Thread: Carpark height and D4 - dumb question

I did when I was working down in Perth James - and I have a full length Frontrunner roofrack on mine, and I'm running slightly larger than the OEM fitted tyres (265/60R18).

The entrance to the office carpark in Nedlands was only just 2.0 metres on the low side, and only slightly higher on the high side. I had to use "access height" to get in and out of the place.

If I selected "normal height" too early on the way out on the high side of the entrance, I would scrape the top of the rack (there's a few scrape marks up there as evidence of this).

If I forgot to select "access height" and entered the carpark on the low (left) side of the entrance, the front of the roofrack would slam into the building - there's a lump of concrete missing out of the building as evidence of this.

But provided I was in "access height", I had no problems either side of the driveway.

The top of my roofrack is 120mm higher than the roof, and about 110mm higher than the tracks on the roof.

My ex-boss's D4 has a Rhino Rack fitted which is slightly higher than my Frontrunner. He can only get under the "high" side of the entrance and has to be in "access height". He's already had someone wipe a pair of small LED lights off the back end of his roofrack because they were not aware of this.

It was only the entrance / exit that was an issue at this place. Once you got inside, there was plenty of clearance.

The below ground parking under the apartment I was at in Adelaide Tce was from memory 2.2m minimum clearance. I never had any problems there, and did not have to lower the suspension.

Thanks BM

So I take from this I can get away with it but lock it in access before going in.

One other question, if while locked in access and driving around the carpark too fast, I will get a "Bong" telling me to slow down or it will return to normal, the same way it does in offroad ehight?

I don't reckon I will need this warning as I will packing my daks the entire time, but you never know after a few beers and a Billy Connolly concert.

Yes - you'll get a "bong" to warn you. But you'd have to be moving fairly quickly in a carpark to get this if you're locked in access mode.

From memory, if you're in access mode but not locked, suspension will raise once you hit 10 km/h. If you've locked it in access mode however, you can go a bit faster than this before you'll get warnings and the suspension will raise - I think it's about 30 km/hr (someone will correct me if I'm wrong).

And yes - after a few beers and a Billy Connolly concert, anything's possible. Half your luck.

I'm no help, I can't access any carparks, not even 2.1mtrs

Access height

2.1mtrs

Just measured mine out in the shed Baz. At access height, I'm at about 1.95m to the top of the roofrack. My side awning is mounted on brackets to hang below the roofrack, so that doesn't give me any problems.

Bit of a bugger when I forget that I've got a tent or a swag on top though.

Fortunately, there's only one undercover carpark in downtown Kalgoorlie at Coles / K-Mart .............................. and I don't shop at either.

Not that it would matter, as you could drive a small truck into that carpark anyway.

James,

I regularly park in a multi-story park that claims to be 2.0 without a problem with my Rhino platform on. ( I have not actually measured the entrance height and many over here seem to lie.)

If I add my canopy I don't fit unless I go to access mode.

What I have noticed though, the approach to the entrance may make a difference.... coming out of the above park, I go down a ramp immediately after the height sign.

With the canopy on...in access height I clip the sign gently, but only on the way out.

You do get what they are saying here don't you?


Outback 4X4's are excluded


Only tree hugging micro town cars are accepted

How do you figure that Petersen?

I'm not quite sure what you are getting at......