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Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: Greg the dogsitter
Date: February 25, 2007 11:57AM
I know the tennis ball trick to tell whether a vehicle is far enough into a garage, but what can I use to avoid bonking into the obstacles on either side?
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: space-time
Date: February 25, 2007 12:02PM
what tennis ball trick?

p.s. please post in LARGE FONTS 'cause I cannot find my reading glass; I think I know who stole it.
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: Greg the dogsitter
Date: February 25, 2007 12:06PM
Tennis ball trick: Park the car correctly, then hang a tennis ball from the ceiling so it just barely touches the hood, or window, or hood ornament, or whatever. Parking then becomes easier next time, because you know when to stop pulling forward.

Sorry about your glasses. Have you checked your contract?
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: iaJim
Date: February 25, 2007 12:11PM
You can do the tennis ball trick for left/right too. Just hang it so you are driving right into it in front of you.
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: Greg the dogsitter
Date: February 25, 2007 12:12PM
Hm. I'd be concerned about parallax error.
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: space-time
Date: February 25, 2007 12:18PM
why do you need all these tricks to park a car? just get a feeling of the size of the car and the size of garage. I can park with clearance as low as 1-2" in either side of the car, Sure, it takes concentration, but it can be done.
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: Greg the dogsitter
Date: February 25, 2007 12:19PM
So the trick to correctly parking a car is to correctly park a car?

Thanks! I'll make a note!
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: Seacrest
Date: February 25, 2007 12:21PM
At least you have a garage, you insensitive clod.
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: Greg the dogsitter
Date: February 25, 2007 12:22PM
I'm sorry.
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: C(-)ris
Date: February 25, 2007 12:30PM
There are these things called mirrors. You use them with your eyes in your head to see if there is anything in the way.


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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: Greg the dogsitter
Date: February 25, 2007 12:31PM
That's very much. Where would you suggest putting these mirrors?

Edit: Real men don't correct their typos.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/25/2007 12:32PM by Greg the dogsitter.
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: grad
Date: February 25, 2007 12:44PM
LASERS!!!!


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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: Greg the dogsitter
Date: February 25, 2007 12:44PM
AWRIGHT!!
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: grad
Date: February 25, 2007 12:45PM
... no seriously... LASERS:

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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: Greg the dogsitter
Date: February 25, 2007 12:51PM
grad,

I figured you were serious. I figured that everyone was serious except Seacrest, who is a big meanie. Anyhoo, I don't think I'll be getting a Lexus soon. But that's a nifty technology.
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: blusubaru
Date: February 25, 2007 01:08PM
Clean out the garage?
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: grad
Date: February 25, 2007 01:08PM
pretty sweet technology.


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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: Greg the dogsitter
Date: February 25, 2007 01:10PM
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blusubaru
Clean out the garage?

I'll knock out the wall that's on one side and the support post holding up half the house that's on the other side and will get back to you. From the hospital. :-)
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: spearmint
Date: February 25, 2007 01:18PM
If the amount of junk in you garage is the problem, overhead racks. They are advertising some neat ones on TV here.



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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: Greg the dogsitter
Date: February 25, 2007 01:20PM
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spearmint
If the amount of junk in you garage is the problem, overhead racks. They are advertising some neat ones on TV here.

Minty:

Thanks for that, but the car has a wall on one side and a structural support pole on the other.
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: rgG
Date: February 25, 2007 01:23PM
I have tennis balls hanging in both garages. But I lost one of the tennis balls, so I had to replace it with this rubber ball that looks like a big eye. Kinda like these. grinning smiley





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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: MGS_forgot_password
Date: February 25, 2007 01:52PM
I do something similar to the tennis ball trick.

I always back into the garage, and I picked a nice spot on the back wall and aim for it with back corner of the car, using the side mirror.
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: macphanatic
Date: February 25, 2007 02:10PM
Nail 2x4's to the floor to guide the car into it's spot, just like at the carwash.
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: (vikm)
Date: February 25, 2007 02:53PM
Greg, I thought you were a native Californian. I thought it was your birthright to not have to park your car(s) in the garage. Most of the dolts out here use the garage for anything other than parking a car (generally filled with crap piled on top of other crap). Do you have to relinquish that when you move out of state?

;)
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: BigGuynRusty
Date: February 25, 2007 02:56PM
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Greg the dogsitter
but the car has a wall on one side and a structural support pole on the other.

So, what changes every time you park, the width of the car, or the placement of the structures in the garage?

Put a mark on the floor, or some sort of "bump" and bobs your uncle.
Or, look how far you are from the closest structure on the drivers side of the vehicle. Useless if the width of the vehicle changes randomly. You got a rubber car?

BGnR
You want to pilot a Hi-Perf car but you can't park.
Yes, you have to be able to judge distance if you want to be a good driver.


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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: wurm
Date: February 25, 2007 03:05PM
I'm trying to figure out if it's that tight a squeeze, how you can even get into and out of the car.
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: The UnDoug
Date: February 25, 2007 03:11PM
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wurm
I'm trying to figure out if it's that tight a squeeze, how you can even get into and out of the car.

Convertible?


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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: Greg the dogsitter
Date: February 25, 2007 03:13PM
Okay; will post a picture. :-)
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: Greg the dogsitter
Date: February 25, 2007 03:16PM
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BigGuynRusty
You want to pilot a Hi-Perf car but you can't park.
Yes, you have to be able to judge distance if you want to be a good driver.

Rusty, at my age (147), I'm pretty good on my strengths and weaknesses. Being a careful driver is one of them. Spatial relations, with me in the car, isn't. My first two cars were a '77 Olds Cutlass, followed by a '73 Sedan de Ville; I can't get them out of my head. :-)
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: Numo
Date: February 25, 2007 03:50PM
Years ago some cars had little antennae-like things that stuck out low from the side of the car to let you know when you were getting too close to the curb (they made a noise).

Could you somehow use this technique? If not on your cars, perhaps on your walls?

Also, could you cover the support pole with some dense foam padding so you can park as close as possible to it?
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: rgG
Date: February 25, 2007 04:22PM
Yeah Greg,
You need some curb feelers. grinning smiley






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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: deckeda
Date: February 25, 2007 04:31PM
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Greg the dogsitter
... My first two cars were a '77 Olds Cutlass, followed by a '73 Sedan de Ville; ...

I have every confidence that after those two, a Civic would be cake. I'm sure that you'd even be able to park Kathy's Camaro, if she'd ever let you.
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: BigGuynRusty
Date: February 25, 2007 04:31PM
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Greg the dogsitter
Rusty, at my age (147), I'm pretty good on my strengths and weaknesses. Being a careful driver is one of them. Spatial relations, with me in the car, isn't. My first two cars were a '77 Olds Cutlass, followed by a '73 Sedan de Ville; I can't get them out of my head. :-)

Were you 113 when you started driving?
You must be some slow-ass careful driver if you have no spatial acuity.
Good luck parking!

BGnR


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"If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster."
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: sscutchen
Date: February 25, 2007 04:51PM
A serious suggestion...

Concentrate just on the driver's side. align your mirror against the closest thing on that side and learn how to judge it. The other side is then a done deal.

When I drive into my garage, I line up, and as I enter, I adjust myself so that the driver's mirror misses the edge of the garage door by about two or three inches. It's not that hard since I'm right there... heh.

I use a 2x4 attached to the floor with carpet tape to set my stopping point so that the garage door will JUST clear the back of the vehicle.




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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: Greg the dogsitter
Date: February 25, 2007 05:07PM
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BigGuynRusty
Were you 113 when you started driving?
You must be some slow-ass careful driver if you have no spatial acuity.
Good luck parking!

Very careful. Skittish. Paranoid. Self-aware, too.
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: Greg the dogsitter
Date: February 25, 2007 05:08PM
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sscutchen
When I drive into my garage, I line up, and as I enter, I adjust myself so that the driver's mirror misses the edge of the garage door by about two or three inches. It's not that hard since I'm right there... heh.

Okay, that's not bad at all. Thanks.
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: M A V I C
Date: February 25, 2007 05:36PM
I would suggest practicing. This way when you have to park in a similar small space, you will be able to do it more easily. Many places near me have parking spots that are so small a full-size car is wider than them. My mid-sized car only gives me about 8-10" on each side. So when I park, I have 16-20" between me and the next car. I have to park it perfectly or I wouldn't be able to get out (or the passenger.)

But if you really want an assistive device, you nailed it earlier on. Hang a ball that hits your hood ornament. If you're too far to one side or the other, you wont hit the hood ornament.



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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: Racer X
Date: February 25, 2007 05:37PM
"My first two cars were a '77 Olds Cutlass, followed by a '73 Sedan de Ville; I can't get them out of my head.'

Good God man! What's your hat size? Eleventy seven?
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: haikuman
Date: February 25, 2007 07:31PM
Mostly I just close my eyes and park as fast as I can.
Works every time... *(:>*

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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: Greg the dogsitter
Date: February 25, 2007 08:07PM
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Racer X
"My first two cars were a '77 Olds Cutlass, followed by a '73 Sedan de Ville; I can't get them out of my head.'

Good God man! What's your hat size? Eleventy seven?

It took me several hours to get that joke, Racer X. Nice work! :-)
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: Racer X
Date: February 25, 2007 08:17PM
My Skylark droptop has scratches and white paint smeared on the sides from the little old lady original owner parking by braille.

Find some other method.
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: Greg the dogsitter
Date: February 25, 2007 08:20PM
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haikuman
Mostly I just close my eyes and park as fast as I can.
Works every time... *(:>*

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Glad you're still around, man.
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: haikuman
Date: February 25, 2007 10:10PM
Thanks Greg ~!~ me too.... very much ... *(:>*
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Re: Not much room in the garage on either side of the car
Posted by: billb
Date: February 26, 2007 07:33AM
Sounds like an excuse for a smaller (blue) car, to me.

Or, a bigger garage.
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