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Originally Posted by GrimReaperSS
 You are making the assumption that every shop is configured identically. If every shop were like the one pictured, where there is a garage door for every stall, sure you should be able to just back straight out no problem. For me, there is one garage door for 14 stalls (10 down the left side of the aisle and 4 down the right side). You assume salesman, lot attendants/porters never pull cars into the aisle behind mechanic stalls etc. Tell me, how do your mirrors allow you to see where the front wheels/tires are in relation to the hoist arms as you're reversing and begin to turn to make your way out of your stall? I don't know of any Camaro that currently has "sky view"/360 degree cameras. How can you see out the window to locate the left front wheel/tire on a vehicle like the 6th gen shown here where the window opening is the same height as your shoulder without opening the door and leaning over. If I know the left front wheel/tire location on one side of the hoist, I don't need to "F-ing see around to the other side" to know that it is clear as well. Where I work, the stalls are 90 degrees to the entry door to the shop. In fact, my own stall is right next to the door. Every time I enter, I must perform a 3 point turn to get into the stall straight. When reversing, I have to turn the wheel full lock once I clear the hoist arms in order to be able to drive out the door straight and not make multi-point turns to get lined up. It's wonderful with full size cars and SUV's. Especially when the contaminated fuel barrels, oil drain buckets, stacks of customer's opposing season wheel/tire packages and whatever shop equipment or body panels like bumpers are all across the aisle from my stall, making the aisle smaller. Not every car has a back-up camera as new cars do, since you mentioned that before. You better believe I use my mirrors and turn my head, use the back-up camera when available, as well as open the door to see how close I am at times to not only the hoist arms, but other vehicles and equipment in the shop.
Apologies to the OP for high-jacking your post, it was not intended. Very curious on what the dealer offers you as a solution. |
I almost quit reading after your laughing emojis but I figured I’d give you the benefit of the doubt. I’m picturing how your shop is configured and sure enough, there’s still no need to open the door.
Maybe a significant portion of America just simply never learned to use their mirrors and turning their heads to look back when reversing. I don’t care how many turns you need you should not need to open the door to back up.
I took my parallel parking test on a 1985 Cadillac Eldorado. The blind spots on that thing were a hundred times worse than the 6th gen Camaro thanks to that huge expanse of roof, tiny rear window, and even tinier side view mirrors. Let’s not forget the 6 ft long hood. But I whipped that puppy through the parallel test and to this day I could parallel park it in a tight spot on the street using just the mirrors.
Oh yeah, I guarantee I could back it of your worst angled lift in your shop without opening the door.