questions about practical driving test.

heartbreak_star

I did my test about 7 years ago and funnily enough, you reverse and steer at the same time.

And indeed, I was taught to avoid dry-steering wherever possible as it's bad for the car.

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heartbreak_star wrote: »

And indeed, I was taught to avoid dry-steering wherever possible as it's bad for the car.

This is also how I was taught.

alastairq

Re-stopping whilst manoeuvring?

If the candidate does not stop, [ pause] if a pedestrian or other vehicle comes close, then the Examiner will be looking at a serious fault.

[Much will depend on the actual circumstance]

adouglasmhor

izzy65 wrote: »

Hi I think that they only mention left reverse parking because if you were parallel parking on a road you should only park in the direction of travel so you shouldn't cross to the other side for a parking space.

I live in a single lane road with parking spaces on the side with houses, you can park either way depending on which end you enter the road from.

Joe_Horner

alastairq wrote: »

Re-stopping whilst manoeuvring?

If the candidate does not stop, [ pause] if a pedestrian or other vehicle comes close, then the Examiner will be looking at a serious fault.

[Much will depend on the actual circumstance]

Agreed, but that's entirely different to stopping in order to make a direction change.

Similarly, there are occasions where you might have to stop purely for observation (where things are busy or tight for example), but in others you can effectively observe while still moving after an initial good look before starting.

Curiously, when I learnt, dry steering was (a little less) frowned on at the learner stage than now because most cars had skinny little 135 or 155, high profile, 13 inch wheels and weighed about 4 1/2 feathers. A 175/80/14 was in Big BMW territory!

The fact that even Minis need power steering nowadays gives an idea of how much that's changed.

JustinR1979

Was dry steering possible in your day gramps?
Is mad how heavy they are if you're used to power steering!
You wonder how you ever managed.
Same for brakes.

Spicy_McHaggis

I had a car with 135 tyres on back in the day. Real head turner it was, if you took a corner at anymore than 20mph the tyres used to squeal like a piggy.

JustinR1979

Think my mk3 escort had 155's - was excited when it turned up, not so when found out it was an 1100 lol.

Joe_Horner

JustinR1979 wrote: »

Was dry steering possible in your day gramps?
Is mad how heavy they are if you're used to power steering!
You wonder how you ever managed.
Same for brakes.

Yep, and most of them had the built-in safety feature that you knew if you had an accident at any sort of speed you'd die.

Strider590

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