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Community => Watto's Junk Yard => Topic started by: Famine on March 13, 2005, 12:20 PM
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I take my road test tommorow at 8:30 am, and I thought I had everything mastered. I can do left hand turns no sweat, I know when to stop, go, what the speedlimits are everywhere, etc, 3 point turns...I could even parallel park...on my left side. But for some reason I cannot for the life of me nail the left side parallel park. Fine time to ask, a day before it, I know, but no one in my family can parallel park, so I cant ask them.
Can some one maybe suggest somthing I could try?
Kevin
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Ok, so I figured it out...now just wish me luck for tommorow. I googled it, and found some teen driving website. I gots to turn my car to a 45 degree angle and then roll turn into the spot and pull forward, I just did it about 10 times, so it's all good.
Kevin
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Nice to hear you figured it out and ran out and practised it. I haven't paralleled parked in years. When I took my test, I failed the first time but I nailed it a few days later. ;)
Best of luck. :)
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On my test I lucked out...got reversing around a corner and the 3 point turn. To this day, 10 years later, I am still crap at Parallel parking.
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I was pretty lucky during my test - my examiner actually forgot to get me to do it. But he was the same guy that I had practiced with and he had seen me do it before, so he wasn't too worried.
I always find the biggest trick is to give yourself enough space between your car and the car that will be in front of you. What I mean is, as you come to a stop on the street before even backing into the stall, make sure there's enough room between your passenger door and the driver's side door of the car you've stopped beside. If you give yourself at least a foot, it'll help when you swing into the stall and won't have to worry about taking out each other's corners.
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Kick some ass, Kevin! :D
But now I have a goofy question - what is a 3 point turn? I'm sure I know what it is, but that term just seems to be escaping me. ???
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When I was learning how to drive, I used to be excellent at parallel parking, left and right side. I remember thinking I would practice the manuevers regularly so I wouldn't forget how to do it.
After years of pulling into stalls and the driveway, I can no longer judge if a space is big enough for me to parallel park in. Whenever I need to parallel park, I pray noone's around to laugh at my 5-8 point adjustment.
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3 point turn is basicly a legal version of the u-turn.
Kevin
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The prophecy is correct. I have passed my road test. I am now a licenced driver with no restrictions. :)
Kevin
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Congrats - awesome man. Now you can go on toys runs whenever you please.
:P
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Just two months until I get my license...
Famine, just curious, did you take Drivers Ed.? Because down here, if we don't take it, we have to wait until the 18th birthday to get a license.
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I am 18. I chose to wait. :)
Kevin
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I'm amazed at how many people don't know how to parallel park. Watching people in small cars (like a VW Bug) trying to park in a space I can get a bus in, I can't help but chuckle. Living in the city for years, you learn to park in whatever spot is available, no matter how seemingly small it is.
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Bad parking is funny to watch....I haven't taken the test yet (May 19th ;D) but I'm sure I could pass it today.
Parking was never a problem for me...I mean...I always had a good sense of where the car was supposed to go and if it would make it, so I rarely have to backup and try again.
I live in Orange County, but all that practice in Chicago REALLY helped...People drive so differently between the 2 cities it's astounding.
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In Florida parallel parking isn't part of the driving test - since it's rare that anyone has to do it.
I'm pretty damn good at it though if I do say so myself.
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Best thing on earth to parallel park, I'm 100% convinced, is the jeep. My 2 friends each drive Wranglers, and I've never seen a car that you can put into the tiniest spots like that thing.
I'm not a Jeep fan myself... They roll easily, they're not the best on gas (due to the 4wd), they're not good rides in the slightest (very rough/firm suspensions), but I tell ya... In the city where roads are smooth, and parking tight, you really can't beat them... Other than the gas mileage, which they're not horrible, just not great either. Worse than my 6 cyl. car.
Jeeps though turn on a dime, and my buddy Dan's has squeezed into a space between two other spaces, and still left plenty of room for everyone to maneuver out. It's really impressive.
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I used to have a Jeep CJ-7 and it was pretty easy to parallel park with, since with the top down and doors off you can see pretty much everything around you.
They're really fun to drive, as long as you have the discomfort tolerance and necessary stupidity. :)
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I don't personally mind parrallel parking. However, the jerkoffs behind me on the road never give me enough time to do it. Honk! Honk! Honk! That's when Broem busts out the middle finger and will probably be shot to death someday when he does it to the wrong person :)
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They're really fun to drive, as long as you have the discomfort tolerance and necessary stupidity
Oh man! We took my buddy Dan's from Pittsburgh to Chicago to see our friend Eric who was out there for school, and we drug his girlfriend with us because he basically invited her ( rolleyes )... It was about an 8 to 9 hour drive in one with maybe 2 stops on the way to stretch our legs.
Never, ever, again... Never. >:(
First off, the drive from Pittsburgh to Chicago is boring. You go through Northern Ohio and Northern Indiana. Those two places SUCK. Flat, desolate, baren in many places. It just sucked.
To make it worse though, it was cold-ish when we went so no top down... It was like late April, but still cold that year.
It just sucked... The entire thing. Uncomfortable as all get out. In the city the Jeep was a plus though because once in Chicago we were fighting ina nd out of traffic, maneuvering into tight parking, and the Jeep performed well. The trip there was hell though.
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There's nothing better than riding in a jeep in the early may and june mornings, with the Beatles blasting over the sound system on your way to school.
Those were the best of times.
Kevin
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I'm amazed at how many people don't know how to parallel park. Watching people in small cars (like a VW Bug) trying to park in a space I can get a bus in, I can't help but chuckle. Living in the city for years, you learn to park in whatever spot is available, no matter how seemingly small it is.
Amen to this, it ain't that hard. I took my driver's test with a '75 Mercury 500 (might have been a Ford) and that car is about 22 feet long and 10 feet wide. Parking little cars now is a snap. Jesse's diagram is pretty good actually. I very nearly get out of my car with the sole purpose of slapping someone that tries to put the nose of a vehicle into a space first. No understanding of mechanics at all. Walmart shoppers ::)
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I dislike bike riders who ride with absolutley no reflectors, and all black clothes just after dusk. I almost hit a kid because he was in my driving zone, and none of us saw him. And the killer part was, he didn't look older than 12. Where are the parents at? ::) I remeber when I was a kid my bike had reflectors on the tires, the back seat, the front, and my helmet was reflective. And by God, I had to wear a flashing red light on my shirt if I was out past 5:30, or 8:00 when it was the summer.
Kevin
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This is another driving situation I don't like in my town. We have two lanes that turn left at a traffic light. Once you make that left turn there is a right turn up the road not that far away. For whatever reason people purposely like to gun it from the left lane into the right lane to make this particular right hand turn. The folks in the right lane be damned. Why? Wouldn't it be easier if you just stayed in the right lane to begin with? I could see if you thought there was no way you were going to make the first light. But these are jerks that are like 2 or 3 cars back in the left lane. That's it. They knew the turn was coming.
Eh, you have to see it to understand fully my frustration at this one light. Happens everday there and it gets old.