Manual transmission (hills)

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by tooter

I use the emergency brake on every slope where I run the risk of rolling backwards more than I want before engaging the clutch. It's a simple skill to learn, and can add thoudands of miles of useful life to your clutch.

I also don't slide the clutch between gears. I let the engine revs fall to about where they would be if engaged in the next gear before I engage the clutch.

^^^^^ Great description. This describes me as well. I've only encountered hills (with stop signs, and or lights, and or a need to park on that extreme an incline) where there is a need the use the emergency brake in: San Francisco, a few places in the Oakland/Berkeley hills, a few places off of I-280 on the San Francisco Peninsula, a few places along the Enchanted Circle in New Mexico, Eureka Springs in Arkansas, a few places in the Sierra Nevada, and in your neck of the woods (and I've driven my Yaris in D.C. and in every state but Montana, Idaho, and North Dakota).