width of car... to fit garage ?

AdrianC

londonTiger wrote: »

All passenger cars are more or less the same widths apart from super minis.

To within what sort of tolerance...?

A current Golf is 50mm wider than a 10yo one, and a current Mondeo is another 80mm wider than that current Golf. That's 130mm between a new Mondeo and a 10yo Golf - and if you don't think that could easily be the difference between getting in and out of a car in a garage and not doing so, then you're on another planet.

JustinR1979

Older the better, cars are getting so wide now.
Friend has an evoque and I reckon including the mirrors it's as wide as a lorry.
I think the Panda (12 plate on) is narrow - 1882mm.

OddballJamie

agrinnall wrote: »

Unfortunately the single garages most people have were built before modern cars and many are barely wide enough. When I had a garage I nailed some cheap carpet tiles to the garage wall on the side where I opened the driver's door to offer a bit of extra protection to the paintwork.

I've found it to be the opposite. I have a four year house with garage and although I can fit the car in, I can't actually get out of the thing.

My Grandad (when he was alive) had a single garage at the bottom of his garden that he would park his Morris Marina in every night, one in you could easily open both doors and get out.

AdrianC

How wide is your modern car, compared to a 1600mm-wide Marina (that's damn near a foot narrower than the current Mondeo I mentioned above, btw)

OddballJamie

1753mm against the Marina's 1626mm.
So 5" in it.

maninthestreet

Toyota Aygo, Smartfor4.

JustinR1979

I've always thought if had this problem, to fit a side door in garage to allow drivers door to open - is this a possibility?

laidbackgjr

It's not just the car width to consider it's the type of door, e.g. a Peugeot 1007 with sliding doors would have much easier access in and out in a garage than a narrower car with normal doors.

Also watch out for low garage roofs if you have gullwing doors!!!

OddballJamie

laidbackgjr wrote: »

It's not just the car width to consider it's the type of door, e.g. a Peugeot 1007 with sliding doors would have much easier access in and out in a garage than a narrower car with normal doors.

Also watch out for low garage roofs if you have gullwing doors!!!

I recommend that all Peugeot 1007s are kept in garages permanently.

forgotmyname

OddballJamie wrote: »

I recommend that all Peugeot 1007s are kept in garages permanently.

Well some do spend a lot of time at the dealers