Our garage gets so crowded, it’s a hassle walking from one end to the other. It’s especially hard when we don’t park our vehicles properly and we have to squeeze our way through. What I’m saying is this: we need to reclaim our garage space. We’ve already thrown away junk, rearranged, and reorganized the garage to help us in this task and it helped for sure. But even then, we still lose space when we don’t park our vehicles right. That’s why this Garage Parking Aid from the Traffic Safety Store is helpful.

Simply put, it’s a block that you put on the garage floor in front of any of your front tires. When parking, inch slowly until you feel the bump, after which you stop and park. Simple, right?

I recommended that you park your car the best configuration that you can first. Once you’re happy with the parking placement, then put the block in front of your tire. From now on, that will be your guide.

This Garage Parking Aid Block from the Traffic Safety Store is about 22 inches long and about 4 inches tall, so unless you’re a failing student driver, there’s no way you should miss the block or drive straight through it. It’s got yellow reflectors (embedded on the rubber, I must add), so at night this will be visible so you can get a general idea of where the block is while driving into the garage.

The block is made from recycled rubber tires, and the rubber helps the block to grip the garage floor and not slide over easily.

I recommend that you just keep an eye on it or mark the area with chalk, so that you’ll know if it’s gone too far from its original placement. That’s why you should drive slowly once parking so you don’t move the block dramatically with each bump. I only have one block, which does a decent job, but I gather 2 blocks for each front tire will even work more optimally. In our experience, the only time the block really ever moved significantly was when our kids picked it up to play in the garage (=

The parking block is not that heavy because it’s got hollow compartments inside. Here’s a photo of the underside to give you an idea:

By the way, the block is angled on the top, so it’s not a rectangular shape with straight 90-degree lines. This is better than square blocks because it will adapt to any tire size, and helps secure the block to the floor on contact as it pushes down on it, rather than mostly forward if it were to be a square/rectangle block.

Wanna checkout and find out more information about this Garage Parking Aid Block? Visit the Traffic Safety Store website today. Did I mention it comes with a 5-Year Warranty?

By the way, they offer a lot of garage safety tips on their website too which makes for a great and useful reading. Enjoy!