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How small can they get, the spaces & the lines ?

Scooby_Doo

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How do you make narrow parking spaces even narrower - make the lines narrower. Woodstock in the Cotswolds .
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Getting the car in is one thing ; opening the doors to get out is another .
I recall parking in a ridiculous spiral underground car park in Chartres in France that had tiny spaces. When we got back to the car there was only 12-18 inches left on either side by large cars that had parked adjacent. Neither door would open sufficiently to let us in. Thankfully our car was a soft top so I opened the roof and climbed in. Job done.
 
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I recall parking in a ridiculous spiral underground car park in Chartres in France that had tiny spaces. When we got back to the car there was only 12-18 inches left on either side by large cars that had parked adjacent. Neither door would open sufficiently to let us in. Thankfully our car was a soft top so I opened the roof and climbed in. Job done.
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Did you climb in through the boot...?
My initial reaction was to blame Monsieur Dacia driver but we are both within the lines, however, the rest of the car park was sparsely populated and you can see that he was cute enough to reverse in and leave his driver's door clear while blocking mine.

I climbed over from the passenger side while sweating and swearing profusely.
 
My initial reaction was to blame Monsieur Dacia driver but we are both within the lines, however, the rest of the car park was sparsely populated and you can see that he was cute enough to reverse in and leave his driver's door clear while blocking mine.

I climbed over from the passenger side while sweating and swearing profusely.

The downside of being a Rosbif in France, perhaps...
 
The downside of being a Rosbif in France, perhaps...
I've generally found them to be welcoming, this was at Arras where they apparently love the Welsh because of the liberation or something, I should have had a Welsh badge on the car rather than a GB one. I might not have had any badge at all if the old E class had a plastic boot as my badge is magnetic.
 
Its still tight as many spaces as above in the photo are very narrow (bay sizes set in the 70s/80s when cars were physically smaller) and the proliferation of modern bloated cars can mean that even with me parked in a bay, if there’s a big car adjacent who has parked right on the line to allow his/her door to open, there is often scant room left to limbo into mine.
I’ve once had to get in via the passenger side, and once in extremis, I had to drop drivers window, rear window and post myself through :eek: not elegant!

The multi storey at work has narrow bays.....
 
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D9050066-B857-4D2F-AAC2-089679AD467D.jpeg This illustrates the issue, on the left a Subaru Legacy Estate 1990s vintage. On the right, a big fat Mini. :cool:

Ps that’s not the car park at work..... I dream of bays that wide :D
 
View attachment 89271 This illustrates the issue, on the left a Subaru Legacy Estate 1990s vintage. On the right, a big fat Mini. :cool:

Ps that’s not the car park at work..... I dream of bays that wide :D
And to think, in the early 1990s my Mother in Law had a Subaru Legacy estate because they were a relatively big family and needed a relatively big (fast) family car.
 
And to think, in the early 1990s my Mother in Law had a Subaru Legacy estate because they were a relatively big family and needed a relatively big (fast) family car.

.... bet she didn’t have that version, :) it’s a Legacy GTB, - a JDM twin turbo version with Bilstein suspension, 280hp. I had one for 6 yrs, really great all rounder :):)
 

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