Getting a low car into the garage...

[jgadd]

Since getting some work done to the car, it is too low to get into the garage - whoops!

The garage has a small square lip just before the slope, so the floor is about half an inch above the end of the top of the slope itself. The doors close onto this, so anything that is put on it to raise the car has to be easily moved.
The car catches underneath in the middle, and it doesn't need to be raised too much to make it (an inch would probably do). If anyone has any easy (and cheap) solutions to this, it would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Jim

[snoopstah]

A couple of planks of wood placed a suitable distance into the garage so that the front wheels lift just before the car impacts would appear to be the simplest and cheapest solution...

(Or rear wheels if you're backing in).

[cmackay81]

snoopstah said:

A couple of planks of wood placed a suitable distance into the garage so that the front wheels lift just before the car impacts would appear to be the simplest and cheapest solution...

(Or rear wheels if you're backing in).

^^this

or something similar. h the same problem myself previously.
Went don the local timber yard with me dad and his van and bought some long thick wide bits of wood. made some tracks down the garage that elevated the car a bit as well as giving enough purchase over he lip in the garage.
For me it was problem of angles as the car went up a slope and got grounded as it went over :/

[jgadd]

Thanks for the replies so far.
I thought that this might be the only solution - it goes in forwards (backwards isn't an option, as the wheels spin on the slope). It just doesn't seem the most attractive, and the boards can slip/lift up from the edge on the way up as well. If there isn't another way around it, then this is what we'll keep doing.
Thanks again,
Jim

[davidjpowell]

Nail or screw the boards down. Job done.

[Fleckers]

jgadd said:

The doors close onto this, so anything that is put on it to raise the car has to be easily moved.

I suggest the wooden option is the best, how about covering them in old rubber car mats so they dont slip on the ground on on the wheels

[AndrewW-G]

I've got a pair of metal ramps with grip tape on them (alloy chequer board, with what looks like very wide peices of emery cloth), with a set of pins that drop into holes in the garage floor to secure them.

[Shaw Tarse]

Reminds me of when TG 3 Went to Paris in supercars. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QghVW7LiNng&fea...

[Stephanie Plum]

Rubber mats - the like of which are used for lining horses stables. See http://www.fieldguard.com/rubber_mats.html

Easily moved, won't damage the car by flicking up either.