"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
03/12/2020 at 09:57 • Filed to: None
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"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
03/12/2020 at 09:57 • Filed to: None | 1
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I leave my home office for two years and I come back to this.
It seems most of the people in the garage finally figured out that it’s better to back in to park.
My favorite spot has been taken over by someone else. I’m not opposed to backing in between the poles, but sometimes I’m just not up to the challenge.
My poor little car needs some love after being under my wife’s care for two years. My weekends were busy with family, so I didn’t have time to give it the attention it needed. I’m pretty sure it hasn’t been washed in that entire time. In Louisiana, that’s a recipe for things to start growing and they have. It’s going to take a lot of scrubbing to get the paint pristine again. :(
facw
> TheRealBicycleBuck
03/12/2020 at 10:15 |
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I stick with my position that backing in to park is generally dumb. Much better to go for wards into the narrow space, and backwards into the big one. Obvious exceptions are spots off of roads or whatever instead of quiet parking lot aisles (since you don’t want to back up into heavy traffic), and extremely tight spaces where you are putting the passenger side against a wall or other obstacle and thus need to face a certain direction.
412GTI
> TheRealBicycleBuck
03/12/2020 at 10:33 |
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Clay bar and you’ll get a lot of that contamination off! Looks good in that picture at least!
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> facw
03/12/2020 at 10:39 |
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And I will continue to disagree with you. It’s much easier and safer to leave a parking space when you are backed in. The sight lines are better pulling out than they are backing out.
Several years ago a woman backing out of a space didn’t see us crossing behind her and backed into the rear-quarter of our Explorer. She was in an Expedition parked between two other SUVs and she just couldn’t see. That and she was too aggressive when backing out.
It’s not unusual to see people using the back-and-pray-nobody’s-in-the-way method for getting out of their parking space. It would be so much easier on them if they just backed into the space and pulled out.
Yeah, yeah, if more cars had backup sensors and cross traffic sensors or were better drivers or if people would just slow down in the parking lot then this wouldn’t be an issue. Unfortunately, I live in the real world where it is an issue. In this world, backing into a space is the better approach.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> 412GTI
03/12/2020 at 10:41 |
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Thanks. I’ll start with a good scrubbing, then work my way up. Thankfully, the conditions were just right to make it look decent. Up close it’s a mess.
MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> facw
03/12/2020 at 10:43 |
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Yes, it’s easier to pull in forward than to back in from a pure driving standpoint, but it’s much safer to back in. If I’m somewhere where there are a lot of people or cars around I always back in if possible.
BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind
> TheRealBicycleBuck
03/12/2020 at 11:43 |
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I’m just amazed the garage allows it. All of the pay garages in my state require nose-in parking so they can read plates.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind
03/12/2020 at 11:47 |
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This garage is free parking. It supports both the office and retail spaces around the garage.
When I was in Houston, some of the pay lots required nose-in parking, but Texas has front and rear plates, so it wasn’t much of an issue. Some of the lots required the driver to pay up front and indicate the space number when paying. So again, the parking direction wasn’t an issue.
Shoop
> facw
03/12/2020 at 12:27 |
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I can’t pull forw ard into most spots with my truck, but I can back into pretty much any spot it will fit.