To ask my neighbours to park in front of their driveway?

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I moved to my property 6 months ago. It turns out that my car is too low to get on my driveway so I had to park it outside on the road.

This seemed to be working fine. The people who lived here before me had two vehicles, neither of which could go on the driveway, so at first there was an 'extra' space available. This meant that 4 cars would fit on the road between mine and my neighbour to my right.

My neighbour to my right has the same problem of not being able to get their car on their driveway and were therefore parking across the entrance to their driveway.

The neighbours across the road have 4 vehicles. They were parking 2 on their driveway and 2 outside my property. So in line it would be my car, 2 cars from neighbours across the road and car belonging to neighbour to my right. (I hope you're keeping up )

A couple of months ago my neighbour to my right stopped parking across their driveway meaning that the 4 spaces reduced to 3 and a half. To compensate for this I started parking my car halfway across the entrance to my driveway so we were back to 4 spaces.

Now my neighbour to my right is parking further away from the entrance to their driveway so we're back to 3 and a half spaces!

I'm reluctant to park fully over my driveway because it would make visibility difficult for my neighbour to my left when reversing off his driveway as it's directly next to mine (have I lost you yet? )

So do you think I should go and ask my neighbour to my right to start parking nearer to/across the entrance of their driveway like they did when I first moved here?

If you've made it this far without going falling asleep

I've tried frontways, backways, sideways

Sorry to hear it, I take it your car isn't one that could be easily raised?

Not sure to be honest Gronky. It's a BMW 120.

I really don't mind parking across my drive. I just don't understand why my neighbours to my right have stopped parking across theirs!

Agree with a previous post. Only guessing but I reckon your next door neighbour to your right has probably started doing this to passive aggressively try and get the cars from across the road to stop parking there and it’s nothing to do with you. You said they have 4 cars. Some people can get really bothered by stuff like this?!
Think if this is the case they would be receptive to a chat on how it is affecting you.

I had this problem with my bmw 5 series, steep drive which scraped the bottom of the car.
Got so fed up I changed my car and also raised my drive.

Understand where you're coming from with the steepness of your drive and not being able to get on it. There is a multi story car park near us with steep ramps, we used to have a Chrysler Voyager which scraped along the floor at the angles onto and off the ramps at much more than 2 mph. We had to crawl along and just made it, any more of an angle and we couldn't use the car park.

Don't know what to do about your neighbours, ask nicely?

It's a BMW 120

That's a lovely car, it would be a shame to ruin the handling by raising it.

I think 2k is worth it to have a usable drive.

Frankly, you’re BU for not providing a diagram.

I get you, have your neighbours said why they have started doing this? Getting work done or anything? At the end of the day if you all pay road tax there isnt much you can do. My street is a nightmare for people parking like total arseholes but nothing we can do.

Get a new car and park on your drive. Then let the neighbours sort things out between themselves.

No harm in asking them politely. I had a similar situation with the house opposite me. Thier visitors would park in the middle of the large space outside my house, meaning I couldn't fit my car next to it without making it awkward for another neighbour to get in and out of their driveway. They were happy to start parking a bit further forward once asked.

I had a similar problem with a low slung car, reversing off the drive a bit quickly would almost remove the front end. I started reversing onto the drive and found it worked well.

Just a quick question, but my friend has similar and can reverse (but not drive) on to her driveway, have you tried reversing on to see if it scrapes?

Unfortunately reversing on doesn't help, it still scrapes the underneath.

It's not unreasonable of you to ask if they wouldn't mind doing that but they don't have to say yes (although tbf they'd be arseholes not to)