Mine just fits with mirrors folded, but then only way to come out is via rear hatch!
How about yours?
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My Ceed estate and ix35 both went in comfortably, I can walk around the Yaris when it is in the garage, but it is not much bigger than a mobility scooter. :-)
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Never had a garage, so not an issue!
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My modest limousine just fits in my garage without the mirrors being folded back, but as I have all manner of junk in there at the moment, its current resting place is on my drive.
I expect Movi is waiting patiently for the forthcoming driverless cars, as life will be much easier for him then.
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Never tried.
House opposite is identical and owners Audi A3 goes in OK.
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Some of my neighbours have double garages, and still don't out their cars away.
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Previous owse had an (almost) double garage and I always used to put my Almera in there.
No garage here so the Subaru lives outside. Only time I miss a garage is when Jack Frost is about,
which isn't too often in Cornwall.
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Don't have one. But at the times I've had a garage, then the car was way down the list of things to go in there.
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Never tried it, but i think that the 308 would just go in, but the 508SW is definately too long.
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Of course tight garages are a great pain. Even if you don't have a pit you need enough room to open the doors and walk round the car.
Our jalopy has a set of electric door mirror adjusting buttons, including one that makes the mirrors fold back tight against the window and door. I suppose all cars have that sort of thing now.
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Guess so, if it wasn't full of bikes, body boards, wet suits, ski gear, a work bench, ladders, tools, bike racks, walking boots, various bits of wood which might come in handy one day and mysterious boxes of stuff we've never opened since we moved here in 2002 come to think...
And yes the shed is full too.
Anyway, how would the cars get clean if they didn't get rained on from time to time?
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>> Anyway, how would the cars get clean if they didn't get rained on from time to time?
Quite right. And the rain waters the charming moss that grows in the airborne loam that has settled in the velour window channel fillets... Every vehicle is a whole micro-ecology really.
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I can't get all my crap in my garage, let alone the car.
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Oh come now, your car isn't all that crap really. Relatively speaking anyway.
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>> Oh come now, your car isn't all that crap really. Relatively speaking anyway.
At least the crap in the garage is now worth more than the car.
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Mrs B's Berlingo is too tall to go under the up and over door. Mine might sneak in by a hairsbreadth but I'd need to remove the radio aerial to reverse out, it'd just 'twang' on way in.
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I've never tried, but the chest freezer, bench, bikes and various other bits and bobs would have to go first. The previous owner did, there is still a bit of carpet along the wall in case he was over enthusiastic with the door.
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I saw a bloke in a silver Berlingo with a matching silver goatee beard in our town yesterday and thought of you Bromp. I suppose I must have stared a bit too long so he's probably wondering why.
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Our three cars fit in our garage together with a freezer,a fridge, a lawnmower, several lots of beehive equipment, 2 ladders, garden equipment and a wheelbarrow. And a workbench ,lots of woodworking tools,,,and cans of paint dating back to 1986(!).
And child's schooldesk (old style on steel? tubes) and two old wardrobes full of DIY stuff.
(I dread downsizing)
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So what *do* you keep on the garage? (lets avoid mind-numbing detail) (and actually an old stable in my case)
Me;
Freezer x2
Big boys tools
Assorted hardware - nails, screws, nuts & bolts, hinges, locks and goodness knows what more.
Chainsaw, strimmer, hedge trimmer, lawnmower etc.
Camping & picnic stuff - tents, to sleeping bags, furniture, to cooking stuff.
Windsurf & Paragliding stuff.
Cycling stuff, including bikes.
Larger kids toys - castles and cars.
Old and knackered hang-glider
Wine
Loads of gardening stuff - pots, dirt, tools
Old electronic and electric bits which I'll almost certainly need one day. (usually the day after I throw it away)
A huge amount of half used aerosols and cans, all of which were essential when I bought them. From fly spray to car wax.
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There's a Haynes manual for a Mk 1 Fiat Panda on a shelf in mine. Might come in handy y'see.
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Pah! I have a Haynes Manual for a Chrysler Alpine and that's *NEVER* going to come in useful.
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>> Pah! I have a Haynes Manual for a Chrysler Alpine and that's *NEVER* going to
>> come in useful.
I gave away one of my Haynes manuals for Volvo 340/360 to someone here, still got t'other, along with Honda CD175, Fiat Panda, Triumph Vitesse, Ford Cortina MK3, Austin Princess/Ambassador, Austin Maxi, Austin Maestro diesel, Ford Focus TDDI...................
Anyone else got a bookcase in their loft?
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Don't you guys throw anything away? Can't stand clutter. If something not useful or decorative I sell it, chuck it or take it down the charity shop. Surprising how little stuff you really need. Less is more! ;-)
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I am brutal with throwing everything away and have a minimalist approach.
UNLESS it is in my workshop, shed or barn. Then a whole 'nother approach reigns. There I keep everything. Even the wildest of possible needs will cause me to keep something.
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>> Don't you guys throw anything away?
I think it's man thing, most blokes I know the more space they have the more junk they build up. One chap I know has 6 or 7 garages and sheds dotted about the place, all near full to bursting with junk. I'd bet he's not been inside some of them for 10 years or more. Probably can't get inside some of them now without stuff falling on you as soon as tried opening the door!
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>>most blokes I know the more space they have the more junk they build up.
Always did that and then Aldi and Lidl special offers added to the list....
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>> Our three cars fit in our garage together with a freezer,a fridge, a lawnmower, several
>> lots of beehive equipment, 2 ladders, garden equipment and a wheelbarrow. And a workbench ,lots
>> of woodworking tools,,,and cans of paint dating back to 1986(!).
>> And child's schooldesk (old style on steel? tubes) and two old wardrobes full of DIY
>> stuff.
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>> (I dread downsizing)
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garage ? I think small hanger might be a better description! ;-)
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My CR-V just fits in the garage. I had to have the up and over door replaced with a powered sectional door otherwise it would not have got in with the mirrors in place.
When the sectional door was fitted the posts either side, where the up and over mechanism was fitted, were removed giving me almost ten more inches at the entrance.
If I had a modern two door car I wouldn't be able to exit the car from in the garage.
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I have had a sectional door put in, the extra width entrance is useful.
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One of my neighbours has just had his garage converted into a utility room. Unfortunately mine isn't big enough for a full size snooker table, though I might just get an American pool table in (Not one of those silly pub ones).
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Sister in Law has a newish house. It came with a detached single garage which is impossible to drive in to as the drive is about 2.5m wide and is "dog-legged" so is impossible to steer a car around.
Why do planners allow this!?
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Cars live outside, bikes live in the garage, along with a small larder type freezer and the RP archives, which are closely guarded...
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"RP archives"...
"Magazine" collections?
;-)))
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Now reduced to Motorcycle Sport and Private Eye and some car brochures from the 70s and 80s...there has been much pruning.
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Can the drive be "adjusted" or is that the only option?
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Ours was "adjusted" when we moved in to accommodate an extra vehicle - big mistake that was
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Because they recognise that a garage is for 99% of people simple a store room. I wish builders would acknowledge this and build a decent insulated store room without massive doors that you can can use as a workroom etc and heat easily and economically.
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My sectional garage door is insulated and airtight, the control has an intermediate door position for ventilation. This leaves the door open a couple of inches top and bottom.
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But a workroom doesn't need massive doors in the first place.
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>> But a workroom doesn't need massive doors in the first place.
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Depends on what you are working on. :-)
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>> But a workroom doesn't need massive doors in the first place.
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depends what you are working on.
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And what on earth are cart lodges all about? Seem to be favoured by planning authorities.
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Sort of a garage without any doors
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A brick shed then? Never heard of them called that before, store or workshop never cart store. Is that some norfolkism? ;-)
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Never really thought of it as a local term but I guess its and East Anglian thing
oakleighmanor.com/services/oak-framed-buildings-car-barns-garages/
Looked a a new house with one earlier in the year. Builder told me the planners had insisted on it instead of a building with doors. The funny thing was the the builder was quite happy to add some door after I bought it and I told me would not need need planning permission as would fall within permitted development.
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>> Never really thought of it as a local term but I guess its and East
>> Anglian thing
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>> oakleighmanor.com/services/oak-framed-buildings-car-barns-garages/
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Some brass to have one of those built. I think I'd call it a car barn.
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They're the up market ones. Most are no dearer than garages.
some more
www.scottsheds.com/portfolio-items/cart-lodge-cl42/?portfolioID=13021
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>> They're the up market ones. Most are no dearer than garages.
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>> some more
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>> www.scottsheds.com/portfolio-items/cart-lodge-cl42/?portfolioID=13021
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can't see any prices, mind you I've no idea what a garage costs to build.
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That'd look good with a Westfield in it.
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Do you think, any experience of them?
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A car port. Unless you are pseudo posh.
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Is car port a nautical term?
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>> Is car port a nautical term?
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no just a non-norfolk term ;-)
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>> Is car port a nautical term?
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Of course, closely related to any port in a storm.
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>> Is car port a nautical term?
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You're a Leftie.
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>> Sister in Law has a newish house. It came with a detached single garage which
>> is impossible to drive in to as the drive is about 2.5m wide and is
>> "dog-legged" so is impossible to steer a car around.
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Perhaps she should ask a man to drive in/out for her!
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Eight bikes (nine when The Lad's Uni bike is home)
Boxes and shelves of spares, tools and accessories for bikes
Fridge and Freezer
Mower and Strimmer
Assorted garden tools
Rack of plantpots/hanging baskets etc
Pressure washer
Drills, srewdrivers etc.
Racking for tools/screws/nails etc
Camping/caravan kit
Boxes of bits for cars that wil be needed one day
Various reels of mains and co-ax cable.
Two plastic boxes of decorating kit
Several litres of leftover emulsion paint
Primer/undercoat/gloss for wood
Kids toys we cannot get rid of
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three bikes
>> Boxes and shelves of spares, tools and accessories
>> Fridge and Freezer
>> Mower and Strimmer
>> Assorted garden tools
>> Rack of plantpots/hanging baskets etc
>> Pressure washer
>> Drills, srewdrivers etc.
>> Racking for tools/screws/nails etc
fishing kit
>> Boxes of bits for cars that wil be needed one day
>> Various reels of mains and co-ax cable.
>> Two plastic boxes of decorating kit
>> Several litres of leftover emulsion paint
>> Primer/undercoat/gloss for wood
>> Kids toys we cannot get rid of
Ladders
4 alloy Wheels & tyres (just arrived - not mine)
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>> >> Oh come now, your car isn't all that crap really. Relatively speaking anyway.
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>> At least the crap in the garage is now worth more than the car.
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Not difficult in our 'owse 'old.
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I used to have a garage that was sort of 1 and a half times the length of car and one and a half times the width.
Could put my car in it , open the doors and still have space for shelving on all 3 walls.
Ironically, I only ever put the car in the garage in the summer when I had spent a day washing, waxing and polishing it! It tended to sit out in the winter!
When we got the house extension done you could no longer reach the garage in a car due to limited driveway space.
So garage was halved in size (concrete sectional panels, actually quite an easy job to do) and the half that is still there now houses a beer fridge, wood burning stove, some optics, darts board, log store and leather couches.
My "man crèche" for the weekend.
Only pain in the neck is the fact that the concrete base for the half that is no longer there, is still in place. Wish I had got rid of it when we had diggers etc on site.
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No problem here - we don't have a garage, just a biggish shed in the garden - with power for a freezer and a clothes drier, a spare tiny oven with grill (SWMBO will not use the grill in our oven - it stinks, she says), a deep fat fryer and sockets for the electric mower.
It's also used as a sort of larder storage for reserve stocks of fizzy pop, beer (when we have some) jams, marmalades, curry sauces, cleaning materials, UHT milk, baked beans, tinned tomatoes, a food processor, spare pans and even garden stuff!
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>> No problem here - we don't have a garage, just a biggish shed in the
>> garden -..........
Are you sure that is not your kitchen. :-)
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>> No problem here - we don't have a garage, just a biggish shed in the
>> garden - with power for a freezer and a clothes drier, a spare tiny oven
>> with grill (SWMBO will not use the grill in our oven - it stinks, she
>> says), a deep fat fryer and sockets for the electric mower.
>> It's also used as a sort of larder storage for reserve stocks of fizzy pop,
>> beer (when we have some) jams, marmalades, curry sauces, cleaning materials, UHT milk, baked beans,
>> tinned tomatoes, a food processor, spare pans and even garden stuff!
Stop making excuses, the wife has chucked you out and you are living in the shed.
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There's a good chance my vintage car is the only car in the street that actually lives in the garage. Along with two, two wheeled bicycles and two, three wheeled bicycles.
However, due to to the fact the EC have re-categorised the car as a motorbike it could be argued I don't have a car in my garage either.
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Replaced my concrete sectional garage with a proper brick built job over ten years ago. Gave away the old thing, including the concrete/asbestos roof, which may have saved me a few bob in asbestos removal. Big mistake in not specifying a 7' 6" door instead of the 6' 6" the cheapskate builder fitted.
New one's over 20'x10' (once got a Focus & Panda in with the door shut and bumpers squashed). Space for Yaris, couple of bikes, freezer, workbench, ladders and all the other junk that won't fit in the 10'x12' shed!
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My double garage has a matching pair of 7' single leccy doors. F & B 'blue black'. Painted with a sponge roller in the early hours before work last summer. My LWB HiRoof Transporter didn't fit in. My Legacy estate & current 3 series do. I could have a barn dance around the A3. And a 55 plate Boxster does when I was minding it for a pal.
I have often thought of knocking out the Central pillar and putting in a wide sectional door with Rsj or concrete lintel. The downside of that is the ability to then garage a proper car. Merc SL, R8, LEC so it's cheaper to leave as is, and spend the 'savings' on other stuff. Stops me going bonkers and buying an old S8.
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Crumbs! Some folk have spent all night carrying out full garage inventory checks.
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Just as well I don't have a garage then! .. I have 3 sheds though :(
In the 8 x 6 jobbie, a proper shed, with TvG floor/roof, I have 2 very nice Burgundy red leather armchairs which are far more comfortable than the 2 sofas I have in the lounge. I should really get rid of the sofas and bring in the leather armchairs, but the sofas look better in the lounge :}
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Yes. I measured the car before building the garage.
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My grandfather bought a new Ford Prefect 107e in 1959 (his first new car) and decided to have a garage built to house it. When the builders came to put the base down and asked him how big he wanted it he told them to make it 2 foot longer than the car as that would be more than big enough. It was a double garage so the width was never a problem but every subsequent car was bigger and the FD Victor, which was the longest car he had just about fitted in.
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A neighbour of mine converted his twin door garage (7ft) into one large sectional. I have been tempted for years to do likewise, but two things put me off.
1. The temptation to buy a larger car than I really need. I'm one of those people who always use a garage for its intended purpose.
2. The cost would not increase the value of the property much, if at all. Even if I did not buy a larger car it would be more convenient, granted, but I have managed these past several years since the Transporter was sold, and I was no longer in trade.
And more recently, I have begun thinking about downsizing and releasing some capital.
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I remember my Aunts garage had traditional (pair hinged at the sides) doors where some previous owner of the house had obviously bought a car that was too large. The bottom halves of the doors had been extended out to accommodate the extra length. Must see if I have a picture, bet I don't!
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I'm lucky to own a small car (Suzuki Ignis Sport) and have a garage almost 20ft x 10ft. Previous house had a more typical 16ft x 8ft one.
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Does your car fit inside garage? - Old Navy
