If anyone here has any practical experience with them, please answer. My wife is interested in putting jackknife doors on our RSX. We don't give a flying crap how it looks, but she has an assigned parking space for work, and her two neighbors, of course, drive road-going battleships. The end result is that she has to squeeze out her door and it's a total pain for her to get her briefcase (and god forbid umbrella) out of the car.

Lambo style doors look like they might be a great solution. Sure, the actual door opening gets smaller, but not as small as when you are trying to get out of a compact sandwiched by a Ford Excursion and a Suburban.

Q1: Will the doors help with this sort of problem?
Q2: My wife is pretty small, can she open/close such doors?
Q3: Will the doors still properly seal etc?

Thanks for answers. I've asked before, but the only people who answered offered such helpful tips as "They look like ****."

 

LOL

so YOU'RE that guy that installs them out of "function" rather than form?

 

Haven't done it yet because no one who actually HAS them has ever answered. We'd hate to spend that kind of money only to find out it doesn't make a difference, or makes things even worse.

 

check out http://www.verticaldoors.com

They have a gallery with a RSX that has it done

 

Wouldn't it be easy to ask to change parking spots?

 

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One would think so... but my wife is Japanese in the worst way: She will put up will all sorts of inconveniences before actually confronting someone or asking for something that might possibly inconvenience or offend someone