Please settle this argument for us. I always prefer to back into my garage space so that in the morning I pull out when I'm feeling better and fresher and perkier! My husband says I'm crazy and he puts the car nose in first! Any preferences?

Well, we have a huge double garage...which is so full of STUFF from my hubby's business that there is no room for a vehicle.

May I ask...do you BOTH drive this vehicle? If it's just "yours"...do what you want...

If it's a daily "thing", like who put it in the garage last...well, that's just SAD!

As I get daily "excess verbiage" about almost everything I do or think or say...(even if I did what he wanted, I'd be wrong...or he'd rub it in...) so....

GO ALONG YOUR MERRY WAY! Do what you think's best!
You can't win this one!

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I always go in nose first for no particular reason than that's how Jack was doing it before I got here and here is where I learnt how to drive so backing in would have been far to hard at the start.

You park in your garage? The houses on this estate all have garages but I doubt that more than one or two people use them for cars, I certainly don't. I drive into my parking area front first, back out - do the same at the office parking area.

I can hardly move around in our garage, let alone park in it!

If I could park it straight, I'd back into my driveway. As it is, we have two cars to fit into the driveway and if you don't part straight they won't both fit. I usually park nose-in in the driveway and back out, because if you do THAT crooked, who cares? You drive away in another second and the whole messy business is behind you.

I am sorry I didn't state that I live in an apartment building on a big hill and there is a subterranean parking lot and then you climb up stairs. There are about five spaces available and when people are here in the area, those are very hard to get in the day.
So we have to use little parking spaces beneath the house.
They are much smaller than your garages.
So I have to park it dead center so that the kids can get in and I can too in the morning.
Our problem (yes it is sad) is that when he drives my vehicle he says it's a pain to back it in, and yet, I prefer to just pull out in the morning. I figure there doesn't seem to be any logic about it, is there?
And yet, all my neighbors back their vehicles in, no one else puts the nose in first.
In any case, he doesn't use my car often.

In this area, you have to count your lucky stars you even have a parking space. They are very expensive. Our other car was stolen from the front parking spaces and burnt in a Viking funeral on a hilltop. So parking in the underground thing is essential.

By the way, here, if you can't parallel park very well, you might as well not even bother going out of the house, as it is a fine art to even find a space much less fit in it. And you must make the maneouver while people are snorting and pawing the ground behind you.
I've become quite adept at it since I lived here. But my mechanic co workers in one job would delight at putting my little car in a tight spot and then counting how many time I had to do it. You have to touch bumpers though in most instances and if the person is in their vehicle it's embarassing!

My wife has the car and I have a pick-up truck. The truck stays outside all year, but the wife backs her car into the one-car garage. It's much safer when leaving your home to drive forward; you don't run over the kid's toys or stray animals and you have a clear view of the road coming up.
My wife has become so good at parking that she has to only back in two times to get the car 3 inches from the wall. When she first started backing in, she tore out the right rearview mirror. It was one of those electrically operated ones, too.

Hallelujah! Someone finally has given me a good reason to pull out that way!

The whole problem is that I recognize that as it is more difficult to back a car into a space than to go in nose first, that you do have to make the effort at one point so some people argue it doesn't make any difference as one way or another you'll still have to make the effort.
But Fjohn, your answer makes more sense.
If objects have accumulated beneath the car since you parked it, (is there a Murphy's law for that one?) then you can see them better when you pull out.
When you backed it in to the space you presumably took the precaution of looking for obstacles before doing the manoeuver.
Makes sense.

well i prefer just pulling into a parking space...mind you, i don't have a car and i never tried to park in the garage(i need a car!!!). also my backing into stalls aren't great, it does get better with pratice im told(that would be great but again the issue of no automobile )

I would recommend that you folks park your car, whether forward or backward and then walk, bike or take public transport to your next destination! Drive less, consume less fuel...make the environment happy!

jazz - that's kinda hard for me because there isn't any public transportation and I live on an island where it's next to impossible to ride your bike up the bridge

Anyway, I wanted to share something... In New York State, it is illegal to 'back out' of your driveway.

Hey what's a garage.
Turned mine into a playroom for the kids , now its ideal as a computer room. Ive got a new shed for my Motorcycle though. Her indoors plays hell when she's scraping the ice off the screen in winter.

tecwyn

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