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Offline WolverineMAc

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Driveway
« on: May 29, 2012, 11:01:55 pm »
Driveway is only 4.5m long and wifes car is 4.4m long and idea of any gadgets to screw/stick on the way to protect the rear bumper.
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Re: Driveway
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2012, 12:48:13 am »
Parking sensors or reversing camera?
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Re: Driveway
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2012, 08:12:00 am »
nail a length of wood accros the drive so the tyres bump before the bumper does.
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Re: Driveway
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2012, 08:38:57 am »
Put something there to act as a point of reference.
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Re: Driveway
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2012, 08:39:45 am »
...... Don't let your wife drive it....
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Re: Driveway
« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2012, 10:43:53 am »
There you go, one for each of you!!  :happy2:


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Re: Driveway
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2012, 10:48:24 am »
Put a marker on te fence/wall that the wing morrow lines up with or some sort of speed bump/ramp that when you touch you stop
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Re: Driveway
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2012, 11:08:22 am »
Quote from: Horatio on May 30, 2012, 08:12:00 am
nail a length of wood accros the drive so the tyres bump before the bumper does.

This
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Re: Driveway
« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2012, 11:36:03 am »
The wood is the best cheap/quick method but may look unsightly.

Reversing camera kits are easy, you can even get wireless ones with a seperate 3.5" screen cheap (£30ish?)
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Re: Driveway
« Reply #9 on: May 30, 2012, 07:06:53 pm »
Quote from: Horatio on May 30, 2012, 08:12:00 am
nail a length of wood accros the drive so the tyres bump before the bumper does.

Sister does something similar but with a couple of bricks instead.
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Re: Driveway
« Reply #10 on: May 30, 2012, 07:28:02 pm »
Easy! - simply saw off your boot with an angle grinder.  :wink:
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Re: Driveway
« Reply #11 on: May 30, 2012, 07:29:02 pm »
The wood beam method is something I've seen others use. 10cm isn't much room for error and a visual marker can be overshot whereas it's more difficult to not notice you're going over a beam.
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Re: Driveway
« Reply #12 on: May 31, 2012, 09:07:42 am »
Could you leave the garage door open, and put one of these in there?



Just a thought.
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Re: Driveway
« Reply #13 on: May 31, 2012, 09:26:48 am »
Quote from: SRC on May 31, 2012, 09:07:42 am
Could you leave the garage door open, and put one of these in there?



Just a thought.

It would have to be a bloody big garage to get one of them in there :signLOL:
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Re: Driveway
« Reply #14 on: May 31, 2012, 10:50:05 pm »
a old guy in my road hangs a golf ball off his windowsill, as soon as he hears it hit the bonnet he stops!!
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