Adamant1971

1: Burlington. Unfortunately my family does not want to move, plus house prices have gone crazy in Burlington so we will end up with a significant mortgage increase. Plus I recently spent 20k finishing my basement and built a home theatre, which I enjoy very much. We would be jumping our mortgage up by almost 150k to move into something we will like.

2. No room for addition or car port, damn 40' lot.

3. I have free storage across town in my mom's garage. But I'm sick of not having my car here to work on, which I do a lot in the evenings after the kids go to bed.

I brought home the SAAB tonight to show the wife, she is going to sleep on it. If she likes it I will buy it and sell the Santa Fe. Then we will to have an height issue with the lift. With the saab and my 928 I will have 9" of clearance up top. And I will likely build a carriage swinging door for the garage. Plus we will get rid of the gas guzzling Santa Fe. And it will only cost me a couple grand to make the vehicle switch.

As well we will do a few other things to the house, all In Only increasing our mortgage by about 40k, which still leaves our mortgage very low as we have already paid down a bunch of it.

GreatWhiteNorth

+1 on the SAAB... I've always had one in the garage!! Or five

Jamie140

Don't forget that the lift must be raised a couple inches to clear the locks before you lower it.

Adamant1971

Yep, it looks like I will have about 9".

My wife has decided she wants to keep her Santa Fe, and she has agreed to be banished to the driveway. So my 9-5 will sit under my 928 on the lift.

She drove the 9-5 Combi Sport last night and liked it, but can't get over the lower driving position of a car vs and SUV. Personally I think that's nuts, the 9-5 Combi Sport is a nice machine. And this one has the distinction of being the absolute last SAAB to enter Canada. Fully loaded Aero Combi Sport wagon. One owner, spotless.

If anyone wants info on the car shoot me a PM. IM going to return it to the dealer at lunch.

misty-river

on average at the fuel economy site the Saab is 10.2 and the SF is 11.2

Adamant1971

The Santa Fe at best gets 12L on the highway. 14L in the city.

On my 9-5 2.3t I get close to 6L highway and 11city. Combined 9.5l per 100k.

The SAAB's typically get better mileage then what SAAB rated them at.

S98CS

A few items
#1 place high lift tracks on the garage door
#2 place jack shaft motor on spring bar

Imo000

How fast can you go to get 6L/100?

ronnie993tt

I can't believe how selfish some women are. SUV belongs in the driveway so you can fit 2 Porsches in the garage with a lift.

Adamant1971

About 110. At 120 I get about 7-7.5

Update, today I tested it again. Results:
100k = 6.3l
110k = 7.7l

Still not bad

Adamant1971

So I think I have settled on the prop park 8 plus from direct lift, with the ALI certification.

I opened a hole in my garage ceiling to confirm how much height I can get and it looks like 124" with drywall at the lowest point near the front of the garage.

Just going to build swing out garage doors before I can start ripping out the false ceiling. The first bit of my driveway is covered by a roof, so no issue with snow and carriage doors.

And I'm going to use mighty mule gate motors to open and close the doors.

Stay tuned for a new garage build thread.

Imo000

You can get garage doods that roll up into a cylinder, sort of like roll up blinds and installs on the outside of the structure. Might be a better choice than swing out doors.

Adamant1971

Ya, I got a quote on a roll up, not bad at $1600 with motor. But they look to much like a storage unit. The wife doesn't dig that.

Unfortunately there will be little clearance inside for a traditional door.

donuts

I had very similar issues with height issues. I got my garage door tracks raised straight up vertical almost to the roof and then back slightly. This way you can use a conventional garage door and just need to use a jackshaft opener. I reversed the car onto the lift so that the hood of the car faced forward, where the garage door opened and gave me enough clearance.

Turbodan

you also can sell the old door to help pay for the project. have you tested the cement floor for thickness? good luck with the project...I may do this soon but I am pretty sure my cement is too thin and old and cracked. Also I will go with a 2 poster most likely. The carriage doors look very cool...most of the new custom houses in my area have fake ones that roll up.
speaking of garage doors have you seen the site where they have pictures that look realistic; ie exotic cars, cement truck etc? pretty funny