Some car tricks in a supercharged 1998 Buick Regal, FWD automatic with 200000 miles, locking E-brake on the floor. By Jared Lucas.

Left-foot braking is a technique that you can use with your front wheel drive car. It will help you during cornering while you are going at high speeds. Left foot braking technique prevents the understeer situation. Driving at high speeds, if you try to turn sharply at a corner, the car won’t behave the right way as you might have thought. Instead it will go in the same direction. Such a situation is called a understeer. Using the left foot braking technique you’ll be providing the car some grip at its front wheels, more than in the rear wheels. This will help you to turn the car the way you wanted.

While you are at the turn, start slowing down the car a bit. Apply the brake using your right foot. Now, you may downshift the car, and for this you may use the heel and toe downshifting method. Once you do that, take your right foot from the brake and place it over the accelerator. Don’t pull of your foot from the accelerator now. Apply brake using your left foot. And you must do both these steps together. These are the things that you should be doing efore using the technique known as letf-foot braking. Now let’s get into left-foot braking.

You may use the method explained above in order to slow down the car as it reached near the turn. Now, as you reach the corner, you may use your right foot to hit the gas and at the same time you should be planning to apply brake using the other foot. What it does is that – it will lock down the rear wheels and now only the front wheels will be moving. This way, the weight of the car will be transferred to the front wheels. Thus, the front wheels would be getting much better grip than earlier. This is what we were trying to achieve at the beginning. Now we are in a situation which is known as oversteering. And now the car will start to oversteer. This is what you have to do, if you are going at high speed and wanna take a sharp turn at the corner.

Handbrake turn is a technique which will allow you to turn your car a sharp 180 degree facing the opposite direction. This is one of the easiest car techniques that I know. But, you need to practice it more often. Then only, you’d be able to do it easily. Usually, we do a three point turn in order to achieve a condition stated above. But using the handbrake turn technique, you’ll be abble to do just that, using a U-turn and it will need just minimal space requirements than the conventional method. So, you may find it a handy, in situations when you are with smaller area for taking the turn.

You may use any car of your choice for doing this. But I would recommend a front wheel drive car. And the speed at which you should start should be like 30-35 mph. And don’t think of making it too low or a lot higher than the given range. Doing so won’t make you turn a sharp 180 degree. Also, there are factors other than the speed limit which decides the turning degree. Well, some of them are the road conditions and the nature and type of the tires of your car.

Well, first of all you need to position one of your hands in the steering wheel at the right place. Well, if you are in a left hand drive car, then the right place to place your left hand should be on the right side of the steering wheel. It will depend on the side to which you wanna turn the car as well. If you are with an automatic transmission car, then put the car to neutral at first. After that make sure that the other hand is placed on the hand brake. Don’t use the handbrake now. It’s not the time to apply the handbrake. Only after you start turning the car, you should think of pulling the handbrake. Now, it’s time to provide acceleration smoothy a bit as discussed earlier, and make if you are in an automatic transmission car, then put the car in neutral. And start rotating the steering wheel to one of the sides as you prefer. Rotate the steering wheel until, it gets locked. After a quick second, apply the e-brake if you have it in your car. Otherwise you may yank the handbrake lever. This will ultimately lock the rear wheels. Now, the car will start to turn and during this time you may bring the steering wheel to the center making the front wheels to curve out straight.