What did you do Today 2018

I've had a couple of automatics, old borg warner things and a belt vari', didn't like either. The modern ones work well until something goes wrong, what's wrong ? Can be a very expensive experience and finding just a dud sensor.

Parking, always back in when possible, it's just daft to reverse into traffic if you don't have to.

Reverse in or reverse out?? - depends on circumstances. Given the general incompetence of Brit drivers and the stupidly narrow spaces allocated to the relatively healthy and non-reproductive car users, I park, ideally nearside-to-nearside, as close as sensible to make opening my (driver's) door less restrictive. Often defeated, of course, by the clown who replaces my neighbour and takes over the extra space! Parking, like the use of indicators, is obviously far too complex a science for Brit driving 'intelligence'!

rgds

Bill

An old mate of mine used to have a mini moke (remeber them? If he parked in Hemel Hempstead multi story he just used to get out and push it under the stairs. With the top down it was only about three feet high, sort of like a rather large roller skate.

Oh and as for what am I doing today, working my last full time week. My pension cuts in on the weekend so I have to reduce my hours to 3 days a week. Quite looking forward to it but it does feel a little strange.

regards Martin

Martin, I have been on 21 hours a week now for 3 years since turning 65, I have a couple of days left to work this month and then I will fully retired from toolmaking after 52 years.

I have done enough.

Colin

I don't care whether people go into parking slots backwards or forwards, but I wish someone would explain to me why, whenever people in a supermarket car park see a car's reversing lights come on, they go into automatic suicide mode and stand either directly behind it or, worse, in the blind spot all modern cars seem to have.

'It won't happen to me' syndrome.

It won't, if you don't allow it to in the first place.

Todays parking spaces are old hat, designed for the smaller car that hit the masses... Austin sevens, A30/40's moggi minor, minis, not todays SUV's. If car park designers took a leaf out of the US highways parking system & mark out the spaces at 45* not the silly small spaces that we have now, that would only necessitate a two point reverse out, not the requisite 3 - 4 - 5 point manoeuvres that some drivers have to do nowadays.

​George.

"I have done enough.

Colin"

Me to Colin - enjoy your retirement.

Rik

44 years was enough for me.

Mike

At the end of where i live is a little steep bit and after it snows i have to put the car neutral or the automatic box pushes you down,it just slides.

I'm sure there was a news article where someone got a ticket for parking across 2 bays. It turned out that the council / owner had made the bays too small and had to repaint them.,

regards.

David

Caught this on BBC news today and wondered if Neil might be interested in 3D printing a replacement for his metal garden shed ?
**LINK**
DaveD

You'll have to explain how you reverse into said space without "reversing into traffic". You lost me at that point....

Murray

Always gives me some entertainment watching someone trying to unload a trolley full of shopping into the boot of their car when they have reversed into a double lined bay, and someone has parked an SUV etc directly behind them.

I probably gave some of the same entertainment to others when having parked the 'Disco' nose in at ASDAs, two cars parked so close to me I couldn't open the doors, had to clamber in via the rear door - couldn't have done that if I'd gone in stern first.

I wouldn't have minded but I parked in the most remote part of the car park with no other cars anywhere near me at the time.

Goes to prove that if you park in the middle of a deserted carpark, someone will always come and park next to you.

Regards

Lofty

Muzzer- I'm lost also. Reverse into the parking space, pull-out forwards into traffic, what's the problem ? If someone parks behind me and a trolley has to be unloaded I just move forwards a couple of feet, or in dire need pull out and repark. Only had to do that once. PS I don't have a 3 ton truck, just a little motor so can usually just lean on it to move.

Reversing or not into a parking space isn't as serious as the toilet seat question. On that one daring to debate the issue is liable to end in divorce. Should you leave it up or down? And why? No wonder modern life is so stressful...

I spotted this brilliant bit of parking at Tesco

Talking about supermarkets (which we weren't). My wife is really careful to try and avoid getting her car marked by stupid hit & run drivers who cannot park properly. So she always tries to find an area of car park where there are lots of free spaces even though it might involve a longer walk to the entrance & she parks in the middle. She always comments how weird it is that when she returns there will nearly always be someone who has decided to park right along side her, as if trying to start another row. Even though there are loads of empty spaces

She is not alone, this often happens to me.