Parking

[pharow]

What is hardparked?

[long tall eta]

easier for me to pull in, but i have rear stearing in my car with lsd front wheel drive, a hood spoiler, rear air dam and the steering wheel is in the back seat. oh wait, my seats are installed wrong.

[Bimmerman325i]

No ninjapark no vote.

Hugo.

[jasonbk]

I don't like reverse in or parallel because no power steering.

[rThor432]

I park hard. I can pull in and usually pull through, but I'm terrible at pulling out.

Edit: What are we talking about?

[YosemiteSam]

Can you please define Vladpark.
Something like this?:

, and I said reverse in. I am almost better at driving backwards than I am a driving forwards.

[mtechnik]

This thread feels like the toilet paper thread even though it's actually auto related. :D

I voted parallel park fwiw.

[Cabriolet]

i park how a feel at that moment. hand break parking isnt legal so thats the only one i dont do.

[jasonbk]

Just found an interesting thread about parking:

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=175851

[Vivek]

I see that all the damn time in the city, but around where I live, I've never had a car been hit nor seen a car hit in a parallel parking spot. In sf though...every damn time someone uses your bumper to feel where to park.

[VinniE30]

I love to parallel park because I feel like it's the safest for the cars (no jackasses opening their doors into your baby), but otherwise I generally back in partially over a random no parking zone or next to a curb (50% less chance of a door ding--and I generally choose spots that my driver's side is against the curb backed in, so if another car pulls in, like most cars do, their passenger side will be next to my car, and since most cars have only one person in them, there's less of a chance of anyone hitting my car).


Vinni: Why doesn't your front bumper trim have any license plate holes? P-shopped?

I go by the same strategy except for the parallel parking part.
I would choose parallel parking last instead of first because I think it's far more likely for the driver to hit your car driving in or out of their spot. This risk supersedes any risk of door dings.

and yea i shopped out my plate in my sig

[Vivek]

I love to parallel park because I feel like it's the safest for the cars (no jackasses opening their doors into your baby), but otherwise I generally back in partially over a random no parking zone or next to a curb (50% less chance of a door ding--and I generally choose spots that my driver's side is against the curb backed in, so if another car pulls in, like most cars do, their passenger side will be next to my car, and since most cars have only one person in them, there's less of a chance of anyone hitting my car).


Vinni: Why doesn't your front bumper trim have any license plate holes? P-shopped?

[VinniE30]

Pull through: fast in, fast out
Back in: slow in, fast out
Pull in: fast in, slow out

slow means it takes longer since you have to go from reverse to first gear or vice versa

[lambo]

wtf is the diff between pull in and pull through? haha

well, like Vinni said, I guess it is circumstantial...

[VinniE30]

wtf is the diff between pull in and pull through? haha

Pull through is when you pull through the spot into the one behind it, so it looks like you backed into the spot you're in but you dont need to go in reverse.
I always choose this option if there's a spot like this.