Garage too small. Anyone park outside? In the snow?

[RocketGhost]

Is the back wall on an exterior, and do you have a soffit? Ask the contractor about bumping the wall out under the soffit and leave the roof as is. You'd need a beam where the existing wall is. The new exterior wall would not be load bearing.

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[Ragman]

Weird, better try some better deicer fluid. I have no issues, there are heat zones on my Lariat, the wires as you describe. Do your xlts not have that?

Wait… you have defrost wires here?

This is our Lariat, the xlts don’t to my knowledge however I’d need to check them. Something from 22 that’s disappeared?

 

[Monkey]

While I park in a warm garage while at home, I park outside when I’m at my mountain property — in Colorado. Parking outside is fine, but you will want to keep it plugged in when it’s below freezing out as that will allow you to precondition and increase your range. If you don’t drive that far on a daily basis, then it’s not as big of a deal, the truck will warm itself and the battery. But cold definitely makes a big impact on battery and range.

 

[rootusrootus]

I do want to park my Lightning in there but first I have to find a place for all the junk.

I totally feel this. I have a five car garage (three wide, two are 50ft long tandems) and we can fit exactly one car in there. Made a hole just big enough to keep the wife's Model 3 inside. One of my winter project plans is to clean out the third spot, which used to be mine, and make it mine again for the Lightning. Lots of dump runs, a garage sale or three, and creative reorganization and it could happen...

 

[DenverDan]

I live in Denver, CO and parked my Lightning on the street for the first year while my garage was getting supersized (35' x 28' with an 8' door and 9' ceilings). It was fine, no issues. Being able to charge on the Ford Pro Charger while it was outside would have been awesome. I don't think you will have a problem.

 

[SamStone]

I'm considering purchasing a Lightning, but my garage is a few inches too small. I could park it on the pad next to the garage and have the charger installed outside, but I live in MN. There will be snow to deal with. I wonder if anyone else has had to do this. Any comments on the experience?

Has anyone found a way to extend the garage that doesn't cost a ton of money? The contractor I talked to said that by the time he extends and blends in new construction, I might as well just tear down the garage and build a new one.

I'm trying to decide if I should wait for a smaller truck to come out, but I could use the Lightning next summer for powering a job site for a cabin build.

I live in Colorado and I park outside every day and night. Boulder, Colorado 5200 feet in elevation. There’s no doubt that truck likes to be plugged in and when it’s real cold, I set the warm-up timer to heat the truck up before I get in it. I think it’s called departure. The truck will actually remind me to plug it in, I don’t think it uses much power, but it will use the line and power to heat up the cabin and what not.

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