How to push start three different manual cars with a flat battery.
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- How to push start a car with a flat battery. This method is also known as bump starting and clutch starting. I demonstrate the process in three different cars with different starting systems - key start, key less start and key and push button start.
Doing this can be dangerous as your brakes and steering will be stiff until the engine is started.
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00:00 Intro
00:38 Your options
01:09 The dangers
02:00 SEAT Leon push start
07:08 Mazda 3 push start
08:32 Vauxhall VX220 push start
10:27 More advice
11:38 Outro
You broke this down in such a way that even amateur drivers can use this successfully.
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Great tip!! I would use 2nd gear and get up to about 10mph so it doesn’t slow down as much. If you own a diesel car and if you need to roll/bump start it, it requires to build up more speed and have it in the higher gear due to higher compression in the engine. I love when you drive a different car and teaching us how to drive a different car!😊
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Great demonstration as always! From my experience, higher gears like 2nd or 3rd or even higher depending on the speed and gear ratios are definitely better for bump starting. Remember that you don't need to spin the engine very fast to start it, the starter only spins it at around 200-300 RPM anyways. My Honda Civic bump starts in 5th gear at about 10 MPH very easily and smoothly and I'm sure it would start even lower than that. This is a good thing to practice before you actually need to do it too, somewhere safe of course.
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As always, more clear and well explained than most videos on TH-cam, thank you!
Like an idiot, I left my lights on in my miata and to my surprise this worked. Thank you for the video
Many of us have left the lights on.
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Man this is exactly what i've been looking for !
Same
6:50 well, first gear has very stiff engine braking. Second gear could do if your battery is totaly flat. Or maybe even third. So, you can drive engineless for a few meters, for the alternator to turn a bit, for the battery to come into life that tiny bit thats needed for the "normal" push start
Actually, with a fuel injected engine you will need enough battery power to run the fuel pump(s) and the ignition system.
@@scotte2815 yes, so a little roll will "turn the alternator, that will charge up the battery" and then you can try and roll start it again. I've seen a guy who's bike wouldn't even click, and he was on the top of pikes peak. He just rolled it down in gear, that didnt start the engine, but at the bottom he had enough charge to start it up like its a new battery.
@@Lionn8563 That's true if you have enough distance. The fuel pressure required for fuel injection is quite Higher than for carbs (I love a good carb) I'm not sure how much battery power is needed for this but it has to be there to get the fuel pressure the injectors need to operate.
Maybe somebody will test or has already tested this out with batteries at various levels of charge. That would be interesting
@@scotte2815
It is a second or so. Just did this in my '87 Trans Am. Battery was DEAD, so is starter. I pushed, wife popped the clutch in 2nd, fired right up.
The funny part was as soon as it started the wife took off......so the object I had been pushing against with all my might suddenly was gone.......needless to say the neighbors had a good show.
I love that car......I hope she comes back soon.
@@jasonyoung9559 is she back yet?
Push start was something that was almost always kindda in my mind, actually haved pushed a lot of old cars but never have ask about it from anyone.
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You make it look so gosh darn easy. Done this with 80s and 90s cars and those old junkers needed like 10 meters on gear to start.
Edit. Always start with second gear, especially with old cars that need longer to start.
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IT's been a couple years since I had to bump start my car. Thank you, I'd forgotten how easy it is (I park on a steep hill so that part is easy). Funny, I'm in the US and the videos I've watched have had the driver on the right LOL. Good to know it works in reverse, if I can't get it going on the forward run, I'll be lined up to go reverse down the hill.
Great tips!! This was so relatable! Iv been the one pushing the car to do this many times! (but dint know what was actually going on to get the car started! - just that we're bumpin it!) I just asked my mate, and apparently 2 is the gear that's widely used. :)
Great video! I was stuck in the Tesco car park at borehamwood. Luckily has a decent gradient to it
Re the 2nd gear thing.
Fuel injection cars can start at much lower RPMs than you think
I've nearly stalled my car a few times, and have seen it claw it's way back into life from a meager 250rpm. Not a happy engine at that speed (250rpm idle would be silly) but it will try..!
It just needs to be held above this speed for a certain amount of time to do the start (fuel ignition etc)
2nd gear will slow the car down less (lower engine braking) so it might have a better chance of staying above start RPM.
Bumpstarts are rarely smooth though anyway.
Mazda 3 looks like it started at about 200rpm
I think start motors only turn the engine to about 200rpm anyway. Although I'm not sure.
@@ConquerDriving yeah i thought the same because my golf sometimes takes a while to start and the rev counter goes to 200ish rpm as its trying to start then fires i to life
Best video on this topic, great camera views and clear explanation.
Proper helpful, didnt need it right now but its good to educate urself for if ur stuck with no signal to learn how to do this
Very good to know this! I always assumed jump starting from another car's battery would be the only way. May come in handy one day!
Excellent and thorough demonstration. Thank you very much for this.
fantastic tutorial, really will help in the future. The rental went flat in Malta, Luckly somebody knew how to do this. Now I know too.
Cheers
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Thanks, I was so close to calling roadside assistance but this helped me out.
Back in Soviet Union, I saw so many times people starting cars using this method. Unfortunately I used as well a lot. We had old cars with unreliable batteries and real winter. Conditions that even a good battery will not start your car in the morning, when outside is -20 degrees. We rather use 2nd gear and 3rd than 1st. 1st is very harsh and could damage your engine and gear when it's cold outside. I remember I time when I started like that every morning my old Fiat Croma.
Sounds like you would need to eat a good breakfast in the morning to give you strength 💪
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you can push start a torque converter automatic i believe, you just need to go like 40mph or so
would also be nice if DCT/automated manual transmissions had a push-start mode
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Awesome video!!!!! Glad to know it works in reverse. I’m having battery issues and can’t get in the shop till next week. Gotta park on a hill 😂
I actually learnt something lol normally I when I jump start my car I let go of the clutch in an instant 🤦♂️
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i was just talking to my mate about bump start and then i see this in my subscription, what a coincidence
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As a fellow car trader I’ve run bump started over 100 lol. Did my first webinar today with RED for pt3 lol.
Never had to do this in a car, but did this with my motorcycle once upon a time.
drained the battery in the car while camping, no one around with a jump lead but luckily lots of large fields on hills for a bump start XD wouldn't wanna do one of them on a regularly used road though, lack of power steering is stressful....
I've always had until 2018 manual cars by choice. In my experience for the reason you mentioned second is better.
Cool video.
I think it might be torque related or maybe related to rev ranges? At the 7-10mph speed you're around the lower end of 2nd so it naturally wants to carry on at that speed compared to 1st
thanks bro, was super helpful got our car going
hi i live in greece. and i have done this many times in the past. my opinion is that it works better with 2nd gear!
Thank you for sharing an amazing video.
These techniques work like a charm only on DOWNHILL / UPHILL , but when it is flat ground, it needs men pushing the back of the car (or just the own driver muscle force if it is the case of a not heavy car or a musculous driver, haha). I jumpstarted my car 2 weeks ago on flat land. Yes it needed pushing.
Thank you very helpful tips and advice 👍
I learned to pop the clutch in my beetle (learned to do that before I even knew how to drive the car because it was being by a twerp) but I came here to see if it was even possible to pop the clutch in my new Corolla with a push button start. I thought that was a little trick I lost and it got me out of some binds in my bug. Just a good thing to have in the toolbox
If the ignition is on then it should start if you're rolling.
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A must know for any manual driver
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Wow, informative and easily understandable.. thanks
This will be very useful for my yugo 45
Brilliant! Thanks bro
I liked before I watched because I wanted to watch this.
This video saved me from being stranded. Thanks
Well explained.
I did this in reverse in the middle of town in the USA. Thank god I grew up with Japanese manual cars lol but I had to do it myself it was a nightmare on a flat road. Pushing the car and then hopping in my 3000gt heavy ass car to pop the clutch.
Nice car!
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I always saw people push start their car whenever they have a flat battery but I never know how it was done inside the car, all I know is push the car until the driver successfully started his/her car.. Oh.. so, we need to control the clutch whilst cranking the key until it engine started... 🤭 Well alright thanks for the video mate..
I think and in 3 gear should work, I have tried on VW Golf and in YOUGO 45 it also worked.
Always taught second gear to bump start and worked every time.
It does seem to work better.
You're right gear 2 would be the best
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Thank you, I may do that in the future.
Thanks for making a video on this Sir Richard.
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A manual car doesn’t care if the engine is on or how it turned on this is why this works. As far as the car is concerned this was a normal startup of the engine
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This is Srikantha Rao from India. I like your videos very much since you explain everything in detail
Another common thing is that both in UK and India, it is right-hand driving.
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Just keep in mind, the speed limits in UK videos are in miles per hour! Also, the indicator controls in India are on the right of steering wheel.
@@vickyj7907 Thank you. Noted
Thank you, I may do a night Driving video.
Hey man you mentioned your old blue Vauxhall Astra, and I took a look at the MOT history. Looks sad, as it looks like someone tried to get it to pass MOT, fixed a lot of problems with it but eventually gave up on it. The car was probably scrapped shortly thereafter...
Would you use that 1st trip after 'bump-starting' it to take the car to the mechanic to charge the battery? Or like...have you temporarily solved the problem? Or do you fix it yourself after that initial restart by some DIY charging method?
Good to know
Never even knew this existed, although I do live in the US and manual transmissions are few and far between
So well explained and spot on. Only wished the steering wheel would be positioned on the left.
If you look at it upside down it will be on the left 😄
I have faced this issue twice in a parking bay. Both times there was hardly any space to move the car even one foot. Not to speak of any downhill or uphill gradient. Both times i had to call the customer helpline of the car who came with a starting kit to help me. Both times i changed the battery the very next moment.
You should put it in 2nd gear, not 1st. If you get a bit too much speed up, and it is in 1st then the pullback when you let the clutch out could cause damage.
I have a spare battery in the trunk for this exact reason, and I have used it more than once. I don't switch batteries, I just wire the spare battery to the dead one and start the engine. All of this takes two minutes at most without any effort, anywhere.
I've had to do this an awful lot in my Vauxhall Corsa and always use 2nd but would recommend a new battery if it keeps happening rather than keep push starting it.
Happened in my 2003 corsa too! Brilliant car though.
Does it not charge the battery if you went for a long drive in the daytime with no lights radio etc?
Hi, do you have a video for those comming from driving on the right hand side ? I need sto start driving on left hand side and I could use a good video on differences and what to pay attention to.
Great videos btw!
Thank you, I don't have such a video but it is one I may try to make.
@@ConquerDriving that would be Great,. I think it would help stating differences between rules and how to adjust to car itself. I just saw your video on roundabouts, that's most helpful
In past I used several times this method for starting and always used 2nd gear. 1st gear can easilly stop car immidiatelly and if someone pushing car from behind it can smash itself on rear.
i actually did it on 2nd gear and it world flawlessly on a ford firsta 2017
I had been told to drop the clutch quickly which always made me worry about the crankshaft being shock loaded. But then again now I have little choice with how slippy my clutch is becoming.
My alternator is on its way out... how did you know? :P
thank u very much
I’m currently driving, I start when I was 18 and did about 20 lessons with my instructor and was pretty confident, I had loads of work and uni etc at the time so I stopped and lost all confidence when my mum took me out in her car, but 3 years later and I’m learning again. I find myself so anxious to drive now though and get so so nervous before every lesson and I don’t know why because nothing awful has ever happened! i just feel huge pressure to perform perfectly. I’ve brought my own car to practice in with my mum but I’ve had a couple of times when I’ve stalled and then it puts me off again! My question is: does every learner go through this nervousness when they’re learning or should I raise this to someone for extra help
Not everyone goes through this but plenty of people do. You need to accept you will do things badly before you do them well. Trying to do it well from the start is an understandable overload of pressure.
If it's a Fuel injected engine, and all modern cars are, you will need enough battery power to operate the electric fuel pump(s) along with the ignition system.
The old fashioned Carburetors had fuel in a reservoir, called a bowl, and they handled push starting very well.
The fuel pump still uses far less electricity than the ignition motor.
@@schwarzerritter5724 Took me a while to figure what you were saying. By "ignition motor" do you mean "starter motor"?
It's true that the STARTER motor pulls HUGE amounts of current,
butt,
we are talking about a situation where we do not have enough battery power to operate the STARTER motor to start the car. My point is that if the battery is completely dead in a modern car then there won't be any power for anything. The fuel pumps won't operate so there will be no fuel pressure to the injectors.
Scott E
I have never seen a completely dead battery though. Just a battery that does not have enough power left for the starter motor.
@@schwarzerritter5724 I have. I've seen batteries in such low state that they wouldn't run anything.
I've also seen cars and planes that don't have batteries and do just fine without them.
I don't have a hill or a pusher, is it at all realistic to push it yourself with the driver's door then jump in, throw it in first and release the clutch?
Why bring the clutch to the bite instead of dropping it completely? I tend to drop it, is bringing it to the bite point better?
Hey bro , can you do a video on how you clean the interior of your car . Would be very Interesting. P.s your car always looks so clean In every video mate .
Thank you. I have a mini hoover I keep in the car and I clean all of it with auto glym fast glass. Works on all surfaces well.
everyone's happy until they realize they have a vauxhall nova
Tnx
Oh my gawd! I hate this stressful situation... That is one of the reasons why I hate cars and machines in general because when just one little thing mess up and the whole machine doesn't work anymore...
Hello can I ask smth. I’ve driven a lancer and a swift (both manual). Why do the car reverse when I come off the brake(either the hand brake or the brake beside the gas) in 1st gear?
Also to add, I wasn’t on any slope downhill or uphill.
You may be on a very slight hill or just and even bit of road like a bump. Your car is very good at finding the absolute lowest bit of ground.
I think second gear works better because say second gear goes twice as fast as first, the engine would have to spin twice over a set distance is first, whereas in second it would only have to spin once. Therefore u have less resistance from the engine, so less momentum required to turn it over.
Second gear will make the engine spin at about half the speed of first gear.
Nice to see a VX220
You're the guy with the white ND2 right? How easy is it to do this with that car? I tried doing it in 1st gear, but it's finicky. I've had an easier time doing this with older manuals with the exception of an 11th gen civic.
I remember doing it a couple of times. But I am usually outside of the car 😂
if I practice this will it damage the car? battery? engine?
Nice.
Thank God it worked or I was grounded
does this work with old classics? I have a 1975 spitfire that seems to always drain the battery.
It should do but it's always hard to start them anyway so won't be as easy. A little bit of gas and pull the choke out. Sounds like it has a parasitic drain on the battery, a simple car like that should be fairly easy to diagnose with a multimeter. Or if the battery is over 4 years old then it most likely just needs a new battery. Battery should read minimum 12.5v DC with the engine switched off for a few hours. Ideally closer to 13v.