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re: Most challenging skill: parallel parking, stick or driving backwards with a trailer?
Posted on 1/7/21 at 10:06 am to Aubie Spr96
Posted on 1/7/21 at 10:06 am to Aubie Spr96
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Backing up a little utility trailer or jet ski trailer is hard AF.
we had a little utility trailer we would pull the four wheeler with when I was in high school. My dad sent me to drop the trailer off at the shop for something and told me to just park on the street when I got home and to not even think about trying to back that little thing up. Well frick you dad I'm 16 and this is my truck. I don't think I had even managed to finish turning my self sideways to look at the trailer before the corner of that little thing punched a hole in the side of my truck
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Posted on 1/7/21 at 10:06 am to CAD703X
Trailer... especially different types of trailers. Some are much easier to maneuver.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 10:13 am to diat150
backing up a farm implement where the front axle turns, like one of those hay wagons, can be the most frutrating thing ever. you can have all four axles going in entirely different directions
Posted on 1/7/21 at 10:15 am to upgrayedd
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Had to back up a trailer with a manual Dodge 2500 a few months ago
I do that a couple days a week
Posted on 1/7/21 at 10:15 am to CAD703X
quote:the only one listed I struggle with. I only do it a couple times a year max, so that is probably why.
driving backwards with a trailer
Posted on 1/7/21 at 10:16 am to Gaston
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Almost no one can drive a stick well. That, almost every vehicle has a different clutch activation action. When I had a Tacoma stick and a BMW stick they were so different it was bizarre going between the two.
I got to the point where I only used the clutch to take off. I don't always drive that way anymore, but I can.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 10:17 am to yccsmf
Stick is easy. I asked my grandpa to teach me when I was about 13. Went to his church parking lot and practiced starting over and over and over. I would start, shift to 2nd, eventually to 3rd, and repeat. Once I got the hang of it, shifting is the easy part. Starting on a hill when it has been raining is the worst of it. Once you have that down, the rest is just muscle memory and knowing when to shift.
I will say, parallel parking my old Dodge 1500 was the easiest. It was a truck, but you could see the tailgate easy through the back window and know right where the back was. My SUV has the backup camera now, and it is super easy too, but there are more blind spots.
Trailers can be easy or the most difficult. Moved some family several years back, and my truck was the only vehicle we had that could pull a trailer. Except they lived on a hill, and the driveway was steep, so there was no way to get the trailer in place and then turn around. So I had to back a big U-Haul trailer down the street. That was fun.
I will say, parallel parking my old Dodge 1500 was the easiest. It was a truck, but you could see the tailgate easy through the back window and know right where the back was. My SUV has the backup camera now, and it is super easy too, but there are more blind spots.
Trailers can be easy or the most difficult. Moved some family several years back, and my truck was the only vehicle we had that could pull a trailer. Except they lived on a hill, and the driveway was steep, so there was no way to get the trailer in place and then turn around. So I had to back a big U-Haul trailer down the street. That was fun.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 10:55 am to CAD703X
I can do all three. None are a challenge.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 10:56 am to CAD703X
never operated a trailer, but fully confident that if I tried, there would be a fatality or 2
Posted on 1/7/21 at 10:57 am to CAD703X
Trailer, particularly a small RV
Posted on 1/7/21 at 10:59 am to CAD703X
In high school we had a ski boat. We also had a long, narrow, curvy driveway with a skinny arse 3rd garage/boat storage, which was perpendicular to said driveway. The only way to stowe the boat was to come all the way from the street backwards.
Life skill acquired.
Life skill acquired.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 11:40 am to CAD703X
They are easy if you know how to operate a vehicle properly.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 11:41 am to CAD703X
The trailer
Posted on 1/7/21 at 11:48 am to CAD703X
Trailer, definitely. Stick and parallel parking are a piece of cake in comparison.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 12:03 pm to CAD703X
Pulled a trailer often so backing one is not that difficult, now backing a hay wagon where the pivot point is at the front axle of the wagon, those things are pains in the arse to maneuver. Never had to do it enough to come close to mastering that skill.
Also, the shorter the trailer is the more difficult it is to back. They turn much quicker and you can jackknife one in a heartbeat.
Also, the shorter the trailer is the more difficult it is to back. They turn much quicker and you can jackknife one in a heartbeat.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 12:18 pm to CAD703X
Driving a stick up the ferry ramp with a worn out clutch. 
Posted on 1/7/21 at 12:30 pm to CAD703X
How to back up a trailer:
Put one hand at the 6 o’clock position of the steering wheel
Whatever direction you want the trailer to go is the direction you move your hand
Left = clockwise
Right = counter clockwise
Use slow speed and subtle movement of the steering wheel
Large trailers are easier to back up than smaller ones
Put one hand at the 6 o’clock position of the steering wheel
Whatever direction you want the trailer to go is the direction you move your hand
Left = clockwise
Right = counter clockwise
Use slow speed and subtle movement of the steering wheel
Large trailers are easier to back up than smaller ones
Posted on 1/7/21 at 12:39 pm to CAD703X
My driver's ed teacher told me i would have to keep circling and wait for two parking spots because i couldnt parallel park worth a shite
Posted on 1/7/21 at 1:01 pm to CAD703X
I’m a master at all 3
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