Yaris Cross width

[Chas G]

The "overall width" quoted in the handbook for the yaris cross is 1765mm.

My garage door opening with the up and over door frame is 2200mm so getting the car in is pretty tight but doable. The garage is bigger once through the door.

In order to get the pebble out of my shoe I have been looking at other cars the same width or narrower than 1765mm.

I sat in a skoda kamiq and I was pretty sure it would go through the door but then I looked on the skoda website and it appeared to be 223mm wider at 1988mm.

I measured the yaris cross width today with the mirrors out and it is 2000mm which in my opinion is the "overall width" not the 1765mm quoted. Just goes to show, you need to check everything.

Completely mislead by the handbook. There a number of small suv's which will be suitable if I decide to change.

 

[Mojo1010]

Sometimes the quotes are without mirrors, and some with mirrors. Hope you are doing better at getting info for the 12v 🙂

[Dick_Dastardly]

Whilst you can't bend the laws of physics there is an easy remedy.

I had a car that only had a half inch gap each side and the hard part is judging where the edge of the wings are as you approach 

Take away the guesswork by just attaching a pair of mirrors to the back wall of the garage. There's no guesswork needed as you can see exactly where you are 

If your garage doesn't lend itself to attaching them to the wall then just stick some adjustable desktop mirrors on the floor, angled appropriately 

[Chas G]

15 hours ago, Dick_Dastardly said:

Whilst you can't bend the laws of physics there is an easy remedy.

I had a car that only had a half inch gap each side and the hard part is judging where the edge of the wings are as you approach 

Take away the guesswork by just attaching a pair of mirrors to the back wall of the garage. There's no guesswork needed as you can see exactly where you are 

If your garage doesn't lend itself to attaching them to the wall then just stick some adjustable desktop mirrors on the floor, angled appropriately 

That isn't a bad idea. I could fix a mirror on one of the roof beams angled down to show the gap on the nearside so i could get as close as possible and give myself the most room on the drivers side to get out of the car. 👍

[Mooly]

Have a try with this. Select Make and Model, scroll down and click on parking simulator:

Car dimensions of all makes with size comparison tools (automobiledimension.com)

Yaris X:

Toyota Yaris Cross dimensions, boot space and electrification (automobiledimension.com)

Simulator, pick make and model and enter your garage dimension including any entry width restriction:

Simulator of car dimensions in its parking space (automobiledimension.com)

 

 

[skidlid]

Our garage is not huge (even worse at the old house) and when we go on a car search we always take a tape with us and measure the width from mirror to mirror. Most salesmen insist that the measurement is in the brochure but in most cases its the max width of the body but does not include the mirrors.

One salesman was so insistent that the car we were looking at would fit (despite our tape saying it would only scrape between the door frame with mm's to spare) he agreed to go to our house and prove that the brochure was correct and our tape wrong. Just as I predicted it was tight but the salesman actually damaged a mirror getting it out.

So for all his hard work he got a damaged mirror and no sale.

[skidlid]

16 hours ago, Dick_Dastardly said:

Whilst you can't bend the laws of physics there is an easy remedy.

I had a car that only had a half inch gap each side and the hard part is judging where the edge of the wings are as you approach 

Take away the guesswork by just attaching a pair of mirrors to the back wall of the garage. There's no guesswork needed as you can see exactly where you are 

If your garage doesn't lend itself to attaching them to the wall then just stick some adjustable desktop mirrors on the floor, angled appropriately 

Would not work for us at the current house. We drive through the front garage to the courtyard and the 2nd garage is behind that.

[Dick_Dastardly]

25 minutes ago, skidlid said:

Would not work for us at the current house. We drive through the front garage to the courtyard and the 2nd garage is behind that.

You could attach an angled mirror to the ceiling or high up on the walls?

[skidlid]

4 hours ago, Dick_Dastardly said:

You could attach an angled mirror to the ceiling or high up on the walls?

The up and over door would soon knock that off if you could actually see it.

To be honest, the type of garage that would enable you to fit such mirrors would be so big it would likely have big enough doors that mean you have nothing to warry about. But most of us live in the real world where garages are just big enough. My Skoda Superb would not fit in the garage at the last house, its too long.

[Dick_Dastardly]

You only need the mirror to help you until you get your mirrors through the door so it will work for any sized garage. Mine was absolutely tiny and I could only get out of the door by winding the window down and climbing over it!

But it seems like a moot point if your door will get in the way anyway 

[skidlid]

12 minutes ago, Dick_Dastardly said:

But it seems like a moot point if your door will get in the way anyway 

Our front garage has an up and over door at the front and rear. You are suggesting putting the mirrors at the rear which is why they would get knocked off by the door.

In a garage with only a door at the front it may well work.

[Tyfan]

As well as the tips mentioned above, there is another old one for garaging a car. If you fix a Tennisball on a string from the roof so that it touches the windscreen when you have reached your chosen distance from the rear garage wall, it makes driving in so much easier. Old ones still work well.

[robo1]

If you are looking for a mirror have a look at car baby mirrors. I have one attached to the corner of the garage and I can see when the front of the wife’s car is about to touch the rear wall.

[Gren]

I use a length of timber across the floor, secured to the floor, and run the car in till the wheels come up to the timber.