Marked out P's test practising areas?

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Marked out P's test practising areas?

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Hey boys and girls,
As the title suggests, does anyone know of marked car parks or such to practise for a P's test.

I remember my old uni (western Syd, campbelltown) had it marked out but I dont know if its still marked out there.

Can someone direct me please.

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as far as i know they still have the one in loftus TAFE carpark that my wife practiced on. 8)

i think they now lock the gates at night :cry:
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thats why god invented boltcutters ;-)
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I know where one is here in Canberra, but that's probably a bit further than you want to go :lol:
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If you can't locate one, we grabbed measuring tape, some chalk and those cheapie $2 mini witches hats and made our own test area in a quiet empty parking lot.
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wanna teach a mate U turns mainly. I know they are 6.1 meters wide but i dont know the depth?!

Also if anyone has the measurements, can you please let me know...

thanks for the input guys,

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The skid pan (or Truck stop or whatever it is) at the start of the old road in Berowra (heading North), it is painted. Now I am not sure if it is the old mark out from before they made the U turn over 6 metres. But it is there... no gates!

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hey hey Sam,

good to see you here.

Yeah will go check it out tomorrow... doesnt matter if its only 5.7 meters, if he can get that right, he'll be right for the larger box... Can run through the other stuff too...

Thanks for that mate...

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Dude,

This link from RTA shows what is required for the test including the dimensions. Draw them up in any carpark. Thats what I did, and wih the help of some witches hats.

http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/licensing/downloads/most.pdf

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Where do you live? If you are in western sydney..

I practised at Werrington TAFE and also at the Regatta centre at Penrith. The TAFE car park no longer do the test but still had the "old" markings on the ground (smaller distances and tighter turns) and i did most of my practise there (7 months ago). I checked recently and the markings are still there. A week before my P's test i went to the regatta centre (where i was booked in) and spoke to the instructor. he let me practise there and even invited me to watch the test that was happening the next day.. it was good to see and helped me heaps.
The regatta centre has the correct markings but they have courses on most days. They don't like you practising there on weekends but after 4pm you should have no problems until the gates close.

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