I have a bit of an OCD thing for parking on roads, I have to be within about 1cm of the kerb BUT not actually touching it. The ideal gap for me is so I can just get a piece of paper between wheel and kerb.
Does anyone else share this need?
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Judging by the rims on my car, my wife aims for about minus 1cm when driving my car, but seems to miss it when driving hers.
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I dont care so long as no-one is going to clip my wing mirrors if I am hanging out too far.
Surely depends on the width of the road (and potentially of the pavement).
A really wide road, you can leave a couple of feet gap, no harm done. A narrow road, sticking out means losing your wing mirror. A very narrow road you might block it completely if not on the pavement.
Of course, a narrow road and a narrow pavement could mean losing your other wing mirror to a pedestrian trying to get past. Especially if that pedestrian is me.
I keep switching between my car and my hubby's. I have no idea where the back of either of them is. Drove flat backed Zafira's for 10 years and these have boots. Terrified of dinging them so am currently parked about 18 inches from the wall at work!
Not in the back two seats of the Merc 300 Estate I used to have years ago, great fun for the kids on a bumpy road.
I must confess that most the time I park so perfectly well it is a real shame to have to drive off again - a bit like how those highly artistic sand sculptures sadly get washed away in the end.
Well I used to live in London, where parking on the pavement is illegal so I always used to park as close to the pavement as possible given the indifference of Londoners to smashing off wing mirrors. Now I live in the sticks, so I don't care and can be anything up to a foot away if I feel like it and my wing mirrors are always still there when I come back to the car.
The law allows you to park up to 18" from the kerb, so why not use it. (But not in my car)
On a related note, the thing that really burns me up is people who park about 10ft from the front or rear end of a multi-car marked parking area. What can they be thinking? (Don't answer)
You see it all the time and it is utterly selfish reduction in the effective length of the space and the number of cars it can hold, to no benefit for the person being selfish.
I miss the time when I had a 4.6 litre Range Rover (I swear there was a thunderstorm under the bonnet) which, frankly, I could park anywhere I liked. Literally.
If I recall, even the handbook just said "park anywhere mate, no worries". Possibly.
5 metres, depending on the width of the road. Or do you mean the nearside curb?
If so, then 5 metres..
More than 0 and less than 12 inches.
As a kid I judged the competence in driving inversely to skill if I could ride between vehicle and kerb.
My late husband used to get a bit annoyed by what he called Hxxxxxx parking (after the town where we live)- so far away from the kerb "you'd need a taxi to get to it". One old lady (long gone now) would just abandon her car in the middle of the high street if she couldn't find a parking space.
If you return to your car and it is adorned with a sticker or tape bearing the words "Police aware", you have either not parked close enough to the kerb or you have parked in someone's hedge.