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Teaching my daughter how to drive & realized by wife has her steering hand over hand while making turns. Looks so wrong to me so Im teaching her the push pull method as I street & track drive

Curious what you guys normally do? Ive read the pros & cons & for me its push pull all the way

Give us your thoughts please

Solenoid

Hey Joe

I strickly use the PP technique for street & tract driving. Dont get me started on my wifes habit of the reverse hand grip at the 12 O'clock

SlipAngle

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It depends on what kind of driving I'm doing.

Long highway drive: 1 handed, usually one hand holding the bottom of the wheel.
Boring daily driving: Hand over hand
Driving with purpose: PP

twabtoxer

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I usually do single handed, using my left..... thats because I hold my guiness with the right hand

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Thanks for the comments. I never really gave it much thought until I started teaching my 15 year old.

Robevo RS

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there was no option for not having a single hand, but everything else. i do all but the single hand, unless its necessary to leave the steering wheel with one hand.

Bee-Raddd

Here in New Zealand it is technically illegal when sitting your test to have only 1 hand on the steering wheel and it becomes an instant failure. might pay to check in your state what the laws are around it?

personally i use push pull or single hand. push pull on the track and single hand on the road most of the time.

flippymcbean

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I've been driving like that since I was 15. My mom used to yell at me all the time about the hand over hand. In my own mind I always that's ones hands could somehow get tangled.

I then learned that her method was a "no no" when drifting at my uncles shop parking lot.

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Push pull works well on the road coarse or street but try some drifting or rally & it seems the technique can not but used entirely

Our own Rob to demonstrate

Iowa999

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I would teach pull-push (which is often called "shuffle-steer") from Day 1 and ask your child to always use it. I look at this in the same way as left-foot braking, heel-and-toeing, etc, in that it needs to be a consistent habit or it won't be there when you need it.

As to steering (fast) with one hand in a rally car so that you can shift and/or use the hand-brake, this is one of the (main) reasons why rally cars have steering quickeners. One warning about having one of these: you need to warn people when you let them drive your car.

Nuri_05

Never cross your hands I was taught

Iowa999

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That's correct, but it's too focused on one consequence of doing it wrong. If you concentrate on always being able to turn the wheel in either direction, without any delay, then your hands will not cross. This is why the second hand is sliding (or shuffling), rather than releasing completely and moving; the second hand should be able to suddenly clamp and turn the wheel back in the opposite direction. You never know when a little counter-steer will be needed, even on pavement.

Robevo RS

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i dont like stepping on the wheel. I like to feel the tire and the road interaction continuously. I ty to release the wheel only when i really need to. Even when i sliding on my hand on teh wheel i still trry to do it firmly so i can feel or react asap when i need too.

But i am not sure my steering wheel work is a best to watch for this . LOL

(ps: i do not have steering quicken-er, i am still on OEM set up, only the steering wheel been changed, although many many rally cars have them. But also many of them actually using a larger diameter steering wheel))

Zippy452

I actually do hand over hand cause thats what i'm use to. At tracks I do push pull but thats if I need turn hard, most turns don't need u to push pull much (i've only done autox). When driving for my job they stress push pull so I use that all the time when at work and only hand over hand for a TIGHT quick turn. Really its what ever I am comfortable with most at the time.

Iowa999

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This raises an important point for anyone considering getting a quickener: install the quickener before deciding on the new wheel. You may find that you need the extra lever-arm of an OE-sized wheel after the quickener is installed, especially if the car is ever driven on pavement. I drove a car with a quickener and a small wheel at an autocross that required multiple up- and down-shifts. I'm not strong, but I'm not weak, either. I had a terrible time steering one-handed while shifting. The only solution was to keep the revs up so that the power steering was always at full strength to help me. Ended up with sore muscles the next day all down my left side.