Anyone know where I can get a piece of metal to put on my driveway. Living in downtown San Jose sucks the driveways are really steep.

For the past 3-4 months I've been ramping my car with wood. That means each time I leave my house or come home I have to get out grab the ramps place them then drive my car up. This really sucks when its pouring outside. Also my street is very narrow and packed with cars so imagine trying to line up your car with ramps.

I don't want to deal with permits and repaving it yet. It can either be a big solid piece or 2 pretty big pieces where I can just drive in without worrying my car would fall off. Because my mom would have to get up the ramp as well.

I'll post a video when the weather gets better.

Oh yah for people who have came to my house and watched me do this to my car and yours you can chime in.



aL soriano

 

Yeah, I've been to Al's house, the ramping part sucks big time.

 

Is there any street cleaning where you live and would that affect anything? I face a similar situation but can't put anything out there unless I want to also remove it once a week. I've learned to drive up my driveway at a diagonal to minimize the scraping.

 

lol, this is exactly what i do at my current place. i live in the sloped streets in sf.


i built 2 wooden ramps and just suck it up.

 

^yup make a custom setup al like as wide as your driveway instead of the two pieces

 

yeah dude, i got scared when you made me drive over those toothpick ramps lol

 

help a brotha out. his driveway has some of my rex on it that i'll never get back!

 

lol. toothpick ramps. i built mine with 2 x 6's so they provide adequate amount of area for my tires to roll on.

 

i dont get it...

why are the ramps needed? is it the transition from the street to the sidewalk/driveway?

 

Some driveways have insane dips for the water to flow to the drains. The one on Al's street is ricockulous to the umpteenth power.

 

ya, thats the way my old driveway was.. thats also probably y my v2 lip split in half! hahaha.. but stock front bumper+ stock height = perfectness.. my new house has no bumper at all! hahaha.. well except where the street meets my street... has a fat dip that even i have to go slow over!

 

Any pics? I want to see if its worse than my driveway.

 

Al, the main question is if you have street sweepers come down your street. If not I can offer you a pretty good solution. Let me know. TIA

 

Get some cold mix asphalt. It comes in 50lb bags at home depot. I doubt you woul d need a permit to throw some down

 

u never need a permit....



just dont get caught :censored: