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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: Duncreflex on 26 June 2010, 22:36
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Hi, I’m in the process of moving house, my new house a rather small garage. I was just wondering whether or not my gti will fit in it! Unfortunately I haven’t got the dimensions to hand, but it’s not the widest garage in the world. Anybody manage to slip their big fat GTI into a small tight garage??......
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Hi, I’m in the process of moving house, my new house a rather small garage. I was just wondering whether or not my gti will fit in it! Unfortunately I haven’t got the dimensions to hand, but it’s not the widest garage in the world. Anybody manage to slip their big fat GTI into a small tight garage??......
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The width is 1786mm excluding door mirrors
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I guess it comes down to the width you have available and if you can get out the damb thing. (So also comes down to your width :wink:)
It may matter with the angle too if you have a 3 or 5 door if you can get the angle to get out. Best way is to get a tape Only way is for you to measure and see what the min you can manage with yourself.
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if your garage has a door in the side, the car door will always open enough for you to get out however narrow the garage :undecided:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QksqWRqEfy0
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Mine fits in a "standard" size garage but i fold the mirrors (electric) in to get through the opening, it's a bit tight but it goes in ok.
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cheers, just measured up, got 15cm spare on each side, phewwww :nerd:
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I thought the Golf was fairly wide, but I got a shock this evening. We've just got a new pool car at work (someone else wrote off the Focus we had during the snow and ice), and it's a Megane estate. A diesel, but runs not too badly.
I left Prospero in the garage at work and brought the brand new Megane home, being quite nice to it because it only had 60 miles on the clock. The garage at work has a big double roller door, so no problems there. However, my big double garage at home, big enough for a barn dance practically, has two standard-sized up-and-over doors with a big brick pillar in the middle. I reversed the Megane up to the door, as I usually do with the Golf, and did previously with the 306.
No dice.
I suspect I could have got the car itself in, with care, but the wing mirrors? Forget it. I couldn't find a switch to fold them in (it's a basic model so it may not have one), but it was pretty academic. It was going to be so close, it wasn't worth trying. Better to let the paintwork take its chances with the starlings nesting in the garage eaves, than to risk scratching the brand new paint on the doors. Of a car that's not mine.
Can't the car designers get together with the garage designers, or vice versa? Is the Megane particularly wide? These aren't small houses, in this road, and some people have quite big cars. I wonder how they get them in? I apprciate not having to handle a huge single door, but don't single doors come in a wider fitting?
Rolfe.