Does parking on kerb damage suspension?

Stoke

Going up the kerb you should try go up a dropped section. Coming off you can drive straight off really. Unless your car is lowered, your stock suspension will be designed to take excessive levels of movement.

If the kerb is raised and you need to go up, I would suggest driving straight up at a low speed it rather than edging up like I regularly see people do, but I don't think it's good for your suspension.

red_eye

NewBe wrote: »

Moved to a house on a narrow cul-de-sac, so parking on the road is very tight for passing cars. Ours does not have a driveway.

Only safe option seems to be parking halfway on kerb. Neighbour has a dropped kerb which can be used to get on the kerb. Other option is to leave it on roadside and risk any minor scrapes.

Will parking halfway for long periods do any damage to the suspension?

no but driving onto a curb (non drop curb) will

reeac

NewBe wrote: »

Moved to a house on a narrow cul-de-sac, so parking on the road is very tight for passing cars. Ours does not have a driveway.

Only safe option seems to be parking halfway on kerb. Neighbour has a dropped kerb which can be used to get on the kerb. Other option is to leave it on roadside and risk any minor scrapes.

Will parking halfway for long periods do any damage to the suspension?

We had problems a few years ago with holidaymakers parking halfway onto the pavement in our village. The real problem was that a disabled resident with a mobility buggy couldn't get past the parked cars except by going out into the road which exposed her to traffic which frequently ignores the 30 mph. limit. The problem was solved via the Parish Council.

Robisere

Thank you, reeac!

At last someone comes out with the reason why you should NOT park on the kerb and obstruct a pathway. If there is any chance that a disabled person is going to come down your Close, you would be breaking the law by obstructing them.

At the end of my own Close (admittedly, quite wide) there is the large house of a local businessman. He has huge Yew trees which overhang the footpath, which is narrow at this point. One day a 90 year old lady neighbour was trying to get along the path on her Mobility scooter, and entangled her bare arm in the sharp branches, ripping her skin quite badly. She had to have treatment for the wound. I went round to the house owner to tell him what had happened and ask that he trim back the trees. He was (and remains) arrogant and stated that they were his trees and the lady should have crossed the road to avoid the trees. That was impossible: I pointed out that the road is very busy and on a blind bend. He shrugged his shoulders, so I then informed him that the footpath was a Public Right of Way and I would be informing the Highways Department of his attitude and refusal to trim the trees, which I did.

A few days later, he was out trimming back the trees as I passed him. "Happy now?" he said "No, very unhappy to come across the one person in my village with such a selfish, arrogant attitude to his neighbours" I said.

Mine is a village with a cross-section of people from all walks of life and all incomes, we all get along well apart from this guy.