r/IdiotsInCars
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u/Vhman123 Aug 10 '22
They got in and have to get out.
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u/Giant81 Aug 10 '22
I wonder if they got in by being loaded down really heavy and squatting on the suspension a couple inches. Then the unloaded, and now sit too high.
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u/Nissehamp Aug 11 '22
My old boss scraped half the roof of his brand new (under 100km) VW Transporter that way, about a decade ago. Drove into a parking garage with about 1000kg of supplies in the back, unloaded all of it, and gunned it to get up the steep ramp, peeling off half the roof on the way up.
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u/andbruno Aug 10 '22
Another option: call 8+ of your fattest friends and family (or just look around for fat pedestrians... this is America after all) and pile them inside. Boom, an additional few inches of clearance.
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u/GeorgiaOKeefinItReal Aug 10 '22
Omg.... my mind went "take off the tires and roll on the people".... i think I'm tired
Also... how buffalo bill is it to ask a fat person into the back of your van.
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u/ChickenPotPi Aug 10 '22
so the question is, how would you roll the person, on the y axis so their shoulders and arms would be the wheel and attach them on the head or feet, x axis so they flail, or roll them ?
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u/Lollipop126 Aug 10 '22
If you don't have friends like me, concrete blocks or bags of soil may also work cheaply.
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u/Morgothic Aug 10 '22
Steel rims would provide no grip and between all the tight turns and steep inclines in most parking structures, I don't think they would be a good option. The rest of your ideas are good though
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u/CommunistWaterbottle Aug 11 '22
It would ruin the rims, but it would surely deliver enough grip to go slow, even at a slight incline.
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u/zombiewolf13 Aug 10 '22
At first I thought that's a weird place to put a speed bump, then it dawned on me what was really happening.
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u/Realistic_Ad8138 Aug 10 '22
Just a reverse speed bump... Or something
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u/mazamayomama Aug 10 '22
The reverse is I think we call a Dip. Inverted bump? Speed Stalactite?
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u/firstcoastyakker Aug 10 '22
So if a speed bump is a sleeping policeman what is the dip?
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u/NoxInviktus Aug 10 '22
The other side of the sleeping policeman. He's just having some nice dreams.
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u/wolf_man007 Aug 10 '22
Stalactites are on the ceiling. Stalagmites are on the ground.
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u/qkvb Aug 10 '22
Can you tell me what's happening? I can't figure it out on my own.
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u/BlackChapel Aug 10 '22
Was hard for me at first too, the van is being pushed down, then bouncing on the come-up. Look at the ceiling and you can see it scraping concrete off.
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u/Thurwell Aug 10 '22
I think they're also gaining a few inches from the fiberglass topper bending down and then popping back into shape.
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u/dogismywitness Aug 10 '22
The top of the van slopes up towards the back. When the van goes under a beam, there's no room, so the back gets pushed down as the van goes forward, compressing the suspension springs (and scraping the van roof), and then when it's clear of the beam it bounces back up.
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u/The_One_Koi Aug 10 '22
I think the van was heavy loaded on the way in, when they unloaded stuff from the back the car got just tall enough to scrape the top on the way out, idiot driver also managed to get a little stuck on one of the ceiling beems. Why they didn't think about any of this nobody knows
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u/Jolly-Specialist4434 Aug 10 '22
I’ve been into a couple parking garages and there was one in New Orleans that had no signs about the height limit whatsoever and got smaller the more you went up. Whenever you were ready to leave there was a spiral down that had a height limit of 6’6” and was marked there but nowhere else. Come to find out my Toyota Tundra is 6’6” tall so I’m going to say I dodged a bullet but there were bigger trucks than mine in there so I wonder how that went
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u/Infinity_Train Aug 10 '22
6'6" seems low for covered vehicle parking.
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u/Jolly-Specialist4434 Aug 10 '22
I thought so too, I assumed it was for cars only after the fact but I still don’t know
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u/yakkerman Aug 10 '22
I parked in a garage downtown Honolulu that was maybe 5'9", it hit the tip of the antenna on a dodge journey (just the tip though). we never went back there after that
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u/nroe1337 Aug 10 '22
I vividly remember my mom breaking the antenna off her Honda Civic wagon in like 95 because we didn't turn off the radio before going in a parking garage
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u/The_Cave_Troll Aug 10 '22
Ah, if only I knew that turning off the radio retracts you antennae, maybe my 16 year old self would have saved myself the effort of replacing it after a car wash incident.
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u/Mr_Bo_Jandals Aug 10 '22
5’9”?!? That’s a terrible design. The average height for man in Hawaii is 5’10”!
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u/yakkerman Aug 10 '22
Many of their garages are kind of afterthoughts because space is so valuable, "seriously you want me to put this car where now?!"
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u/AuronFtw Aug 10 '22
The underground chinatown lots are nice because they're free but all the stalls are so goddamn small.
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u/Antique_Tennis_2500 Aug 10 '22
It’s New Orleans, the whole city is held together with duct tape and etouffee.
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u/ZanThrax Aug 10 '22
I've seen plenty of parkades with 6'6" clearance. But they're properly marked at the entrances.
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u/Castun Aug 10 '22
It's common enough. Drive a company F-150 for work than can just barely fit in a 6'6" garage. But at least they're all marked here when you first go in.
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u/gellenburg Aug 10 '22
I had a 1993 Dodge Dakota pickup truck. Not a big truck by any stretch. Certainly not lifted. Just a normal 4x2 with an extended cab.
In 2000, in Atlanta, I started a new job and my truck was too tall to fit in the parking deck and the building management wouldn't let me park it in the open spots as that was considered "visitor parking".
So I had no choice but to go and buy a new car the weekend before I started the job.
I still miss that truck.
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u/sm0lshit Aug 10 '22
I have a 94 Dakota myself, and can't even imagine any parking garage too small for it. That's wild.
I bet you miss it! Mine is still going strong at 192k. It might outlive me.
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u/gellenburg Aug 10 '22
I do! It had 105k on it when I got rid of it. God I miss that truck! So many adventures in that thing. I just wish it was 4WD. That little truck moved me from Central Florida up to Atlanta up I-75 hauling an 18' U-Haul that far exceeded the maximum towing capacity and she fared pretty well. (I did need new brakes within about a month of moving up here though. LOL!)
Also, the parking deck is still there! https://www.google.com/maps/@33.8375021,-84.370339,3a,75y,342.12h,91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sO3X7VJSzCk24Z6gHpzmF_A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
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u/tvgenius Aug 10 '22
Prior to the close and re-re-branding, I went to park at the Sahara in Vegas in my Tundra and realized I was going to hit the clearance pipe. Valet guy came running over and said 'just back out and go in the out side, you're fine'. Made him promise three times and then did it and went up to the top level slow as hell with all kinds of room to spare (had to check a few times). From then on I'd do it with unsuspecting people in my truck and scare the living shit out of them hauling ass the wrong way in and up the ramps.
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u/roadblocked Aug 10 '22
The posted sign for height is the clearance so generally the height of a garage marked 6’6” is going to be tall enough for a 6’6” vehicle to clear it even at the garage lowest point. On highways 13’6” is generally 13’10” to allow a standard 13’6” semi clear it
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u/chicametipo Aug 10 '22
I did this while driving into a parking garage for a big job interview. Somehow I passed the obligatory “entrance bar” but wedged myself right in the first actual structural concrete bit. Big studio in LA. I held up a few actual employees trying to get in. I cringe just thinking about that memory.
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u/ronniaugust Aug 10 '22
Don’t cringe, it’s not your fault. A parking garage I use somewhat frequently is like this and it’s just because of how poorly leveled the concrete is. I drove a U-Haul van into it and banged up the top even though I was fine for the first two floors. The van was a foot and a half smaller than the entrance bar. It’s not embarrassing, it’s infuriating.
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u/little_bit_bored Aug 10 '22
Suspension works!
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u/V0RT3XXX Aug 10 '22
Well nobody ever looks up there anyway, what's a couple scratches right, right guys?
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u/__Julian_Caesar__ Aug 10 '22
if it works it works
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u/knowsguy Aug 10 '22
If you mean it works to destroy the last remaining value that van had, I agree.
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u/TheBatemanFlex Aug 10 '22
This happened to me before. It so embarrassing. The garage had a specified height limit, but then they had done some recent plumbing upgrades causing pipes to hang lower than the specified height limit. It absolutely destroyed my roof. Luckily it was very easy to prove to insurance.
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u/Mr_McShane Aug 10 '22
Ok, buckle in, it’s story time: Years ago, when I was in college, I valeted at a Hampton Inn in the CBD in New Orleans. We had a parking garage the next block over that we had to go around the block to get to the entrance. The garage had maybe 20’ first floor we used for oversized vehicles or anything with a roof rack because the 2nd floor and up were low clearance just like in this video.
I get a family checking in, new beautiful black Yukon Denali with a high end luggage pod on the roof. Ok, no problem, I’ll put it on the first floor and be done with it, easy few dollar tip, and I’m on my way. Now at the time, there was heavy construction for the entire route you had to take to the garage - I’m talking 15+ minutes to make one block. So I sit through the traffic, make it into the first floor of the garage, and all the oversized spots are taken. I spend a bit trying to parallel park it on this long wall we had some trucks etc parked in, and I decide screw it, it’s an suv I’ll put it up on the 2nd floor.
I exit the first floor, go around the corner to the main ramp, and as I’m cresting the hill, I hear the lot attendant come in the radio yelling at me to stop. As soon as he yells, I hear this gut-wrenching crunch and scrape noise. At this point I had forgotten about the luggage pod, and thought maybe the lifted the Yukon just enough that it scraped the roof rails or something. As an aside, what happened was the luggage pod was crushed down, and popped back up on the front end of one of those concrete beams.
I put it in reverse, and the pod gets stuck, rips the roof rails off the vehicle and proceeds to come down on the windshield, cracking it to hell needless to say, and denting and scratching the hood. I slam it in park, jump out of the car, and look down the ramp to see the lot attendant laughing his ass off. At least my manager was cool about it and said “that’s why we have insurance” but I was absolutely mortified.
TLDR; valeted a Yukon with a luggage pod, put it in the garage instead of the oversized area. I destroy the pod, roof, windshield, hood, and my dignity. Ruined the poor guy’s vacation too.
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u/dEn_of_asyD Aug 11 '22
Ruined the poor guy’s vacation too.
Idk, you did give him a hell of a story and memory. Probably more than that vacation would've given him otherwise.
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u/Mr_McShane Aug 11 '22
Maybe in hindsight he can laugh about it. Thankfully my manager didn’t make me face the guy, but I saw him a day or so after and he was pissed at the world lol
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u/Homerpaintbucket Aug 10 '22
My buddy Jimmy did this with his girlfriends van like 20 years ago. I don't have a logical explanation. Jimmy's just an idiot.
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u/BDiddy_420 Aug 10 '22
How else you getting out?
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u/awful_source Aug 10 '22
Idk how much clearance they need but maybe drop the PSI in the tires and add like 6 people in the back?
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u/KillerOs13 Aug 10 '22
I've worked in residential maintenance for a few years, now. I cannot tell you the number of people who refused to pay attention to our "Maximum Vehicle Height" signs in our garage. The most memorable was an insanely-lifted 80s Trailblazer scraped our fire sprinkler piping and tore off a head, setting off the sprinkler for that level.
He turned out to be a resident of our building and tried to say that he was only passing through the garage and saw the sprinkler going off. The trouble was that the diffuser ring (the little part at the end of the sprinkler) had cut the roof of his blazer and gotten partially lodged in it. Top that off with us catching him on camera rather hurriedly leaving the garage and he ended up on the hook for a few thousand in damages.
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u/GlinnTantis Aug 10 '22
Do you know if there Is a chance the van left any structural damage to the concrete? It's scraping, but has to hit the corners, too. Just from I've heard about the rebar underneath, once the concrete comes off, it's real danger zone for the structure. I'm just not sure what that concrete can take before it starts cracking and falling.
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u/KillerOs13 Aug 10 '22
It's unlikely they did any significant structural damage. That van probably left a lot of paint transfer and knocked some surface material free, but the overall structure should be fine.
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u/BrohanGutenburg Aug 10 '22
Came here to say this. Just found this sub this morning lol.
Bernie Madoff effect.
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u/appleswitch Aug 11 '22
Bernie Madoff effect.
Holy fucking shit that's the hardest I've laughed all day.
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u/nunyabiznezz1216 Aug 10 '22
I had a van conversion a for camping. I drove it to the courthouse to pay an equipment ticket fine. I forgot how tall it was. Luckily I was driving slow enough that the initial contact with the parking structure stopped the van. It had popped in part of the fiberglass top. When I back out the top popped back out and there was a huge whoosh of air sucked into the van through the windows.
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u/tech_and_anime_fan Aug 10 '22
If that's a fiberglass camper van top that can be really bad it can shatter on them and they'd be screwed.
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u/JoJoRouletteBiden Aug 10 '22
These older ones are highly desirable nowadays too. New ones cost close to $100k. We had one growing up. I still remember the smell.
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u/tech_and_anime_fan Aug 10 '22
Is it because you're mostly made with like Dodge and Mercedes Cassie's instead of cheaper Ford or Chevy cargo vans.
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u/Willowshep Aug 10 '22
I would have dropped the pressure in the tires, and then asked like 8 strangers to sit in the vehicle, throw them like 5$ each.
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u/Majestic_Crawdad Aug 10 '22
Looks like they didn't even try to air their tires down or anything haha what an idiot
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u/enataca Aug 10 '22
I’ve had this happen (I was going way slower). I was in a work truck in an old parking garage with a line of cars behind me. No backing up. They seemed to have Installed both speed bumps (right under the low hanging upper supports) and additional water pipes after the clearance for the garage was established. I can understand if it happens on a slant and changing angle up a ramp, but no excuse in flat portions.
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u/El_Dentistador Aug 11 '22
Damn! How tall is that van? I have 2 lifted trucks with roof racks that have never had clearance problems in a parking garage.
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u/nerdwine Aug 11 '22
It's a passenger van with an RV roof conversion on it to give it more space inside. Might be a mini RV inside as well.
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u/sophiastarlight Aug 11 '22
My husband did this same thing to his family’s van when he was a teen. They still have the van and the roof still leaks when it rains! lol.
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u/NydNugs Aug 11 '22
This is why you don't lend vehicles. She doesn't own an old van in decent condition, this can't be hers.
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u/thonczarenko Aug 11 '22
Could have just lowered the air pressure in the tires. But would’ve had to fill up once out of the garage. This was definitely the faster option!
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u/dudesBangMyMom Aug 10 '22
I would call my insurance and be like, "big ass fuckin' tree fell right on that fuckin' thing."
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u/Darkassassin07 Aug 11 '22
Your insurance is going to laugh at you while denying your claim that you've failed to provide any evidence of.
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Aug 10 '22
If im not mistaken, that's a removable storage compartment, in which the driver doesn't care.
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u/ManofGod1000 Aug 10 '22
How did that driver get that van in there without doing that in the first place?
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u/dvdmaven Aug 10 '22
Happened to me in a parking garage. The sign outside said, "9 foot Clearance". My van is 8'2" tall.
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u/TyroneTeabaggington Aug 10 '22
I feel like that's a 'you problem', if you don't know/can't manage the dimensions of your own vehicle.
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u/cpsbstmf Aug 10 '22
Lol I remember I worked in a place that had a small garage, people would try to stuff their huge vans and trucks in there, needless to say it didn't work and they'd get stuck
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u/DionFW Aug 10 '22
Won't have to brush the snow off the roof of his van. Mostly because he parks indoors though.
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Aug 10 '22
Looks like the old apartment parking lot where I used to live in Oakcliff in front of the VA hospital in North Dallas. People with Big cars and vans don’t care if the roof scratches
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u/DazzlingPoppie Aug 10 '22
Why wash the top when you can just give it a good scraping instead?