Re: First Time Automatic Owner
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2016 11:03 pm
Tell us what the car is, and someone here may have experience with the same type of gearbox.
It is obviously a double-clutch box as you say. Some would be fine with applying the handbrake in drive and taking your foot off the footbrake. Others would release the clutch when you take off the footbrake, and strain against the handbrake.
As to automatically releasing the parking brake, in some cars that works nicely, in others you feel the car trying to start to move off against the parking brake, then there is a little surge as the parking brake releases. In such cars I prefer to press the button to release the parking brake before pressing the accelerator to move off - though on a slope and again always depending on the particular type of car that may cause it to roll back.
It is obviously a double-clutch box as you say. Some would be fine with applying the handbrake in drive and taking your foot off the footbrake. Others would release the clutch when you take off the footbrake, and strain against the handbrake.
As to automatically releasing the parking brake, in some cars that works nicely, in others you feel the car trying to start to move off against the parking brake, then there is a little surge as the parking brake releases. In such cars I prefer to press the button to release the parking brake before pressing the accelerator to move off - though on a slope and again always depending on the particular type of car that may cause it to roll back.