Wo is me.

Beware of roll-up overhead garage doors. Winter is here in MN and I found a place to store my S2K for the winter.

Was backing the car into the storage garage when I heard a awful noise. The roll-up garage door had dropped down on the trunk of the car. Needless to say, I screamed, or maybe yelled (*&$%_)(*)(*&.

The end result? A dent in the trunk and losts of scratches on the trunk. )(*&*%$#!!!

Only 2,000 miles and already a dent! Figures, just my luck.

Yes, I had pushed the garage door all the way up! No, this is the first time this happened.

So to all of you that have overhead garage doors or have rented storage. Beware of garage doors closing without warning.

Secure that door in the up position by using a clamp or something else jammed into the track.

This happened a week ago and I'm still steaming.

(*&^(*&&$#!!!


[This message has been edited by SlowDriver (edited November 16, 2000).]

 

next time drive faster out of the garage! j/k

Everytime I pull in or out of my garage I always think, boy that would suck if that came down on my car!

Sorry to hear about it man.

 

No need for the worries...the door can be adjusted so that this cannot happen again. You need to fiddle with the springs and cables and stuff. One time my wife tried to back out of the garage without hitting the opener button first. Ugggh.

Stan

 

I have a double rollup garage door that has two coil springs mounted in the header above the garage door. Earlier this year, I heard my wife start to drive away (aftermarket cat-back system) and heard the garage door closing. All of a sudden, CRASH!

I couldn't tell where the noise came, so I ran downstairs, but I didn't notice anything unusual downstairs. I went into the garage and didn't see anything obvious, like maybe something fell. Then I hit the garage opener switch and it tried to go up and stopped. I thought there was something wrong with the opener, so I disconnected it. Tried raising the door but couldn't, that's when I looked at the springs and noticed that one had broken.

So now I'm stuck in the garage and can't get my car out to go to work!

The garage door guy finally came to fix it, but I missed a whole day of work.

He said that when springs break, it almost always happens just before the garage door is almost all the way down, or when it first starts to open, since that's when the most stress is on the springs. So it's unlikely that it will fall on your car!

 

I told this story on the old board... 2 days after getting my S2K, the installer from LoJack came to my house to install it. I backed the car out of the garage... he stopped me before I was all the way out, and said that was
far enough. As I was walking back into the house... I heard the door start going down! I yelled to him to hit the button, and ran to catch the door, it would not reverse... I held it up off my hood for what seemed like a lifetime before it finally reversed. The sob had hit the gdo on the console while removing the seat. Needless to say I was pissed but thankful the door had not hit the car.

 

Stay out of the way when a garage door spring breaks. I replaced my friends. Easy job, but dangerous. I was able to raise his door with only one spring, but it was a single size door. Also, make sure you replace the springs in pairs. Different spring rates make it a bear to get the garage door opener to work right. We have one on each side. Yea I know I'm lazy and spoiled. Even worse, the wifes V6 has this learning remote thing built in, so we don't have to carry around the remotes.

 

I have a different garage story. We went to vacation in Destin last August (I briefly considered taking the S2K but though better of it). Instead I put in in the garage safely locked behind the garage door(or so I thought).

While driving down there, I get a call from my daughter, who was coming the next day because she had to work, that her boyfriend had hit the garage door with his car (claims his foot slipped off the brake and hit the accelerator. The old Audi 5000 syndrome). Well, you guessed it, he pushed the door off of its tracks and the door hit the car.

Required a new painted bumper.

Needless to say she is no longer dating this idiot.

I have the only car in America that got into an automobile accident behind a closed garage door!

 

<<Stay out of the way when a garage door spring breaks. I replaced my friends. Easy job, but dangerous.>>

Some doors have coil springs on each side near the upper rails. (A fancier kind uses torsion bars above the door opening) The idea is that the left and right springs support the weight of the door, split evenly side to side. You can safety wire them by using the same type of steel cable used elsewhere on the assembly. Basically an extra cable is run through the coil lengthwise to restrain it in case it comes loose. It's nice to have peace of mind. If a spring drops it can hurt you or fall on the car...

Stan

 

SlowDriver, I have a funny story sort of related to your unfortunate accident that may cheer you up some. Charlie Bruno came over from Jersey a few weeks ago to go to dinner with my daughter and son-in-law and to show me his new sound system and upgrades and parked right in front of my garage. He gave me the keys after leaving for dinner as I had to move his car back in front of my front door to go get take out for my wife and I. I was in a hurry so when I got out of Charlie's car I didnt engage the parking brake and left the car in neutral (DUH) Went in the house ordered dinner, backed my S2K out of garage, casually looked left and Charlies car was gone. I almost **** thinking it was stolen. I got out of my car and looked right and there was Charlie's car drifting toward my neighbor's brick porch post enclosure as the driveway is on an incline. I ran to the front of his car and just stopped it before it rammed brick. Told Charlie when he got home and he almost **** from laughing. Lost 5 years of my life that night. Your car will be fine. [QUOTE]Originally posted by SlowDriver:
[B]Wo is me.

Beware of roll-up overhead garage doors.

 

Yes that was very funny....... You have to know S2KRAY to truly appreciate that story if my car would have hit the brick wall I think he would have shat himself