DEFENDER2.NET - View topic - Defender 90 height and car park

↓ Advertise on Defender2 ↓

Home · FAQ · New Posts · My Posts · PMs · Search · Members · Map · Calendar · Profile · Donate · Register · Log In

Home > Td5 > Defender 90 height and car park

Page 2 of 2

Print this entire topic ·

Grenadier

Member Since: 23 Jul 2014
Location: The foot of Mont Blanc...
Posts: 5765

2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 DCPU Corris Grey

Experienced this just yesterday. Drove to a meeting in Geneva at a hotel near the airport. Arrived with time to spare. Entrance to the carpark the sign clearly states 'Level -1: 2.05m. Level -2+: 1.90m'. So, in I go thinking I will find a spot if patient. Follow the corkscrew road down a level to be presented with a barrier at Level -1 for 'deliveries' or Private spaces. No public parking (and no information telling me at the top). So, do I reverse back up the corkscrew or blag my way in? Obviously the latter....fortunately.

But for EricVV and other GVA visitors, avoid Movenpick/ICC GVA's carpark (or deliver them something...).

Obviously I was lucky. I did witness (with a bunch of squaddies in a minibus) a woman ask her friends to step out of her RR and get them to lift up the red/white hatched barrier so she could drive under. We watched (stunned) as they did and she proceeded to take a ticket and enter the carpark (in Bournemouth). We followed a few moments later to find her wedged under the roof of the carpark, having concertina'd the roof like a sardine tin (excuse mixed metaphors). It took all 8 of us to weigh the car down, plus deflate tyres, for her to drive out. Lord only knows the cost of the damage...

Monsieur Le Grenadier

I've not been everywhere, but it's on my list.....

2011 Puma 110DC - Corris Grey

9th Jul 2015 2:26pm

Lambley

Member Since: 20 Apr 2013
Location: Mid Devon
Posts: 1435

That's got Monty Pithon written all over it!

9th Jul 2015 2:41pm

shaggydog

Member Since: 12 Aug 2012
Location: Kent
Posts: 3346

1991 Defender 110 200 Tdi USW Arles Blue

Fantastic Running Restoration Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/post323197.html#323197

Self confessed mileage hunter

9th Jul 2015 3:33pm

hopeydaze

Member Since: 11 May 2011
Location: Bath
Posts: 30

Drove over to the car park this evening after work and it does fit. Security guard was watching, probably to make sure I didn't hit the lights suspended below the ceiling. It was tight - anyway this 2.0m car park works for 90s on 235/85 tyres.

It's an office car park and there's no board outside to check the height against.

9th Jul 2015 9:16pm

jomara

Member Since: 26 Oct 2009
Location: Lanarkshire
Posts: 1757

2014 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Santorini Black

My wife used my old 110 during the snow a couple of years back and there were only certain spaces she could use due to the height and length of it, helped she was the ladies trial champion 2 years on the trot, scared the crap out of the security guards a few times squeezing it through the bollards

2014 110 2.2TDCi XS Station wagon
1971 Bowler Tomcat 88 4.2 V8 Auto
2022 110 250D XS

9th Jul 2015 9:45pm

gazman

Member Since: 17 Aug 2015
Location: Liverpool
Posts: 652

Mine is 1.92m measured yesterday as I didn't know. I've put a sticker next to the clocks saying 1.95 to be sure!

BUT....

Mine is on 18 wheels and has been lowered

21st Aug 2015 2:19pm

Page 2 of 2

All times are GMT + 1 Hour

Jump to

< Previous Topic | Next Topic >

Posting Rules

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum