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Do you have roof bars? If so, put some 25mm pipe lagging on them with cable ties. www.screwfix.com/p/pipe-insulation-15-x-25mm-1m/69...1
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Speak to lidl and tell them you'll have to shop elsewhere as you can't get into the car park!
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I just posted this link in another thread
www.automobiledimension.com/car-search-engine.php
Apparently there are 21 private passenger vehicles now barred by LIDL, as expected mostly 4x4s.
Edited by misar on 05/04/2015 at 13:10
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Current versions of Berlingo and Pug Partner would be barred too.
Needs pointing out to Lidl managment.
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Current versions of Berlingo and Pug Partner would be barred too.
Needs pointing out to Lidl managment.
It's not only a Lidl problem. My father has a Partner Tepee, and can only use the local amenity waste site for a couple of hours each week, because the bar is low to stop commercial vehicles using it most of the time, and for a couple of hours per week they lift it. Understandable there, but irritating none the less . apart from anything else it means it's really busy at those times.
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My father has a Partner Tepee, and can only use the local amenity waste site for a couple of hours each week, because the bar is low to stop commercial vehicles using it most of the time, and for a couple of hours per week they lift it. Understandable there, but irritating none the less . apart from anything else it means it's really busy at those times.
I know a woman who wrote her car off with a height restrictor at the council waste site, she put a large wooden beam in her car through the sunroof and wasn't paying attention as she drove in.
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Apparently there are 21 private passenger vehicles now barred by LIDL, as expected mostly 4x4s.
And those are just cars available new. My (used) car isn't on the list.
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I am also outraged!
Surely if you can afford to run/tax an old Pajero, you don't need to shop at Lidl!
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If you shop at Morrisons instead and get one of their match and more cards, it automatically compares Aldi Lidl Sains Tesco and Asda prices and if you could have got your shop cheaper the system credits your card with points, which you get back in the form of £5 shopping vouchers when you reach them (also around a penny a litre bonus on fuel purchases)...no height barriers.
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If you shop at Morrisons instead and get one of their match and more cards, it automatically compares Aldi Lidl
Only on over-branded, over-advertised Unilever, Nestle, Arla, Heinz-Kraft crap. LIDL and ALDI don't sell this *much* they sell own brand stuff that is often on a par with M&S stuff and where not (eg eggs) we go to M&S.
Edited by Hamsafar on 05/04/2015 at 21:41
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If Lidl raised the bar to let the 4x4s in then, once they are all in, lowered it again, the school run the following morning would be much quieter.
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1.8 metres does seem rather low. I'd be concerned about someone walking under that actually striking their head. Might be worth mentioning it to someone in the store ? It's less than 5'11", so plenty of 6 footers to hit it, so it becomes a H&S issue for the store.
If you do mention it to the store, ask the person for the company H&S email too, so that you can send it to them. It suddenly becomes something which they are officially aware of, and if someone was injured then their insurance would be a lot less likely to cover them.
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No it doesn't, it's simply a height warning plenty of premises have them to warn people in or out of vehicles. Lidl setting the bar low? Surely no surprise there anyway and if the quality of the own branded produce is on a par with M&S the shopping experience definitely isn't.
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Never mind vehicle height restrictions, the real problem with Lidl is now they take credit cards the shop is always packed to the rafters.
I only go there for a handful of bits which are much cheaper than other shops, so I don't want to queue for ages. Back when they only took money it was quiet, you could move about, almost civilised. Now it's like a stampede all hours of day, the car park overflowing and queues longer than the Thames.
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It is meant to keep out those "of an alternative lifestyle" who tend to drive unlicensed transit vans and similar. When it does this it reduces shoplifting rates. I for one cannot believe that a shop would discriminate in this way, or could I.
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I agree ORB, with it being Horley I would say your 100% right in your thinking.
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They could be on the borders of discrimination here as well - aren't the likes of Teepees etc used by custom manufacturers/modifiers to allow easy wheelchair loading etc.
By nature these vehicles need to be taller than average and lidl are blocking those as well.
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I was amused by Mr Slagheap's observation that if I can afford to tax and run an old Pajero I don't need to shop at Lidl. In fact the old Pajero costs just over £200 a year to tax - and apart from the odd booze buying raid on Calais or other foreign jaunt it earns its keep carrying building materials, carting rubbish to the tip - and the odd other local trip. It is true that it is a bit heavy on diesel - but depreciation is zilch and the thing never goes wrong, and doesn't cover a lot of miles every year. It is remarkably economical - especially if we are carrying six or seven people when my relatives turn up from America. It can be run more cheaply in the summer when I buy 20 litre boxes of cooking oil that I heave up with great effort and pour into the tank. But in any case, the main reason for shopping at Lidl is both that it is rather quirky and also that I am an appalling cheapskate - if I weren't, I suppose I might have traded up to a newer Pajero ...
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