There is a well known secret which your instructor must tell you

Parallel parking by sounds of it, here in UK it’s parking behind a car along a pavement in ideally no more than 4 manoeuvres (steering wheel 360 left 360 right, one and a half right and one and a half left). Must be within two car spaces. Annoying as hell!

Hi DrPepper
There is a well known secret which your instructor must tell you. You drive and stop parallel in front of space but safely clear of their driver’s side (assuming parked car is facing direction of traffic on left side of road along pavement). Stay exactly parallel, unhook seat belt if necessary (remember to re hook seat belt just for getting your body twisted round – and please ask instructor if this is okay) and look back through rear window while still holding steering. Initially gently reverse while pointing your car looking through centre of rear window at left headlight of car behind free space. Then start correcting it into the correct position while reversing without hitting curb or rear bumper of your car against front bumper of car behind. Then usually with one manoeuvre of steering correct forward front aspect of your car. That may be all or a simple spacing as a third manoeuvre leaving you one spare manoeuvre according to the test for good measure.

What some people do wrong in practising is – using a desolate stretch of road they put marks in chalk on road (at right angles to pavement) where front and back bumpers of cars already parked are. This is not a practical or real simulation. Get out into residential streets during the day where heavy traffic is unlikely (watch out for kids though) and practice to your hearts content. Do not use friends standing on pavements to guide you either as they will not be there at the test.

Keep going and as Pete has already said Practice, Practice, Practice.:)

Touche – EU Police – pistol in holster minimum all the time

Touche – EU countries’ Police – pistol in holster minimum all the time. EU law for the rest but not if it happens on their patch – Bang, bang no blanks either.:cool:

Touche – 15 yrs – 13 in my case with dad or dad’s chauffeur

although to be fair i jumped in a car at 15 yrs old and taught myself the basics of car control

so in my case it was getting rid of bad habbits

( mostly wanting to scorch the opposition at lights !! :diablo: )

Touche – 15 yrs – 13 in my case with dad or dad’s company chauffeur beside me (yes it was the case where I was born where not just the rich had chauffeurs but senior company executives too).

When I passed 1st time in UK the instructor’s only comment as he ticked the sheet was “Have you been rallying as you hold the gear shaft firmly from underneath the gear knob along with the knob – no problems though you’ve passed”.:D

DrPepper just take up flying instead

Hi DrPepper just take up flying instead.:D

Or go to the USA where you have traffic lanes as wide as one entire carriageway of our motorways and parking spaces where you can simply park even a lorry (UK size). You don’t drive in the US you simply hurl yourself into a large box (gaz guzzler) and set cruise control and mozy along at regulation 50 mph of course turning right on reds at intersections (allowed in many states).:) It reminds me of stagecoaches drawn by horses. Apologies JBoyle and others from across the pond just being as usual sarcastic.:D

On a serious note though someone has already mentioned some of the vital aspects but the most vital is that on the day of the test use a School vehicle you are familiar with and take a lesson immediately before the test.

IMO some useless but included and essential (for civil servants’ jobs worth reasons) are reversing around a corner, and 3 point turn.

What is critical but wasn’t included in Uk test when I passed was parking between two cars parked along pavement (ideally in two at the most three manoeuvres) . Luckily I was already an expert on this as it was where I passed my test while still in college.
It is vital in any urban area.

Dash they can fly choppers too – my post #2 on thread …

Dash they can fly choppers too – my post #2 on thread http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=111281
:diablo:

You mean the PIL isn’t a millionaire

You mean the PIL isn’t a millionaire – oh well it’s uphill like most of us from now on.:)

Pete, it is focussing on interim methods of marking rioters/looters …

Pete, it is focussing on interim methods of marking rioters/looters with special hair dyes mixed in the correct proportions (indelible) and used in domestic water cannon or back pack insecticide sprayers thereby until courts carry out sentencing these cretins are marked for their community to see.

Jim as chief hairdresser is in charge of the ingredients for final mixture of indelible non toxic dye.:diablo:

Interim measures pre sentencing

And to think I bought a special digger spade (electrically operated)

And to think I bought a special digger spade (electrically operated):D

Commiserations and it’s all downhill now of course – join the gated brigade – Jokes aside make the most of it and congrats.