Well the last time I parked my van in there I did not have roof bars on the van......
My Mum thinks it's a conspiracy between me and my Dad as he wanted a new door and she told him that there was nothing wrong with the old one and he could not have one.
I hope your apprentice(s) didn't see you do that :)
Close the door and straighten it up a bit with the front bumper of the van. It'll be fine.
Yeah, it'll bend back with a bit of persuasion. Though knowing modern plastic highly expensive wrap around bumbers I wouldn't like to bet on which bent first. Hum maybe I do, the most expensive, the bumper.
Know anyone with a Defender?
In message , ARW writes
If you have another means of access to the garage and an electric supply I would fit an electric roller shutter. I fitted one on mine a few years ago and it is great. It means that I can hang things from the rafters near the door without it catching, plus the lazy mans remote control too.
My need was brought about when I reversed up to the door and forgot to stop, it was never quite the same after that :-(
You are a dead man! :-)
If you do bend it back to try and straighten it, the part which has the definitive bend/kink in it will be somewhat weakend. You may or may not need to support it by using a piece of timber.
I should be able to get some better photos later. The door is shagged, that photo was taken after I had straightened it out with my boots. The rivets have popped from the cross frame and the wire to open the door has snapped:-)
Well the bottom OS bit of my plastic front bumper (and the plastic inside the wheel arch) is somewhere on the A64 after hitting what I think was tent poles at about 90mph on the way to the Filey. The garage door denting was a bonus.
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Lighting only.
Thinking about it, I'm surprised that they don't make electric roller shutter doors with a locking flap on the frame, through which you could insert a manual crank from the outside or some similar override.
SteveW
She sounds as suspicious as mine, in my case with justification :-)
Not good for an electric only access then.
They don't take much power so maybe not an issue. But without a 2nd access it wouldn't be viable anyway. Unless you mounted the motor and mechanics on the outside which isn't a good move.
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Indeed. Mine has a crank on the inside that takes for ever to use, but would get it open if it was essential.
One thing to check if you're thinking of fitting an 'up-and-over' door of the sort that rolls up into tracks that run along the tops of the inside walls - check that the front of the garage is at 90 degrees to the walls ! Because if it isn't - and nobody notices until they start to install it - you may well find it won't fit ! I know because it happened to me !
Jim Hawkins
There was an option with mine for a lockable external manual handle in case of power failure. I didn't need it as I have alternative access and made do with the included internal handle.
Have to still got roof bars on the van? ;-)
you have to be slightly careful about mechanical override to electrically operated doors. If you need to get tehn car out, as opposwed to just access, can you operate the mechanism. A friend, well into his eighties, was trapped at home during a power failure - he could open the doors because the manual system was too heavy for him.
Give us a clue whereabouts on the A64, and I'll go and have a look for it.
Why were the tent poles doing 90mph?
Newtons 3rd law of motion?
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