Cant get restored car into my Garage!

[jbwillis]

Hi guys, really hoping for some wisdom as I'm almost crying!

I've spent over two years restoring this old Porsche, including fitting a custom, super-low front bumper and air splitter literally only 2 inches off the ground. See pictures.
Having now at long last returned the car to my home garage we simply can't get the car in…. as it scrapes so badly on the front bumper.
I've also attached pictures of the driveway from different perspectives.
You will note we have a double roller door and also a large external drain across the full driveway

I used to have smaller problems with my previous car (not as low as this one!) and managed to roughly solve this by using two wooden planks approximately 2 yards long, but they will not suffice this time by a long way.
We thought of building some permanent steel/wooden ramps up and down at the entry point at the bottom of the driveway, but that will cause an issue with the garage roller door coming down, so I'm really at a loss!

Many thanks for any wisdom in advance
Cheers

[jbwillis]

Will only let me upload 1x pic at a time?

[hornetrider]

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[jbwillis]

[jbwillis]

LordHaveMurci said:

Have you tried reversing in?

Thanks! - yes, but absolutely no luck...........

[jbwillis]

hornetrider said:

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meaning ??

[ttdan]

Have you tried with the spitter off? Its two screws and a tug.

[t400ble]

Air ride needed

[NDA]

jbwillis said:

hornetrider said:

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5 posts in 108 months.

Apart from removable steel planking, I can't see how else you'd do it.

[NAS90]

I'm sure there must be an aftermarket front strut with airbags to lift the front axle.

Once fitted you'll have a button inside the car to lift the front of car a few inches for exactly such parking/ speed bump issues. I'd expect someone like Techart or FVD to do one.

[jb0000]

NAS90 said:

I'm sure there must be an aftermarket front strut with airbags to lift the front axle.

Once fitted you'll have a button inside the car to lift the front of car a few inches for exactly such parking/ speed bump issues. I'd expect someone like Techart or FVD to do one.

Many thanks - I looked into some gas front lifting options.....yes, but HUGE dollars

[hornetrider]

jbwillis said:

hornetrider said:

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Meaning 108 months membership before you posted. It's called lurking

[jb0000]

ttdan said:

Have you tried with the spitter off? Its two screws and a tug.

Thanks - Yes did remove the splitter - , but still an issue with the bumper cover itself

[lemmingjames]

jbwillis said:

You will note we have a double roller door and also a large external drain across the full driveway

I used to have smaller problems with my previous car (not as low as this one!) and managed to roughly solve this by using two wooden planks approximately 2 yards long, but they will not suffice this time by a long way.
We thought of building some permanent steel/wooden ramps up and down at the entry point at the bottom of the driveway, but that will cause an issue with the garage roller door coming down, so I'm really at a loss!

Many thanks for any wisdom in advance
Cheers

You wont solve the issue unless you change the ramp gradient.

You could have the ramps, you would just need to cut a slot for the garage roller to come down should you want it to be permanent. You could ramp onto a raised platform as well which would help.

I have a similar issue in that outside my garage i have gradual slope into a rain water gulley and then a bank/slope (greater than the road slope) into my garage. I ended up making a drawbridge that was hinged outside the garage door using scaffold boards.

Looking at your gradients, i imagine youd need to start halfway up the slope.

[Adam B]

jbwillis said:

I've spent over two years restoring this old Porsche, including fitting a custom, super-low front bumper and air splitter literally only 2 inches off the ground. See pictures.

got any more pictures of the car? - from that one shot looks like a 996 you've tried to make look like a 997? Like the colour

[anonymous-user]

Wheel dollies?

[Fish]

Just build some horizontal ramp platforms in the garage to drive it on and use two removable steel ramps that fix onto the end and span onto the drive. Once in the ramps are removed and slid under the car and the door closes normally.

Also 50mm front clearance hope you aren't in the UK that would last seconds!

[Cheib]

Fish said:

Just build some horizontal ramp platforms in the garage to drive it on and use two removable steel ramps that fix onto the end and span onto the drive. Once in the ramps are removed and slid under the car and the door closes normally.

Also 50mm front clearance hope you aren't in the UK that would last seconds!

Is the right answer....not cheap but maybe cheaper than the suspension fix.

[Bennachie]

Build your ramps BUT leave a door shaped slot for the roller door. The car's tyres will roll over the gaps easily enough and the door will close to the ground.

[PTT]

With some help it's possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wc2EthNF3I&t=...