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Last time you conked out

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  • #32
    Swatka
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭Swatka


    i conked out today on a pretest... but i was in first so i just went back on the clutch to just below the bite started it quickly and kept moving. the instructor was impressed lol.


    i get confused between my car and his... mines a rover 414i and his is a new corsa... the clutch difference messes with my head.


  • #33
    **Timbuk2**
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,396 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    Swatka wrote: »
    i get confused between my car and his... mines a rover 414i and his is a new corsa... the clutch difference messes with my head.

    That used to happen to me as well! My instructor's car was an 09 Corsa, and it had a 'sharper' clutch than the 98 Starlet I was used to driving! When you were going to move you would expect the clutch to behave the same, which usually led me to rev the engine a bit too much, or possibly cut out.

    The more you drive, the quicker you adjust to new cars.


  • #34
    Jenna69
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭Jenna69


    OMG i conked out in the middle of a roundabout yesterday, i went into it ok but i slowed down as i was turning and when i went to accelerate into my exit i conked out, couldn't understand what i did wrong. I started up the engine again, into 1st gear and onto acc while letting up clutch and out again, this happened three times until i realised i wasn't on the acc at all but kept hitting the brake instead of acc. No wonder i couldn't take off. Can you tell i'm on a LP :o:o:o
    Also thanks to the van driver coming behind me for giving me plenty of time to recover and not hurrying me by beeping me along. Cheers;)


  • #35
    cosmic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,178 ✭✭✭cosmic


    I conked out in a car park yesterday. I was reversing out of my spot and my car died. Sometimes when I turn on the engine the car's really shaky and the clutch is super sensitive. I said this to a mechanic and he said it's because it's an old car. If I feel it shake I normally have to lay on the accellerator - I hope if this happens in my test the tester understands. Knowing my luck it will happen pulling out of the test centre car park on the day :rolleyes:


  • #36
    danthefan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,770 ✭✭✭danthefan


    Been driving since about last October, I still stall occasionally.


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  • #37
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Clonked out 3 times today.
    I like to play with the clutch while stopped at the lights on in heavy traffic. Keep the car like balanced on the clutch to stay stationary without using breaks.
    Works most time but sometime while taking off I take my foot off the clutch a little too early or don't give enough gas... But I don't take too long to recover to it doesn't matter too much!


  • #38
    highlydebased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,477 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    I conk out at the same set of lights all the time. They change very quickly too...I hence avoid it. And I'm on my pink license 7 months to the day. (Not that it makes a difference)


  • #39
    **Timbuk2**
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,396 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    af_thefragile wrote: »
    Clonked out 3 times today.
    I like to play with the clutch while stopped at the lights on in heavy traffic. Keep the car like balanced on the clutch to stay stationary without using breaks.
    Works most time but sometime while taking off I take my foot off the clutch a little too early or don't give enough gas... But I don't take too long to recover to it doesn't matter too much!

    You shouldn't hold the car on the clutch. You will most definitely burn out the clutch eventually by doing that. They are very expensive to replace. Use the handbrake instead.


  • #40
    Max Power1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    **Timbuk2** wrote: »
    You shouldn't hold the car on the clutch. You will most definitely burn out the clutch eventually by doing that. They are very expensive to replace. Use the handbrake instead.
    ^this^

    Exactly what I was going to say. The clutch wont last long if you use it to balance the car!


  • #41
    Leeg17
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,127 ✭✭✭✭Leeg17


    Yesterday turning right at a T junction, (on the road going perpendicular to the _ of the T lol), stopped, went in a gap but the car coming sped up :confused:, tried to go into second gear without speeding up enough. Conked. Had to put on emergency lights to let him overtake as clearly he had no patience lol


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  • #42
    starlit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,351 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    monday, when pulling up! just started on my 2nd permit so as a learner driver still have a long way to go, can conk out during the most simplest tasks i.e. pulling out!:(
    Especially at junctions (very dangerous i know) and conked out in the middle of the road a few times and when in traffic and worst of all on a hill/give.


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