How Do You Park?

[Error]

How do I park? Terribly.

For regular parking, I always drive right in. Saves me time and effort. And, out of 100 times I park, maybe once I'll parallel park, as there is very little of that here. To give you an idea, I've only done it 3 time in 2 years, all of which during driver's training.

 

[ECG]

For those of you who can't parallel park, all I can say is don't drive in New York City or the vicinity. It's mostly all parallel parking here & the spaces are very tight, so if you are planning on driving in the Big Apple be sure to practice a lot beforehand.

 

[Martyn]

if you are planning on driving in the Big Apple

Can't see that happening any time soon! :lol:

 

[Ian]

When I parallel park (which I tend to avoid), I have my instructors voice go through my head. "Door pillar to door pillar, three quater turn, wheel arch to bumber, reverse and straighten." It works nine times out of ten.

 

[furie]

I drive in forwards. Usually when I'm in a situation I would have to reverse in, there's a queue of cars behind, and I can't be bothered holding them up (and the number of times people just come right up behind you as you pass the space to be able to reverse in therefore stopping you :roll: - Stafford drivers suck).

Most of the time I'm shopping when in those parking spaces anyway, so you need boot access. That means driving in forwards.

I do hate reversing out of spaces mind...

 

[Inverse]

Reverse in.

A car is more finely manoeuvrable backwards. Plus, parking sensors are only mounted on the back.

 

[Slayed]

I usually park forwards so that I can get at the boot.

But I did have one incident in a Tesco car park where two of us reversed out and into each other! :lol:

Asda parkers are the worst though.

 

[Steven]

Reverse my driving instructor got me to do some of the tightest ones possible to help. Came in useful in banger racing.

 

[Tomatron]

I park brilliantly. Forward or reverse, just depends what position I'm in.

 

[Xpress]

Forward, because generally i'm going in that direction already, however it doesn't matter for me. I am good at both.

 

[Sam]

Generally you drive forward?

Strange, I normally drive everywhere in ****ing reverse.

 

[nadroJ]

Forward, because I can't be bothered with the faff of reversing in, I'm very impatient. I quite like parallel parking though, I do it quite often =]

 

[c&r]

THIS IS THE MOST INTERESTING THREAD I HAVE EVER SEEN.

 

[c&r]

edit: sent twice, my bad

 

[Beans]

Although I ticked forward, it depends on the car park, some spaces are tight to get out of so reverse into them, ones with easy parking drive in, car parks with a reputation for being bashed def drive in, as it is easier to get back end fixed than front.

 

[Emmett]

I usually just drive straight in and worry about the reversing bit when I get back and I can take my time doing it.

I'm not too good at driving so if I had to park at a supermarket I pick one of those spaces at the far end miles away from the other cars so it gives me more room.

 

[tks]

Went to the supermarket today (I wasn't driving so no fear or parking problems).

This one bloke was trying to reverse this MASSIVE people carrier into a spot far too tight to get in, resulting in what was probably a 30 strong queue around the car park with people applying the horn liberally.

My test centre was down a road which has cars parked on both sides permanently reducing the width of the road to just about one car wide... and no bay parking spaces.

 

[yinyang]

^ LOL