Narrow garage solutions?

gbhrps

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