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Hi there smart drivers. Rick with Smart Drive Test talking to you today about how to get
your vehicle into a garage safely without ripping the mirrors off. Now just
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especially for those of you working towards a license or starting a career
as a truck or bus driver. Now just a quick story. When I was a teenager and I
think before actually I got my license, my dad used to let me back the truck--the
pickup truck--into the garage and you know I'm learning how to drive and of
course it was a manual transmission so there's a lot of other stuff going on as
well in terms of learning how to drive a manual transmission of course I'm
backing into the garage and he didn't indicate to me that the mirrors were the
widest part of the vehicle and that when the doors got near the door jamb that I
had to be especially careful but anyway what happened was I got the truck kind
of cockeyed off on a slant when I was backing in and managed to rip one of the
mirrors off the truck to great embarrassment so I understand your
trepidation about trying to park your vehicle into the garage whether you're
pulling in or whether you're backing in now the other thing about garages is
that oftentimes they become a dumping ground for all the excess stuff in our
house we always have one of those rooms where all the stuff goes and the garage
tends to be it and especially my garage here you'll notice in the video that
it's pretty crowded with all the recyclables and tools and all their
other stuff that's in there so one of the things that you can do is get a
string as you can see here in the image and put a weight on the bottom a tenon
ball tennis balls works really well we have a toy this is Neil here he's
hanging there and that will give you a good indication of how far you need to
pull into the garage so you can still get the door closed and then you can
walk around the vehicle and still do some work in the garage and those types
of things so know that as well now if my garage here is not in a laneway so I
have to kind of come in on an angle to get into the garage most of you are
gonna have a garage where you're gonna have a straight line approach which is
going to make it much easier for you this one here actually have to
compensate for the off-tracking because I'm coming in from that side
over there I got to get right over to the left side of the door to get the
back end into the vehicle and as they said the mirrors are the widest part of
the vehicle and when you get with the mirrors you got to be especially careful
now one other point that I will make and I've said this before in other videos
the slower the vehicle goes the sharper it turns so go slow and there's several
reasons for going slow the first one is that the sharp of the vehicle turns so
you have better maneuverability of the vehicle the other one is is that you go
slow you have time to observe and you want to especially observe when your
mirrors get near the door jamb that way you're not going to rip them off as well
if you get out of whack and there's a possibility that you could damage the
vehicle you could potentially get it stopped before something happens and
then finally if you do hit something you're gonna minimize the damage that
you do do because you're going slow so the key to this is to go slow and
observe lots and lots and lots so stick around we'll be right back with that
information
I miss my driver's welcome back Rick with smart drive test talking to you
today about how to park in a garage and we're on our way home here and we're
gonna hit the garage door opener here the big button that will open the door
for us as we make our way into the driveway here and the door is going up
as you can see in the dashcam here now as I said if your garage is not in a
driveway as mine is not then you have to get over to the left side here to get in
and we simply drive in until we have our little thing hanging down there when we
touch that then we stop the vehicle because we know that we're into the
garage and that's how far you stop in and you put the vehicle in the parking
brake on put it into a forward gear if you're driving man you're gonna put it
into park if you're driving an automatic transmission and then shut the vehicle
off and we get out and you can either close the door with your remote in the
vehicle or you can use the switch on the wall as most of these automatic garage
doors openers are gonna have and now we're in the dark the door goes down and
we're gonna back out now as I said in the introduction we open the door back
up start the vehicle into reverse parking brake off as we said in the
introduction the mirrors of the widest part on the vehicle so when you back out
you need to go slowly you want to check your mirrors on both sides and make sure
that you're not close to the doorway because it's going to be a tight fit
your right hand on the back of the passenger seat if you're on the other
side of the road in Australia the UK or Malaysia or other parts of the world
then you're going to be opposite to what I am doing right now and then you simply
back up you don't need to look out the door what I would suggest is it you look
out the mirror of the passenger side there and back up slowly and as I said
in the introduction your mirrors are the widest part of the car so when you get
to the mirrors which is right here then you want to make sure that your between
the doorway so you don't tear one of the mirrors off
because if you're okay on the mirrors on both sides which I am then you're gonna
be okay to back out the rest of the way so now we can back out we're past the
mirrors which is the widest part of your vehicle in the doorway and we simply
back straight out at this point we simply get our steering wheel straight
as you know one and a half turns in either direction and when the logo is
straight up then you know the straight if you're not sure that it's straight
then just let the vehicle roll back a little bit and we look behind us now
we're completely clear of the doorway of the garage and we simply move around and
prepare to take off now I'm simply going to drive forward you might be backing
out of a driveway out onto the roadway and then you'll proceed so we put it
into a forward gear click the door so the door closes as you can see it's
closing in the dashcam there and we take off now what I'm going to do is I'm
going to go around again and I'm going to show you how to reverse into the
garage and show you how to do that because that's a little bit more
complicated than simply driving into the garage most of you're going to drive
into the garage some of you might have a driveway where you can get practice and
we slowed down before we get to the garage we open the door and if you can
you want to drive around on the driver's side and back into the garage I don't
have that luxury here so we pull up if you're backing off a roadway definitely
want a signal into reverse steering wheel right hand on the back of the
passenger seat and you simply move around watch the front of the front
corner of the vehicle there because that's going to move around on you and
you might get into a ditch or another vehicle or something so make sure you
have a look at that front corner when you're turning the corner here and
you're reversing all right when we bring the vehicle
around until we're in line we check our mirrors and see if you can see the sides
of the doors and that way you know you're lined up with the vehicle as well
once you get the mirrors lined up so you can see that you're actually in the
doorway you're lined up with the doorway look straight ahead and make sure that
your vehicle is going straight back and I'm driving a manual transmission and
now I'm straight forward I can see I've stopped and I can see that I'm straight
forward I have the mirrors on both sides I can see the door jams and I can see
that the car is between the two sides of the door so I continue to back up and
now I'm getting near this mirror here so I'm going to be very careful going
slowly and making sure that this mirror actually stays inside of the vehicle as
well I can see that I'm not straight in so I have to get the back end I have to
get the back end of the vehicle that way in the front end of the vehicle that way
and that's going to work for me to get the vehicle straightened out but again
the mirrors are still outside of the door frame so I have to watch the
mirrors in to make sure that it don't clip them off here in the doorway okay
so backing up nice and slow here when I'm this is the most dangerous point is
when the mirrors are in the door jamb okay and I'm watching coming back
and I've got my string with my thing on it here and I just back up until I touch
that and I can see it move and that way I know that I'm far enough into the
garage into a forward gear parking brake on shut the vehicle off and close the
door and that's how you back into the garage so you drive into the garage back
into the garage and again if you fact is the garage driving out is quite simple
but again you want to go slowly until you get to the mirrors because the
mirrors so we're into a forward gear we've released the parking brake and
we're gonna move forward and again you go very slowly so the mirrors are just
coming up to the door frame of the garage this is your most dangerous point
because this is the widest part of your vehicle is the mirror sticking out so
now we're just going to go slowly we let the vehicle roll I've got my foot on the
brake and I'm controlling the brake until the beers are past and I'm looking
at both mirrors on both sides bobble head back and forth and now I'm past the
most dangerous part on the vehicle and now I proceed I simply go out of the
garage I'm completely out of the garage I hit my garage door opener the door
closes and we proceed and have a great day a quick review of driving into a
garage the mirrors on your vehicle are going to be the widest part of your
vehicle so when you get near the mirrors in the vehicle as you're going into the
garage that's going to be the part where you have to go the most slowest and have
to observe the most to make sure that your vehicle is actually going to go in
and you're not going to clip a mirror off your vehicle because that's very
embarrassing when you do that as well get a string with some sort of weight a
tennis ball works really well or a toy or whatnot something that's soft that
you can put in the garage and that way you know how far to pull your vehicle
into the garage because there's nothing more annoying when you pull right up to
the wall and you can't you know walk around your vehicle and those types of
things in your garage especially if you're trying to work in your garage and
those types of things that way your vehicle be in the perfect spot every
time when you pull it into the garage now most of you are going to be driving
into your garage and then backing out that tends to be a little bit easier and
tends to be the norm some of you will back into your garage but again try and
back around from the driver's side of the vehicle that's going to make it
easier and the garage that I have here it's not possible for me to do that I
have two background for the passenger side and again when you're backing in
check your two mirrors your two wing mirrors and make sure that you can
see the sides of the door and that you're lined up with that and then look
forward to make sure that your vehicle is straight forward again and when
you're back in nice and slow and when you get near the mirrors you're going to
go super slow because that's again the widest part of your vehicle and that's
when you want to take the most time backing into your garage and then
finally you want to have your little dangling thing with your toy or your
tennis ball or whatnot on it that way you know how far to back into the garage
now most of you in this day and age especially in North America are going to
have automatic garage door openers you're either going to have a remote in
your vehicle a lot of them will have clips on them and they'll be up on the
visor there a lot of the newer vehicles have the remotes built right into the V
into the vehicle and there's a learn button on the back of the motor for your
automatic garage door opener you simply push that and go in the vehicle and push
the remote and that way the two will start to talk to each other and then
that way it's just a matter of setting that up which is fairly easy so it's
it's fairly straightforward question for my smart drivers do you drive into your
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