I am looking into buying a new house. The particular house we are zeroing in on has a two-car garage. However, the F-150 doesn't fit comfortably; maybe not at all. It may be too long and I would have to manually fold in the mirrors each time to just squeeze through the opening.

How many of you have a truck that doesn't fit into your garage? I know I won't have the truck forever, but I was looking forward to garaging it and am kind of bummed. It probably won't make me not buy the house. But I kind of want to know if it's simply that these trucks are too big or if the garage on this house is too small.

Thanks

 

Most all stock trucks will fit without a problem, even into a single car garage. Tight fit, but they do fit. There just isnt any room for anything else.

Lifted trucks, forget it. IIRC, the typical garage openeing has an overhead clearance of 7 and a half feet.

 

My rig(real longbed Scab) is a Free-Range truck, it lives outside all the time.
Longbed won't fit in my garage. Living outdoors does take a toll on the paint,
and here in TX there are 2-3 hail storms every spring, but mine is a working
truck(camping,hauling,towing) not a city slicker.
Homeonwners association says the ski boat must live in the garage anyway.

 

Comfortably?

Try an F150 and a BMW in a 19x20 garage with a single 14' door.
It's amazing what you can do when a hurricane's coming.

 

i went with the 5.5' bed because the 6.5' would have been too close for comfort...but the width has never been an issue...

we have our water heater closet in the front of the garage, which shortens the useable length, else i would have gotten a long bed

plus side is the shorter wheel base is nice

 

For the time being, mine sits outside, unless there is a bad storm blowing thru, the length is fine (SCab, 6.5' bed) I am just too lazy to fold the mirrors in. Hopefully, a KR mirror swap is in my near future, and it will be in by winter.

 

My garage had a storage room along the back wall, I tore the wall down and now the truck fits easily

 

When I had my house built I made sure it had a 2 car garage with one big door, so much easier but now we have so much crap in the garage I can even walk in it. lol

 

If I were building the house, I would definitely take all sizing factors into consideration. Unfortunately the family room is on the other side of the back garage wall. And as for the big door...I'd like that, but the trend around here appears to be two separate doors and...get this...most of the garages on the newer houses (less than 10 years-old) I'm looking at have a freaking pole in the middle holding the ceiling up. Either cheapness or laziness coming into play there. There's even a pole in the middle of garages with one big door. Never saw that before until I started looking for a house.

 

Here is a picture of the garage with the pole in the middle.
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My house I grew up in had that. My brother in law switched his 2 garage doors to 1 big one. We did it. He just had to get an engineer in to tell us what type of header to get.

 

6 inch diameter pole 9 feet long = $97.50

12x16" steel I-beam 22 feet long = $965.00

 

There is a pole sometimes inbetween the two doors also.

 

I have the 5.5 bed... not positive of my garage dimensions though. I fit just fine... I did, however, snub a portion of the antenna to keep it from hitting the metal garage door and scratching the paint. Other than that, it's not a super-big fit but, it's big enough that I can get around on all sides -- even with an 04' Explorer sitting by its side.

 

I have a 150 scab, I think a 6' bed. My garage has a single 16' wide door, with the blasted pole in the middle of the garage. I can fit the truck, but have to pull in at a slight angle to clear the pole.