i backed out of my garage today, with the driver door open. folded it right up against my fender. luckily no damage to the garage. its not the end of the world, ill get a door at the junkyard tomorrow and im sure it will be fixed by tuesday, but boy do i feel stupid.
thought i'd pass this along so hopefully someone else wont do it..
randy
I share your pain. I once came home from a bike ride, with my bike attached to the roof of my car. As I drove up the driveway I automatically reached for the garage door opener, pressed it, and proceeded PART WAY into the garage...
I did $1,600 damage to the car, bent the hell outta the bike's front forks and tweaked the bike rack pretty good too. The only item involved in my faux pax left undamaged was the garage door (wooden).
dave
xr> i backed out of my garage today, with the driver door open. folded it right
So far, I haven't done that, but my driveway is circular, meaning I have to turn 90 degrees to get into the garage. One of my fears is cutting that corner wrong either going in or out and taking out a corner of the garage. Heaven help me when the boy starts driving in 8 years.
I left the tailgate down on my pickup once, and my mower fell out, and never started again. I mow every day during the season.
up against my fender. luckily no damage to the garage. its not the end of the world, ill get a door at the junkyard tomorrow and im sure it will be fixed by tuesday, but boy do i feel stupid.
thought i'd pass this along so hopefully someone else wont do it..
randy
We see this twice a year or so at the bike shop I work at, and I have two neighbors with identical dents in the siding above the garage door.
Put the remote in a Ziploc that says "BIKE ON ROOF" in big magic marker letters, then put it in the glove box.
FWIW, we see even more wrecked bikes from people backing into things with hitch racks, so don't feel too bad.
Barry
Yeah, well...I recall, many years ago while I was still making stupid mistakes, washing my FIL's nearly new Olds. Had it near the house, started to back it up, realized there wasn't quite enough room, so drove forward a few feet, to the crunching noise of the bucket full of dirty water. Back in the days of galvanized buckets.
Charlie Self "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." Thomas Paine
Yet another reason to learn to use the outside mirrors. We in snow country have no better option, so we use 'em all the time.
Bob
|On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 21:20:30 -0600, "xrongor" |wrote: | |>i backed out of my garage today, with the driver door open. folded it right |>up against my fender. luckily no damage to the garage. its not the end of |>the world, ill get a door at the junkyard tomorrow and im sure it will be |>fixed by tuesday, but boy do i feel stupid. |>
|>thought i'd pass this along so hopefully someone else wont do it.. |>
|>randy |>
| |So far, I haven't done that, but my driveway is circular, meaning I have to |turn 90 degrees to get into the garage. One of my fears is cutting that |corner wrong either going in or out and taking out a corner of the garage. |Heaven help me when the boy starts driving in 8 years.
My beautiful 1999 Camaro SS was fewer than 24 hours old when I stopped at the neighbor's house to show it off.
We are both on a private dirt road and there is a Saguaro cactus in the split in their vee shaped driveway. As I backed out I even said to her, "Let's see if I can get out of here without hitting the Saguaro."
I hit the Saguaro. Oil canned the rear fender. Dent Busters is absolutely fabulous.
man i wont even put a bike on top of my car, i see that coming lol.
thx to all who shared. now i dont feel so dumb, well i still feel dumb but i know im in good company found a bolt on solution (i.e. same color type make, etc) door for 150. now lets hope the frame doesnt need too much hammering to get the door to close properly!! its hard to tell but it looks like the hinges bent and the frame is still pretty much in place.
peace randy
BAD wrote:> I once came home from a bike ride, with
Although I didn't do this, lessee if it can be topped. My wife loaded the bike onto the car while it was IN the carport, then proceeded to back out, destroying the old Raleigh Professional. Luckily, the insurer made good, allowing me a brand-new LeMond Zurich that I don't ride enough. Tom Someday, it'll all be over....
Barry, what I ended up doing was tossing the remote onto the backseat floor as I left home for a bike ride. Searching for it upon arriving home would be my final reminder there was a bike overhead. :)
dave
B a r r y wrote:
damn, its hard to tell the real BAD and i think ive got him blocked... which is the real BAD? is this guy the real one?
randy
My oldest just started learning to drive. I have opened a revolving charge account at the local body shop. He already dented a fender turning into the garage - just forgot to straighten the wheels when the car had turned far enough. I guess he figured that if *he* could see it was far enough the *car* could see it.
Tim Douglass
.>damn, its hard to tell the real BAD and i think ive got him blocked...
Look at the headers, if you've got 'em enabled. Anything from " snipped-for-privacy@dizum.com" will most likely be the troll. Ain't (s)he somethin'? Tom Someday, it'll all be over....
I have one that's even on-topic for the NG. I was doing some work outdoors on a nice sunny day, realized I needed some more lumber, got in my van to head over to the Borg, and backed over my miter saw.
Lee
could be.
dave
xrongor wrote: snip
What are you doing with a car in the garage in the first place?? Dont you know a garage is for woodworking! Not parking in! Geez!
Jim
? What part of "bike ride" am I misunderstanding here ?
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