GXPaycheck Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Always make sure car is ALL the way into the garage prior to closing door. EDIT: This is after two layers of touchup paint. Gouge went into the plastic. Worst part is I was in the middle of cleaning her up for Saturday's Show in Charlotte. I guess AJ will have a new wet sanding student. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE Mook Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 You are not alone LOL. My wife's last Mazda 6 and the truck I had prior to my TBSS I did like that all within a month! The truck actually broke my garage door's fall (I was pulling out and the darn garage door fell on the gate. OOOOOOOOOPS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill-V8V Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 I have a laser parking assist. It works great. The light hits the front edge of my dash I stop. I know if I put anything on the floor I'd eventually trip over it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAYBEN Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 knock on wood Tom, you may have jinxed yourself.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McDuff Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 I put the pad down on the garage floor that the tire goes between the two raised sections for my wife after she put the garage door down on the back of her Saturn years ago. It has prevented any accidents since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grubrunner Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Just to add.... I also have THIS wheel chock mounted on my garage surface to guide me every time I reverse the Tahoe in as to my safe [garage closing, not hitting] reverse parking/stopping point. Works great! You may consider sonething similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grubrunner Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Simple fix for that, just move the sensors up from the bottom to the height as your bumper Precisely! Sensors re-adjusted to the level of the most pretruding forward part of the vehicle's nose/bumper will assure that, that never happens again. I've done this adjustment three different times over the last few years on vehicles I've kept garaged..... as I too found out the hard way many years ago back home. All's well that ends well.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golf for Life Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Sorry to read about this Brian . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcampbe7 Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Ouch... Sucks when we do things like this. Could always be worse... A friend of mine backed out of his garage without opening the door! He said he just jumped in the car, started it up and backed out. Oops! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fierce5 Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Simple fix for that, just move the sensors up from the bottom to the height as your bumper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArmyAcadia09 Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 yea i always get out and check first. Used to be able to line it up with an object but my mother in law is currently living with us so there is a lot in the garage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris@Adams Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Bummer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InDepthAutoDetailing Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 I have a feeling this is going to happen to the wife's new Durango. It's about 10"-12" longer than the TB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAYBEN Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GXPaycheck Posted August 25, 2011 Author Share Posted August 25, 2011 The original gouge went into the plastic. Pic is after two layers of touchup paint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill-V8V Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 I hate when that happens :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Adam's Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 OUCH! Been there and done that though... one of the first times I pulled the truck into the garage of this house. Hadn't gotten my "how far to pull in" feel yet... door went down, then came back up. DOH! Should at least be able to minimize that based on the pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Always make sure car is ALL the way into the garage prior to closing door.
EDIT: This is after two layers of touchup paint. Gouge went into the plastic. Worst part is I was in the middle of cleaning her up for Saturday's Show in Charlotte.
I guess AJ will have a new wet sanding student.
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