I'm impressed with the self-install Dubber, my experience with garage doors has always been the service companies making it seem like rocket science and that if you don't do it right your whole house might fall down. Our current opener is quite long in the tooth and if it's not opened for a couple of days, the door starts with a quick spring, then seems to hesitate while the slack in the flexible track bounces up and down, before settling into it's path. Thinking that it's time for a service or upgrade, and having extremely limited space in my small 2-car, I like the idea of one of these side lifts. I see Costco.ca has them for $460, about $100 less than everywhere else. Where did you source yours? And is the install fairly straight forward?
Back to the car search, it seems we may have found a car in between Mpower's '07 E91 and your Sportwagen. We've found a white 2011 Golf Wagon 2.5L in pristine condition, with only 88,000 km on it, which for me is barely broken in. It was traded into a BMW dealership for a larger Genesis sedan by an older couple, shows like new and is only $8900. We've got a 48 hour hold on the car but based on it's condition and the lack of wagons on the market, I think this may be my wife's new daily. I have to admit, I'm hoping to have the white paint sparkle like yours!
Been waiting for this day since getting possession of our new home. Thanks to a good friend for helping this actually happen through sourcing the actual unit, helping with install, arranging for gas guy and roofers for venting. Certainly enjoyed this process and learned a lot throughout. Happy to have had a hand on anything that was actually done to the garage throughout this process.
Appreciate you continuing to keep tabs on my progress.
hahaha. Yea its certainly been a period which has included lots of garage bling combined with lots of work!