Paul
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Morning chaps,
Used lockdown to rearrange the garage and I've made space at the back...but I've left myself a gnat's bawhair to get the car back in the garage. It fits...but only just and I backed into my shelving yesterday by mistake
The car has parking sensors but they kick in too soon - has anyone come up with a solution (technical or not) that'll let you know when the car is in?
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goldnrust
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The old classic is a tennis ball on a string hanging from the roof. Set it up so it touches the windscreen/rear window when you get to just the right position.
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ChrisT
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Father in law used to have a tennis ball hanging from the ceiling, he would drive in until it touched the screen, knew it was far enough in then.
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Sandbag or such like on the floor so the wheels hit it before the car hits the shelves
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Better yet bolt down a plank.
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v8ian
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I had a 2 pieces of 2x4, one along the wall so I could park the car wheels tight to the side wall without scraping the car, and a smaller piece, about 300mm bolted to the floors the wheel wold hit it when the car would clear the door and allow it to shut.
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A mate carpeted his garage walls to prevent scrapes and open door damage, worked well
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I’ve got a piece of two by four screwed down but used to just line my door mirror with a mark on the wall. When I was a kid the old boy I worked for asked us to clear his garage out for him and he had a tennis ball on a string. We kept walking into it and it was getting right on our tits so the bloke I was with threw it over the next rafter. Monday morning and Mr G pulls up with the front of his BMW stoved in. We’re all looking out wondering what had happened until he walked in and said a bit sheepishly “Erm did any of you move a tennis ball in my garage...?”
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Apr 24, 2020 13:44:21 GMT
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My old man used to have a bench at the end of his garage. He used to drive in until the bonnet hit the tommy bar on the vice & he knew he could shut the door. The bonnet was full of dents in a gathered cluster. Probably not the solution you were looking for 🤣
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MiataMark
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Apr 24, 2020 13:48:58 GMT
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I used to have a champagne cork hanging from the roof, but then the garage got full of junk and the cars got too big (well not teh MX5) so the cars live outside.
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Apr 24, 2020 14:29:41 GMT
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Hi, Yep, tennis ball, lump of 4x2 or an appropriately place mirror so you can see when you're hitting the shelves.
Colin
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antni
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Apr 24, 2020 17:18:10 GMT
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Stick a squeaky toy chicken at bumper height
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Paul
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Apr 24, 2020 17:30:38 GMT
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Some great suggestions here...I'll probably go with wood bolted to the floor, although a rubber chicken for good measure is too hilarious not to pass up 😂😂😂
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Apr 24, 2020 18:25:18 GMT
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This is all wrong.
Tennis ball on a string Lump of dead tree bolted to the floor Alignment mark on the wall.
Where's your imagination? No style points for pointless complexity in any of those answers.
Where's the CCTV Bluetooth linked to your phone that's mirrored to the screen in the dash? An Arduino or Raspberry Pi running pattern recognition software to send messages to your phone providing the distance to the critical static element accurate to the nearest micron?
I'm disappointed today's youth. These are all Grandad's solutions. PAH!
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Last Edit: Apr 24, 2020 18:26:56 GMT by theoldman
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Apr 24, 2020 18:43:50 GMT
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Personally I don’t do too well with technology. I prefer the agricultural approach to park sensors...
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Apr 24, 2020 19:21:34 GMT
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Plank of wood on the floor for the rear-most wheels helps. I like the suggestion above about carpeting the walls! Says me without a garage though.
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Apr 24, 2020 21:41:44 GMT
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Stick a squeaky toy chicken to the front bumper. Fixed it for you.
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jonk
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Apr 24, 2020 21:53:47 GMT
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My grandad had the tennis ball from the roof and carpeted walls too (leftovers from the living room - nice!)
Later on he bought some kind of electric traffic light style sensor from lidl which I thought was disappointing because the old trick worked perfectly.
When they bought the house they had an isetta and his last car was a Peugeot 307 so it was getting a bit tight.
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Lump of wood here too. When in, I have about an inch from the front bumper to the upstairs neighbours water pump and associated plumbing, and just enough at the back to slide the bolt and put a padlock on it. Roll in Drive, on tickover, and the wood stops me just right. Note, do not try this in low box!
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I’ve got a pair of wheel chocks like these... www.ebay.co.uk/itm/312981170514Just helps to be able to move them around when necessary if I want to stop it going too far the other way if I push the truck back towards the doors or if I reverse in instead and need to stop sooner. Sounds like you’ll always go one way though so 4x2 sounds just as good.
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