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Hi... Purchased a 2025 C8 Eray, 3LZ, that should be at the dealer soon (in the next very few days)... My only other Corvette purchase was the 2012 GS I still have, purchased new in 2012 long before they had some of the current, modern, sensors to tell you when you are close to hitting something... Of specific interest is, will this pretty heavily loaded 3LZ come with alerts to help me know when I'm too close to something as I enter my garage??? We have two other Lexus vehicles that do that VERY well... But I'm just not knowing what this new Corvette might have that is similar... We have a three car garage and my C6 with mirrors extended is actually a tad wider (82 3/4") than will be this Eray (80 inches mirrors folded) but I'm still gonna be very cautious when I first try to park this in the single stall... Thoughts on what electronic aids I might be able to use??? Not just like lane encroachment... I'm talking about finer stuff like when I am about to hit the garage door sill???? New to me on this car... Thoughts??? thanks...
Look at Home Depot brand model STKR (under parking sensors). It attaches to the garage door rail and can be powered by a cord attached to a iPad cube or by internal batteries. I had a receptacle nearby so I changed it out to one with the charger port on it. Even with the sensor, I was still uneasy, so I painted a red/black strip on my garage floor and driveway, and use the front camera to guide myself in. My house is 45 years old and the garage doors are probably a bit smaller than those found on newer homes.
Look at Home Depot brand model STKR (under parking sensors). It attaches to the garage door rail and can be powered by a cord attached to a iPad cube or by internal batteries. I had a receptacle nearby so I changed it out to one with the charger port on it. Even with the sensor, I was still uneasy, so I painted a red/black strip on my garage floor and driveway, and use the front camera to guide myself in. My house is 45 years old and the garage doors are probably a bit smaller than those found on newer homes.
For the OP, this is what I do also, as well as many other forum members. Instead of painting the line I laid down a strip of masking tape centered in the parking space on the garage floor and just follow it in by using the front cameras. Works really well!
I use black duct tape on the garage floor. I use a couple of 2 foot long strips on each side of the garage door, about 6" in from the door opening. I then run a strip the length of the garage, centered on the garage opening -- at the end of the garage strip i put a cross piece of tape to show me where the front end should stop. Using the front camera makes it easy to stay centered on the door when entering the garage and then stay centered on the center strip while pulling in. And then I put the Eray nose on the end cross stripe. Works perfect. When backing out the rear collision alert always activates, but just keep the steering wheel straight as you back out and the alert will stop as you clear the garage door opening. I didn't have the alert with my 2022 Stingray, but my wider 2025 Eray does it all the time. Of course I always fold the side mirrors before pulling into the garage.
My concern is with side to side, not depth... Can someone say whether or not the 3LZ version of the Eray comes with proximity warnings or not??? Lots of good ideas for watching with cameras which is what I will likely use but still curious as to whether the car will alert when you get close to something on either side????
My concern is with side to side, not depth... Can someone say whether or not the 3LZ version of the Eray comes with proximity warnings or not??? Lots of good ideas for watching with cameras which is what I will likely use but still curious as to whether the car will alert when you get close to something on either side????
Yes, the Eray has proximity warnings. Mine mainly alarm at the rear and rear sides. Haven't noticed much in the front. I have a 2025 2LT Eray that has the same sensors as the 3LT. Your best bet is to mark lines on the floor and use the cameras. The proximity sensors are too sensitive to really allow you to judge how close you are without visually looking.
Yes, the Eray has proximity warnings. Mine mainly alarm at the rear and rear sides. Haven't noticed much in the front. I have a 2025 2LT Eray that has the same sensors as the 3LT. Your best bet is to mark lines on the floor and use the cameras. The proximity sensors are too sensitive to really allow you to judge how close you are without visually looking.
Got it... Much appreciated... I will do what you and others have suggested, for sure... I've never had a car with any sort of forward looking camera so this will be. first... The ones on my Lexus work very well, beeping slowly if I'm sort of close to say the right side and beeping fast when it's time to truly turn away... But that car also does NOT have any form of forward looking camera so this will be a new thing for me... I'm keeping my C6 for a while so it will likely stay in the single stall to start and I will put the Eray in the one of the other double stall slots while I figure out how to proceed...... My wife's car will go in the other slot and we will keep the car covered while super new... And my wife has already agreed to be extra careful to not bump the new car...
Hi... Purchased a 2025 C8 Eray, 3LZ, that should be at the dealer soon (in the next very few days)... My only other Corvette purchase was the 2012 GS I still have, purchased new in 2012 long before they had some of the current, modern, sensors to tell you when you are close to hitting something... Of specific interest is, will this pretty heavily loaded 3LZ come with alerts to help me know when I'm too close to something as I enter my garage??? We have two other Lexus vehicles that do that VERY well... But I'm just not knowing what this new Corvette might have that is similar... We have a three car garage and my C6 with mirrors extended is actually a tad wider (82 3/4") than will be this Eray (80 inches mirrors folded) but I'm still gonna be very cautious when I first try to park this in the single stall... Thoughts on what electronic aids I might be able to use??? Not just like lane encroachment... I'm talking about finer stuff like when I am about to hit the garage door sill???? New to me on this car... Thoughts??? thanks...
Originally Posted by diitto
My concern is with side to side, not depth... Can someone say whether or not the 3LZ version of the Eray comes with proximity warnings or not??? Lots of good ideas for watching with cameras which is what I will likely use but still curious as to whether the car will alert when you get close to something on either side????
My thought is the you can't rely on proximity alarms even if you have them - if your goal is to pull into a single, tightly spaced stall. I suspect that your alarms (if there) are going to go off as you pull in. My F150 truck has proximity alarms, but they tend to go off when there is less than 1 foot of clearance. So, when I pull it into my garage, it goes off the whole time - providing no useful information. With both my C8 and my truck, when I get to the points where the mirrors are close, I look carefully to see if I am centered. I normally do not retract my mirrors on the car or the truck. When I back out, I uses those side mirrors to monitor the clearance, especially as I clear the garage door frames. I also need to pull my C8 very close to the car in front of it. I use the front camera for that - but be careful - it may not see a raised bumper.
My thought is the you can't rely on proximity alarms even if you have them - if your goal is to pull into a single, tightly spaced stall. I suspect that your alarms (if there) are going to go off as you pull in. My F150 truck has proximity alarms, but they tend to go off when there is less than 1 foot of clearance. So, when I pull it into my garage, it goes off the whole time - providing no useful information. With both my C8 and my truck, when I get to the points where the mirrors are close, I look carefully to see if I am centered. I normally do not retract my mirrors on the car or the truck. When I back out, I uses those side mirrors to monitor the clearance, especially as I clear the garage door frames. I also need to pull my C8 very close to the car in front of it. I use the front camera for that - but be careful - it may not see a raised bumper.
Understood... thanks... I will most certainly be learning to use the available cameras... My 2012 C6 came with no cameras front or rear and I never added any though I could have and likely should have... And this will be the first car EVER, including our two Lexus (SUV and sedan) that have forward looking cameras... So that will certainly be my focus... I only talk about the proximity sensors because on my Lexus SUV, they really work well... I can pull it with the side of the garage door to my right side and my wife's car to my left and if I do it correctly, I never hear anything... But just a tad either way and it starts off slow beeping that just prompts to adjust at most a little and if it beeps fast, I make a correction right now... Just what I have and what I'm used to... But I will dive in with marking the floor and using the cameras on the new Eray once it comes... appreciate all the help!!!!!
Back it in with the rear cameras and cross traffic sensors enabled.
It'll let you know when you're close to contacting anything, visually and audibly.
If the concern is side contact, how were you going to open the doors to get in and out, if the garage is that cramped?
Back it in with the rear cameras and cross traffic sensors enabled.
It'll let you know when you're close to contacting anything, visually and audibly.
If the concern is side contact, how were you going to open the doors to get in and out, if the garage is that cramped?
The issue isn't inside the garage, it's entering the garage door opening and staying centered. Backing in would be much more difficult than pulling in forward and using the front cameras. You clearly don't have a grasp of the situation, or don't own a wide body late model Corvette.
The issue isn't inside the garage, it's entering the garage door opening and staying centered. Backing in would be much more difficult than pulling in forward and using the front cameras. You clearly don't have a grasp of the situation, or don't own a wide body late model Corvette.
Perhaps the OP should have bought a car that fits his/her garage door opening better?
I own a C8 SR HTC, and I can back it up just fine. It's a basic driving skill, after all.
That's why most vehicles have an "R" transmission option. You may have noticed?
Be advised any further discussion will be one sided.
Perhaps the OP should have bought a car that fits his/her garage door opening better?
I own a C8 SR HTC, and I can back it up just fine. It's a basic driving skill, after all.
That's why most vehicles have an "R" transmission option. You may have noticed?
Be advised any further discussion will be one sided.
It will fit fine... 80 inches into a 91 inch opening... Just new and a bit scary until I get used to it... That's why we post here, to learn from others who've done these things (garage parking in a single stall) before... And if I don't find it easy enough I can move to a much wider part of the double stall but the car is not as protected from door dings if parked there... So I have two different options to consider...
It will fit fine... 80 inches into a 91 inch opening... Just new and a bit scary until I get used to it... That's why we post here, to learn from others who've done these things (garage parking in a single stall) before... And if I don't find it easy enough I can move to a much wider part of the double stall but the car is not as protected from door dings if parked there... So I have two different options to consider...
I figured as much, I wasn't targeting you, it was hdrider1 that snarked out on me for no reason other than I thought a little outside the box, and it annoyed him/her....
Was just trying to help, offering an alternate method of entrance/egress that works for me. I prefer to exit in D, so I back in and park in R/P.
You'll figure it out yourself, when your new E-Ray arrives. We all do.
The Owner's Manual for your model year is a treasure trove of info, if available for download, but you do have to do the homework.
It will fit fine... 80 inches into a 91 inch opening... Just new and a bit scary until I get used to it... That's why we post here, to learn from others who've done these things (garage parking in a single stall) before... And if I don't find it easy enough I can move to a much wider part of the double stall but the car is not as protected from door dings if parked there... So I have two different options to consider...
Backing in might have the advantage that you can use your outside mirrors to inspect the clearance around the garage door frame - but its not what I would do. And, the cross-traffic feature would of course be useless for this. Its looking for approaching cars (moving) and detects them at distance far greater your the clearance you will have (which is 5.5 inches on each side). I do not believe any proximity sensors are going to help with this.
In the garage where I park my truck, its pretty tight and there are steel columns I need to avoid I put a large convex traffic mirror on the back wall of the garage, and so when I pull in i can monitor the clearance on both sides of the truck.
Backing in might have the advantage that you can use your outside mirrors to inspect the clearance around the garage door frame - but its not what I would do. And, the cross-traffic feature would of course be useless for this. Its looking for approaching cars (moving) and detects them at distance far greater your the clearance you will have (which is 5.5 inches on each side). I do not believe any proximity sensors are going to help with this.
In the garage where I park my truck, its pretty tight and there are steel columns I need to avoid I put a large convex traffic mirror on the back wall of the garage, and so when I pull in i can monitor the clearance on both sides of the truck.
The blind spot sensors might keep the mirrors safer, not sure if they're active st low speed in Reverse, but the mirrors.would probably have to be deployed, not folded in. I suggested the cross traffic warning sensors, partly because on my 2024 SR they alert to the rear sides in a wide swath, as well as directly behind the car. They do work at low speed in Reverse. Again, just trying to think outside the box.
If I've broken forum rules...
The blind spot sensors might keep the mirrors safer, not sure if they're active st low speed in Reverse, but the mirrors.would probably have to be deployed, not folded in. I suggested the cross traffic warning sensors, partly because on my 2024 SR they alert to the rear sides in a wide swath, as well as directly behind the car. They do work at low speed in Reverse. Again, just trying to think outside the box.
If I've broken forum rules...
Yeah. The blind spot sensors detect cars that are in adjacent lanes and a several feet back. OP is dealing with objects that are 4 to 5 inches away as he pulls through the garage door frame. As for cross traffic sensors, I can be backing up in a parking lot and they will go off when a car comes down a road next to the lot. I don't think it will help with centering up in a 91 in garage door frame with 4-5 inches clearance on each side.
Rules? I did not fuss - your idea deserves some consideration. And the snarky remark you got from another poster was not called for. I would ignore it. But I just dont think any proximity sensor is going to help with such small distances. Backing up using mirrors might work - many drivers prefer backing up.
I have (2) four post lifts, a Bendpack and Direct lift.
The Bendpack was in my attached garage with only a 9' cieling height until my detached was finished.
Both lifts were purchased used, one in Morris county and one in Sussex .
I have a jack stand, and mostly use the Benback for working on cars.
Proximity alarms???
