Bit of help for work please :)

[cv01jw]

I have a bit of a strange request for owners of cars which are low and/or have particularly large doors.

As part of the design for some parallel parking bays I want to check for doors hitting the footpath when the parking bays are relatively steeply graded towards the kerb.

To do this, I would like to know the width of a series of doors (from the car to the furthest point when fully open), along with the ground clearance of the outer end of the door when fully open.

Are there any helpful PH'ers out there with a spare two minutes and a tape measure who could send over some details for me?

Thanks in advance

James

[PaulB81]

The Crack Fox said:

Use an Elise as your benchmark, long doors set very low, nice to know someone cares about these things !

This! It's a ball ache trying to get out of one when parked in a space with cars either side as you really need to open the door all the way.

[GT03ROB]

Let me check later, but funnily enough I think a RRS is worse than an Elise. I have a similar situation outside my house. The RRS front doors often touch the grass verge, I don't recall the Elise doing the same. The bottom of the doors on an Elise I'm certain are set higher than the RRS or at least the RRS are much longer making up the difference.

[LuS1fer]

It's going to depend how many people are in the car too...surely?

[ColinM50]

Whassa RRS?

[TheForceV4]

ColinM50 said:

Whassa RRS?

Range Rover Sport sir

[cv01jw]

LuS1fer said:

It's going to depend how many people are in the car too...surely?

It will, but I want to get a decent idea of how bad a car can be. Of the 8 cars in our car park, not one is a 3 door and so none really offer a good starting point for me to use.

[edward1]

For a x100 XK the distance from the car to the door when fully open is 44" and the clearance from the floor is 1'. This probably isn't the lowest but it is a long door. The chim I know was lower as I did catch that on the pavement once where as in the same location the jag clears it.

[julian64]

The Crack Fox said:

Use an Elise as your benchmark, long doors set very low, nice to know someone cares about these things !

Use a TVR Cerbera as your benchmark, its going to be significantly worse than the Elise

[blearyeyedboy]

Sorry that I can't help because I no longer own the car, but this used to happen all the time in my 1999 Corolla 3 door. (The one with the round headlights.) It had a particularly long door to allow access for rear passengers.

I used to ask my passengers to get out first so that I weighed down the outside of the car to reduce the chances of it happening.

After a while, I stopped repainting that bit because it simply never lasted.