to ask for help?

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I am taking instruction and have an exam coming up for an Advanced Driving test. I am rubbish at reversing round corners, into a parking bay (say at a supermarket preferably without neighbouring cars when the test comes) and parallel parking behind a car in the street against the kerb.

When doing the parking behind a car in the street, how do you know when to turn the wheel to the right to slide into place?

Can anyone give me any hints, please?

Um. My driving instructor used to have a bit of masking tape on the left side of the back window.

When that met the kerb in your line of sight, you started to turn the well the other way!

Can't remember how he spaced it, set it up etc

Will go and google

There was a thread on this not so long ago with loads of tips but I have no idea how to find it but don't worry, someone a bit more technology. Minded will be along soon to link it for you I'm sure

Ok it was in chat and called does anyone have a brilliant tips to learn how to. Parallel park but I have no idea how to link sorry

My instructor had a trick to do with the pillar in the back window, like the masking tape one!

Very unhelpfully, I'm going to say you just know. You get a feel for it.

It all comes down to repetition. Can you take some time and just do it over and over and over?

You line up the car properly - if you bugger that up, you've no chance and you just have to come out and start again.

You basically do an S shape.

Hard right and reverse, then when the car is mostly in the space, hard left, then right again and straighten up.

That's fairly pathetic attempt to describe it but it's not something I think about, it's just assessing the space, see if the car will fit and then sliding it in.

When I was learning, my instructor had a bit of paper on his back window. When it lined up with the car I was trying to park behind, it was time to turn.

I learned how to do it really well, but not, apparently, how to describe how it's done

this looks good

My instructor used to tell me to do it when my wing mirror lined up with their rear bumper. Don't know if it works on all cars, but worth a go.

HecateHarshPants

I went out this morning to practise by myself. I started with reversing round a corner and sort of just about made it but was too close to the centre line of the roads I was reversing into.

Then I tried the parallel park up the road where I tried to parallel park behind a car that didn't have another car behind it anywhere but I still hit the kerb.

I'll try the parallel parking tomorrow with bits of masking tape in strategic places but I'll have to keep getting out to change their places. For Saturday, I've bribed persuaded a friend to sit with me to see if I ought to turn the wheel sooner.

I've also practised the reversing into a bay by marking a place on the car with lipstick because I didn't have anything else with me and my instructor found it by smearing his hand across it. I will not be allowed to have these marking clues during the test so it has to be bits of the car that tell me where I should be.

This is my chellange for this year but I'm not really enjoying it now!

*challenge

You'll get there, don't be disheartened. It's hard at first but it does get easier. Just don't expect to get there in a week or two.

On your other thread I mentioned about extra mirrors. Give them a try, I find them very helpful.

Would it help if I were higher up? Sitting on a cushion perhaps?