Advice please

rodenal

Alexis27 wrote: »

I've never understood this. Surely reversing into a space means you're more likely to clip one of cars at either side? Reversing into a tight space is more difficult than reversing out of one, where you have more room for manoeuvre considering your reduced vision isn't it?

Just my two cents!

Might just be me but I find it far, far easier to reverse into a tight space when I've got plenty of room to move the front of the car round before getting into the space than out of one? I could reverse into just as tight a gap as I could drive into/through - but reversing out of the same gap would take alot of care whereas driving out would be....well driving straight out

scheming_gypsy

Alexis27 wrote: »

I've never understood this. Surely reversing into a space means you're more likely to clip one of cars at either side? Reversing into a tight space is more difficult than reversing out of one, where you have more room for manoeuvre considering your reduced vision isn't it?

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no. it's a procedure normally used by people who know how to drive. If you can't reverse into a parking space between two parked cars then there's plenty of open space at the other end of the car park.

although from your post I'm guessing that you're female, as very few have mastered the art of reversing into a parking space.
For some reason (that i've noticed very often), most women will pull up alongside the cars and then try and reserve 90degrees into the space and take a ridiculous amount of time. Men, and a small percentage of women, turn away from it so the reverse is as straight as possible. For example:
women = ¬
men = \

Strider590

It always worries me when I park next to anyone who hasn't reverse parked.

You know when you see cars with huge dents all the way along the side? Do you know what causes this?

PEOPLE REVERSING OUT OF PARKING SPACES!!!

Your reversing out of a space, you have limited room at the front and your looking backwards, it's a disaster waiting to happen.
Reversing into a space, you don't need to worry about what the front is doing at all, you don't even need to check..........

None of the arguments in favour of nose first parking actually hold any water, it's simply an excuse. It's easier to reverse park because you have far more control at low speed.

Think about shopping trolleys, they steer at the rear don't they? Have you ever used the one's at a DIY store that steer from the front and tried to get it around a corner? Awkward isn't it??

Reverse parking is simply a matter of lining up the rear of the car and then swinging the front round to meet it, parking nose first requires a lot more space and 9 times in 10 you won't be straight when you've finished.

Failure to reverse park (when there's no reason not to) simply shows a lack of confidence.

sarahg1969

Indeed. I've seen people taking longer, trying to drive into a space, in and out over and over again, than it takes me, in one manoeuvre to reverse in. It's a much easier manoeuvre to make. You have more room to swing the front of your car, if you reverse in.

neilmcl

Strider590 wrote: »

You know when you see cars with huge dents all the way along the side? Do you know what causes this?

PEOPLE REVERSING OUT OF PARKING SPACES!!!

And do you know what causes all those little dents and scratches along the side of parked car in a supermarket.

People struggling to get their trolleys to the rear of their vehicle!!

And the other pet hate - once they've loaded they leave the trolley behind at the rear of the parking space.

victor2

I always reverse park, EXCEPT when going to a supermarket, where access to the rear of the car from a supermarket trolley is required, since OH can't leave a supermarket with anything less than a trolley full.

Strider590

neilmcl wrote: »

And do you know what causes all those little dents and scratches along the side of parked car in a supermarket.

People struggling to get their trolleys to the rear of their vehicle!!

And the other pet hate - once they've loaded they leave the trolley behind at the rear of the parking space.

That's why main supermarkets often have pathways behind/between the parking bays.

But still, at least you can open your drivers door if it's hit by a trolley, can't say the same when some idiot puts a bumper sized crease right the way along it's length because they weren't looking where their front end was.

Somewhat like this:

neilmcl

Strider590 wrote: »

That's why main supermarkets often have pathways behind/between the parking bays.

I can't think of any of my local "main" supermarkets that have these. Maybe you prefer to park in the disabled or mother & child bays.

mikey72

neilmcl wrote: »

And do you know what causes all those little dents and scratches along the side of parked car in a supermarket.

People struggling to get their trolleys to the rear of their vehicle!!

And the other pet hate - once they've loaded they leave the trolley behind at the rear of the parking space.

You know what leaves the big dents in the bonnet and tailgates, and all the scratches. Me trying to load in the bags of cement, doors, 8ft lengths of wood when I reverse park up to you in wickes, and get the builders trolley to the back of my car, then need your space to get it in.

I never reverse park, even in supermarkets it irriatates me when someone pushes down the side of the car, pushing the door mirrors out of the way, catching the zip of their coat on my car, sitting on the car behind to load theirs.....

mazza111

I must be a poor driver too then, park in supermarkets nose first, so you can get to the boot. Even parked smack bang in the middle of the space, and hoping others do the same at either side of you, it's rather tight getting a trolley up the sides of the car. Maybe not in disabled spaces or parent and child, but in most supermarket spaces. My OH is one of those who can never get the tail end of his car in the space on first go and usually leaves it that way. He would reverse into every space perfectly, but has got used to me nagging him that it makes it too difficult to access the boot of the car.