Date:         Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:08:07 -0700
Reply-To:     "Chris S." <mrpolak@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         "Chris S." <mrpolak@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: help fitting van in garage
Comments: To: Jake Beaulieu <jbeaulie@ND.EDU>
In-Reply-To:  <vanagon%2007101022541281@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
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I'm in the same boat.. sort of.  I needed extra 2'' clearance to fit into the garage.
I considered H&R springs and passed them up due to harsh ride.  I looked for Carat passenger springs which would lower my '84 but could not find any.It's not going to happen, so I gave up and bought the house.  The van is parked outside.  It just so happens that it fits in the parking garage at my job, so I'll use that as my parking facility in the near future.

Chris.

Jake Beaulieu <jbeaulie@ND.EDU> wrote: >A Westy will fit in a standard garage, with a roll-up door, provided the
>door is rolled up all the way so the max height of the standard opening
84" or 7ft is not compromised by the door hardware.

My wife measured the height of about a dozen garage doors in Cincinnati
last weekend and I have had landlords measure a few more for me.  They are
all coming in at 77-78".  This is the height of the opening in the front
of the garage, so regardless of how the door was installed the van would
not fit.  I guess garage door height standards might be regional or
perhaps the homes I have been looking at predate the 84" standard.  Good
advice about how the door is mounted though, I'll take that into
consideration.

As for deflating the tires.  My van is about 82 inches tall and the
distance from the bottom of the tires to the rim is about 4 inches.  So
even if I completely deflated the tires I still wouldn't fit in most
garages.  Ugh



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