My gym has tons of speed bumps. These are larger than your mall or grocey store bumps so you have to be careful...Well I use to approach at about 2-4mph put in N and then after the fwd wheels are over then the rear wheels dont have enough power and car slowly slides back and then I have to hit to 1st, I didnt like this so recently I've been just pressing the clutch while going at about 2-3mph in 1st. I didnt want to use the clutch at all but the car didnt have enough pwoer to go over em at under 4mph. If you at 5-6mph its like the whole car is being tossed about...So how do you guys do it? speedbumps BTW well large ones...

 

drive arond 3-4 mph and push in the clutch as the car goes over the bump. let the momentum of the car push the car over the bump, don't ride the clutch.

i hope that made sense.

 

yeh I tried that, at 3pmh-4mph the rear wheels most of the time can't get over that bump not enoug momentum...Its like I have to depress the clutch a lil and then lightly tap accelrator to keep going at 2-3mph. I did that today. Damn I hate those things, but they are evrywhere I mean every 10 feet!!

I bet it looked way to funny from an observer as I try to hit it at 3-4 and then the car just rolls back

 

The townhome complex I live in has alot of them. I always take them in 2nd gear and go over them at an angle to take away some of the shock.

 

- I don't

 

2nd gear so yoour going over them at 10mph????

 

I drive over speed bumps the same way i do driveways... at a 45 degree angle.

 

Hmm maybe I will jsut go over them at 5mph then, but wont that damage anything? I mean my bumper isn't getting hit but its like the car is being tossed.

 

oh snap crackle!


i say just get fat

 

LOL @ WPS