Grenadier Height

[Beormund]

Visited my local refuse and recycling centre yesterday. They have a height restriction bar of 2m! I guess this is to stop vans - I don't think the Grenadier will fit under it. Some local beauty spots have similar car park height restrictions too. Damn!

 

[ECrider]

Happens all the time with my D4 with roof bars. height in lowered mode still over 2m, lots of carparks (airports etc etc) low railway bridges means this is an issue. pita!

 

[grenadierboy]

Grenadier is 2036mm high.

 

[bemax]

Happens all the time with my D4 with roof bars. height in lowered mode still over 2m, lots of carparks (airports etc etc) low railway bridges means this is an issue. pita!

I guess that’s why the G model is just under 2 m.

 

[Cavaleiro]

Most parking garages in Germany are 1.90m maximum. Every time a pleasure to find a parking space with the Defender - it doesn't get any better with the Grenadier. Such cars are not designed for the city. Local refuse and recycling center with max. 2.00m somehow makes no sense - unless everyone should only be able to deliver a small trunk load.

The question is: how flexible is the construction of the clearance height restriction ;-)

 

[bemax]

Most parking garages in Germany are 1.90m maximum. Every time a pleasure to find a parking space with the Defender - it doesn't get any better with the Grenadier. Such cars are not designed for the city. Local refuse and recycling center with max. 2.00m somehow makes no sense - unless everyone should only be able to deliver a small trunk load.

The question is: how flexible is the construction of the clearance height restriction ;-)

I once tried out with the Defender in the garage of a supermarket. the construction of the sign "2 Meter maximum height" was quite flexible (if you are slow enough). But I found out that the height has not been the same in the whole parking area. As soon as the roof antenna bangs against a Sprinkler tube you brake quite fast...
Since then I try to stay close to the rules (most times)

 

[emax]

It's a 4x4.

Simply drive over the embankment from the back of the terrain.

 

[IG Pop]

It's a 4x4.

Simply drive over the embankment from the back of the terrain.

Yep. Magic mushroom …

 

[bemax]

It's a 4x4.

Simply drive over the embankment from the back of the terrain.

It’s a 4x4 but not a tank.
There is the difference… I live in a city. It’s sometimes hard to reach a parking from the back. Often there are things in the way. Houses for example

 

[Shaky]

I have a very similar height at my local refuse centre. However if I speak to the staff they open the barriers to let you in, as said it’s to stop commercial vehicles.

Unfortunately that won’t help with car parks. I get round this by not taking my bigger vehicles anywhere near a city. This is mainly because they are my nicer vehicles and cities are normally full of not so nice people who like to damage them, steal them, steal from them, or they can’t drive properly or don’t give much concern about the sh*t box they drive and don’t tend to give to much respect to what you drive in turn !!

 

[bemax]

I have a very similar height at my local refuse centre. However if I speak to the staff they open the barriers to let you in, as said it’s to stop commercial vehicles.

Unfortunately that won’t help with car parks. I get round this by not taking my bigger vehicles anywhere near a city. This is mainly because they are my nicer vehicles and cities are normally full of not so nice people who like to damage them, steal them, steal from them, or they can’t drive properly or don’t give much concern about the sh*t box they drive and don’t tend to give to much respect to what you drive in turn !!

which city in particular do you mean? I would like to stay away from this one altogether.

 

[Shaky]

I think if you stay away from all of them then you will be fine.

Having never lived in one, but had the misfortune to spend nearly all of my working life in them.

 

[DaveB]

My Mazda BT50 was around 2.1 Metres overall height and I find most carparks are 2.05 or 2.1 so when I travelled to Brisbane city for meetings I parked outside the city and caught the ferry up the river to the city centre. I also had trouble with hotel underground carparks as even if they said they had 2.2 or 2.25M clearance this was measure from the flat floor. The driveways were a steep angle and then the floor flat so he angle at the bottom of the driveway meant that when your front wheels hit the floor and your rear wheels were still on the driveway there wasn't enough clearance.

 

[emax]

There is little hope to park in a German "Parkhaus" with a Grenadier.

The parking spaces are simply too narrow for such a wide car. It is possible to park there. But the drivers of the neighboring cars will certainly not be amused, and then tend to show little consideration for your paint - be it with shopping carts, belt buckles or -oops- with their car keys.

What's more, most of them can't cope with the remaining space and already mess up when parking.

That's why I don't care about the height restrictions. I don't want to expose myself and my Grenadier to such unpleasantness.

 

[ECrider]

Looks like you have your very own height barrier in the drive?

 

[emax]

Yep. Magic mushroom …

A funny one.

After watching, youtube selected this one for me. The language is 'Schwyzerdütsch', a Swiss variation of German but very hard to understand even for Germans. But it doesn't necessarily take langage skills to have fun. I understood most of it and couldn't stop laughing. The cameraman comments in Schwyzerdütsch:

 

[Earthwatcher]

I booked my Grenadier in to the valet parking at Gatwick South Terminal. You would think the online booking, which knew the model from the reg, would have an alert on the height. It was only when I noticed it was a multi-storey today that I rang and checked the height restrictions - 2m! So have had to change to my Defender that scrapes in (not literally I hope). I would have gone further out to park but you hear of cars getting their spare wheels nicked in these compounds. I hate flying. Has anyone else come unstuck at an airport?

Re the design: would it really have made much difference to have brought the height under 2m?

 

[MileHigh]

The Beast is tall. Almost like they mocked up the interior/exterior of the cabin and then put it on the chassis, and only then realized that with out ‘smallish’ tires most people wouldn’t be able to get into the thing with out steps or fit it into standard garages…. As it is, it seems that you can add a lift/springs, larger tires, a roof system- pick one.

 

[emax]

You would think the online booking, which knew the model from the reg, would have an alert on the height.

That's an optimistic assumption.

But we have a forum-resource here to check restrictions of the max height of a parking garage all over the world:

Worldwide Car Park Directory

@macstech has made me ware of a worldwide car park directory where you can filter by height. After entering your destination (City), a “Filter” button will appear at the bottom. Klick the button to filter by drive-through height and other...

www.theineosforum.com

The direct link: https://www.parkopedia.com/

There, you can select your destination and a filter (e.g. height). After you've selected your parking garage you get all the information - provided you've set the respective filter before, in this case "max height".

I guess your display language will be English - and maybe your "Gatwick South" choice was different:

 

[landmannnn]

I booked my Grenadier in to the valet parking at Gatwick South Terminal. You would think the online booking, which knew the model from the reg, would have an alert on the height. It was only when I noticed it was a multi-storey today that I rang and checked the height restrictions - 2m! So have had to change to my Defender that scrapes in (not literally I hope). I would have gone further out to park but you hear of cars getting their spare wheels nicked in these compounds. I hate flying. Has anyone else come unstuck at an airport?

Re the design: would it really have made much difference to have brought the height under 2m?

At the Gatwick South car park, if you take the third (maybe fourth) exit after the pay machine there an open section of the car park which is mostly occupied by T5's, vans and Defenders.

Even if you could get in, it would have been very tricky negotiating those sharp turns on the ramp.