After 40 years of driving I recommend the trial and error method. Works eventually.

Another great instructional video of an important skill. Once again, nice to see I largely do what Ash demonstrates but still worthwhile viewing to ensure I understand and improve wherever I can.

The editing , with the different camera angles , gives it an all round demonstration, so well done. It would be interesting for you to do it with parked cars as well and see how that goes. Sometimes ,not all the time, it's easier to get within the lines when using the parked cars as a guide. The only problem is if they are not parked well themselves .

I have been driving for a number of years now and I developed a 'feel' for reverse parking as a result, but videos like this would have been a huge help to me back when I was learning and it makes me happy that you make these videos to help educated and demystify manoeuvring for the new, recently passed and even experienced drivers. Thank you for all the effort you put into these clear and direct videos for all to learn from and enjoy. I'm still and always will be looking for little changes that makes me a more competent, aware and respectful road user and your videos are a great way to brush up and learn.

I was always in confusion about bay parking.

Passed my test yesterday, just wanted to thank you for the great videos definitely helped me to pass

Much of the discussion conformed to what I have taught myself to do (this maneuver was not covered when I took driver training almost 60 years ago). And, I learned some new stuffs. Nice.

My technique is to find an empty corner of the car park away from other cars, eyeball it with the reversing camera, hope for the best, and just accept that the car will stick out over at least one of the lines because the spaces in most car parks are smaller than my family estate car. Yes, I've did once bring a tape measure along to confirm this.

My first instructor tried to teach to line the furthest line of the space 2 away from the space I wanted to park in with a seam in the door trim claiming it will be the same in every car. He didn't acknowledge my concerns with this, cars being different sizes and shapes, etc. He fell ill so I got a second instructor who taught the same method as you Ash, although in a slightly smaller car, he was teaching me to pass the test but whilst teaching me, said it is dependent on the size of the car etc and that adjusting the technique to accommodate the different factors of being in a different car after passing will be something that will be relatively easy to do. It helped me out considerably, in the 5 years I have been driving, I have never had a problem reversing into a bay, have done it in my small car, and vans with the same method.

My instructor taught me the 3 M's:

Reference points don't carry over well between cars, so often learner will get their first car, and be completely thrown. The best way is learning to use only your mirrors. It's most easily done by putting your car roughly at 45 degrees to the bay, with your rear vaguely near the entrance to the bay. Then you simply guide your car in by looking at whichever mirror is on the side the curve of your turn is. Make sure there's enough distance between either the car or the bay line. Once you're straight enough for the other mirror to be useful, use that to centralise. The great thing about this method is that you can jump into any car whatsoever, and be confident you can reverse it properly. If you rely on reference points, you'll get panic instead!

Amazing as always

Very happy that they made backup cams required in all newly sold cars in the US in 2018, they are incredibly useful and have their safety benefits assuming they are being used correctly

it will be useful to demonstrate this in a crowded car park, as for new drivers they might not encounter an empty car park that often. Sometime in the office parking people also park off side slightly that make it difficult to see any lines.

These lessons are worth watching.

I have problems with bay parking into those click and collect bays, where there is no third line, but it seems to be a recurrence of the same problem I have when normally bay parking - because my instructor taught me to use the rear passenger window, around where the locking mechanism is as the turning point, and I always end up too close on the driver's side, so I have to re-adjust. I'm going to use this method from now on - I'm not sure whether the car I'm driving (Skoda Superb) is just a larger car (I learnt in a Peugeot 207) but I think using better clutch control and slowing down might help. I also use the mirrors to gauge how far back I am - if they are perched like a bird on the farther line of the bay next to us, you are golden/

I favour the "drive around till you find a pull-through space" technique myself.

Hi Ashley. I remember that my driving instructor put some marks on the rear window to help sight the cars position for parking and reversing round a corner.

this is a spot where experience shows. enough time and awareness driving a vehicle, and you just know whether your wheels are straight.

As a driving instructor myself I will certainly be using some of the key words that Ashley used