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Height resriction
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:49 pm
by Debs and David
Hi
We don't collect our new bongo until Saturday. In the event that I need to use it for work, there is a height resriction barrier at 7' 7" on our carpark. The bongo is a new style aft. I don't want to risk it and either take the top off or get stuck. Will I fit or not?
Thanks
Debs and David
Re: Height resriction
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 4:45 pm
by missfixit70
Should be ok, that's about 2.3m high & the AFT is @2.1m, but I'd stop & check just to make sure they've measured it right.
Re: Height resriction
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 4:49 pm
by Debs and David
yes thanks, I remember an ice cream van getting stuck under it once, we couldn't stop laughing!!
Re: Height resriction
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:25 pm
by scanner
Did he phone the Cones Hotline for help?
Re: Height resriction
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:26 pm
by Colin H F
if he did I bet he got creamed
Re: Height resriction
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:27 pm
by missfixit70
Expect he had to Wafer some help, hope it didn't cost hundreds & thousands to fix.
Re: Height resriction
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:30 pm
by Colin H F
He`s possibly got it licked by now
Re: Height resriction
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:46 pm
by scanner
I didn't expect to whip up quite so many flakey puns so quickly.
Will we manage to reach 99 posts?
Re: Height resriction
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:53 pm
by Colin H F
I dont know you might have bitten of more than you can chew
Re: Height resriction
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:57 pm
by missfixit70
Mivvi this thread could be made sticky?
Re: Height resriction
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:02 pm
by Colin H F
keep it quiet you know " WALLS " have ears
Re: Height resriction
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:17 pm
by munroman
Was there a McFlurry of activity to free him quickly?
Re: Height resriction
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:22 pm
by missfixit70
I'd have been there like a Rocket.
Re: Height resriction
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:27 pm
by scanner
It's about time this thread was split before somebody gets crushed nuts.
Re: Height resriction
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:32 pm
by Mattsonics
To bring this thread back on topic...
With height restricted entrances / bars etc. you need to be careful, the van may fit under the bar comfortably as you first drive in, but if the ground rises too quickly on the other side you will catch the middle - if you follow.
I am speaking from experience...
There is a car park in Lancaster behind The Sugar House student night club (which I spent way too much time in as a youth, and met my wife there!!) it has a bar which a standard height Bongo (i.e. not lowered, or big tyres) will fit comfortably under until a quarter of the way under, then the front tyres hit the rising ground and you scrape your AFT!!
Have backed off other height restricted entrances following this experience.
Matt