Can you park your car in your garage and still get out??

Ishtar

My 206 is kept on the road - difficult to argue that it should be garaged when OH's MG is probably worth quite a bit more .

Having said that, OH has sheets of expanded polystyrene to stop the paint from chipping...he'd have a job getting out of the car otherwise (even though he's quite thin!).

For info the house was built in the mid-70s - ex-local authority.

D.

nearlyrich

drinkupretty wrote: »

No, our garage is where we keep all our !!!! so no room for a car.

Ours too, we have a 2 car tandem garage which has been semi converted into a utility room and a workshop, the rest is full of stuff for want of a better term LOL. It would be a struggle to get my car in to be honest as it is tight up to a narrow road and the neighbours across have a fence so not much room for manoeuvre.;)

andyrules

It's not a new thing really - my dad always put his car away (1960s garage and car) and always drove one of those large old Zodiac jobs. Passengers had to disembark on the drive and he was built like a skeleton.

Personally, I really can't be bothered - in fact I don't know anyone who can. Insurance companies usually ask whether you leave the car on the drive or on the road - never the garage!

phill1978

lazy_tiger wrote: »

If you can't get out after driving in nose first, reverse! The doors will end up in a different position.

Loose some weight. It is noticeable that also since the 70s /80s people have piled on the pounds in line with the amount of time they spend in the car. When I were a lad there used to be a throng of cyclists as the factory gates opened. Now people moan about the cost of fuel as they have to drive 50 miles to commute to work and it costs them too much. Also they can't cook as they don't have the time after the long commute and they have to find time to go to the gym to loose the weight from the ready meals they eat. I think garages were designed for slimmer people.

Flog the 4x4 and get a smaller car.

Buy a bike and use it.
Work nearer to home.
Cook your own food.
Exercise as part of your daily life not as an add on "task".

doesnt matter how thin people become or if they buy a smaller car which in truth are only 10-15cm thinner yet then become a 3dr with longer doors. cycling is pointless if it takes more than 30mins.. even then you arrive at work out of breath, and not being funny working for the NHS we dont tend to have office showers so you enter work as a sweaty mess and it takes you a further 10 mins to get changed.


work nearer to home... yes, the most useless single bit of advice given.. 30 million workers crammed into every city on bikes.. its not China !? its the uk a small rock of a country in comparison, the price of a house in a city and the reduced quality of life in a tiny flat with increased crime and noise ?

ironically it would be cheaper to install a basment garage / lift arangement for your newley aquirede range rover sport in the suburbs than move to a city.

with regards to being thinner again.. you imagine vast swathes of ultra faties not able to get out of cars ? have you even considered people with disabilities or disorders..

you forget than in your utopian vision of society that in the end we all have to make compromises and simply suggesting that we all become skinny cyclists that cook our own healthy meals and live in a flat will solve these problems ?

PasturesNew

I had an "almost double" garage at my last house, almost double because it had one large door about 8' wide, but inside there were workbenches up the sides that'd get in the way if 2 people wanted to park side by side...

When I get a house I want it to have either a 10' wide garage or double. I will have good storage in there, used for essentials - and the whole of the rest of the garage space will be used so I can park in the middle, open both doors, vacuum it out, get shopping/stuff in and out of the car, clean the car, get round it ... all without any trouble whatsoever.

Takoda

Yes :D:D:D:D

Older_but_not_wiser_2

Wifes Kia picanto - yes

My Merc C class - no way.

House only 20 years old, so no excuses for smaller cars back then.

Garage is being converted to a room soon, so no point worrying about it. Lucky we have space for two cars on our drive.

rosalie-lavender

We have never actually tried to put our car in the garage but I think it would fit in. The trouble is our last car, a 7 seater was too long to fit and in the intervening years a large amount of other stuff has been stored in there instead.

Our neighbourhood watch co-ordinator commented recently that we all buy expensive cars and leave them on the drive because our garages are filled up with clutter. Certainly most of the people in our area should be able to fit their cars in the garage but few of us do, in spite of a lot of car breakins and damage recently near us.

Mags_cat

Not a chance.

I have a VW Polo - so hardly a large car...and yet if I ever managed to get in the garage without scraping the paint off the car doors, there's no way I'd be able to get out.

chnelomi

indiegirl wrote: »

I can get the car in, but can't get out once in, unless I perform acrobatics over to the back seat and out of the rear doors. When parked, the front doors align with the two main side supporting pillars, reducing the opening gap to about 2inches. No amount of contortionism will get me out of there!

:rotfl:My friends dad at school used to have to climb the seats to get out. They had no street parking and the lane behind the house was a shortcut for drunk youths so they had no choice but to use the garage.

Her dad would reverse the car in (if he drove it in his wife couldn't get the car out) line the back door with the side door of the garage. Then climb over the seats into the back roll the window down and open the garage door open the car door into the open space left by the door and get out. He would then have to walk around the house to shut the garage from the lane.

Night mare:eek: