Cerb in a Multi Storey Car Park???
Cerb in a Multi Storey Car Park???
Author
Discussion

r7oky

Original Poster:

114 posts

260 months

Sunday 8th April 2007
quotequote all
Going away next weekend and the hotels car park is a multi storey, wanted to take the cerb for a weekend away but did not want to look like a tit if the cerb gets stuck on the ramps, and dont fancy leaving it in some dodgy back street car park.
Does anyone know or had their cerb in a mulit storey car park will i get up and down the ramps without bottoming out?

Cheers

350matt

3,897 posts

308 months

Sunday 8th April 2007
quotequote all
I took my old cerb round a couple and its very tight! Did scrape its belly a couple of times but I also had to 3 point the turns a couple of times due to lack of lock and this was on a 4.2 with 16" rims.....

Possible but tricky , you have to think about every turn and give yourself as much room as possible

Matt

shadowninja

80,065 posts

311 months

Sunday 8th April 2007
quotequote all
Multi-storeys have differing ramp angles, too

mxi933

467 posts

237 months

Sunday 8th April 2007
quotequote all
I visited the multi storey in Leeds - got as far as the first ramp and the warden - realising that I was struggling - let me park it in a disabled bay. Nice man ! Wider bays meant less chance of a dink in the door.

cerealsurfer

594 posts

292 months

Sunday 8th April 2007
quotequote all
Took my Cerb into a Multi-storey in Windsor....ONCE... the turning circle with 18's on is Sh*£e, lots of multi-point turns and the De-cat + sports exhaust was setting car alarms off on every level I went along!!

Also narrow bays can leave you esentially locked out, after that decided that Multi's were a bit of a no go.

oh... those car alarms...... must have been at least 10 all in sync... funnily enough I got a LOT of strange looks...

5MUG

734 posts

293 months

Sunday 8th April 2007
quotequote all
Why not call the hotel and ask if theres a spot on the grond floor that they can reserve for you?

nebby

268 posts

245 months

Sunday 8th April 2007
quotequote all
No offence but i can't see some hotel receptionist booking a parking place especially for a Cerbera let alone any performance car?

marcus1970

1,217 posts

264 months

Monday 9th April 2007
quotequote all
I've been in loads of multi storeys and never had any problems.

There again there's always the first time...

MB

touching cloth

11,706 posts

268 months

Monday 9th April 2007
quotequote all
I have had problems on departure when joining a down ramp to exit - usually I become complacent because I had no probs on the way up so I drive normally, dropping the front wheels down the ramp I have twice now been greeted with an almighty crunch as the middle grounds out on the apex, think I am probably catching the seat mounting bolts but it is a particularly unpleasant sound and I feel a bit sorry for the old girl for a while afterwards. Theoretically you could or should I suppose have the same thing on the way up, when the fronts flatten out and the rears are still lower on the ramp but strangely that has never happened to me.

dinkel

27,785 posts

287 months

Monday 9th April 2007
quotequote all
Isn't it the exhausts causing the most trouble . . . scrapping and all?

Jasper Gilder

2,166 posts

302 months

Wednesday 11th April 2007
quotequote all
Tokk my Cerb to Spain four times - hotel garages have very, very agressive ramps, like driving over a cliff. Never had a problem, just took it slow and went over very sharp angles at 45 degrees

Graham_Amika

857 posts

233 months

Wednesday 11th April 2007
quotequote all
This all sounds quite scary, my Cerb has 19inch wheels... Yes honestly, and although it handles just fine, excepting having to avoid heavy compression, I don't dare attempt a multi storey.

Has anyone else got 19inch wheels on a cerb - Its a 2000 SP6 if that makes any difference.

Regards
Graham

grass widow

2,201 posts

252 months

Wednesday 11th April 2007
quotequote all
We have 18's on a 4.5 LW and MOH has taken it in our local multi storey and it was fine, very noisy but no bottoming out, and I don't remember him having too much trouble with the turns either.

However I haven't attempted it and I'm not sure I want to.

Captain Beaky

1,389 posts

313 months

Thursday 12th April 2007
quotequote all
mxi933 said:
I visited the multi storey in Leeds - got as far as the first ramp and the warden - realising that I was struggling - let me park it in a disabled bay. Nice man ! Wider bays meant less chance of a dink in the door.


The multi-storey on Wellington Place, behind the Crowne Plaza, is great for the Cerb; wide ramps, gentle slopes and never too busy.

big_treacle

1,727 posts

289 months

Thursday 12th April 2007
quotequote all
I've been in loads of multi storeys as it sounds so good!! I have found that sometimes you need to do a 3 point turn to get round the tightest corners but that's the worst I've had.

Timmy2TARs

656 posts

239 months

Thursday 12th April 2007
quotequote all
Been in a few multi-storeys but the only problem I've had is being sat too low to reach up to put coins in the payment machines on the way out!