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.
