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OT: Conversion van height Posted by MI-Roger [Email]  (#882) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from MI-Roger) on Tue, 5 Jan 2010 06:05:55
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My son and daughter-in-law will be moving this month to a different apartment in DC. Their current apartment is on the fourth floor of complex with an attached parking deck.
When we helped move them into their current apartment last January we had to park the small U-Haul truck at street level, load everything onto a dolly, wheel the loaded dolly across the drive and into the parking deck to an oversized passenger elevator, go up to the fourth floor, wheel the dolly to the base of a stairway, carry everything up one flight of stairs in the deck stairwell, roll the dolly across the top level of the deck to a half flight of stairs, carry everything up the half-flight, then roll the dolly down an open hallway to their apartment.
I told my son that when they move they should investigate getting a full-sized van and drive it up the deck to the base of the half-flight of stairs. This would make the move infinitely easier than what we endured last winter. They would only have to roll/carry all their belongings the length of the exterior hallway, then down the half-flight of stairs, right into the waiting cargo van.
An overhead sign at the vehicle door leading to their deck says "Maximum Height 6ft 8inches". I checked the Ford and GMC web sites to verify vehicle height. The GMC is listed at 6'-10" and the Econoline is listed at 6'-11 1/2", yet there are at least two full-sized conversion vans owned by residents and parked in the deck! One of them, an Econoline 150 even has a roof rack installed.
Do conversion companies install modified suspensions so their vans can be parked in standard residential garages? Or is the Apartment Management company being extra conservative with their signage?
I know they could rent the van and have one of them act as the spotter while the other creeps up the deck, but if someone definitively knows that conversion vans are a different breed, this knowledge may save then $40 or so.
Thanks,
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