Reversing around a corner

beamer-89

Do anyone have any go tips for reversing around corners? I'm finding that I seem to end up to close to the curb nearly hitting it and having to pull forward to reposition the car or I go slightly too wide.

Any advice that I could use when practicing would be great as I have my test coming up soon and this is the main part of the test I'm worried about!

dazftw

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056031587

I made this thread awhile ago you might find some of the info useful.


The point when I got them down was I realised I had to start turning when my inside wheel got to the start of the corner. Your turn to early your going to hit the kerb.. to late your going end up wide. Take it nice and easy as well. Slow and steady and you will have it no problem.

Also practise reversing into car parking spots and parallel parking as well. It will help you get used to your car.

My test is this Thursday and im slightly worried about the reverse. Not the driving part but the observation. You should practise that if you haven't already. Its kinda tough doing both at once.

looksee

In ... er ... a lot of years of driving I have never had to reverse round a corner. Reverse into parking spaces, ok, but that can be much better achieved by...reversing into a parking space.

Reversing round a corner seems to fly in the face of all safety and common sense - has anyone ever come boot to bonnet with someone coming up to the same corner and not expecting an eejit to be reversing round it?

Anyway I seem to recall being told to fix a point on the back window and relate it to a point on the kerb. Since I can't remember what you were supposed to do then, thats not a lot of use. Good luck anyway.

ADIDriving

Find a very quite place to pracitice slowly, very,very, slowly. You do have to look out the back window. But do use the left mirror to keep the kerb in view. Drive slow enough to keep it in the bottom left corner of the mirror, while still checking the back and right windows. If the kerb looks like it is too close to the side of the car...it is. So stear away sooner to allow a smaller adjustment. If the kerb dissappears from view it is too far. The sooner it is fixed the smaller the adjustment. The slower you drive the sooner you see these happening. Did I say drive slow yet?
PS. Use clutch control (probably no gas) to drive slow enough.

Permabear

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MascotDec85

The Reverse

Aim: Good clutch control with slow speed & slow steering

*Clutch down & select reverse gear
*Find the biting point
*360 deg. observation from right to left (lift your bum off the seat slightly when looking out the back window - looking for kids)
*If safe, release handbrake, move back slowly
*STOP when kerb moves into the left corner of your left mirror = Point of Turn
*360 deg. observation again with an additional look into the new road
*Move back slowly, turning the wheel slowly
*Keep kerb in the corner of your left mirror
*Halfway around the corner STOP. Again 360 deg. observation with an additional look to the right
*Start moving back, straightening the wheel as you go
*Keep reversing until asked to stop.

12 element

MascotDec85 wrote: »

The Reverse


*Find the biting point
*360 deg. observation from right to left (lift your bum off the seat slightly when looking out the back window - looking for kids)

Are you sure you should lift up from your seat with your foot on the clutch at the biting point?

MascotDec85

12 element wrote: »

Are you sure you should lift up from your seat with your foot on the clutch at the biting point?

Yes, I'm sure. It's only a quick shifty up. You are pushing yourself up using your left hand and your right foot. Your left foot shouldn't move and if it were to it would most likely move the clutch in.

beamer-89

Thanks for all the tips!

I've being putting them to good use and my instructor says I'm doing them a lot better than I was. Unfortunately my test has being cancelled due to the tester being sick but I suppose that just gives me extra few weeks to practice everything lots!

DrivingTestTips: Brian

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Captain Havoc

DrivingTestTips: Brian wrote: »

Hi

Take a look at our video tutorials, they will help you..

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Been watching those and find them very good.

J_R

12 element wrote: »

Are you sure you should lift up from your seat with your foot on the clutch at the biting point?

+1

MascotDec85 wrote: »

Yes, I'm sure. It's only a quick shifty up. You are pushing yourself up using your left hand and your right foot. Your left foot shouldn't move and if it were to it would most likely move the clutch in.

Hi,

Sounds dangerous to me, if a person is very small lifting up slightly will accomplish nothing so they would have to lift themselves up a considerable distance. And their left foot will follow them up, not elongate.

But it is unnecessary, when he stops you before the corner it is so you can give a good check all around for problems such as kids. Kids around, he should direct you to an alternate corner.

If you subsequently keep a continuous all around observation (whilst still remained securely seated) no kids should get close enough to cause you any problem.

MascotDec85

J_R wrote: »

+1


Hi,

Sounds dangerous to me, if a person is very small lifting up slightly will accomplish nothing so they would have to lift themselves up a considerable distance. And their left foot will follow them up, not elongate.

But it is unnecessary, when he stops you before the corner it is so you can give a good check all around for problems such as kids. Kids around, he should direct you to an alternate corner.

If you subsequently keep a continuous all around observation (whilst still remained securely seated) no kids should get close enough to cause you any problem.

It's not dangerous if done and taught properly. I'm not the tallest of people and I can manage it easily and so can my pupils. The handbrake is also engaged at this point.

Kids can appear at any time during a manoeuvre. They can come out of a house or a driveway or come along the road on a bike/on foot. Regardless whether the area was clear before the junction kids can and will appear from nowhere.

J_R

MascotDec85 wrote: »

Kids can appear at any time during a manoeuvre. They can come out of a house or a driveway or come along the road on a bike/on foot. Regardless whether the area was clear before the junction kids can and will appear from nowhere.

Hi,

totally agree. but if proper observation is kept there is no way they can get so close to the car that they become invisible to ordinary all around scans and can only be seen by lifting oneself up off the seat.

I say it is unnecessary, my trainer said it was unnecessary and in sixteen years as a driving instructor have never instructed a pupil to lift themselves up from the seat.

However, I have advised some to use a cushion, I recommend the one Lidl's sometimes stock.

MascotDec85

J_R wrote: »

Hi,

totally agree. but if proper observation is kept there is no way they can get so close to the car that they become invisible to ordinary all around scans and can only be seen by lifting oneself up off the seat.

I say it is unnecessary, my trainer said it was unnecessary and in sixteen years as a driving instructor have never instructed a pupil to lift themselves up from the seat.

However, I have advised some to use a cushion, I recommend the one Lidl's sometimes stock.

ok

I'll just point out that tester's don't have an issue with it