[Smittoh]

Very easy.

Look at the steering like a clock. Your hands should either be in the 9-to-3 or 10-2 positions. Meaning your left hand will be on 9/10 and your right on 3/2.

Since you're suppose to have both hands on the wheel, these are the ideal positions that they should be in.

I kind of figured that but wasn't entirely sure.

Although I'm very bad at not doing this. My positions usually consist of:

1, Right hand at the 3 o'clock position with arm resting on window sill and left hand resting on gear stick.
2, Hands at 5-7 positions and arms resting on lap.
3, both hands resting on my lap and only steering with my thumbs and index fingers (only done when I'm driving on the motorway since there's little need to steer)


It's bad habits. Don't do them.

I usually have my right hand at the 12-3 (anywhere between, and sometimes have my elbow on the sill) and my left hand on the gear stick. Once I am cruising I usually have my left hand at 10-12 (anywhere between) and my right at 12-2. The rules I've been told are meant to be 10-3 but I find that very uncomfortable, maybe cause the steering wheel is big (I've got a new racing one for free but need to buy a boss kit for it).

Also how are you supposed to do 10-2 when you are doing hand over hand turn? You can't leave your hands at 10-2 whilst turning, the wheel doesn't turn by itself.

Also another rule I found out about not so long ago is that every time you change gears you have to put your hand back on the wheel. For example you go from first to second than have hand on wheel, than take hand off wheel to change from 2nd to third when you need to etc etc. Thats kind of a problem for my car as it has kind of high torque and I go through the gears quickly and don't have time to put my hand on the wheel unless I'm going from third to fourth. Guess I'm just gonna have to drive extra slow when accelerator from the lights or turning corners.