cazalea[Seiko Moderator]
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Has anyone here ever bought a car and discovered it wouldn't fit in your garage/parking space?
Jun 20, 2020,16:31 PM
Not that I have done this (yet) but I've been talking to a friend with an Audi A8L who just had a new garage door installed, the sectional kind that rolls down in rails behind the door frame.
The new door uses 4-5 inches of the length of his garage, and now he can't get through the gap at the front to enter his house. He has to go around outside and in the front door. A major inconvenience!
Another friend of mine bought an SUV and discovered his new vehicle was just a hair too tall to get into their garage, so it has to sit out front which they do not like.
Raising the door isn't possible nor is lowering the floor.
Maybe I am overthinking it, but I did some measuring of a new car I'm thinking about getting, and it's going to be a colossal pain to get it inside... I'll have to redo shelving, get rid of things (that's the good part) and/or build myself a carport for one of the rest of the fleet.
Here is the potential new vehicle and one of the existing 3 cars that rotate through the slot now. Green dotted lines indicate the safe cubic space for parking. Brown is the maximum allowed by my garage.
At first things were fine - the garage was "huge" but then the stuff came pouring in to fill it.
Kayaks (now outside) bicycles (now in their own shed), tools, christmas ornaments, etc etc.
I added lots of shelves but they are getting in the way now of opening the doors!
Safe, more stuff neatly stowed, but ...
Cazalea
PS I just discovered that Edmunds (a car pricing company & former client of mine) has a iPhone app that uses AR simulation to show if your chosen vehicle fits! More details later on this.