Cars Q&A

It is fine art. While you apply brake you should not immediately apply clutch as well, doing this will make your brake fade quickly. Ideal way is apply clutch just before the car is about to stop that too gradually. This way you will be able to stop much more smoothly, increase brake pad life. This will not adversely affect mileage in any way.

In case you just want to slow the car by braking, clutch should be only used for changing gear.

Nilabh is correct. Apply brake first and when the car starts 'knocking' ie just abt to stop apply clutch.
Theoratically tis is fine but when driving start-stop method in heavy traffic then it all goes for a toss and clutch is kept pressed for fear of shutting down the engine!!!

I think the question is not properly understood and answered. I feel that pressing of clutch is essential when brakes are applied. This helps smooth stoppage of car and also less consumption of energy. But I am still a layman and cannot understand why some experts recommend against applying clutch while braking the vehicle. Some one can perhaps give more comments on this.

I feel the application of brake & clutch have to go on simultaneously if the driver is certain that the reduction in speed would necessitate a gear change.Otherwise a gentle depression of the brake pedal would suffice.
It may not be a good idea to just depress the brake pedal when there is going to be substantial reduction in speed and go for the clutch only when the engine knocks. I would prefer to have a worn out brake pad than make the engine knock a million times in a few years.

As far as my knowledge goes, while bringing the car to a complete stop one should first depress the brake pedal and then the clutch to disengage the gear so the less brake power is required to stop the vehicle.This also prevents an abrupt halt of the car with a jolt.This is what I was told when learning driving.As I am not an expert I would appreciate information in the matter from experts.