Re: Height resriction
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:39 pm
That is often the case in multistorey car parks as well the change in angle as each ramp meets each level can catch you out.Mattsonics wrote:To bring this thread back on topic...
With height restricted entrances / bars etc. you need to be careful, the van may fit under the bar comfortably as you first drive in, but if the ground rises too quickly on the other side you will catch the middle - if you follow.
I am speaking from experience...
There is a car park in Lancaster behind The Sugar House student night club (which I spent way too much time in as a youth, and met my wife there!!) it has a bar which a standard height Bongo (i.e. not lowered, or big tyres) will fit comfortably under until a quarter of the way under, then the front tyres hit the rising ground and you scrape your AFT!!
Have backed off other height restricted entrances following this experience.
Matt
We also had no problem getting under the height warning bar & into the underground car park at the Paris Motorshow but because of the slope and it being slightly lower on the exit side started to scrape it on the way out I had to jump out and hold it up a bit while Mrs S drove out. Inside the actual car park was no problem at all - just the bit of pipe on chains on the exit.
Back off topic please.....
Discuss............
