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Car Forum / Australian Car Forums / 4x4 Cars (Australian group) / August 2006Car parks
This was in today's Sydney Morning Herald in Stay In Touch - the satirical back page article: NO HEAD FOR HEIGHTS Four-wheel-drive owners are the target of so many nasty insults. Self-centred environmental vandals, the jealous nay-sayers call them, among other things not fit for publication. Anyone who cared to see past such thoughtless barbs would know otherwise. One 4WD owner, the North Sydney councillor Sarah Burke, was motivated, we are sure, by nothing but selfless concern for the built environment when she drew attention to the height of the car park entrance at the recently opened Woolworths on Rangers Road in Neutral Bay. Her husband had "scraped the living daylights" off the top of the family's 4WD when attempting to drive through it, The Mosman Daily quoted her as telling the council. "Then he couldn't get out again," Cr Burke said. "We are in 4WD heaven [and] this is a massive cost-cutting exercise." Cr Burke's colleague Trent Zimmerman pointed out that because the car park was built some time ago it did not meet the minimum height threshold of 2.2 metres. "This is inconvenient for those with 4WDs. Shoppers are forced to lug their shopping to wherever they have been able to find a park on a neighbouring street," Cr Zimmerman said. It's time 4WD owners got a fair go. > This was in today's Sydney Morning Herald in Stay In Touch - the satirical > back page article: [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > shopping to wherever they have been able to find a park on a neighbouring > street," Cr Zimmerman said. It's time 4WD owners got a fair go. If you don't like a low clearance underground car park its easy to piss off the owner, just drive through with an antenna high enough to hit a sprinkler, set of a whole lot of the things then piss off quick:-) This happened occasionally when I was a courier in the late 80's, sometimes it was even accidental:-) Daryl LOL goood call > If you don't like a low clearance underground car park its easy to piss > off the owner, just drive through with an antenna high enough to hit a > sprinkler, set of a whole lot of the things then piss off quick:-) > This happened occasionally when I was a courier in the late 80's, > sometimes it was even accidental:-) > If you don't like a low clearance underground car park its easy to piss > off the owner, just drive through with an antenna high enough to hit a [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Daryl Don't all underground car parks have a car wash now? >> If you don't like a low clearance underground car park its easy to piss >> off the owner, just drive through with an antenna high enough to hit a [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Don't all underground car parks have a car wash now? Yes and they are cheap if you leave before the fire trucks get there:-) Daryl >>> If you don't like a low clearance underground car park its easy to piss >>> off the owner, just drive through with an antenna high enough to hit a [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Daryl Reminds me of an issue a building in Wellington NZ had when they had a water pipe burst (Wellington City is almost on the high tide mark!) and the underground carpark (Which was below water line) sump pump clapped out what they say was about Friday night. On Monday the cleaners went to drive into the lower carpark and where met with a very high tide indeed. The bottom two carparks where completely under water and so were all the cars parked in there. It took days to pump it all out and all the bank exec cheufured cars were drowned as were come personal cars. They only way they could get things done and the pump running was to get commercial divers in there. What a story to tell after wards eh, "I swam in this car park!" > "This is inconvenient for those with 4WDs. Shoppers are forced to lug > their shopping to wherever they have been able to find a park on a > neighbouring street," Cr Zimmerman said. It's time 4WD owners got a fair > go. Ahh get stuffed. It was built some years ago, it's got 2.2m height restriction. Do what everyone else does, know their vehicle height and park accordingly. If you don't fit, vote with your feet and shop somewhere else, or .. heaven forbit ... walk that extra 50m with the trolley to get to your car. Lazy gits. >>"This is inconvenient for those with 4WDs. Shoppers are forced to lug >>their shopping to wherever they have been able to find a park on a [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Lazy gits. I took the Missus into the Brisbane Private Hospital last week the underground car park had a height of 2.2 metres No worries, the cruiser will fit with a bit of dragging from the roof mounted antenna get inside and the parking attendent says to go to level 2 no problems, as I entered the level 2 ramp I am met with a 2.04M limit sign ok we'll give a it a go I figure my vehicle is about 1.95 metres as the roof antenna was bent right at the mount which is about 7cm above the roof I don't think I'll even attempt Caboolture Park Shopping Centre's car park the sign says 1.95M at the entrence Kev >>> "This is inconvenient for those with 4WDs. Shoppers are forced to lug >>> their shopping to wherever they have been able to find a park on a [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > Kev 1.95 ? shite I couldn't even walk through there. The Broadway Shopping Centre in Sydney has a sign that says 1.95m. Our Disco is 1.98m and we haven't had a problem. Now I'm concerned about other levels inside! >>>"This is inconvenient for those with 4WDs. Shoppers are forced to lug >>>their shopping to wherever they have been able to find a park on a [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > Kev Our local shopping centre has 2.1m underneathe & 1.95m on top open sky deck, buggered if I can find anything to hit, I always tap the warning bar with my UHF arial on the way in or out anyway. > The Broadway Shopping Centre in Sydney has a sign that says 1.95m. Our > Disco is 1.98m and we haven't had a problem. Now I'm concerned about [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] >> >> Kev I went in a shooping centre at the Gap in my soft top Ex Army Landdog, with roof off, I hit the bar going , but had cars behind so kept going anyway, just before I turned into a parking spot I put my hand up and checked the distance between my roof rack and the concrete cross beam, I could only get my pinky inbetween them :) > The Broadway Shopping Centre in Sydney has a sign that says 1.95m. Our > Disco is 1.98m and we haven't had a problem. Now I'm concerned about [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] >> >> Kev geees if your saggy assed telecom ropped tailpipe shirtless guts mud slappin chunka cant limbo under said carparks then christ i dont stand a chance gettin under em with only 2.2mt clearance hth > I took the Missus into the Brisbane Private Hospital last week > the underground car park had a height of 2.2 metres [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Kev |
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