Can someone do me a large favor ?
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Agreed!
With the car width and the length of the doors it's always "fun" getting out when parked between two other cars (for example at my local sooper dooper market where parking spots are at a premium), I have to juggle my spacing between the two other cars and then very carefully open the door so as not to ding the car next to me.
Even then there is barely enough room to get out, I often have to perform a Watusi to do so and when I do I always scrape the bottom of the door with my shoe often leaving a horrible mark (which I later clean off). First world problems!
With the car width and the length of the doors it's always "fun" getting out when parked between two other cars (for example at my local sooper dooper market where parking spots are at a premium), I have to juggle my spacing between the two other cars and then very carefully open the door so as not to ding the car next to me.
Even then there is barely enough room to get out, I often have to perform a Watusi to do so and when I do I always scrape the bottom of the door with my shoe often leaving a horrible mark (which I later clean off). First world problems!
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The only thing I would add is that because it is a true 2 seater the doors dont go back much more than the seat, so you dont have to open them as wide as a 2 + 2. So in my car I can park it so that the door is 60cm (2 foot) from the pillar in my garage and still get out relatively easily, though I have stuck some foam on the walls and pillar so that I dont bump the edge of the door. When I say "relatively easily" I mean it is livable and I'm not a fatty nor a skinny minnie, but another 15cm or so would be better.
By the way I did measure it, it is exactly 60cm!
By the way I did measure it, it is exactly 60cm!
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My issue is also a first world problem.
I park under a car lift that holds another car, so I need to make sure the Jag will fit between the posts.
Right now, there’s an Audi occupying the spot under the lift so I was comparing the specified dimensions of the Audi to the dimensions of the F-Type, so I measured the Audi and found out that the width was actually different than the width shown in the specs. That’s why I was asking someone to take an actual measurement on an F-Type to see if it’s the same as the specs.
I park under a car lift that holds another car, so I need to make sure the Jag will fit between the posts.
Right now, there’s an Audi occupying the spot under the lift so I was comparing the specified dimensions of the Audi to the dimensions of the F-Type, so I measured the Audi and found out that the width was actually different than the width shown in the specs. That’s why I was asking someone to take an actual measurement on an F-Type to see if it’s the same as the specs.
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My issue is also a first world problem.
I park under a car lift that holds another car, so I need to make sure the Jag will fit between the posts.
Right now, there’s an Audi occupying the spot under the lift so I was comparing the specified dimensions of the Audi to the dimensions of the F-Type, so I measured the Audi and found out that the width was actually different than the width shown in the specs. That’s why I was asking someone to take an actual measurement on an F-Type to see if it’s the same as the specs.
I park under a car lift that holds another car, so I need to make sure the Jag will fit between the posts.
Right now, there’s an Audi occupying the spot under the lift so I was comparing the specified dimensions of the Audi to the dimensions of the F-Type, so I measured the Audi and found out that the width was actually different than the width shown in the specs. That’s why I was asking someone to take an actual measurement on an F-Type to see if it’s the same as the specs.
Quite a lot wider than the book specs but it was a roughish "by eye" measure with a tape rule so I would tend to go with the book specs, but at least it suggests that if the book specs are wrong they are too skinny rather than too fat.
Bottom line - if the posts are at least 2100 mm apart you will be able to squeeze past them if you judge it juuust right!
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Width with mirrors folded = 75.7 (1923)
Width with mirrors extended = 80.7 (2049)
The 2015, 2016 and 2017 match your numbers then 2018 on mixes them and that also match what is in the 2013, 2014 and 2015 brochures:
Width with mirrors folded = 75.7 (1923)
Width with mirrors extended = 80.4 (2042)
The 2015 US technical specs say 74.2 for the width with mirrors folded as do the 2019 ones so Jaguar don't seem to be totally sure!
BTW, I don't know if the XK is easier to get out of but the distance between my car and my wife's car is 49cm at the moment and I don't find that particularly tight. I did test drive an F Pace when they first came out and I just managed to get out of that in my garage but there is no way I would want to do it every day. My wife's current car is narrower so it would be a little easier now.
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I have to admit that we were nervous at first, too. We would do the Fold while moving thing (pull both mirror switches up at slow speeds, and they fold in). But ultimately, the practice of just judging position by allowing ~ an inch (25cm) on the drivers side allows the passenger side to clear handily.
As someone else said, many American vehicles are wider than the Jag. When I do oil changes on the wife's minivan, I (manually) fold the drivers mirror in when approaching the lift.
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