Carpark issues

They may have had Ken measure the height that's why you touched LOL

Hi stefan

Yeh the height warning generally aren't very accurate, but what is worse is when they are just not right.... the exhibition centre at darling harbour has a warning at street level stating max clearance of 1.9m. Knowing that my work van is 1.85 i went in.

all was good until i went down a few levels and half way down a ramp, there is a sign stating max clearance of 1.8. I had nowhere else to go so continued on, taking out a few dozen fluro lights along the way, ( conveniently located directly above the speed humps ). I've no idea why the 1.8 sign is not on the street level entrance. ridiculous

Donks

The clearance needed is a function of the vehicle's length [wheelbase]...the entry may not be flat so the 2.17m may be higher @ some entries.
Hope this makes sense.......have been caught like this as well: <(

The best bit is when you take out a sprinkler, then they all start!!!

Yep.. got stuck with the paj under one.. I need minimum 2.17 as well. (that is of course if it is a level entrance and not ramped..) this ramped said 2.2mt. sweet.. I enter slowly (slight elevation then down and it was on a sharp right hand turn) and the next thing you hear... "crunch, crunch, and some taps hitting the roof"
Holy Crap!
I get out and there I am with the concrete from the top of the building being gouged out by the rack and dropping bits of concrete on the roof.
Crap!! Am I gonna ruin my rack and take the top layer of concrete with me, you could see it was full of cracks (was an old building) but obviously getting brittle in spots for the rack to have taken chunks of the concrete out. It was impossible to try and reverse back, by which stage cars were lining up behind me so I just had to keep going forward.. I would rather drive with a spider in the car than go through that again!!!

A few years ago the exit height warning bar (god knows why they put one ay the exit) at Waringah Mall shopping centre caused a couple of hundred bucks damage to my old Rangie with a roofrack on. After they measured my car and confimed that it was lower than their stated clearance height, they agreed to pay for the repairs.

There are a couple of outdoor car parks with height barriers at Morayfield Mall near Caboolture. Only problem is the car parks are outside with to roof or shelter so why put barriers there incl at the exit which is on the same level.

You can get to a lower level carpark from the the first floor on one of these carparks where there is a height restriction but they have restricted the whole car park to higher vehicles whereas one floor could have been used for higher ones (exit is the same floor as the entrance).

There are at least 2 carparks like this which means the Troopy has to go somewhere else.

Stevesub

Almost got caught at Carindale in Brisbane.

2.0m height warning, Pajero is 1.97m, no roof rack.
(1.91m stock on this old model.)

Drove in and first ramp had a concrete beam over the spot where the ramp started, so the front wheels started rising before the car cleared the beam. Luckily I stopped and my better other half checked the clearance as we rose. Stopped half way, and the cars behind hadn't stopped to close.
Managed to get over the dividing island and do a u turn.
But it was close.

Have my radio aerial (am/fm) set to scrape at about 2.5m and my UHF aerial scrapes at about 2.2m. Gives me a bit of warning.

had this issue once myself --- they didn't include the height reduction from speed humps or when going up an incline or decline ( when changing levels ( steep level changes increase the height of the car)

ended up taking out a heap of fluro lights ... but the wind blew all the glass off the roof :)

Boc