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I live on the outskirts of London and we have to park in the street. Parallel parking has never been my forte, to put it mildly. My parking was dreadful and half of the time my car was not parked properly. I was ticketed on more than one occasion.
My friend suggested that I get parking sensors for my car to teach me how to parallel park. The parking sensors were easy to install and easily attained. I have a Mitsubishi automobile and was able to find Mitsubishi parking sensors online. There was no need for drilling or even professional installation. I was able to attach them both to my rear and front bumpers in a matter of minutes.
Then the fun began. With the parking sensors in place, my friend proceeded to teach me to parallel park on the street. The parking sensors, which I received from Parking Dynamics, made this a lot easier for me than ever before.
The first thing you need to do when learning how to parallel park is to pull up to the car in front of you so that you are right next to this vehicle. You then need to turn the wheels so that they go out towards the road and start backing in to the space, reversing slowly. The first time I tried this, the beeps were going off all of the time, indicating that I cut in too close to the car ahead of me and was in danger of hitting it.
Once you have cut the vehicle towards the curb as much as possible, you then need to continue to reverse while turning the front tires away from the street. Again, my front parking sensor kept beeping, but this allowed me to know just how far I had to turn the vehicle. The Mitsubishi parking sensors actually stopped me from hitting the car about seven times as I was learning how to do this.
After you get in your space, you need to back up to the car in back of you and leave some room between your car as well as the car in front of you and behind you. Always leave two feet in the front or the back so that you can get out. You never know if the car in front of you or behind you is going to leave and another one take its place and box you in.
By having both rear and front end parking sensors on my car, I was not only able to learn how to parallel park properly, but also able to continue to do so. I was no longer frightened of hitting a car behind me because of the parking sensors. This enabled me to begin to parallel park like a pro.
Now whenever I parallel park on the street in front of my house, the beepers never go off. I am glad that I have the Mitsubishi parking sensors on my car, however, as they have prevented me from hitting curbs and other objects such as trolleys in parking lots.
April 28, 2008 at 8:01 am | Parallel Parking, Parking Safety, Parking Sensor | No comment
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