Manoeuvres: Bay park & Parallel park
During your training you will be taught how to perform a number of manoeuvres including the bay park and the parallel park as detailed on this page. You will be expected to perform one of these reverse manoeuvres on your driving test.
How to perform a bay park maneuver
A. As you position the car for this manoeuvre
be sure to allow sufficient room from the bays that you are going to reverse into. Remember to take into account that the front of the car will swing out as you start to steer.
Align your shoulder with the line as illustrated in diagram A.
Once you have stopped your vehicle, apply the handbrake and select the reverse gear.
You may find it beneficial to adjust your door mirrors so that you can see the rear wheel arches.
B. Remember to have a good look all round before you start the manoeuvre.
As you start to reverse back at a slow pace, turn the steering wheel also slowly onto full left hand lock, you will then be reversing around two vehicles. This is illustrated with the bay marked with the yellow lines.
C. Maintain observation whilst observing the path the car is taking as you reverse into the yellow marked bay. If you are getting too close to the first yellow line then a correction can be made by steering the wheel slightly to the right. If you find you are going too wide then stop the car, select forward gear, then drive slightly forward correcting as necessary, you may then continue reversing back into the bay. This correction would be quite acceptable as long as you maintain control of the car, and keep up the observation throughout the manoeuvre.
During your training you will be taught how to perform a number of manoeuvres including the bay park and the parallel park as detailed on this page. You will be expected to perform one of these reverse manoeuvres on your driving test.
How to perform a bay park maneuver
A. As you position the car for this manoeuvre
be sure to allow sufficient room from the bays that you are going to reverse into. Remember to take into account that the front of the car will swing out as you start to steer.
Align your shoulder with the line as illustrated in diagram A.
Once you have stopped your vehicle, apply the handbrake and select the reverse gear.
You may find it beneficial to adjust your door mirrors so that you can see the rear wheel arches.
B. Remember to have a good look all round before you start the manoeuvre.
As you start to reverse back at a slow pace, turn the steering wheel also slowly onto full left hand lock, you will then be reversing around two vehicles. This is illustrated with the bay marked with the yellow lines.
C. Maintain observation whilst observing the path the car is taking as you reverse into the yellow marked bay. If you are getting too close to the first yellow line then a correction can be made by steering the wheel slightly to the right. If you find you are going too wide then stop the car, select forward gear, then drive slightly forward correcting as necessary, you may then continue reversing back into the bay. This correction would be quite acceptable as long as you maintain control of the car, and keep up the observation throughout the manoeuvre.
D. Once you have finished reversing into the bay, apply the handbrake and select neutral.
Do not forget to re position your door mirrors back to their correct position.
Do not forget to re position your door mirrors back to their correct position.
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How to do a parallel parking manoeuvre
A. The examiner will ask you to select a safe place to stop about two car lengths behind the vehicle he wishes you to do a reverse park on. For this manoeuvre you will asked to pull alongside the vehicle in front of you, then reverse into the space behind imagining a vehicle two car lengths behind the vehicle.
It would be beneficial if you adjust the nearside door mirror down so that you can see the rear wheel arch.
Have a good look round, remembering to check over your right shoulder. As you drive very slowly forward turn your steering wheel quite briskly to the right.
Position the car so that you are about two feet away from the yellow car. Remember to check your rear view mirror as you are doing this and if you find there is any vehicles approaching from the rear, signal left to let them know you are stopping.
Position your car so that the rear of your car is level is level with the yellow car as in diagram A. Once stopped apply the handbrake and select reverse gear.
Have a good look round, remember to check over your right shoulder.
If safe start to reverse back slowly, looking out of the rear windscreen, continue to look around as you drive back.
B. Slowly reverse until the rear of the yellow car is about half way across the rear side window, check the right shoulder then if safe turn the steering wheel onto full left lock. Keep looking all round, if any other vehicles approach stop and only proceed when it is safe to do so. Observe the kerb traveling across the rear windscreen, when it reaches the end of the screen,
C. check your nearside door mirror and start to slowly steer onto full right lock. Observe all round and watch how the curb is in relation to the car. Increasing the speed of the wheel will increase the turning of the car. Make any slight corrections with the steering if necessary. It is important to maintain your observation and not to stare at any one point. Watch the front of the car coming in and stop when it becomes parallel to the curb and apply handbrake and select neutral. If you find you are going to hit the curb, as long as you stop and correct the manoeuvre whilst maintaining correct observation, that would be quite acceptable.
