Harbor freight portable garage

[GMFORLIFE]

The locals always complain about the vehicles in my driveway.
It's full!
6 cars.
Just bought 2 more!
Need some kind of portable structure to hide a few vehicles behind my house.
Any options besides harbor freight?

 

[Crispy]

I hate people that get involved with things that dont concern them. The townsfolk have given a few of my neighbors a hard time about cars to the point where one put up a privacy fence around his property. I have 5 cars currently (one being parted out) and havent heard a peep, hopefully it stays that way.

The HF garage is probably gonna be your cheapest option. When I looked into it, the reviews seemed more good than bad. My suggestions is to anchor it well and clean off any snow whenever possible.

 

[Swims350]

I would not put anything of value under one of those tarp style carports. I had one and it cost me a new backwindow in the wife's car which wasn't even under it. they will not hold up in wind, or other storm/weather.

Trust me everyone says oh I'll tie it down good, well let me break down how mine was...

I had the screw in stakes at each corner, I had concrete blocks on each leg base, I had a 4 foot long rebar mine roof bolt drove into the ground with a 16 lb. sledge hammer at opposing angles at each corner with a good 1/2 thick rope tied around the corner and down to that rebar.

THEN I had the front, back and sides ratchet strapped to my truck, it still blew down in a bad thundersotmr and wiped a poll out and around smashing the back glass in the wife's 00 monte carlo, cost me $300 to get that fixed.

My mom's boyfriend had one, had fence posts that had about 50-80 lbs or quickrete on each, tied to each leg of his, blew over no problems and alot of times more then mine.

Now with that said if it's behind your house and it's like right up next to it depending on how much wind you get and the direction, it may be ok with some good extra support to hold it down and the house serving as a wind break on it.

 

[GMFORLIFE]

Someone needs to market..sleeping bags for cars!
Drive them in and zip them up!

 

[Frankenchevy]

I use the 10’x20’ car ports from Costco. They’re only about $220. Never had one blow away. The sun will kill the cover in 5-7 years. I keep the sides zipped down when I’m not in it to avoid wind lift. I use camping stakes at the posts. When the cover of my first one died, I beefed up the frame and skinned it in used corrugated steel. I keep my firewood under that one. We get big storms here (~5” of rain in the past couple days) but not much in the way of snow load.

 

[84 C20]

Someone needs to market..sleeping bags for cars!
Drive them in and zip them up!

They've got something like that. It's a re-closable bag with a little fan to keep it inflated.

https://www.carid.com/car-capsule/i...MIo6rPyoPH2gIVEKlpCh3GFAD_EAQYBCABEgKTjPD_BwE


I don't have anything that warrants that kind of protection though...

 

[trukman1]

Well, after reading this post I think I'll forgo the "portable garage" route.