The Jag and my drive

[VinceM]

So I've just bought a beautiful Jag XF, and it's a great car, but the problem I have is that becasue of the length of it it catches the bottom of it on the crest of my drive - see pics. It's easily the worst car I've had for this to the point I'm worried about putting on the drive and into the garage in case I take the exhaust (or whatever it scrapes) right off! My other low cars have managed it - just (Honda S2000, BMW E46 330Ci, Alfa 156 GTA). Any ideas what cheap options I have to get the car on the drive with the scraping? Thanks

[P Nuts]

Reverse on really slowly?

[Sir Bagalot]

Drive on/off at an angle. I had this problem on a rental and the only way around it was to drive onto the drive at an angle of 45 degrees and when the front wheels were fully on the drive straighten up.

[Diderot]

Move house. HTH.

[4key]

Measure up, at the point where your car is about to bottom out place 2 paving slabs underneath where the front wheels are on your driveway. This will lift the front up enough to change the angle at the crest and get you on the drive.

[MattYorke]

This.

4key said:

Measure up, at the point where your car is about to bottom out place 2 paving slabs underneath where the front wheels are on your driveway. This will lift the front up enough to change the angle at the crest and get you on the drive.

[VinceM]

Typically I reverse onto the drive and into the garage, a sthis makes it easier to get out of the car as the garage has more room on one side than the other even though I have a standard width door.

I'll have a measure up and look at some slabs - thanks for the ideas.

[4key]

Im also going to take a guess that the kerbstones between the pavement and road dip down and your wheels are in the dip as the car bottoms out, you could try raising that area up a bit aswell, or driving over the least dippy point.