Removing a garage door?

[jmsheahan]

Happy New Year all!

This is probably a very daft question, but I'm hoping you lovely knowledgeable lot will be able to advise!

There's a chance I may need to shuffle my Van and GTI around. I'm hoping that the Golf can go and live elsewhere for a while, and the van can squeeze into the garage.

It's a tight fit heightwise but I think I may be able to get it in if the up-and-over door wasn't in the way...theory goes if I remove the door panel, roll the van in, and then attach the panel again.

Is it simply a case of unbolting the panel brackets and removing the door, or do I need to release springs and the mechanism etc too? It looks like I can take just the panel off, leaving the brackets hanging, but paranoid about taking a limb off or damaging a car

It's a boggo standard Garador if that makes any difference.











Thanks in advance and some retro goodness as payment for a dull thread!

[kevins]

You usually have to in some way lock the spring there is usually a hole somewhere to put a pin through.

[dodgerover]

Find someway to secure the spring! they are under a massive amount of tension and will try and cause injury given a chance!! Any chance you could put a few bags of sand/ cement/ concrete in the van and let the tyres down to get it in instead? Those doors are very heavy.

[jmsheahan]

Thanks guys, yeah that was what I was worried about and glad I've asked - the last thing I want to do is damage myself or a car.

Sadly, even though the van is lowered I don't think I'll get away with sandbags/low tyres, it's pretty tight!

I best do a bit more digging on how to remove the tension on a Garador.

[kevins]

If you've got access to a set of steel rims (Or scrap Alloys) you can just move it around (very carefully!) on those with no tyres.

[LowStandards]

I used to take the door off to get my campervan in the garage over winter


The spring assembely was part of the frame, so it all came off with it.


Springs are under a lot of tension, but they are wrapped around a steel bar so will do zero damage to you if it actually did come un-tensioned.

[jmsheahan]

Thanks all, appreciate the help