F430 and garages!?

[nickh72]

Hi All,
Looking at possibly re joining the fold and have a questions for those in know or can check for me.?
Ideally if I acquire my new steed of choice I could really do with it fitting in the "spare" garage... which is 81" wide at the door and 93" wide once in side. Would this work or just too tight? I have googled but cannot find anything conclusive!

I know the 430 is 75.7 wide but is that with or without mirrors? assuming they fold and I can get in the garage? what width do I need to be able to get out the car? :-)

Thanks
Nick

[isaldiri]

nickh72 said:

Hi All,
Looking at possibly re joining the fold and have a questions for those in know or can check for me.?
Ideally if I acquire my new steed of choice I could really do with it fitting in the "spare" garage... which is 81" wide at the door and 93" wide once in side. Would this work or just too tight? I have googled but cannot find anything conclusive!

I know the 430 is 75.7 wide but is that with or without mirrors? assuming they fold and I can get in the garage? what width do I need to be able to get out the car? :-)

Thanks
Nick

Total width with mirrors is almost 2.2m (sorry lazy to do the conversion to inches). The mirrors are quite large and they only fold manually so you will need more than the 193cm or whatever the listed width of the car is as that number is without mirrors.

[Ferruccio]

In my experience, the only way to know for sure is to try with an actual model of the car in question.

[nickh72]

OK... so anyone got a 430 near Horsham? :-)

[KenC]

That will be tight, very tight. I've just measured my door opening and it is 82.5 inches. That required me to fold in the drivers door mirror of my 430 and now my Scud to get through. Folding in both would be a pain.

[kbooker]

[quote=Ferruccio]In my experience, the only way to know for sure is to try with an actual model of the car in question.[/qu

someone invented maths to avoid this very scenario ....

[johnnyreggae]

As noted above you can help yourself a little - measure the width of your garage out side the edge of the right hand frame - it'll be about 6 inches - check both sides in case they are not the same - the 430 is about six inches narrower than your frame so the best case is that you will have this plus the other six inches which you measured

Come back here with this figure or remember it when you test-drive and have someone stand holding the door that much open and see if you can squeeze in - an ideal minimum is about 20 inches

Its a tight squeeze but can be done is an urban garage provided you have just enough space to open the drivers door

[Ferruccio]

kbooker]erruccio said:

In my experience, the only way to know for sure is to try with an actual model of the car in question.[/qu

someone invented maths to avoid this very scenario ....

Sure. Mathematically.
But Italian cars are involved here.
And garages aren't always built perfectly straight.

Mathematically, a Murci should have fitted in my garage.
It didn't though.
I got 3 inches taken out of the wall, which fortunately was old and therefore thick.
If I'd just bought the car, and got it home, I'd have felt a bit of a plonker.

Equally, I got a Countach into a garage that mathematically it didn't fit in...........

[kbooker]

Ferruccio said:

Sure. Mathematically.
But Italian cars are involved here.
And garages aren't always built perfectly straight.

Mathematically, a Murci should have fitted in my garage.
It didn't though.
I got 3 inches taken out of the wall, which fortunately was old and therefore thick.
If I'd just bought the car, and got it home, I'd have felt a bit of a plonker.

Equally, I got a Countach into a garage that mathematically it didn't fit in...........

Italian cars and the distance between garage walls can't defy the tape measure, so long as the tape measure is accurate and the person operating it knows what they're doing...

Edited by kbooker on Friday 25th July 16:08

[neil-f]

I removed the frame from my garage doors this gave me an extra 3 inches each side, but 93 inches once in is tight getting out a 2 door car with wide sills!

[woodynut]

I had the same problem with a 360 spider. My garage door opening is 84 inches my internal garage wall to wall width is 96 inches. A 360 dimensions are very close to a 430's. The way I got over the problem was to fit a new door frame and pair of doors into the garage wall where the drivers door opens. You have to obviously have the door/doors hung so as to open away from the car. If I did not have this set up there is no way I would be able to get out of my car when parked in it. Hope this helps
John

[Kyodo]

I'd personally look towards the practicality rather than the measurements. Sure you need to get the car in there but will you be able to get in or out?! Some people have to push their cars in providing they fit fit through the doorway but this may not be ideal.

We have quite a wide 'single' garage that narrows at the far end to about 93". We nose our 360 into the narrow bit but I certainly wouldn't like to try to fit the whole car in there.