Practical Test

[GoldenMerc]

well fanx for the help with the theory the questions i asked all got asked in the test, i think they were right *(SCOTT IF NOT YOUR DEAD)*
Never the less at the end of this month i have my practical, the only thing i cant do is parallel park, what other things do i need to know?
Ross

[scottish]

http://www.drivinginnovation.co.uk/showmetellme.htm

remember them :P

At the start of your test you will be asked to read a reg plate for eye test, then you get two questions, usually one to do with the engine then one within the car (i.e. how to check oil then how to check parking brake)

[You]

I thought you already passed lol could have sworn you passed and had a focus?

[GoldenMerc]

i have a focus havent passed tho :P

[Black_Apalachi]

You only get asked for two manoeuvres don't you, so might not be asked parallel parking. Although does your instructor teach you it by saying do a full turn of the wheel, then half a turn etc etc? I found it dead easy like that.

Also, if you think you've messed something up, don't sort of give up, still try to nail everything else because I thought I'd mucked up reversing round a corner, and also I got caught at a red light in the bicycle zone, so I got dead pissed off with myself and sort of just didn't try properly afterwards. Turned out I passed with 8 minors, and I knew exactly what 6 or 7 of them were from stuff near the end which I knew I was doing wrong, if you get me :P (like not bothering to check all mirrors and stuff).

[GoldenMerc]

ooh, is it only two i thought it would be like 3, i recon reversing around the corner. and hmm emergancy stop are best.

[Black_Apalachi]

i can't remember... i got reversing round a corner.... and parallel parking i think. maybe it is three and i've forgotten one :P

i was glad i didn't get emergency stop because i was afraid of slamming on too hard (WHICH IS WHAT YOU WOULD DO IN REAL LIFE :eusa_wall) but it's got to be like not too abrupt or somethin lol

[scottish]

emergency stop aint a manovour

its either

parallel park
reverse around a corner
3 pt turn

:P

and yeh like if you mess up on the parallel park they usually let you drive forward then back again to sort it :P

Passed with 3 minors (H)

[GoldenMerc]

ooh i can do them pretty well
rob i do one lazy left which is a slow left then one brisk right i think. lololo i got it wrote down need to practice it more! Scott isnt bay park one?

[scottish]

Er depends, at my place they didn't have a proper car park so they weren't allowed to make us bay park.

[GoldenMerc]

lolol, so bay park is a maybe. i swear emergancy stop was a manouver

[scottish]

they sometimes ask you to do it but its not like one of the 2 you have to do :P

[Black_Apalachi]

ah yeah, i think i did reverse corner and 3 pt turn. mine didn't do bay parking either (i could have chose between two test centres so i chose the one without bay parking lol).

Ross ask your instructor to explain it by saying 'full turn to the left', 'half turn to the right' etc. should make it easier.

3 minors? nice one scottish :)

[scott]

yah they'll only ask you to do 2 of the 3, and they don't have to ask you to do an emergency stop it's up to them if they want too :P

[Eoin]

Emergency stop isnt a maneuver but the testers do it every 3 tests. For the bay park my instructor stuck a piece of chewing gum on the ground for me to line up with. Then just went full lock and into the space easy as pie :)
Passed with 3 minors;)

[scottish]

Yeh my 3 minors were obvious ones though

Forgot to check over shoulder when moving off
Didn't check rear mirror when slowing at a roundabout
And i hesitated at a roundabout :P

[scott]

Yeh my 3 minors were obvious ones though

Forgot to check over shoulder when moving off
Didn't check rear mirror when slowing at a roundabout
And i hesitated at a roundabout :P
lol on my 2nd test i got 3 minors as well, one he told me i was in the wrong lane approaching a roundabout, this roundabout which is rite next to my house which i've stayed for 18 years..which has one lane..and always has had one lane but according to him i was in the wrong one :eusa_danc

[scottish]

my driving thing is like 5 miles away so wasnt near my house lol

[Black_Apalachi]

lol on my 2nd test i got 3 minors as well, one he told me i was in the wrong lane approaching a roundabout, this roundabout which is rite next to my house which i've stayed for 18 years..which has one lane..and always has had one lane but according to him i was in the wrong one :eusa_danc

I find most small roundabouts like that... on the test you need to exaggerate the fact you're staying on the outside even if you're going across to the second exit or whatever.

[Dan2nd]

I swear when I did my test the guy was trying to distract me or something because he wouldn't shut up and I kept having to say 'hang on I'll tell you in a min I just want to make sure I get out of the junction ok' :P

Make sure you don't just glance in your mirrors and you actually make it obvious... oh and keep calm pretend you know what you're doing :D

Whatever I did it must have been right as I passed first time :)

[Yoshimitsui]

You get 2 reverse maneuvers out of parallel park, revers around a corner and turn in the road. They will pick what suits best to the current conditions. Chances are you wont get bay parking, its rare to get asked to do it and i never got an emergency stop either. But they may add that in if they have a free road for some time.

[GoldenMerc]

Thanks for all the help :)