dumb downtown garage incident (1 Viewer)

[NearJetties]

Has anyone damaged their rack or truck because a parking garage had items that were lower than the marked height/safety bar? Will the garage pay for it? Even worth trying?

Garage was marked 6’8” and I cleared the safety bar at the entrance but this section was much lower than marked. Thankfully it didn’t hit on the awning side.

The yellow markings are usually for a pedestrian walkway not a height thing. I had to swing wide into a tight space. It doesn’t look like it in the photo but the low item comes out past it anyway.

 

[NearJetties]

Saving grace is it wasn’t on the awning side and I didn’t take a sprinkler head off

 

[TTViper]

I’ve heard of folks pursuing a resolution with building management. If it’s just a contractor like colonial parking, I don’t know if they actually own responsibility if they themselves are just managing the parking as a tenant.

 

[John Smith]

BTDT in my FJ40 at the IBM Rockledge office in Bethesda many years ago. I just cleared the gate arm and thought I was all set. As I drove to the lower floors the ceiling kept getting lower and my antenna then soft top started to rub. I backed up, and went up toward the top of the garage and no issues. Ever since, I don't trust any garage I have never been in and proceed with caution.

Good luck with getting anything out of the building mgmt company!

 

[jht3]

ouch

thankfully haven't done any damage to my trucks due to poorly marked garages. have busted some overhead lights w/ my old firestick cb antenna. i had it bumper mounted to act as a canary in the coalmine. range suffered but i never scrapped my roof again.

i don't trust those markings at all. my current work garage lets me in just fine, but my roof rack scrapes/pushes the chain-mounted yellow tube on exit. did that once and will never drive the 80 back to work.

 

[NearJetties]

No luck getting the garage to respond (big surprise meh)

I ended up ordering front runner load bar kit for a Range Rover classic. Same width and feet height as the full rack for the 60 series. Not sure why they don’t sell it for the 60 series.

It’ll be a few inches lower than the Yakima.

 

[Diff Kraken]

My wife once ran into a manhole cover that was sticking straight up in the air around a blind corner in her office parking garage. She called the building manager who assured her the building would pay for the damages... we got an estimate for $360 to repair the car and sent the invoice to the building manager who replied saying that was way more than she expected and would not cover the damage.

 

[TTViper]

Man I was thinking $360 to fix anything car related was cheap

 

[NearJetties]

feeling naked but aero