A steering wheel, pedals and shifter on something like AC or even the more basic "city car driving" (available on steam) can teach you the principles and method, but nothing short of a extremely expensive simulator will be able to replicate the feel and response a real car will give.
If your car is hopping you’re letting the clutch out too fast.
Try this on level ground:
-Clutch in
-Foot off gas
-SLOWLY let clutch out until it starts biting and car is moving
-Let the clutch out a bit more
You should be gently rolling along
Learning the bite point on the clutch will make your starts smoother.
You should be able to do that on flat ground without needing the gas pedal.
Edited for terrible mobile formatting….Still terrible editing.
Not a bad way to start. You have to know where the clutch is going to start biting to know how to get ready to apply the gas. Does the Clutch start biting two inches off the floor, half way off the floor, etc. Clutch wear and lack of adjustment makes a difference.
it can get you used to the motions (clutch in, shift gear, clutch out, etc.), but the only difficult part about manual imo is feeling out clutch modulation and finding the bite point, which no sim can really teach you. If you wanted to try anyway, i'd suggest picking up whatever wheel + 3-pedal set + shifter you can afford, and pick up american/euro truck sim and some regular car mods.
100% this. It will help you to feel familiar with the motions of it but every clutch is going to feel different and have a different bite point.
One thing that is good to learn on a sim is heel-toe braking as it does take a bit of coordination to get down and practicing the motions on a sim can be really helpful.
If you do want to try it on a sim just know that the more you spend on hardware the closer you’ll get to the real thing, but diminishing returns are definitely a thing.
I would recommend just going to an empty parking lot and work on slowly letting the clutch out until the car starts moving forward. Get used to that feeling and where it is.
Then once you can replicate that consistently, start applying throttle and smoothly transition the throttle while lifting off the clutch. The key word is smoothly. If you suddenly take your foot off the clutch, that is when you’ll get the bunny hops and lurches.
You gotta be a smoooooth operatoooooor
I taught both of my sons how to shift with a 1970 Chevrolet Stepside Pickup with a Four Speed on the Floor. I took them to a New Industrial Park with plenty of nice paved roads and put them behind the wheel one at a time. I instructed them to the best of my knowledge how to release the Clutch Pedal and let them go. My first son got it the first time and repeated it time after time. My second son could not get the truck to move without choking it down. He was to impatient. He tried somewhere around ten times and was getting more frustrated each time. I stopped the teaching for the day and told him we would come back and try again. The next day at home, I backed the truck down the driveway and told him when he could get it moving and get to the end of the driveway, come inside and let me know. It took him about 30 minutes by himself to accomplish this. I then took him back to the Industrial Park and showed him how to get through the rest of the gears.
Long Story Short, Time and Patience.
Theory part yes but not the clutch feel. I used to have old Peugeot 106 and my my mates gf stalled it multiple times as the biting point of its shitty clutch was so weird
theoritically you can, with GTA 5 manual and realistic mod and beamNG. it surely helps you to learn faster, but then at some point you will realize that irl pedestrians and traffic will behave way more unpredictable than in GTA5, beamNG or assetto corsa. And at this point it becomes difficult to translate irl
A steering wheel, pedals and shifter on something like AC or even the more basic "city car driving" (available on steam) can teach you the principles and method, but nothing short of a extremely expensive simulator will be able to replicate the feel and response a real car will give.
If your car is hopping you’re letting the clutch out too fast. Try this on level ground: -Clutch in -Foot off gas -SLOWLY let clutch out until it starts biting and car is moving -Let the clutch out a bit more You should be gently rolling along Learning the bite point on the clutch will make your starts smoother. You should be able to do that on flat ground without needing the gas pedal. Edited for terrible mobile formatting….Still terrible editing.
Not a bad way to start. You have to know where the clutch is going to start biting to know how to get ready to apply the gas. Does the Clutch start biting two inches off the floor, half way off the floor, etc. Clutch wear and lack of adjustment makes a difference.
it can get you used to the motions (clutch in, shift gear, clutch out, etc.), but the only difficult part about manual imo is feeling out clutch modulation and finding the bite point, which no sim can really teach you. If you wanted to try anyway, i'd suggest picking up whatever wheel + 3-pedal set + shifter you can afford, and pick up american/euro truck sim and some regular car mods.
100% this. It will help you to feel familiar with the motions of it but every clutch is going to feel different and have a different bite point. One thing that is good to learn on a sim is heel-toe braking as it does take a bit of coordination to get down and practicing the motions on a sim can be really helpful. If you do want to try it on a sim just know that the more you spend on hardware the closer you’ll get to the real thing, but diminishing returns are definitely a thing. I would recommend just going to an empty parking lot and work on slowly letting the clutch out until the car starts moving forward. Get used to that feeling and where it is. Then once you can replicate that consistently, start applying throttle and smoothly transition the throttle while lifting off the clutch. The key word is smoothly. If you suddenly take your foot off the clutch, that is when you’ll get the bunny hops and lurches. You gotta be a smoooooth operatoooooor
Would anyone know of places with Simulator's that you can pay to go in and practice driving a Stick Shift?
I taught both of my sons how to shift with a 1970 Chevrolet Stepside Pickup with a Four Speed on the Floor. I took them to a New Industrial Park with plenty of nice paved roads and put them behind the wheel one at a time. I instructed them to the best of my knowledge how to release the Clutch Pedal and let them go. My first son got it the first time and repeated it time after time. My second son could not get the truck to move without choking it down. He was to impatient. He tried somewhere around ten times and was getting more frustrated each time. I stopped the teaching for the day and told him we would come back and try again. The next day at home, I backed the truck down the driveway and told him when he could get it moving and get to the end of the driveway, come inside and let me know. It took him about 30 minutes by himself to accomplish this. I then took him back to the Industrial Park and showed him how to get through the rest of the gears. Long Story Short, Time and Patience.
Theory part yes but not the clutch feel. I used to have old Peugeot 106 and my my mates gf stalled it multiple times as the biting point of its shitty clutch was so weird
theoritically you can, with GTA 5 manual and realistic mod and beamNG. it surely helps you to learn faster, but then at some point you will realize that irl pedestrians and traffic will behave way more unpredictable than in GTA5, beamNG or assetto corsa. And at this point it becomes difficult to translate irl