[Sran]

Originally Posted by SN88

The struggles of parkings especially in cities like Mumbai can be very real! I know of someone who can very well afford the most luxurious cars upward of 60-70 lacs but they dont have one simple parking due to houses in old stand alone buildings.

Welcome to Patna city(part of Patna) where 10 lakh+ population resides, is the main wholesale business area of Bihar and where legendary Marufganj mandi(wholesale market) and Guru Gobind singh gurudwara are. Old business houses and numerous factories are also here. Quarter of the population can afford a good car here but only 5% actually own it because no one has the space to park it and navigating patna city roads on car in till 8PM is not for weak hearted. So everyone owns a two wheeler. The situation is so dire that ola/uber will only drop you but one can not find any pick up from them.

[kits]

We added a small side gate at the exact place where our car’s driver side door will open. So you open the side gate, park the car, get out via driver side door, lock the side gate and then shutters down.

But then, we changed cars

[GTO]

Originally Posted by adi.mariner

My cousin brother's new Scorpio. He parks the car and gets out from the tailgate. The space is very narrow

I always wondered of the use case for the remote parking functionality seen in the new luxury cars. Until now. Guess it'll be perfect for your cousin!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7IJWpkMwAE

[Axe77]

Originally Posted by nitishk

I think we all remember this one. Its hands down my No. 1 parking.

Originally Posted by VWAllstar

Eager to know how did the Baleno got there. The ladder in the pic is quite satirical

It’s quite common in hill stations and I saw lots of similar cars in Shimla. Usually the road is at the same level as (and pretty much adjacent to) the roof of the house with the house overlooking the valley.

[PrasannaDhana]

Originally Posted by GTO

I have this uncanny ability to perfectly stick a car to the wall, so that my other car can drive through the gap (I hate one car blocking the car as it's a pain to take out the car on the inside). No matter which car, I can stick it to the wall & leave a gap in the millimeters.

Cheers! Exact same here.

I moved from my house with a large garage that can park the largest of cars to a rented house with a garage that was made to park smaller cars. The owner claimed Scorpio was a tight fit.

Now imagine parking 2 large cars in it. A safari storme and a ciaz. Ciaz might be narrower than the big cars (it's still wide at 1730 mm) but it is long, almost 4.5 m and the Storme is close to 4.7m long. Parking both inside the garage means, this-





It gets worse with storme, the bloody car is wide too. You can judge the ORVM width, but the side step is another story, it's completely invisible and parking close to walls definitely needs skill.

If I left some gap from the wall, I will be blocking the way to reach the terrace staircase.

Mere cm from the wall





I must also admit I have fun at times, scaring away random drivers from parking right across my space in front of my other house



The fact that the Storme has no parking aid except the primitive rear parking sensors makes it much more fun.

[100Rabh]

Originally Posted by VWAllstar

Eager to know how did the Baleno got there. The ladder in the pic is quite satirical

That was a miraculous accident. Here is a thread for that accident.
https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/stree...oof-house.html (Baleno lands on the roof of a house!)

[adi.mariner]

Originally Posted by GTO

I always wondered of the use case for the remote parking functionality seen in the new luxury cars. Until now. Guess it'll be perfect for your cousin!

That's very true. Will share this video with him. I remember seeing this technology in the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies with Pierce Brosnan driving the BMW with this Nokia Communicator. It's really amazing to see the same in a mainstream car.

[mh09ad5578]

My super tight garage, was designed for smaller cars, the space on left ash's front of both cars is just 1.5 inches and right only enough to open the driver doors and get out. Only I can park here as my dad and wife totally avoid parking in such a tight space. I can't fit in bigger cars than these,I am an architect and had designed my house on a pretty small plot prompting my friends to joke that I should have hired a better architect

[TheGearBox]

Some kind of security jugaad?

[janakiram_m]

Originally Posted by TheGearBox

Some kind of security jugaad?

I've seen this alot here in Kerala. Apparently it's meant to deter canine miscreants. Lots of folks put these bottles filled with colored water in front of their open porches etc.
Here I think the owner is trying to keep his favourite rims from being marked as territory by a random pooch.

[binand]

Originally Posted by PrasannaDhana

Cheers! Exact same here.

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My version of this.



I have to do this because otherwise the front car sticks out blocking the driveway. And the location is a corner where others have to take an L-turn, so I better stay behind my yellow line.

[VigneshMC]

I recently noticed this reserving parking space trick by my neighbor. As in Chennai most the cars are parked on the road, this neighbor parks his car right opposite to his house. Whenever he takes his car to go out, he parks his scooter horizontally in that spot so that no one else can park there.

[shivshanker]

Originally Posted by mikem

Speaking of parking tricks. I notice the desi anti-rodent device.

Noob question, for me this looks like a regular / normal plan, wondering how does this work.

any gyaan would be most helpful

Cheers!

[car_addict]

Originally Posted by VigneshMC

Whenever he takes his car to go out, he parks his scooter horizontally in that spot so that no one else can park there.

My neighbour used do it. As moths to a flame, his scooter started to attract other 2 wheelers, until it permanently became a 2-wheeler parking area & he lost his parking spot.

[airbus]

Saw on facebook. I am wondering what purpose it serves there? Probably an extra room?



(PC: SG Dutta)