Hello my name is Chris and
in this video we're going to be
bay parking to the left.
This is one of the reversing
manoeuvres that you might have
to do on your driving test.
Once you get your point of turn right,
then it should be quite straightforward.
Getting your starting position right at the beginning
is very important. You need to start about a metre away from the bays that you're going to be
using.
Make sure you check all around the car before we start the maneuver
including the back window. Keep a look out for pedestrians, cyclists and other
cars reversing out of bays.
Although, on your driving test the bays will be empty. Reversing back to the point of
turn.
Once you get there, stop, put the handbrake on
and have another look around. Now we're going to be reversing
into the bay that's highlighted green. From inside the car this
all important point of turn will look like this. We're going to be using this first line
of this first bay
as a reference point. We can see how the line disappears into the car near the
door handle.
This point of turn can vary from different cars
but it will be something similar. If you would
turn full lock to the left now, you move would end up
in the third bay along. Now where the third arrow is,
is the first line of the target bay
that we're going to be going in to, the third bay.
now we can
just about see the third bay out of the back side window.
Let's have a look, this is our target bay that we're going to go into, it's
highlighted green.
Make sure that you check all around the car before you start turning into the bay
because the front of the car will swing out. Make sure that you check
all around. Start reversing back, steering full lock to the left
steering quickly but driving slowly,
checking all around, stopping if
anyone approaches. Drive really slow it really makes a difference.
Now once you're in the bay and feel like you're straight.
In this case you'll notice that the dashboard is running parallel to the kerb
opposite
make sure the car hardly moves and
quickly steer one and a quarter to one and a half turns to the right depending on
your car.
Then reverse back slowly looking over both your left shoulder and your right
shoulder
looking out for where the kerb will disappear into bottom right hand
corner into this door pillar
and that's when you need to stop.
As we all know though, it doesn't always go as well as it
does on a YouTube video.
So what happens if it does go wrong, well
what you can do to make this maneuver a little bit easier is that you can move
your left
door mirror down. This will give you a good view of what's going on with the bays and
your car.
Got to be careful not to stare at the mirror. Make sure that you check around
all the time.
We actually turned a bit too early on this one
as you can see,
we are going to end up on the white line when really we should be
next to it, basically at this point
you can see it's definitely not going to go into the bay. So if we do turn too
early.
you need to steer to the right, make sure it clears the white line
and then turn back to the left. Once you're parallel and you're next to the white line,
we can straighten the wheels, reverse up to the kerb and stop.
That's what you do
if you turn too early but what happens if you turned too late
well we can see here that we definitely too far away from that
line on the left, now it is a bit harder to correct this.
On the driving test you are allowed to drive forward
and correct it. Drive forward
steer left to get closer to the line on the left
then steer right to get the car straightened up and parallel again
and then straighten the wheels. By looking in your left door mirror
should see that you are now closer to that line on the left.
As long as you're close to that line, the line on the right will take
care of itself.
Make sure the go back slowly
looking all around don't just at the mirror.
Keep a good look out and then stop near the kerb.
That's how you correct it if you turn too late. Well that's how you bay park
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