Getting off my front lawn - interesting dilema

BigT said:
Woking

I'm going to attempt it in a moment. I have a load of shingle/pebbles down the side of my house that I'll lay down and then some planks of wood or similar. Fingers crossed!
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Give me a shout if you don't have any luck, I can always pop up with the 205 and give you a hand, i'm not far from you :)
 
-westy- said:
Give me a shout if you don't have any luck, I can always pop up with the 205 and give you a hand, i'm not far from you :)
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Thanks for the offer - very kind. In the end I got it off with shingle, some old skirting board and a bit of rocking. Pictures to follow
 
lol @ fox. Quite right. I shouldn't have been so lazy and instead swapped the cars around.

Anyway here's the net result of my morning's fiasco:

This is what I faced losing if I got it wrong. Only got it fitted at the beginning of the year and I'm not sure house insurance would've covered it:

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This gives an indication of the room for error I had:

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The problem:

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Part of the solution. It wasn't enough in the end as the shingle just sank into what is now very soft ground. Needed a few bits of wood under there as well:

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The aftermath. Good job it's being dug up soon:

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my golf started doing this when i was at a camp site in france, it was facing slightly uphill and being FWD all the weight was behind the pulling wheels (didnt think about it when i did it)

anyway i got the Mrs. to push and all was well :) but i also ended up about 1 foot from the caravan after the car slid backwards :D
 
dsb said:
looks like you need some more tarmac.
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Absoloutely, which is why it is getting ripped up, together with the existing drive and all being relaid.

@Fox - your detective skills serve you well. And unlike most of the forum posters on here, 99% of the people I have to meet in the car know nothing about NI number plates and the fact they can be picked up for a fiver. It's sole purpose is to disguise the age of the car, which it does unless you're into cars in which case you know it is a prefacelift W215 and so must have been manufactured between 2000 and 2003.
 
Well in Northern Ireland it is not private, it is a normal plate and every car on the road has one. In england they sare not so often seen. So my plate is BIG9872. Thousands of similar plates in NI, but I've yet to se a BIG xxxx plate on the roads in England in two years. Can be bought off the Bay and the like.
 
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