Mind the doors

[allan40alt]

Don't throw that old packing away...put it to good use.

I used some packing to protect my doors when opening them in the garage.

I cut it to size and used building adhesive to stick it to the walls, for front and rear doors.

[angie4m]

Smart thinking bat man!

[NEEMSTAR]

good job !

[dave525]

My garage has a block of foam glued to the wall where you open the drivers door and a big sheet on the back wall (just in case) it was already there when I brought the house

[illegalhunter]

too much time on your hands Alan

[allan40alt]

Originally Posted by illegalhunter

too much time on your hands Alan

One of the benefits that early retirement brings ...and it only took 5 mins to do...quicker than touching-in a chipped door edge

[TTDegs]

Do you have the "tennis ball on a bit of string from the roof" mod too?

[Dimplyred]

Originally Posted by TTDegs

Do you have the "tennis ball on a bit of string from the roof" mod too?

LOL, that's a good one, very useful.

I have a carpet tile screwed to the wall in my garage.

[okehciv]

I just dont put mine in LOL

[Jack The Lad.]

I had the rubber ball hanging from the garage ceiling, when our kid was young.
She and her friends decided to play tennis with it, when playing in the garage as it was raining. They wacked it so hard, it came off the ceiling fixing, straight out the open garage door and dented my new car on the drive.
Didn't have smart repair guys in those days.

[allan40alt]

Originally Posted by TTDegs

Do you have the "tennis ball on a bit of string from the roof" mod too?

No I have reverse sensors!

[Nemesis]

Originally Posted by allan40alt

Don't throw that old packing away...put it to good use.

I used some packing to protect my doors when opening them in the garage.

I cut it to size and used building adhesive to stick it to the walls, for front and rear doors.

......thought I'd just happened across an online Viz Top-Tips page!!

[Dimplyred]

Originally Posted by allan40alt

No I have reverse sensors!

Yes, but all they are good for when reversing into a garage is driving you mad.

[19 milano]

71% of motorists have a garage
41% use the garage to park the car
From RAC!

I have a couple of wooden boards lining my garage. However, I still have to slide the seat fully back to get out of the 3 door FN2! I also have the obligatory tennis ball hanging from the roof! My garage only just fits the car (I have to fold the mirrors in to fit through the door!)

I am the only person on the street who uses the garage for a car. I wonder if the others have told their insurance they use a garage? Hope not, because if they ever have a car stolen their excess will be huge!

[angie4m]

Originally Posted by 19 milano

71% of motorists have a garage
41% use the garage to park the car
From RAC!

I have a couple of wooden boards lining my garage. However, I still have to slide the seat fully back to get out of the 3 door FN2!

I am the only person on the street who uses the garage for a car. I wonder if the others have told their insurance they use a garage? Hope not, because if they ever have a car stolen their excess will be huge!

I park on the drive because there is another more important car in the garage, but when I was getting my insurance I looked at putting it in the garage and it increased my premium by £25 if I kept it in the garage Than on the drive. Madness! I thought that keeping it in the garage lowered the premium, how wrong was I? Good thing I checked both driveway and garaged price

[allan40alt]

My wife drives her car in forwards and I fixed two short lengths of garage door threshold rubber sealer strip to the floor that she butts the front wheels up to, so she knows she's in far enough so the back of her car clears the garage door coming down (I fixed some wall protector her side as well).

I reverse in and as soon as the continuous beep sounds then I know I'm in far enough to clear the door and leave enough space at the rear to get to my wine rack and the garden loungers (it's all go this retirement lark this weather!! - eat your hearts out you workers!!).

[19 milano]

Originally Posted by angie4m

I park on the drive because there is another more important car in the garage, but when I was getting my insurance I looked at putting it in the garage and it increased my premium by £25 if I kept it in the garage Than on the drive. Madness! I thought that keeping it in the garage lowered the premium, how wrong was I? Good thing I checked both driveway and garaged price

Wierd! I had insurance a couple of years ago and when I asked what would happen if my car got stolen from the drive when I had declared a garage, they said my excess would suddenly become £800! But it was alot cheaper to declare the garage and use it!

[19 milano]

oops! I don't mean to sound like the last time I had insurance was a couple of years ago!
I wouldn't dare! lol.

[Jack The Lad.]

My cunning plan is to burn my drawing board on the lawn, in two years time allan.
If "Er Indoors" can keep her hands off the plastic cards that is.

[angie4m]

Originally Posted by 19 milano

Wierd! I had insurance a couple of years ago and when I asked what would happen if my car got stolen from the drive when I had declared a garage, they said my excess would suddenly become £800! But it was alot cheaper to declare the garage and use it!

Well that means if your at your mates overnight or somewhere else in the country and its parked on the street and gets nicked then they will bump the excess. The would do things like that none the less but they ask where its 'Normally parked' so if for some reason you can't use the garage that time then there should be some leway.

Apart from it costing £25 more, I don't think my Dad would approve of me moving the M3 out of the garage and onto the drive for my CTR!

But there is a myth that parking in the garage makes insurance cheaper and thats not always the case but people just don't check.