Anyone have a car turning circle?

[nickiredcar]

Live in an outer London borough with a tiny drive (but thankful I've got it).

Loads have been getting them installed this year. They look good but seems like something else to go wrong and worry the novelty will ware off.

Anyone got one and been using it for a while? The people I half know on my street say how good it is, but they may just be trying to justify how much they've spent on it..

What is that?

I think in certain circumstances they are marvellous but you have to offset ease of turning the car round versus losing potential parking space to allow for the pivot space.
My friend sold her house last year which had reasonable amount of parking (compared to most houses in area) but it was a weird shape, difficult to turn in and the access was really hard to reverse through, either in or out.
People who bought her house installed a turning circle and I don't blame them!

Williow it’s a circular platform that turns your car for you.

Reminds me of that scene with Mitch and Cam in modern family

My neighbours do but they never use it.

Why not just reverse onto your drive and save yourself the cost?

They are useful if your drive leads on to a very busy road There.

It can be hard reversing in off a busy road too, because no bugger will stop and wait while you do it. Also have to watch out for cyclists, pedestrians etc.

Sounds like a great idea for the right circumstances but I bet they're expensive.

They're also a good anti-car-theft device. Park on it, then turn it 45 degrees so that the car is sideways - V hard to nick a car from an off-street parking space when it's parked that way!!!

We rented a house with one for 6 months, it was fab. Until the day it got stuck with our car half way round and it took about 3 days to fix. We had to do a million and one point turn to get the car off the thing so the workmen could get underneath it in the first place.
It only broke down once though in the 6 months and we used it most days. No idea how much it cost or anything because we were only renting.

I’ve only ever seen one once, on a massive house down in cornwall where the driveway was huge. We wondered why they’d bothered since you could have driven about 15 cars at the same time across the front of the house and turned round in them all at once!