How to push start three different manual cars with a flat battery.

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

[ngobeninben]

You broke this down in such a way that even amateur drivers can use this successfully.

[tals]

Just passed my test with zero minors, I learnt privately mainly using your channel
Thanks for your effort in producing these excellent videos

[poppymargalies]

Passed my test today definitely partly due to these amazing videos!

[davidriley]

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!😊

[ExirahxEximiris]

As always, more clear and well explained than most videos on Youtube, thank you!

[averyalexander]

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.

[cubxthebest]

From Croatia here, passed my driving test today, your videos helped a lot!

[aliakhlaghi]

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.
Thank you alot
Your videos are much more helpful than the sum of 10 countries formal educatinal programs on driving.

[joshakawbgb]

Best car instructor on YouTube. Always impressed with how well put together your videos are.

[Yas_Sin]

Man this is exactly what i've been looking for !

[edwardball]

Thanks for all your videos they’ve really made me more confident as I have better understanding of what to do at junctions and parked cars and all sorts before I encounter them on the road

[micahshaw]

Thank you for all your amazing videos! I passed today and I feel that watching your videos helped me a lot with my driving journey :)

[BLK]

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. :)

[njjx]

Like an idiot, I left my lights on in my miata and to my surprise this worked. Thank you for the video

[ImaginationDesign]

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.

[harrisonpicken]

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

[CoyoteFeral]

Excellent and thorough demonstration. Thank you very much for this.

[martin]

Great video! I was stuck in the Tesco car park at borehamwood. Luckily has a decent gradient to it

[Herbertti]

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.

[noodle]

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!