What to do if th egarage door is too low?

[eltax91]

Hi all

The Mrs and I are currently house hunting, and today we found what appears to be the perfect house. The ONLY thing we could pick about the whole place is that my weekend toy, an off road prepped Disco, is too high to fit through the garage door. Of course, I'd like to work on the Disco in the warm and dry, so is an inconvenience.

The Disco has a 2" lift, and 235/70/16's on it. So, at the moment it's about 5" too tall for the door. Once inside the garage, the roof is much taller, tall enough to fit the landy! So, any ingenious ways to get the landy in and ot without being a massive job each weekend when i want it?

I don't think a set of standard wheels/ tryes will drop it enough.

Any idea's?

[Deerfoot]

eltax91 said:

Any idea's?

Dig a 5 inch trench under the door.

[eltax91]

Deerfoot said:

eltax91 said:

Any idea's?

Dig a 5 inch trench under the door.

Not sure how that will look. Probably put me out of favour with 'er indoors.

[StefV]

flatten the tyres? Not sure you'll get 5" though.

[littleandy0410]

New garage door? If you fit barn style doors, rather than roller or up and over, there wouldn't be a height issue. (In the grand scheme of buying a house, seems a fairly low cost solution!)

[piefacemate]

eltax91 said:

Hi all

The Mrs and I are currently house hunting, and today we found what appears to be the perfect house. The ONLY thing we could pick about the whole place is that my weekend toy, an off road prepped Disco, is too high to fit through the garage door. Of course, I'd like to work on the Disco in the warm and dry, so is an inconvenience.

The Disco has a 2" lift, and 235/70/16's on it. So, at the moment it's about 5" too tall for the door. Once inside the garage, the roof is much taller, tall enough to fit the landy! So, any ingenious ways to get the landy in and ot without being a massive job each weekend when i want it?

I don't think a set of standard wheels/ tryes will drop it enough.

Any idea's?

Find some smaller wheels and fit themwith the lowest profile tyres you can find. Is there anything smaller than 16's for the disco?

[Eggman]

A friend of mine fitted air suspension to his 90 and with it fully deflated he could fit under an up and over door even though he had huge Simex tyres and an external rollcage. This wasn't the reason he did it though; changing the doors would be far simpler and a lot cheaper!

Another solution that I've heard is to temporarily fit a set of rims with no tyres, but unless you have a trolley jack and a rattle gun this would be a real bore to do on a regular basis.

[wolf1]

If you're buying the place then there's nothing to stop you altering the garage. Is it brick and how much room is there above the door to roof to possibly raise the door height by fitting a new lintel higher up and getting a bigger door.

[matty_doh]

Stick a load of crap in the back of it, the weightier the better, deflate the tyres and try?

[entwisi]

fit a track into the floor with a strap that attaches to the chassis that pulls it down to get under the door? cant think howto describe it better than say a donut fixed to some strap down web, as you approach you feed a donut on the end into a slot, as it travels along the track the track is low enough such that it pulls the chassis rail down the required 5 "

[NiceCupOfTea]

My folks had this with a caravan they wanted to put in the garage - new lintel and new garage doors was the solution!

[madbadger]

Jack up the garage at each corner and retrofit an extra couple of rows of bricks.

[PeteG]

Drive in faster.

[dan19evans]

If in doubt...



...use a hammer

HTH

[chrisispringles]

Knock out the bit above the door so that it fits .

[Cyberprog]

Yep, I'd suggest a combination of either barn doors or brickwork changes to give a bigger opening.

[Pigeon]

madbadger said:

Jack up the garage at each corner and retrofit an extra couple of rows of bricks.

Remember to use 4 axle stands.

[Hitler Hadrump]

Sounds like the perfect excuse to make a convertible Disco with fold down windscreen.

[williamp]

sell it and buy a new Micra...

Seriosuly, if its only the doors which are cauding the height issue, then replace with older style outward opening doors

[liner33]

littleandy0410 said:

New garage door? If you fit barn style doors, rather than roller or up and over, there wouldn't be a height issue. (In the grand scheme of buying a house, seems a fairly low cost solution!)

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