technicality of driving
and also has boosted my confidence. Thank you so much for your time and effort in creating such an informative videos
and please keep up the job. Request you to make a video on night driving and how to judge the distance from other vehicles around during night.
Thank you and have a nice day :-)
Just keep in mind, the speed limits in UK videos are in miles per hour! Also, the indicator controls in India are on the right of steering wheel.
@@vickyj7907 Thank you. Noted
Thank you, I may do a night Driving video.
Cheer we are!! Well said. Thanks. Watching you from Namibia as always.😄😄👍
Awesome video!!!!! Glad to know it works in reverse. I’m having battery issues and can’t get in the shop till next week. Gotta park on a hill 😂
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This video saved me from being stranded. Thanks
I always saw people push start their car whenever they have a flat battery but I never know how it was done inside the car, all I know is push the car until the driver successfully started his/her car.. Oh.. so, we need to control the clutch whilst cranking the key until it engine started... 🤭 Well alright thanks for the video mate..
Great video! I was stuck in the Tesco car park at borehamwood. Luckily has a decent gradient to it
Bro you’re videos are incredible
fantastic tutorial, really will help in the future. The rental went flat in Malta, Luckly somebody knew how to do this. Now I know too.
Cheers
I did this in reverse in the middle of town in the USA. Thank god I grew up with Japanese manual cars lol but I had to do it myself it was a nightmare on a flat road. Pushing the car and then hopping in my 3000gt heavy ass car to pop the clutch.
Nice car!
I liked before I watched because I wanted to watch this.
I actually learnt something lol normally I when I jump start my car I let go of the clutch in an instant 🤦♂️
hi i live in greece. and i have done this many times in the past. my opinion is that it works better with 2nd gear!
Re the 2nd gear thing.
Fuel injection cars can start at much lower RPMs than you think
I've nearly stalled my car a few times, and have seen it claw it's way back into life from a meager 250rpm. Not a happy engine at that speed (250rpm idle would be silly) but it will try..!
It just needs to be held above this speed for a certain amount of time to do the start (fuel ignition etc)
2nd gear will slow the car down less (lower engine braking) so it might have a better chance of staying above start RPM.
Bumpstarts are rarely smooth though anyway.
Mazda 3 looks like it started at about 200rpm
I think start motors only turn the engine to about 200rpm anyway. Although I'm not sure.
@@ConquerDriving yeah i thought the same because my golf sometimes takes a while to start and the rev counter goes to 200ish rpm as its trying to start then fires i to life
Thanks for all your videos they’ve really made me more confident as I have better understanding of what to do at junctions and parked cars and all sorts before I encounter them on the road
Thank you so much for this video! I learned a lot! I'll try it out and check back in to say whether I was successful or not 😅
I learned to pop the clutch in my beetle (learned to do that before I even knew how to drive the car because it was being by a twerp) but I came here to see if it was even possible to pop the clutch in my new Corolla with a push button start. I thought that was a little trick I lost and it got me out of some binds in my bug. Just a good thing to have in the toolbox
If the ignition is on then it should start if you're rolling.
Always taught second gear to bump start and worked every time.
It does seem to work better.
As a fellow car trader I’ve run bump started over 100 lol. Did my first webinar today with RED for pt3 lol.
Never had to do this in a car, but did this with my motorcycle once upon a time.
These techniques work like a charm only on DOWNHILL / UPHILL , but when it is flat ground, it needs men pushing the back of the car (or just the own driver muscle force if it is the case of a not heavy car or a musculous driver, haha). I jumpstarted my car 2 weeks ago on flat land. Yes it needed pushing.
drained the battery in the car while camping, no one around with a jump lead but luckily lots of large fields on hills for a bump start XD wouldn't wanna do one of them on a regularly used road though, lack of power steering is stressful....
You saved me. I am grateful for this video
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Thank you, Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you too.
Excellent and thorough demonstration. Thank you very much for this.
you can push start a torque converter automatic i believe, you just need to go like 40mph or so
would also be nice if DCT/automated manual transmissions had a push-start mode
I've had to do this an awful lot in my Vauxhall Corsa and always use 2nd but would recommend a new battery if it keeps happening rather than keep push starting it.
Happened in my 2003 corsa too! Brilliant car though.
Does it not charge the battery if you went for a long drive in the daytime with no lights radio etc?
A must know for any manual driver
everyone's happy until they realize they have a vauxhall nova
Oh my gawd! I hate this stressful situation... That is one of the reasons why I hate cars and machines in general because when just one little thing mess up and the whole machine doesn't work anymore...
I think it might be torque related or maybe related to rev ranges? At the 7-10mph speed you're around the lower end of 2nd so it naturally wants to carry on at that speed compared to 1st
If it's a Fuel injected engine, and all modern cars are, you will need enough battery power to operate the electric fuel pump(s) along with the ignition system.
The old fashioned Carburetors had fuel in a reservoir, called a bowl, and they handled push starting very well.
The fuel pump still uses far less electricity than the ignition motor.
@@schwarzerritter5724 Took me a while to figure what you were saying. By "ignition motor" do you mean "starter motor"?
It's true that the STARTER motor pulls HUGE amounts of current,
butt,
we are talking about a situation where we do not have enough battery power to operate the STARTER motor to start the car. My point is that if the battery is completely dead in a modern car then there won't be any power for anything. The fuel pumps won't operate so there will be no fuel pressure to the injectors.
Scott E
I have never seen a completely dead battery though. Just a battery that does not have enough power left for the starter motor.
@@schwarzerritter5724 I have. I've seen batteries in such low state that they wouldn't run anything.
I've also seen cars and planes that don't have batteries and do just fine without them.
This will be very useful for my yugo 45
The exact video I was searching for 😂
I have a spare battery in the trunk for this exact reason, and I have used it more than once. I don't switch batteries, I just wire the spare battery to the dead one and start the engine. All of this takes two minutes at most without any effort, anywhere.
So well explained and spot on. Only wished the steering wheel would be positioned on the left.
If you look at it upside down it will be on the left 😄
Top-notch beatbox as always ;)
You're right gear 2 would be the best
I literally just learnt how to drive and yet this is such an informative video. You can bump start backwards? I thought if you weren’t facing down hill you were fucked ahaha
Never even knew this existed, although I do live in the US and manual transmissions are few and far between
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My alternator is on its way out... how did you know? :P
You should put it in 2nd gear, not 1st. If you get a bit too much speed up, and it is in 1st then the pullback when you let the clutch out could cause damage.
I think second gear works better because say second gear goes twice as fast as first, the engine would have to spin twice over a set distance is first, whereas in second it would only have to spin once. Therefore u have less resistance from the engine, so less momentum required to turn it over.
Second gear will make the engine spin at about half the speed of first gear.
I got stuck other day, didn't know what to do, battery was flat, then some people came nhelped to push n theres a guy who knew kick start saved me.
Wow, informative and easily understandable.. thanks
I have faced this issue twice in a parking bay. Both times there was hardly any space to move the car even one foot. Not to speak of any downhill or uphill gradient. Both times i had to call the customer helpline of the car who came with a starting kit to help me. Both times i changed the battery the very next moment.
Hi.i just love all of your videos. It's really helpful. I would like to request one video about black box or plug and drive from insurance company. Please make one video for new driver license. Thank you
Thank you, I may do that in the future.
I’m currently driving, I start when I was 18 and did about 20 lessons with my instructor and was pretty confident, I had loads of work and uni etc at the time so I stopped and lost all confidence when my mum took me out in her car, but 3 years later and I’m learning again. I find myself so anxious to drive now though and get so so nervous before every lesson and I don’t know why because nothing awful has ever happened! i just feel huge pressure to perform perfectly. I’ve brought my own car to practice in with my mum but I’ve had a couple of times when I’ve stalled and then it puts me off again! My question is: does every learner go through this nervousness when they’re learning or should I raise this to someone for extra help
Not everyone goes through this but plenty of people do. You need to accept you will do things badly before you do them well. Trying to do it well from the start is an understandable overload of pressure.
Try 3rd gear.
Let's talk about gears and mechanical advantages and why a higher gear is better then a lower gear for push starting.
this is going to be wordy but worth it.
Why do we have gears? It's Because the Internal Combustion Engine simply does not produce enough torque/power to hook directly up to the wheels and overcome the inertia of a stopped vehicle (that's a lot of mass just sitting there) So we need a mechanical advantage (aka a torque multiplier) and that is produced by low gear ratio. For the typical passenger car first gear is around 4 to 1 (expressed 4:1) which means the engine turns 4 times for each turn of the drive shaft. This will give you the torque advantage and get you moving BUT a torque advantage also yields a speed DISADVANTAGE. The car won't go very fast in first gear, but the engine can turn very fast and use a LOT of fuel. So now we need a second, higher, gear and that will have a ratio of about 3:1 Now the engine is turning 3 times faster than the drive shaft. That's better, but we need to go faster AND save a little fuel, so let's move on to 3rd gear which is about 2:1 and you guessed it, the engine is now only turning twice as fast as the drive shaft. But we can do even better, let's go to forth, it has a gear ratio of 1:1 and we can use this for most of our steady driving speed above 35 MPH (ish) At 1:1 there is no torque or speed advantage or disadvantage. However, when we are on the highway going fast and far we can use this thing called "OVERDRIVE", which is a word to describe a ratio where the output is FASTER than the input, AH!, now we have a SPEED ADVANTAGE! But with a Speed advantage we will also have a torque disadvantage. We will NOT be able to effectively accelerate in overdrive. By the way, that ratio is about 0.8:1 [the engine will turn 8 times for 10 turns of the driveshaft]
NOW, in all of this we are looking at power and torque being PRODUCED by the ENGINE and APPLIED to the transmission/driveshaft/differential/wheels (i.e. drivetrain)
BUTT
when we are push starting then the situation is reversed.
In push starting power is produced by the moving car and this rotates the wheels/differential/driveshaft/transmission and that is then APPLIED to the engine.
So now we need to reverse the ratios
Overdrive becomes 1:0.8
4th becomes 1:1
3rd becomes 1:2
2nd becomes 1:3
1st becomes 1:4
As it turns out 3rd gear is about the best for driving the engine for push starting. Not too high, not too low, it's just about right!
1st gear was rough because you are asking the engine to turn 4 times faster than the drive shaft.
Always remember, any mechanical system with a ratio other than 1:1 will produce an advantage in torque AND a disadvantage in speed OR the other way around depending on direction of power flow.
Also note-worthy; in general, if we keep the same engine, the things that gives us a SPEED advantage usually gives us a fuel economy advantage. Higher gear ratios, less weight, reduction in friction, reduction in wind resistance, reduction in rolling friction at the tires, and so forth will let us go faster, accelerate faster, and save fuel.
Also also note-worthy; there is a limit to overdrive ratios. Back-turning a low gear ratio, say 100:1, becomes 1:100 and is is EXTREME DIFFACULTY! Back-turning is another way of expressing a reverse flow of power. Push starting is an example of back-turning. When ratios are in overdrive we are dividing torque, NOT multiplying it. For road vehicles overdrive gets MAXED out at about 0.75:1 and you will only find that with big torque monster diesel engines.
also note worthy; Steam engines and most Electric motors are capable of running directly to the wheels without the need for multiple stage transmission/gear ratios
Thank you for the detailed comment. As far as I'm aware everything you have said is what I believe to be correct. The reason I thought 1st would be better as it would spin the engine more quickly allowing it to start better. But as it turns out, the extra slowing down affect it has on the car (due to the gear ratio) means it's not an ideal gear as the car struggles to turn the engine at all and just slows the car to a stop. I haven't tried third but I understand the advantages although it would spin the engine even more slowly. Incidentally, my MX5 doesn't have any over drive gears, they're all under drive apart from 6th which is 1:1 as Mazda say this is the most efficient ratio. If 1:1 is the most efficient why have all manufacturers been using over drive gears for decades.
@@ConquerDriving The best gear to use will vary from car to car, transmission to transmission and driver to driver. I would suggest that anyone with a manual transmission practice and figure out what works best for them so that they will be ready should the situation arise. Engine torque curves vary and depending what torque is produced at a given RPM some engines can benefit from an overdrive more than others. At highway speeds a well made car only needs about 25 HP or less to maintain speed once you achieve it. Overdrive will only help if you are running smooth and steady. Any swing in power and speed will cause the engine to work much harder in overdrive. It's actually more dependent on driver technique than engine efficiency.
@@ConquerDriving in fire arms training, martial arts, and any repetitive action, we have an expression; "slow is smooth and smooth is fast" This may very well apply here, 3rd gear will turn the engine at lower speed but it will be smoother than 2nd
There's another (but rather stupid) way to bump start the car in reverse: just throw the gearshift into reverse while the car is rolling backwards, without using the clutch pedal at all; this works because, in many cars, the reverse gear doesn't have synchros - it uses dog teeth to engage the gear (like in racing car transmissions); it will make an unpleasant clack noise, and sure as hell will jerk the shit out of the car, but it will turn on the engine (I actually tried it and it worked lol).
It's smoother in 2nd gear because you are not asking the engine to spin aggressively fast right away like 1st gear does. It also magnifies the power of the hill to the engine at lower speeds. Think of a bicycle and somehow your legs have "stalled".... would you want to restart your legs in forced first gear going down a hill? or a higher gear? Hope that helps!
Thanks for making a video on this Sir Richard.
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i actually did it on 2nd gear and it world flawlessly on a ford firsta 2017
This saved me today
2nd gear is always a better option...
I'm South African, learnt push start on a tractor when i was 13 years..but tractors use 3rd gear to start
You are a life saver brother Richard!!
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You can keep a portable solar trickle charger with you if you are really in a pickle. Or there are lithium starter backup batteries that can clip on.
You are a star. 🌟
I think and in 3 gear should work, I have tried on VW Golf and in YOUGO 45 it also worked.
I'll just get a self jump start kit. Am too lazy for all the muscle
Thank God it worked or I was grounded
Thank you for sharing an amazing video.
I had a Nissan example p11 2.0 diesel. I started him up by pushing him off the slide. The car started up, but it didn't go far. The half-axle broke. then I found out that this is a common problem on this machine
The very first commercially produced automatic, the "Hydra-Matic" by GM, had two pumps that produced pressure to operate the transmission. One pump on the input shaft and a second pump on the output shaft. These automatics could be push started because of that second pump.
Automatics are NOT made like that anymore, and for good reason.
That's interesting, I didn't know that as I thought it was a torque convertor from the 1920s. I'll look into it.
@@ConquerDriving WeberAuto has an excellent series on the GM Hydra-Matic
here's is episode 1
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Hey bro , can you do a video on how you clean the interior of your car . Would be very Interesting. P.s your car always looks so clean In every video mate .
Thank you. I have a mini hoover I keep in the car and I clean all of it with auto glym fast glass. Works on all surfaces well.
In past I used several times this method for starting and always used 2nd gear. 1st gear can easilly stop car immidiatelly and if someone pushing car from behind it can smash itself on rear.
Well explained.
Good to know
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Hey man you mentioned your old blue Vauxhall Astra, and I took a look at the MOT history. Looks sad, as it looks like someone tried to get it to pass MOT, fixed a lot of problems with it but eventually gave up on it. The car was probably scrapped shortly thereafter...
Brilliant! Thanks bro
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It will work with a fully dead battery. Alot easier on a steep hill but is possible on flat road with enough speed
Hi, do you have a video for those comming from driving on the right hand side ? I need sto start driving on left hand side and I could use a good video on differences and what to pay attention to.
Great videos btw!
Thank you, I don't have such a video but it is one I may try to make.
@@ConquerDriving that would be Great,. I think it would help stating differences between rules and how to adjust to car itself. I just saw your video on roundabouts, that's most helpful