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    Roof Bars - a safety notice !

    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...)

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    Yep, that would stuff up your day!
    Jonesfam

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    damn.......

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    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.
    2024 RRS on the road
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    Quote Originally Posted by steved01 View Post
    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

    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 !

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    This conversation is useless without pics.

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    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.

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