Do you garage your cars or leave em in the street?
Do you garage your cars or leave em in the street?
I thought this would be pretty interesting, who garages and who just lets their cars stay outside? Personally I leave my car outside since my garage is full of junk. How about you?
Sadly in the driveway. I'm in the process of closing on a house with a 2 car garage and hopefully by the end of June both my cars will have a comfy spot out of the sunlight and elements. The wife will still have to park outside. Haha
Our one car garage contains our daughter's crash-damaged '66 Mustang. What's left of it, anyway. And even that relatively narrow car barely fits.
Two cars in the driveway
Two cars off to the side of the driveway
One in the street
It would be way too much of a PITA to put any regularly driven car in the garage, as it would immediately get hemmed in by whatever two ended up in the driveway. They're safer against getting scratched or the door edges chipped being outdoors anyway. Bird poo is a different story, but that problem has almost been solved.
Almost forgot the Honda Pilot that has been banished to the street for cause. Not mine or my wife's, but the people who do own it live in my house.
Norm
Two cars in the driveway
Two cars off to the side of the driveway
One in the street
It would be way too much of a PITA to put any regularly driven car in the garage, as it would immediately get hemmed in by whatever two ended up in the driveway. They're safer against getting scratched or the door edges chipped being outdoors anyway. Bird poo is a different story, but that problem has almost been solved.
Almost forgot the Honda Pilot that has been banished to the street for cause. Not mine or my wife's, but the people who do own it live in my house.
Norm
Last edited by Norm Peterson; May 21, 2010 at 04:45 AM.
Garage. I added a garage onto my house; there's no way I'm going to fill it with stuff and keep the car outside.
Wife's 02 Liberty is in the driveway. Except when it snows and she's home with kids - then she gets the garage.
My company just broke ground on a new building - that includes two parking decks. I three years it'll be in a garage all the time.
Wife's 02 Liberty is in the driveway. Except when it snows and she's home with kids - then she gets the garage.
My company just broke ground on a new building - that includes two parking decks. I three years it'll be in a garage all the time.
Mine is in the driveway with a car cover. One car garage is used mainly for storage. I mainly drive the car on the weekends and use another for work commute. The parking spaces at work suck so I'm in rush to get it dinged up.
Heated/cooled insulated 26'X26' garage that is brick-lined so we can hose it out several times each year. We had it built with full HVAC because we work out there on projects, and the storage and tool rooms open only to the garage area.
Our Maxima is very happy there.
Suggestion to those who may be building a home:
Although our garage has 675 square feet, we have only two 10' wide garage doors, so can only have two vehicles (and a diesel farm tractor wedged sideways at the front) in there at one time. If you are considering building a fairly large garage, we would suggest making it 35' X 21' (735 sq ft) with three 9' doors. Hindsight is always so much better . . .
Our Maxima is very happy there.
Suggestion to those who may be building a home:
Although our garage has 675 square feet, we have only two 10' wide garage doors, so can only have two vehicles (and a diesel farm tractor wedged sideways at the front) in there at one time. If you are considering building a fairly large garage, we would suggest making it 35' X 21' (735 sq ft) with three 9' doors. Hindsight is always so much better . . .
I certainly do remember rain sometimes blowing sideways and soaking me in those carports. But I still felt very good that I didn't have to park out in the blazing sun or under industrial pollution or torrential downpours or have the car destroyed by hail. My paint jobs and my clothes immediately began lasting longer once I moved up to a carport.
Garage. When my wife and I got married six years ago, we needed larger digs, and agreed that we must have a three car garage in a new place. Settled for a house with a garage two bays wide, with one bay two "cars" deep. Park the three harley's in front of the max in the deep bay, with my wifes beemer in the other bay. Very fortunate, we are. I also have covered parking at work, so the only time the max is exposed to the elements is when we are actually going somewhere! Again, very fortunate. Like Light, I remember both no cover at all and carports for a while. Life is good.
I used to garage my car but once my GF moved in I let her car park in the garage. Her car has a leak on the hatch so for time being it is in the garage. We need a bigger place so I too can park my car in the garage... lol Oh well!
Man the last time I saw a car in my garage was about 8 years ago and it was my cousins 3rd Gen Maxima (Which was wrapped around a pole shortly after). Hoepfully i can get it all clean and have room for a new car!
Last edited by sgirgiss1214; May 21, 2010 at 09:02 PM.
un fortunately i have to park outside in a parking lot.. not only that, i have pollen on my car all the damn time... soooo irritating.. between that and the raccoons and the birds who poop all over the nice shiny black car..
Heated/cooled insulated 26'X26' garage that is brick-lined so we can hose it out several times each year. We had it built with full HVAC because we work out there on projects, and the storage and tool rooms open only to the garage area.
Our Maxima is very happy there.
Suggestion to those who may be building a home:
Although our garage has 675 square feet, we have only two 10' wide garage doors, so can only have two vehicles (and a diesel farm tractor wedged sideways at the front) in there at one time. If you are considering building a fairly large garage, we would suggest making it 35' X 21' (735 sq ft) with three 9' doors. Hindsight is always so much better . . .
Our Maxima is very happy there.
Suggestion to those who may be building a home:
Although our garage has 675 square feet, we have only two 10' wide garage doors, so can only have two vehicles (and a diesel farm tractor wedged sideways at the front) in there at one time. If you are considering building a fairly large garage, we would suggest making it 35' X 21' (735 sq ft) with three 9' doors. Hindsight is always so much better . . .
Light's garage is bigger than my first house (and more luxurious at the same time.) Thanks for the tip Light!
Man I feel your pain as my car is parked in the parking lot as well. lol






Garage baby
