ARGH! I can't do it!

**Donor** · 4th June 2008, 21:57

DMNTD you bastard, you made me do this!

I have to confess to the world:

I CANNOT BACK A TRAILER AND UNIT HAS MY BALLS IN HER POCKET! Cos she can dammit...

There, now stop taunting me with your oh so shiny green rep and yet emasculating comments you sod!

So...

...for the love of god, someone(s) out there make me feel better and tell me they suck badly at reversing trailers!

(For the record, I have managed to successfully reverse half a dozen times in the last 12 months, just not in one fluid motion...)

**Big Dan** · 4th June 2008, 22:00

Originally Posted by Donor

DMNTD you bastard, you made me do this!

I have to confess to the world:

I CANNOT BACK A TRAILER AND UNIT HAS MY BALLS IN HER POCKET! Cos she can dammit...

There, now stop taunting me with your oh so shiny green rep and yet emasculating comments you sod!

So...

...for the love of god, someone(s) out there make me feel better and tell me they suck badly at reversing trailers!

(For the record, I have managed to successfully reverse half a dozen times in the last 12 months, just not in one fluid motion...)

Backing a trailer is so easy do you want to learn from a master

**Donor** · 4th June 2008, 22:02

Originally Posted by Big Dan

Backing a trailer is so easy do you want to learn from a master

I think the lesson I had in backing a B train may have been partly to blame for burning out my reversing gland...

**BIHB@0610** · 4th June 2008, 22:04

I can't back a trailer either

Well, not unless you count parking the car, unhooking the trailer, pushing it where I want it then hooking it back up again .......

**Mike748** · 4th June 2008, 22:04

Ah well, some pick it up easy some don't.
Don't know what type of vehicle you are using or trailer but a short drawbar on a long wheelbase vehicle is a #%#^^$ to reverse even if you have the skills.

**fireball** · 4th June 2008, 22:07

i cant back a trailer using a car.....

but a tractor or a quad no worries!

**Meekey_Mouse** · 4th June 2008, 22:09

I've been able to do it since I was 14.. In the dark... With frosted up mirrors... And with a horse in the float (horse trailer)

Just keep practicing

**Donor** · 4th June 2008, 22:10

The few times I have succeeded, have been particularly sloooooooow affairs, and quite frankly highly embarrassing...

**Donor** · 4th June 2008, 22:11

Originally Posted by Meekey_Mouse

I've been able to do it since I was 14.. In the dark... With frosted up mirrors... And with a horse in the float (horse trailer)

Just keep practicing

Well...

...I can pee standing up, and without dribbling!

**Donor** · 4th June 2008, 22:13

Originally Posted by Planna

I can't back a trailer either

Well, not unless you count parking the car, unhooking the trailer, pushing it where I want it then hooking it back up again .......

That is a perfectly acceptable and very healthy method!

I commend you on your technique

**Big Dan** · 4th June 2008, 22:15

the key to backing is to watching the back corners of the trailer or the side you can see and slow smooth turning and you should be sweet

**McJim** · 4th June 2008, 22:54

Christ, I only learned to drive a car at age 32 what friggen chance have I got of backing a trailer?

**CookMySock** · 4th June 2008, 22:58

align the car and trailer first, now put your hand on the rim of the steering wheel right at the bottom in the middle (six oclock position.)

Start reversing, and you will discover when you move your hand to the left the trailer will go to the left, hand to the right - trailer will follow.

Make small corrections - 1/4 turn max, and keep your speed UP not down.

When you get good at this you can reverse at a fast walking to near-jogging pace, and you will look like the total expert. Heh it looks really funny watching someone reverse a trailer perfectly into a gap at a full running speed..

DB