Do you park your car(s) in your garage?

[driverrob]

Dog-walking around the area, I can't help but notice two or more cars parked on driveways, even when there is a double garage. I know single garages are too small for most cars these days but a Ka or a Saxo? I noticed both today.
So, if you have a garage, do you park your car(s) in it.
We do, by the way:

[KernowSid]

Their garage may be big enough for their car(s), but everyone uses their garage as a dumping ground/spare room etc.
People today need the extra space

[retrorider]

Yes i do.Only in Britain do we leave thousands of pounds worth of cars outside while garages are full to overflowing with worthless tat...

[Blib]

My father doesn't park his car in his garage. He parks it on his drive. The reason for this is that I've commandeered the garage to park one of my cars in it.

[V88Dicky]

Single garage, 18'9" by 8'7. Keep my Monaro in there. Double width drive for the two Jaaags to slum it on. Amazing how many people in my street litter the roadway with their cars, despite most of the houses having double drives! Lazy fooks can't be bothered to build a garden shed to store all their garden / DIY shyte.

[M4cruiser]

We do, but then we have more cars than garages.

But.. the neighbours round here .. OMG, some of them have converted one of their garages to an office, the others don't put the car in it anyway, then they expect to park outside my house!!

[iva cosworth]

Yes.

I own 3 cars and 1 small garage.

Convertible in garage.

Cosworth [sorn] in garden.

Fiesta out in the road.

There should be room for the Fiesta in the garden but it's too much faff to open the fence

up to use it daily.

Fiat and Fiesta take turns for commuting..

[swilding]

I do but I've never seen any of my neighbours use their garage for storing cars. Maybe we will all turning into hoarders.

Edited by swilding on Wednesday 21st August 21:11

[Rickyy]

My MX-5 lives in mine, amongst the crap!

[chopper602]

I keep two cars in the garage (like chalk & cheese!)



I think I'm about the only person in the street who does this. Saab sits on the drive to the side and we could still fit another two on the drive in front of the garage . . .

[MagicalTrevor]

My Elise lives in the garage,



Before I got it I had a junk 'placeholder' to make sure the space didnt get used up permanently

[leafspring]

Don't have a garage at home
My grand parents keep their orange pumpkin Citroen Pluriel in their garage and a campervan on the drive

[theironduke]

We have 12 cars at the minute. 4 live in garages, 1 in a greenhouse and the rest outside.

[007 VXR]

1 car "just" fits in a double garage at an angle.

[Nobby Diesel]

No, we don't.
5 cars on the drive, but none in the garage. Only because none of them would comfortably fit!

[C. Grimsley]

Well I have four garages but still not enough space for all the cars.


I have an issue with cars it seems, currently have 12.


Carl

[Tonto]

chopper602 said:

I keep two cars in the garage (like chalk & cheese!)



I think I'm about the only person in the street who does this. Saab sits on the drive to the side and we could still fit another two on the drive in front of the garage . . .

O/T
Tim,
What's the 2CV like on the open road from the point of view of keeping up with traffic.
I ask because my Brother-in-law wants to buy one and it would be exclusively used on open roads in Lincolnshire, where most drivers don't hang about.

[Mastodon2]

I put the Type R in the garage when it's not in use. It's a bit of a squeeze getting in and out as the doors are so long, but I'd sooner leave it in there than on the street. On my estate every house has a garage, yet so many people put their cars on the drive, or just parked on the road. In winter, loads of them get pranged by people skidding around on the ice, as it's a pretty steep hill and can be really precarious. Last year I witnessed the a low speed 5 car pile up as a car coming down the road skidded into parked cars at the side of the road and then into another car coming up the hill. You think the owners of the 3 parked cars that were used as impromptu buffers to slow the skidding cars descent would have learned, but after they were all taken away and repaired they appeared back on the street again a few days later. If my car was caught up in the sort of thing, I'd certainly think twice about leaving it on the road when it's not much hassle to garage it. I suppose for some people convenience is everything, even if means the trouble of having your car damaged and your insurance going up at the next renewal.

[S7Paul]

TVR and 2 motorbikes in the garage. 3 cars on the drive (wife and 2 daughters). Company car on the road. I'd keep them all undercover if only I had a 6-car garage.

[Tonto]

I keep the Jag in the garage, even though it just fits. Next door had a car key burglary last year. He keeps his Merc ML on the drive.