Cant get restored car into my Garage!

[randlemarcus]

jbwillis said:

Could you not just lift the blockwork here, and relay, without that hump in the middle?

[AyBee]

Are you driving straight down or have you tried driving in at an angle? Other than that, make your car higher

[996TT02]

Maybe not what you want to hear - but I have problems with mine and that is a measured 100mm off the ground at the lip, yours is half that. 996 lips are almost bang on 1m ahead of the contact point of the tyre - this means that any slope 1:10 or lower, you scrape. Well I do, you scrape at just 1:20.... Only way to fix this is major surgery to the ramp or some quite serious removable ones.

[Digga]

All of which reminds me FWIW:

PSA
Don't try to get a 911 down into the car park at the Drunken Duck Inn, Barngates, Cumbria. Park 'somewhere' on the road outside instead, otherwise you'll spend the first ten minutes of your stay scooping gravel out of your radiators. Lovely place though!
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.4024864,-3.00211...

[Edition87]

wormus said:

Wheel dollies?

Good shout

http://www.sgs-engineering.com/ws2000-680kg-wheel-...

[Billsnemesis]

Digga said:

All of which reminds me FWIW:

PSA
Don't try to get a 911 down into the car park at the Drunken Duck Inn, Barngates, Cumbria. Park 'somewhere' on the road outside instead, otherwise you'll spend the first ten minutes of your stay scooping gravel out of your radiators. Lovely place though!
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.4024864,-3.00211...

Challenge accepted - the beer is worth it, as well as the view!

Back to the OP's issue, suggestion 1 is to try without that bloke standing in your frunk. That is bound to raise the nose a little.

Suggestion 2 comes back to the wheel dollies. Can you still steer with wheel dollies? If you can then there's your answer. Dollies on the front wheels, drive going through the back ones and the angle will only help the ground clearance.

[hman]

Edition87 said:

wormus said:

Wheel dollies?

Good shout

http://www.sgs-engineering.com/ws2000-680kg-wheel-...

PLEASE get a friend to video your first attempt with those - I reckon you need a good boot full of welly to push those dolly wheels over the lip at the bottom of the drive.


Then let us know how far you had to press the pedal to get the rear brakes to be effective and how well the steering worked with castoring wheels under your front wheels.

[nw942]

I think you need a correctly shaped and positioned sleeping policeman on your drive and reverse in.

Or maybe Transport Suspension Blocks/piece of wood in the front springs, (again reverse in), although it depends on how often you use it.

Edited by nw942 on Friday 21st July 15:24

[Bennachie]

Bennachie said:

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.

This. It does work.

[981Greg]

I'd be inclinded (sorry) to change the garage floor to be an extension of the gradient on the drive.