BourboNole
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- Forest Green/Forest Edge R1T on 21s
I think the trouble with parallel parking the R1T is 2-fold. First, the flared rear fenders and taper back to the tailgate make it hard to visualize the line along which the vehicle needs to travel in parallel situations. This is exacerbated by the poor placement of the rear facing sideview cameras. Because they are placed low and in the front fender, instead of high and out on the end of the mirrors, they have insufficient angle to really locate the rear edges of the vehicle against obstacles. I park on the end of a row in the corner of my work garage and it is a tapered spot and I used to have no trouble getting my old Charger within an inch of the back corner using only a backup camera and no parking sensors. Because the parking spot itself is tapered against a wall and the back of the truck is too, even when I think I am right up on it, I am not really even close, despite the side sensors screaming at me for the last few feet of backing up.
On the topic of the side camera, I never had similar issues with my TRX which also has heavily flared rear fenders (and which wouldn't even fit in my work garage), and I believe it was because the camera was higher and further out from the side giving a better view of what was happening at the rear. Despite its massive size, I never had any issues parking it, assuming the spot was big enough to fit.
On the topic of the side camera, I never had similar issues with my TRX which also has heavily flared rear fenders (and which wouldn't even fit in my work garage), and I believe it was because the camera was higher and further out from the side giving a better view of what was happening at the rear. Despite its massive size, I never had any issues parking it, assuming the spot was big enough to fit.
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