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Originally Posted by macman83
Some people, especially drag racers, will add a hinged extension to the door, and put riser blocks under it to decrease the angle of ramp. This might be an idea for you as well.
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Howdy macman83,
Over the last month I have been burning up the net looking for ways to solve the steep ramp angle problem, using a hinged extension as you suggested is one way of doing it. The problem is that after you use the extension, how do you store and transport it?
My toy hauler has the double bunk / double couch-table setup in the rear of the garage, this would get in the way of having a permanent fold-able extension attached to the ramp. The same goes for any other ramp setup. I already have 12 foot ramps that fold in half that I use to load motorcycles onto the rear deck of the truck.
This is how I stored the ramps on the deck of the truck when I carried the Ural and a Rokon, on one of my long trips when I used the truck as a stand alone motor home. The old Weekend Warrior, toy hauler can be seen in the back ground.
These ramps could be placed with one end on the ground and the other end half way up the toy hauler ramp which should provide a slope the Smart Car could climb without hitting but that would have to be tried to see if it would work.
These ramps could be stored on the rear deck of the truck but getting the ramps off the deck, setting them up and then storing them again wouldn't be any less work then just unhooking and raising the front of the trailer. I didn't realize how much higher the new trailer was built until I first loaded bikes into the garage, on the old Weekend Warrior, the garage floor was almost a foot lower but it had wheel wells that took up a lot of garage floor space, I like the new trailers flat garage floor but I do miss the lower ramp angle of the old style toy haulers.
Dave