Driving test on 29 April 05, friday at UBI
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Hi hi, need some advise so that i can pass.
1) How to U-turn when u are at the 1st gear? Half-cutch and power at the same time when u-turning?
2) when passing narrow path at 1st gear (as just start the car moving), half clutch? or change to 2nd gear (but speed too low in order to change gear)?
Thank you......
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YoZ Bubblepearl,Originally posted by bubblepearl: Hi hi, need some advise so that i can pass.
1) How to U-turn when u are at the 1st gear? Half-cutch and power at the same time when u-turning?
2) when passing narrow path at 1st gear (as just start the car moving), half clutch? or change to 2nd gear (but speed too low in order to change gear)?
Thank you......
Y nv go ask ur instructor? It's his duties to ensure u know everything b-4 u actually has ur TP.
Anyway, regarding ur qns:
1) I assume u wants to make an U-turn while u still driving on the road right? First, u hav to let go ur accelarator & step on brake lightly if u think that the car is going too fast, try to to control the speed as slow as u can prob 10-15km/hr if not wrong. No need to use the half clutch unless u stop at the traffic junction, then u hav to use half clutch method & fully release ur clutch when u completes ur u-turn.
2) U can use half clutch when u just start moving ur car. Drive as normal as in slow & steady & change ur gear to 2nd subsequently. -
1) u-turn at 1st gear, then change to 2nd gear after the car is positioned in the lane... if u are not stopping prior to the u-turn, just change down to gear 2 and proceed to turn lor...
2) if u have just started moving, use 1st gear to move thru the narrow path lor... if the path is a long one, change to 2nd gear after the engine begins to rev...
as a rule of thumb for driving, change the gear when u feels the engine about to start revving. (normally this is at 3-4k rpm)... can be applied in situations 1 and 2 also... -
Do remember not to drag your gear. Not a very nice thing to do.
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and one more thing:be CONFIDENT and remember to look(as in turning your head and looking) into your side\rear mirrors when turning...cause i remember i taking my driving test that time my instructor tell me to always to turn my head and look and NOT just gaze wif my eyes...your instructor may cock-eye abit and think tat u not looking and deduct points...and lastly drive at a speed you're comfortable at...50\60km\h can liao...if i not wrong...
and btw...all the best
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I know but i tends to hang on to half cutch at 1st gear when making u-turn after stopping at traffic light.
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always remember:unless you want to shift gear...don bother about the clutch...heheOriginally posted by bubblepearl:I know but i tends to hang on to half cutch at 1st gear when making u-turn after stopping at traffic light. 
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i think it is ok if u think its too fast for you to handle, but as u are making the turn, u can gradually release ur clutch and step on ur accelerator, so when u complete ur turn, u have already or almost fully released the clutch. from there u can accelerate and move off.Originally posted by bubblepearl:I know but i tends to hang on to half cutch at 1st gear when making u-turn after stopping at traffic light. -
just maintain ur cluth control when u-turning.. when turning dont. i repeat dont floor the alcerator.. maintain it.. when the car fully finish its u-turn.. just floor it.. and chg it to gear 2 once the engine rev to 1.5 - 2. very simple.. but if the green light shown.. a distance behind u and the u-turn n u r usin gear 2, just use gear 2 tap abit brake to slow down abit and just u-turn without putting pressure on alcerrator. if u feel the car shaking, means the car gng 2 stall le, juz cluth in and u-turn using gear 2.. finished the turn and just continue with your driving loh.. den tua gear 3 loh.
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Hi Zichuan,Originally posted by zichuan:just maintain ur cluth control when u-turning.. when turning dont. i repeat dont floor the alcerator.. maintain it.. when the car fully finish its u-turn.. just floor it.. and chg it to gear 2 once the engine rev to 1.5 - 2. very simple.. but if the green light shown.. a distance behind u and the u-turn n u r usin gear 2, just use gear 2 tap abit brake to slow down abit and just u-turn without putting pressure on alcerrator. if u feel the car shaking, means the car gng 2 stall le, juz cluth in and u-turn using gear 2.. finished the turn and just continue with your driving loh.. den tua gear 3 loh.
Thanks, can i check with you, how come the car shaking at gear 2? Can clutch in at gear 2, will tester mark me as free-wheeling?
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by the way , anyone taking TP at ubi on 29/4?
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car shaking=low rpm= gear not suited to tis low speed= shift down gear=press more gas=rev up to approriate speed=shift up again=problem solvedOriginally posted by bubblepearl:Hi Zichuan,
Thanks, can i check with you, how come the car shaking at gear 2? Can clutch in at gear 2, will tester mark me as free-wheeling?
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ok, got it.......thank you -
good luck!
Post here again for your results.. -
Sure , however, i got anothe question, will the tester instructed you the direction very late ....heeee , cos each time my instructor never tell me, I will ask him, heee.
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Usually tester will give u instruction quite far ahead as they know what route they want to take beforehand...So it should not be a problem to you..Originally posted by bubblepearl:Sure , however, i got anothe question, will the tester instructed you the direction very late ....heeee , cos each time my instructor never tell me, I will ask him, heee. -
Hi, i need some help on the S-course in the circuit.
I know how much to turn in, but when encountered the second curve , i am lost.
This is what i think what my instructor told me:
1) 1/4 of kerb to the door, turn all into the course.
2) when clearing the left side, turn the steering back.
3) when the front bonnet is half to the curve, turn 1 round to right.....
heee, cos when he teach me, i am very blur....therefore i need help from you all. -
i supposed u noe how to turn in the S-course itself right? wat i did the other time was keep the "intersection" of the kerb with the bonnet in the middle of the front edge of the bonnet when u are in the S- course, (when u are looking in front u shld be able to see the front of the bonnet like "intersecting" the kerb ) dat will keep the car in the middle. throught out the course.. best thing is if u are unfamiliar just maintain very low speed.. so u can still correct ur mistake if there's one..Originally posted by bubblepearl: Hi, i need some help on the S-course in the circuit.
I know how much to turn in, but when encountered the second curve , i am lost.
This is what i think what my instructor told me:
1) 1/4 of kerb to the door, turn all into the course.
2) when clearing the left side, turn the steering back.
3) when the front bonnet is half to the curve, turn 1 round to right.....
heee, cos when he teach me, i am very blur....therefore i need help from you all. -
when u mean slow speed, need to press accelerator cos, for my parking i just let go clutch to half and never power.
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It's better to press a bit of the accelerator at half clutch..so the car wont be vibrating.. the engine will sound smoother too.. but not too much.. rpm abt 1-2.. i remember my instructor saying inside circuit u can just happily drive around 20km/hr... go onto the road best to maintain around 50.. hope ur timing isn't peak hour.. cos a few test routes will jam(near the Eunos area)..Originally posted by bubblepearl: when u mean slow speed, need to press accelerator cos, for my parking i just let go clutch to half and never power. -
hmm i think driving techniques hard to explain over in text right?
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Alamak ! You have to feel the engine rev and the amount of clutch you let let go, so that the car is smooth. Maybe, just remember to wear a super short skirt, that might take the tester attention away from your driving Hehehe..
I maybe joking, but I do know of an actually happening back at the old Queenstown centre more than 10 years ago. My cousin (female, 25 at that time) pass her second attempt with her mini skirt, throughout the test she was showing her panties to the tester, it was intentional, her instuctor had informed her that a particular tester at the centre, if you give him that signal and don't bother to cover up the license is yours. So she was game enough to dress in a Mini skirt and it so happened that she got that tester. The instructor told my cousin it was him as he was holding on to the test plate and walking toward my cousins car. So, she straight away had to put on a show, she told us her story after she got the license, that when he walk to her side of her car to check her provisional license and test paper, she had by than pull her skirt up and her crotch of her panties was showing as she sat with her legs parted. He than without coming into the car instructed my cousin to move to the back of the carpark to do her reverse parking. All this while he was standing next to her car and looking into it at her parted legs.
She soon know that he was interested, and started give him more. She told us that throughout the driving on the road and doing all the various 3 point turns and emergency stop. He kept looking at her skirt and pretending to writing on the chipboard he was holding. My cousin had also along the way lifted her skirt higher and much of her crotch and panties could be seem, he was enjoying it and just before returning to the centre, turn toward my cousin and looked straight up her skirt and continue looking and kept smiling, my cousin actually opened her legs more and lift her skirt up and show him her full front view. He immediately told my cousin she passed, and can return to the centre and get her license. But he was very professional about it, no touching and asking for favours, not even asking for phone numbers. He just wants to look at panty covered CB.
Might worth a try if you are desperate. -
wah..
like tat also can ar?? the tester muz be very high den.. when i was haven my TP they onli show mi their smelly face.. -
1) U-Turn can be done @ 1st and 2nd gear. Half-clutch and accel @ same time for 1st gear whilst turning, but dun accel too much, later ur turning radius too big.Originally posted by bubblepearl: Hi hi, need some advise so that i can pass.
1) How to U-turn when u are at the 1st gear? Half-cutch and power at the same time when u-turning?
2) when passing narrow path at 1st gear (as just start the car moving), half clutch? or change to 2nd gear (but speed too low in order to change gear)?
Thank you......
2) Narrow path? Where? In circuit? In circuit, most are done using 1st gear de wor... -
because its not on gear 2 approiate speed. i drops till so low that is gear 1 speed, u need to switch gear back to 1, then rev again.. till enough speed for gear 2.Originally posted by bubblepearl:Hi Zichuan,
Thanks, can i check with you, how come the car shaking at gear 2? Can clutch in at gear 2, will tester mark me as free-wheeling?
Thank you.
another way is u r on gear 2, u juz floor the acclerator, let the petrol supply more into the engine.. then it would shack liao loh.