Supercar friendly parking lots (kerbs/space)

Supercar friendly parking lots (kerbs/space)

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Soleith

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527 posts

96 months

Thursday 14th September 2023
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Looking for a thread with good locations for parking low/wide cars and have struggled to find anything beyond "anywhere good in location xyz?" So thought I'd start a thread where we can all contribute locations we're comfortable parking in.

NCP London Vintry Thames Exchange - plenty of extra wide spaces, kerbs but not too tight and decent space to navigate around.

NCP London Cadogan Place - friendly security who showed me to a good wide space. Plenty of supercars/super luxuries of course given the location. Kerbs but not too tight and decent space to navigate around.

Imasurv

453 posts

91 months

Friday 29th September 2023
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Good idea for a thread.

I asked this question for central Leeds recently, ended up parking in The Light which is a QPark and is several basement levels. I found it was fine for my 991.2 GT3 and the second level down was pretty quiet with decent sized spaces and newly refurbished. Pretty expensive which presumably keeps it quieter.

Other contributors recommended the John Lewis car park and there were a few other suggestions but I don’t have first hand knowledge of any. The thread is in the Yorkshire sub forum.

Soleith

Original Poster:

527 posts

96 months

Friday 29th September 2023
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Your Parking Space private space at Raymond Court, Wimbledon London SW19 4AR.

Above ground, slight slope at the entrance but fine with a low car without lift, security gates and no worrying kerbs. Space was reasonable although not too large but could get the F12 in without too much difficulty.

JohnnyUK

859 posts

85 months

Saturday 30th September 2023
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Slightly left-field reply, but always book "High Vehicle" on the Channel Tunnel - costs no more and I've never had any issues once we arrive!

Soleith

Original Poster:

527 posts

96 months

Saturday 30th September 2023
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JohnnyUK said:
Slightly left-field reply, but always book "High Vehicle" on the Channel Tunnel - costs no more and I've never had any issues once we arrive!
Very good recommendation! I've booked this for le mans next year as was advised by Motorsport travel destinations that all the exotica fits better there but I think they said expect an extra 60 sheets on the cost.

FFinally

70 posts

34 months

Sunday 1st October 2023
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I thought the website automatically detects a wide/low car based on your number plate? I went to Le Mans this year in our F8 (no lift) and the wider carriage was very simple to get onto and off with more space either side before you encounter the metal kerbs. Plus around Le Mans time you get to see some other nice stuff parked in front of and behind you. Chatted to a father and son on their way down in their GT3 which made 40 minutes underground pass very quickly…

LittleBigPlanet

1,162 posts

148 months

Monday 9th October 2023
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Soleith said:
JohnnyUK said:
Slightly left-field reply, but always book "High Vehicle" on the Channel Tunnel - costs no more and I've never had any issues once we arrive!
Very good recommendation! I've booked this for le mans next year as was advised by Motorsport travel destinations that all the exotica fits better there but I think they said expect an extra 60 sheets on the cost.
Yep, I went to Spa in July for the F1 with my RS6 and the "large vehicle" was £30 extra each way-- well worth it for the extra space.

rix

2,846 posts

197 months

Monday 9th October 2023
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LittleBigPlanet said:
Soleith said:
JohnnyUK said:
Slightly left-field reply, but always book "High Vehicle" on the Channel Tunnel - costs no more and I've never had any issues once we arrive!
Very good recommendation! I've booked this for le mans next year as was advised by Motorsport travel destinations that all the exotica fits better there but I think they said expect an extra 60 sheets on the cost.
Yep, I went to Spa in July for the F1 with my RS6 and the "large vehicle" was £30 extra each way-- well worth it for the extra space.
Extra tip, if you book the large vehicle ticket make sure your boarding pass / hanger actually reflects that! Couple of occasions, even after paying the extra, I've been allocated to the double decker until questioning it with the staff!

cgt2

7,141 posts

195 months

Monday 9th October 2023
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NCP Barbican is great, wide entry and very wide spaces

Marc p

1,096 posts

149 months

Monday 9th October 2023
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LittleBigPlanet said:
Soleith said:
JohnnyUK said:
Slightly left-field reply, but always book "High Vehicle" on the Channel Tunnel - costs no more and I've never had any issues once we arrive!
Very good recommendation! I've booked this for le mans next year as was advised by Motorsport travel destinations that all the exotica fits better there but I think they said expect an extra 60 sheets on the cost.
Yep, I went to Spa in July for the F1 with my RS6 and the "large vehicle" was £30 extra each way-- well worth it for the extra space.
Definitely worth it, past few times I’ve used the euro tunnel I’ve always been on a large vehicle carriage, I don’t know why they have those raised pathways either side on the normal carriages.

In regards to the topic of car parks, as long as it’s safe, then that’s all that matters, life’s to short to worry about picking up door dents that could be easily removed by a decent pdr guy, my guy is incredibly skilled and can work with aluminium as well, will be getting him to do a couple on the 355 shortly.

hungry_hog

2,394 posts

195 months

Wednesday 25th October 2023
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CostCo has diagonal parking spaces big enough for a FFRR with loads of room to spare

spikeyhead

17,971 posts

204 months

Thursday 26th October 2023
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HIS LM

1,338 posts

266 months

Saturday 28th October 2023
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Tip avoid Westfield Shopping Centre like the plague unless you want to ruin your alloys and tyres.

hungry_hog

2,394 posts

195 months

Saturday 28th October 2023
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HIS LM said:
Tip avoid Westfield Shopping Centre like the plague unless you want to ruin your alloys and tyres.
tbf you can say that or most supermarkets and shopping centres, gyms, airports and pretty much anywhere in the UK

A lot of these places were built when the average car was the size of an Escort Mk3. Which isn't an excuse for Westfield I guess!

The huge amount of SUVs doesn't help, Range Rover and XC90 seem to be everywhere in London. If one of those is in the space next to you you better be driving a 60s Fiat 500, else your doors are gonna clash