Roof Bars - a safety notice !

[steved01]

Hi all,

Just a word of warning...when entering your garage remember to take your childs bike off the roof bars first or you will damage (in no particular order):

1. the garage door
2. the thule roof bars (one the them bent)
3. scratch and dent your D3 roof
4. scratch the tint on the outside of the rear side window.
and
5. make sure you do not have in the car your 2 kids, your wife, your mother in law, your mother in laws' sister, and your mother in laws' sister in law.

You should have heard all the advice they offered...I just wanted to punch most them in the face to shut them up !!!! (and then I wanted to cry at the scratches on the roof...)

[jonesfam]

Yep, that would stuff up your day!
Jonesfam

[weeds]

damn.......

[Ferret]

Clearly you are looking at things the wrong way. Your tyres were pumped up to way to high and your garage door opening was much too low. It is no use blaming the bike on the roof rack for being careless. :wasntme:

[gps-au]

5. make sure you do not have in the car your 2 kids, your wife, your mother in law, your mother in laws' sister, and your mother in laws' sister in law.


Blame it on the Air Suspension, with coils with that weight it probably would have sunk far enough :angel:

My D3 wont fit in my new garage (change of premises) even without bars and on access, good reason to brick, raise the roof and add a room above !

[WhiteD3]

When I have the racks on the car I hang a sign from the back to the panel door. As it goes up I see an A4 size sign that says "Down you idiot!" SWMBO gets a laugh out of this but its saved me a couple of times.

[steved01]

The reason I forgot it was there (the bike) was because my brother in law had parked on the driveway and so I had to maneuver around him to get in the garage. So really it was his fault not mine !

My initial thought was **** I forgot to lower the car - which I don't need to but I do it as best practice for all the peeps getting in and out - but even after hitting the garage I still tried to lower it but it made no difference as the bike pedal was stuck between the garage facia and the roller door.

I had to cut the straps which had bent the rear roof bar and tried as carefully as I could to extract the bike limiting the scratching on the roof.

After, my wife goes "I did wonder why you were driving into the garage with the bike on top. I didn't think it would fit?" - why didn't she shout STOP then !

So I refuse to take the blame.

[Duck's Guts]

Doh !!!
Time to fit parking sensors to the roof rack :D

[clubagreenie]

This conversation is useless without pics.

[Neil P]

Just about every house built in Australia has garages which are
too low , short and narrow . The domestic stock quality/design
is utter rubbish , just like the total lack of eco-anything . Look
at Canada , now they've got a clue on all of this . Specify your
own , or it's buy someones elses rubbish.

[Beamin]

You don't mention any damage to the bike. Was it tougher than the garage door, the racks and the roof?

I live in fear of doing exactly the same thing, so I make a point of putting the garage door remote out of reach when I put bikes on the roof. Having to reach for it in the passenger door pocket reminds me why I don't want to drive into the garage.

[Brick]

Sounds like that is worth at least a carton.

This is one of the reasons I only carry my bikes on the back. However after fitting a long range tank, my spare now sits on the roof whenever we are going outside the metro area. Need to remember to stop before driving all the way into the garage.

Sympathies Steve, but no one in the family is likely to stick up their hand to take the blame for you.

[tony66_au]

Should have put the In Laws on the roof and the bike in the back!

[Dingmark Jim]

Not that it would have helped in this particular situation, but I always (a) hide the garage door opener in the glove box, and (b) tape a warning note to the opener, when there is anything on the roof rack. Once I took the very tips off the top MaxTrak which was on the roof rack. It was probably the best possible thing to hit the garage door with AND there were no helpful women folk onboard to observe the event:angel:.

Sorry to hear about the collision.

[JDNSW]

Sounds like the time I drove under the carport with the Ute Crane installed on the back of the 2a!

John

[tony66_au]

I used to have a get out of jail free card because my now Ex Missus not only managed to back out of the garage with the door down........... but also punched the front wall out of the garage with her car.......... and then claimed it was damage from a Roo hit.

Didnt know they painted Roo's blue these days? :-)

[steved01]

You don't mention any damage to the bike. Was it tougher than the garage door, the racks and the roof?

Amazingly the bike was fine apart from the rear brake caliper being slightly out of line...

In terms of pics - i wasn't thinking straight at the time - but I can get some scratch pics tonight.

[pawky]

Back when I was a baby there was no such thing as portacots, so when it came time to travel to visit family the timber cot was strapped to the roof racks of the Mitsubishi Van and they set off.

Couple of kms down the road they realised they had forgotten something so turned around to get it. Dad drove straight back under the 2 storey house at a rate of knots. :eek:

One splintered and destroyed timber cot later they were able resume the journey. Apparently Mum nearly laughed herself to death but I'm certain Dad didn't... dunno where I slept that trip:)

[djhampson]

Thats nearly as bad as the time I put my awning on in the garage. Bolted it to the roof racks as usual and got in the car.

Went to drive out and I hear a thump on the roof. I jumped out and discovered it was the the cord used to mannually lower the door in a power failure. Then realised that I had no chance of driving out with the awning on even at access height.

So awning had to come off again, drive out, then put it back on. I don't know why it didn't occur to me that I have always put the awning on with the car on the drive way.... Not my finest hour.

[kenleyfred]

A cousin of mine in his Landcruiser (he has a D3 now) had just got a new fancy kayak. He very slowly drove under his queenslander house and it cleared. Beauty.
A week later he came home and smashed everything.
When he checked the height his vehicle was loaded for long weekend camping holiday and they camp in comfort. When he smashed the Cruiser was empty and riding a few inches higher.

[ade]

yep my issus just last week destryoed the roof on my 95 disco driving it into the carport with a fully loaded roof rack, tore it right of the roof:mad:
got a friend who destroyed her very expensive italian triatholon bike bike three times before she got the hang of remebering it was up there:D

[PCH]

got a friend who destroyed her very expensive italian triatholon bike bike three times before she got the hang of remebering it was up there:D

She isn't blonde is she? :wasntme:

On Topic:
Bad luck about the D3 roof and garage door damage. Just avoid getting a new roof for your Disco. The surgery is not a pleasant exercise.

Chris

[stewmair]

MOH won't sleep in a tent on the ground. Needed a Featherlite rooftop tent, therefore a Windcheater roofrack, therefore a higher garage door on the house we were building, therefore a higher ceiling throughout the house.
From little acorns big fees grow. (Tent is yet to be used, built the house instead):(

[aew849]

When in Karratha recently, the neighbouring flyin-flyout chap went off to pick up his flash mountain bike from a service in the company car (non-descript Jap 4x4), and on return to the units parking spot....the instant he heard the wretched crunch....he knew what he had done. D'oh!!

In my murky past I once hopped in a scooby doo, zapped the garage door opener and then dropped it on the seat. I then dropped the wallet and phone on the seat......when reversing out the garage, I collected the descending door, ripping it out the tracks and scratched the window and rear roof of a 2 month old car... never dump stuff on the door zapper. Even parking sensors and rear vision mirrors wouldn't help!!

But the happy ending was the scooby doo was ditched in favour of a Td5 Xtreme!!


aew849