Tight Garage - Door Hinge Protection

[Stevetom84]

I posted this in the thread about R1Ts barely fitting in a garage, but thought I would make a separate post. In my case I literally have less than about 6” of total wiggle room. Years ago we had an incident in which a car wasn’t pulled in enough and the garage door was closed. As the garage door closed, the hinges caught on the car and left a nice 2-3” deep vertical scratch. With how tight my situation is I looked for a solution to help protect my R1T in the event something like that were to happen.

I eventually found the following product that is pretty straight forward that provides a level of protection. I needed the silicon adapter due to the width of my hinges.

https://www.bumperhero.com/

I’m in no way associated with this company, but figured I would share since it was surprisingly difficult to find a product like this. I saw where some people would do something like zip tie a pole noodle to the hinge, but this seems like a better solution that won’t slip if contact occurs.

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[jpmc86]

Cool - I’m going to bite.

 

[Tim-in-CA]

Order a set as well ... seems like cheap insurance. I am always super cautious with pulling in after my LR4 was scratched up by a closing garage door years ago. This would have saved my a$$!

Use code SAVE$2 at checkout to save 2 bucks!

 

[kozak79]

I've done this once to my old Volvo

 

[E-lectric]

Thanks, ordered and saved $2.

 

[KBabione]

I had a scary near-miss over the weekend. I don't have a hinge issue - my garage door has a 2.5" stabilizing bar going across it horizontally about 18" off the floor that you can see in this photo:

We use a laser parking assist to ensure that we always pull in far enough and have never had an issue, but it's always on my mind. For obvious reasons, we make good use of the frunk. This weekend my wife used her phone to open the frunk but didn't realize that she hit the liftgate as well. I didn't know it either until I pushed the wall button to open the garage door and it abruptly stopped. I walked to the door and saw that the liftgate had opened and that the bar was caught on the open liftgate! No scratches, but I was VERY lucky. She then noticed that she had an alert on her phone that there was an obstruction preventing the liftgate from opening (so at least it wasn't my fault).

Anyone have any suggestions for what I could put over the stabilizing bar for protection should this ever happen again? For appearances sake I'd probably want to do the entire 20' length of the bar.

 

[Tim-in-CA]

Just saw a video for this product. It’s a full width and height garage door sensor. I may purchase



https://shop.infinity-shield.com/

 

[PurseChicken]

Thanks for sharing this.

I just had this happen. We back into the garage and apparently I didnt back in enough. I left the garage door open and then someone else came along and closed it. Thankfully I have Paint Protection on the front and that took the brunt of the damage. That said, the front light bar got scratched pretty good vertically. I replaced the bar and the paint protection which ended up being about a 2.5k repair overall.

I will purchase these and look into parking sensor options as well.

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