Originally Posted by Mick_12Nismo (Post 3853516)

I have a little different take on the tennis ball suggestion mentioned above. Park your car in your garage exactly as you want it positioned. Then tack or nail a string to the garage ceiling and hang the tennis ball from the string so that it barely touches the center of the windshield at the attachment point of the rearview mirror (you can use any other point you want but using the mirror makes it easy to hit the exact same spot every time). Before you back the car out of the garage note how the ball appears while sitting in your seat. When returning to your garage just pull in straight, put the ball in the same position and you'll be good to go.

Originally Posted by Mick_12Nismo (Post 3853658)

I've been doing it that way for as long as I've had my Z and have never had an issue despite my wife's misguided belief that the garage is hers and she can pile her crap in it wherever she likes! LOL.
If you don't like the tennis ball try this one on for size - this assumes you have wifi available in your garage. Get ahold of a Wyze camera ($25 or so on line), set it up in your garage so that it is positioned with the view you want. With the Wyze app installed on your smart phone you can watch the video on the app on your phone in real time to make sure you are clearing everything you are concerned about.
Wyze cams are great. I've got 5 of em that I use for other purposes and they blow the doors off of my much more expensive Nest camera

Originally Posted by cv129 (Post 3853659)

Never thought of that, I think my wife would like this idea.

Originally Posted by CRiZO (Post 3853546)

He's already installed mirrors, an elegant solution for a more civilized age.

Originally Posted by gbhrps (Post 3853711)

Guys and Gals,



In my two car garage the Z parks on the right and my Bride's Lexus gets the left. She invariably takes more of her share of the floor making it necessary to be very athletic for me to get out of the Z, if her car is parked inside.



What I've done in order to get as close to the right side wall as I can without scraping the right front fender, is to fasten two 2x6's together, some 10 feet long, making them 3 inches wide collectively.



I then glued those black rubber stairs treads (they're about 3 feet wide, so you'll need at least 4 for the 10 feet) to the one side of the boards such that the overhang section of the tread (2 inches) wraps over most of the top of the boards.



With this board standing on its edge right next to the outside wall of the garage, rubber side to the center of the garage, and my shallow steering angle towards the outside wall, even if my front tire rubs against the rubber covered boards, there is no damage to the tire or wheel, and the front fender can't contact the wall.



Then, once parked, I reach behind the seat and extract a two foot section of the insulation foam that you wrap around copper pipe to prevent them weeping in humid weather. The foam comes with a split down its length.



I open the driver's door about 6 inches, slide the foam over the rear edge of the door, open the door as far as it will go holding the door against my wife's car, and do acrobatics to get out of the Z. Pop the foam back into the Z, and good to go.



It works for this old guy.



Gene