Height of carparks?

[Corey_R]

Lol... yep, I'm with you The_Hawk. That's just plain stupidity from car park operators to have 2.1m signs entering the carpark and going up the ramps, and then have 1.9m signs on the down ramps. If a specific area has a down ramp marked 1.9m, then the up ramp should be marked 1.9m too!

[irsa76]

Those from Canberra would know of the Manuka McDonalds drive through. Their height barrier USED to be 2.5 meters. I say that because I went through in my Sprinter workvan, 2.4 to the top of the UHF can antenna, and managed to pull the antenna out of the roof! Turns out they hadn't remeasured since they redid the driveway, since fixed. Lucky for me the damage to the van was minimal, considering it's already 2 antennaes, rear camera and highlevel brake light removed from the roof by previous drivers!

[Sunny43.5]

Hi guys don,t have this issue with car parks as I have an internal sliding sunroof in both our T5,s and if I am in doubt I just stick my head up through the sunroof and check progess works a treat . I do remember back in early 2005 we sold our old T4 which had two sunroofs in it the people we sold it to had it less than a week before they wiped out the rear sunroof , they had it in the tilt position when they entered a carpark here in Brissie he believed the height sign which was not a true indication throughout the carpark next thing cruuuuunch one partially destroyed sunroof ! Ouch !!

[The_Hawk]

Yeah, it's things like that which are plain wrong. Height signs are there for a reason... they *should* be accurate and if not I believe the carpark owner should be liable for any damage.


(mind you, all of this talk just makes me think more and more about a set of air bags in the Van ).

[swingn]

Biggest problem I've found is the actual entrance to the car park.

For instance, in my Caddy I went to a carpark down the Gong which was 1.8m clearance, which of course is no problem for the Caddy. BUT because of the speed hump & angel you enter the car park, it still managed to clip the roof (Just - No damage done).

Already investigating lowering the Transporter when it finally gets delivered just to give that extra few cms of clearance.