Technical Wont get up my driveway!!

[rtm]

Alas,

I must bid you farewell....it did not make it up my driveway...with all turned off.

Dealer suggested the sport model...

Though many thanks for your mostly helpful suggestion....and I will be working on DH for a new house with a reasonable driveway in subtle and wiley ways...though Im not ruling out the car port at the base of the driveway idea either..

and maybe some day in the future 'lil blue fiat will be mine....sigh.

Dont think the door had even closed before the dealer was on the phone to another prospective buyer...

I bid you all good day.

Off to purchase a suzuki swift...sob,sob.

 

[deeyup]

This has to be a joke right?

 

[dave]

This has to be a joke right?

must be, cars that can go up Italian mountains cant get up an Australian drive

 

[portland_bill]

Two houses in same area with very silly steep drives. Must be a reason. Would be nice to know why.

 

[Joseph500]

Something does not seem 100%

Hill towns in Italy are notoriously steep - for kms ..........and you see original 500's all over the place, let alone the new fangled 500's

OP - hang in there !! Park on the street - possible ??

As for your (unreasonable) husband ...... try threatening a withdrawal of "privileges" - you may find that pretty persuasive

Good Luck ...... hope it works out

 

[306maxi]

Something does not seem 100%

Hill towns in Italy are notoriously steep - for kms ..........and you see original 500's all over the place, let alone the new fangled 500's

OP - hang in there !! Park on the street - possible ??

As for your (unreasonable) husband ...... try threatening a withdrawal of "privileges" - you may find that pretty persuasive

Good Luck ...... hope it works out

Agree, I think the traction control or something was on.....

 

[varesecrazy]

45 degrees = 1 in 1

1 in 2 = 26.6 degrees

BJM

I ride ( Italian) off-road bikes - 45 Degrees isn't steep ..UP OR down..

Charlie

 

[Ulpian]

That 'drive' isn't a drive, it's an abseiling course. I can't imagine why anyone would buy a house with a cliff in front of it and expect a car to climb it.

It seems that joke about a winch wasn't so wrong after all!

 

[ScottABarrett500]

There is a hill I have to go up to get out of my girlfriends village to the bypass, it is very steep too, never had a problem in my old 1L mk1 punto, my 1.2 500 or Twinair 500, even stopping halfway going up. Sounds strange!

 

[Joseph500]

Strange indeed

Maybe the Demo was defective is some regard. Test drive from another dealer maybe !!

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

traction control off, revs to 3k and dump the clutch with foot planted?

:yeahthat: rev limiter is only 3k when stationary in a 500 also, so would be setup just right for this

 

[grantm616]

I would say there's something wrong with the car. I've managed to get a mates Matiz 786cc or whatever it's called through Glasgow and it involved hill starts on roads with around 36 degree inclines. It screamed like a pig but basically any modernish car should be capable of getting up a bloody driveway.

 

[portland_bill]

I'd still like to know why the driveways are so steep there. What is the reason?

 

[Adzee]

We build houses on hills but the roads are evened out (averaged) to minimise roads been way to steep so people have a flat drive way. Helps make roads safer.

Does your country have hills?

 

[wellfan]

Aye. We have one or two hills in Scotland, quite a few actually. Pretty sure they are dotted about the rest of the UK too.
I cycle around Lanark area. Kirkfieldbank Brae has a 14% slope. Can be fun in the Winter!

 

[dave]

does your country have hills?

 

[portland_bill]

We build houses on hills but the roads are evened out (averaged) to minimise roads been way to steep so people have a flat drive way. Helps make roads safer.

But why build driveways so steep you cannot drive or even walk up them easily? That makes no sense at all. Surely the road will be less safe when someone drops out of their garage down that steep slope, struggling to stop.

 

[UFI]

I'd still like to know why the driveways are so steep there. What is the reason?

I'm going to say the reason is cost. Excavating the whole block of land, building retaining walls etc is expensive. It could also be that there's bedrock under there that would make leveling very difficult ($$$). Sinking the only garage down the street level would be prefered, but still add to cost. The photos look like low end housing and the blocks were probably cheaper owing to the extra expense/ difficulty of building on them. Even at their elevated level the cost of connecting to services will be more expensive.

The picture (in the US) with the double driveways makes me think it was a bedrock issue because normally the whole new subdivision would be leveled before any building work commenced.

If you deliberately raised the land to prevent flooding, you'd probably set the house further back to ease the driveway slope.

 

[Ulpian]

It's astonishing that building regulations would permit it, ever. It is also surprising that anyone would ever buy a house with a cliff for a drive.

 

[portland_bill]

It's astonishing that building regulations would permit it, ever. It is also surprising that anyone would ever buy a house with a cliff for a drive.

And then blame the car for not coping.