I've had my X for a little over a week now. I have a ~92" - 93.5" garage door opening (depending on whether you count the weather stripping flap), and it's definitely tight pulling it in and out. If I don't fold the mirrors, I *might* be able to barely squeeze in, but I always fold them to be safe. The car always yells at me to "STOP" as I'm pulling in or out based on the distance sensors I assume, so I can't use the side distance measurements on the dash. Conveniently once I get inside I've got good clearance on the sides and above, so I can open all the doors (yay!).
I'm trying to come up with a good solution to make it easy to tell if I'm centered when I drive in. The slope of the front of the car makes it almost impossible to tell as I'm starting to drive in whether the front panels have enough clearance to the door opening because I can't see much unless I really sit up / lean forward. So far I've been fine, and careful, but it's tight enough that I'd love to have some better way to know that I'm lined up before the impact (that would happen if I'm not). Plus my wife won't even attempt it - can't blame her.
I had an old convex mirror that I put on the wall to try to get a view when I pull in, but it's really too far away to see well when I'm pulling in. Some thoughts I had were:
1) find a way to put one those ceiling mounted lasers in a place where it will hit something visible *before* I enter the garage.
2) paint some lines on the garage floor, and come up with a way that I can see them relative to my tires as I'm pulling in (maybe a closer mirror)
Any other ideas? This has got to be a solved problem (and it's obviously not Tesla-specific)
I haven't tried summon yet, partly because I've got flaky wifi, and I'm too chicken to let that loose until I'm confident the network connection to the car is stable.
Thanks in advance...
I'm trying to come up with a good solution to make it easy to tell if I'm centered when I drive in. The slope of the front of the car makes it almost impossible to tell as I'm starting to drive in whether the front panels have enough clearance to the door opening because I can't see much unless I really sit up / lean forward. So far I've been fine, and careful, but it's tight enough that I'd love to have some better way to know that I'm lined up before the impact (that would happen if I'm not). Plus my wife won't even attempt it - can't blame her.
I had an old convex mirror that I put on the wall to try to get a view when I pull in, but it's really too far away to see well when I'm pulling in. Some thoughts I had were:
1) find a way to put one those ceiling mounted lasers in a place where it will hit something visible *before* I enter the garage.
2) paint some lines on the garage floor, and come up with a way that I can see them relative to my tires as I'm pulling in (maybe a closer mirror)
Any other ideas? This has got to be a solved problem (and it's obviously not Tesla-specific)
I haven't tried summon yet, partly because I've got flaky wifi, and I'm too chicken to let that loose until I'm confident the network connection to the car is stable.
Thanks in advance...