If you are pressing neither pedal you should have the hand brake engaged. If you don't you have no control over the vehicle and if someone runs into it you will go forwards or backwards with no control until you catch up and press a pedal.
I've done 90k and I've had the discs and pads changed once all round. Apparently that's very low. I'm also still on the original clutch, which these days is regarded as absurdly low I'm told.
I think you may have misread that bit - we were talking about while the vehicle is in motion.
Doesn't matter whether the vehicle is in motion or stationary. If you are not pressing either the accelerator or the brake pedal (and the vehicle is not in cruise control) then you are not in control of the vehicle.
Still don't get your point - we were talking about modulating the speed of the vehicle by using the throttle alone when safe rather than keep prodding the brake pedal as an awful lot of drivers seem to. Obviously, your foot would be hovering over the the most appropriate pedal for instant response when needed, but to use the maximum natural engine braking to gently slow the vehicle down requires not pressing ANY of the pedals in my experience - at the very minimum it might require a reduced pressure on the go pedal depending on the circumstances?
Wherever did you get that from? When the car is in gear, its motion is under control of the engine regardless of whether you are applying any gas. What you are not allowed to do is coast out of gear.
My clutch was replaced from new when I had the engine rebuild at 240k miles. That clutch has now done 150k miles.
This is nonsense. It is all but impossible to maintain a constant following distance in a (traditional) automatic without dabbing the brake, so you need to eliminate from your count all the automatics.
Either you've missed the point completely, or you're just so seriously misguided it's unbelievable.
Don't give me any standards crap. The standards dictate thou shalt not be able to turn off lane keeping etc etc, and make a requirement for DRLs (bloody idiotic). Standards can be stupid, and they are originated from manufacturers deciding what they want the next big thing to be and then lobbying for it. Europe sucks it all up as "the best thing since sliced bread" for safety, then we don't get a choice regardless whether we're in Europe or out of it.
I thought the vehicle was breaking up every time he braked. This should transfer to AvP ...
Referring to post 112.
I missed the point completely, I hadn't realised this is about when in motion.
I bought a Renault 5 GT Turbo in 1991 with 9k on it, technically ex demo but actually the garage owner's wife's car. I sold it in 2002 with 110k on it, sale because the body work was rusting almost as I watched it as cars did back then. I gave the new owner paperwork of all the work done that was two inches thick, including replacing the turbo. He asked when the clutch was last changed. He was incredulous that never mind "last changed" it was still on the original clutch and virtually accused me of lying. I pointed out why would I give him 2 inches of paperwork on what had been done to the car and omit a clutch change and he apologised.
Unfortunately there's no way to tell if the previous owner has been behaving in this frankly dangerous way (the wear is not the biggest issue here I feel).
Possibly, in a traditional torque converter auto (slushbox), it depends how it is designed whether it stays locked in drive mode on overrun or actually freewheels (which I doubt, but not driven one recently, as that would be similar to putting a manual in neutral which is definitely verboten!).
Sometimes you can even smell the clutch burning!
I am with you now! I made the same typo just now but managed to edit it after posting
Like the idiot near me who, many years ago, left an automatic in gear and without the handbrake on at the entrance to his garage. Ploughed straight through the back wall.
I was behind a police car on an upward slope at traffic lights, where a hill start would be needed, and the brake lights were on.
Yes. Not so much in a computerised manual.
Indeed, and this confusion won't happen if the driver is trained to use right foot for gas and left foot for brake. However, as a "manual" driver only very occasionally using an auto, the first stop at a junction is alarming when I end up with both feet on the (extra wide) brake pedal!
Using brake and gas at the same time is a rally technique, it would be handy to have in the toolbox but so rarely used I don't have an opportunity to develop it. A longer period with an auto and I would.once I had trained it as for a little while it used to sometimes autonomously think it still had to operate the clutch and occasionally managed to connect with the oversized brake pedal - oops, that will teach the chap behind not to tailgate!
The other way around, shirley?
Ah yes, electric handbrakes and automatic parking brakes. On the odd occasion I've driven a loan car from the garage with those fitted I detest them. Almost as much as I detest giant over sized comedy brake pedals on automatics. I don't get the need for any of this.