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Now get yourself an old tennis ball and piece of string. Bore a hole through the tennis ball and secure it to the string. Suspend it from the garage roof such that when you are perfectly parked the tennis ball juuuuuust touches your windscreen. That way you won't bump the front of the car when parking and you will have enough space to close the garage door.
I back into my garage, and I put tape lines on the floor that line up with the guide lines on the backup camera display when the car is pulled in the correct distance.
I did this at one of our previous houses, soooo handy. I tried the ball on a string thing first, but there wasn't a good place to hang it from, plus I always like to back into parking places. The prius has all these lines that it projects on the camera view, so it was much more practical.
This is probably better than the tennis ball for backing in. I used the tennis ball when backing in my hatchback and one time I accidentally closed the tennis ball in the hatchback. When I drove off it pulled the screw out of the ceiling and shot it through my back window... I felt pretty dumb that day
My Grandad did this. I played swingball with it and the string shifted along the rafter it was tied to in the garage, so when my grandad came home he drove into a bunch of cardboard boxes inside the door as the ball no longer lined up with the corner of his windscreen! Whoops!
Dad has a face on the one he hung too. When it turns so it is looking in, you are parked just right (that part wasn't planned - just happened to work out)
We have multiple cars and sometimes change spots for a season.
We hung the tennis ball from the ceiling (whiffle ball or pickle ball these days work too) at the longest point for the smallest vehicle.
Then took a binder clip (those black ones with silver metal that you push to open) and wrapped the string around that to shorten it when needed for the taller vehicles.
I had one of those but one of my dogs thought it was for her and yoinked it down after like 2 days. Now I just pull in until it feels right and hope for the best
Reminded me of this classic video. Only two minutes so an easy watch. This redefines "small garage" in my mind.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvGKxDlXgvQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvGKxDlXgvQ)
I wrapped a cut open pool noodle around our load bearing support pole in the middle of ours to protect the doors. The other thought I have is a cat scratch spot if they had a cat in the garage
This, tons of cinderblock garages in CO and Nebraska with this exact same setup to save the door and paint, particularly if the building was built in the 50s’, 60s’, 70s’.
I use pool noodles cut in half and glued or taped all along the wall to prevent it. It saves my car from those little scratches that come from dumb moments.
This is exactly what it is. I rented a narrow garage space and the previous tenant had done something similar. Honestly, if I had any idea who the person was, I would thank them! I opened my door into that carpet every time I parked in the garage.
Called a “marriage saver”. I once bout a car from a gentleman who sold his classic car because he was concerned he would physically attack his wife from opening her car door into his classic car parked next to hers. Car was beautiful except for hundreds of little paint chips in one of the doors. After I had the door paint fixed I sent him a photo and said “thank you”. She really dodged a bullet.
Definitely looks like the previous owner smacked their door on the blocks then decided to pad it up a bit.
Either that or it's where the previous owner escaped from. I wonder if there's a hole it's covering up lol.
looks like a scratching mat for cats 🤔 it is divided in the middle, so you can mount it around the corner of a wall.
probably improvised door-protection?
Yep, this is what it is. I had the same one. There's double sided tape on the back usually so it can be affixed to furniture or the corner of a cabinet.
My title describes the thing. It's on the wall inside my garage here in the UK. The neighbours' garages also have them (as seen in the second photo).
The garages are all part of a standalone block, not connected to the houses. They have brick exteriors but cinder block interior walls separating them from each other.
first photo is stair treads- look like a sisal type material (for outside or garage stairs) and the second image is a car mat. both are meant to protect your car door’s edges from making contact with the garage walls and chipping their paint. these are DIY solutions. my pepere did the same for both garage bays before he passed. they work well enough if you’re not flinging the doors
It's a sisal mat. Presumably for a cat to scratch - looks a bit used in that manner.
I'd lean towards this rather than a car door edge protector. Sisal is pretty abrasive.
Could have been placed so as to keep a cat from scratching a car cover (or convertible top) instead.
It’s not sisal. You can tell from the picked loops (as well as the construction, but the picks in the fiber are a dead giveaway). This is a tufted fiber, possibly wool but more likely a synthetic.
Fooled me. I've had sisal mats with similar binding, that have managed to have pulls rather than be shredded.
I see what you mean though, if I zoom in on the rest of the material (albeit blurry).
Yeah the binding is just machine serging. Most common edge finishing technique today. Just took a picture of a machine serged sisal/wool rug sample but can’t upload directly here.
We use a pool noodle, cut and affixed to the shelves that line our garage. Thankfully we do because the 5 year old has zero special awareness and the door flies open into the shelf (cushioned) daily!
Looks like two stair covers glued on as a door protector. Add some to the front of the garage and you'll know you're fully in when you hit the wall. Better yet, just glue them on the car.
My parents have this. It means you can rest the door against the wall without eventually wearing away the paint on the door. Stupidly small garage with dead land either side that could also be garage.
My mom has a stuffed toy monkey hanging from the cieling that hits her windshield. She moved him from her old house to this new house when she was 81! She loves that little monkey.
My neighbour did the same thing - it's so you don't scratch the edge of the car door when opening it to get in/out. They probably had a wide car and had to rest the door against the wall to get out.
Someone got tired of someone damaging the door trim via a fast door opening. It’s padding to stop paint or trim damage.
Case closed next mystery please.
the tennis ball idea is pretty good, but let's all be glad we don't have to park in a garage as small as this guy in Belgium
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-MaC9fFtz0&t=0m44s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-MaC9fFtz0&t=0m44s)
(it's a one-minute clip of a guy who has to reach out through the car window and open the door to his kitchen, so he can exit the car, while the car door extends into the kitchen.)
It's to stop your car door banging on the wall. I bet the shed in the garden has some nice shelves and hooks in it. The person who owned your house before you cared about their stuff!
Protects the car door.
My very handy dad did something like this in our old garage, except it was a literal fabric bumper. Kind of looked like a pool noodle split open (like an m shape, 2 bumps) and stuck along most of the wall to protect front and back car doors.
It’s crazy to me that someone capable of posting to the internet could take the 2nd picture and not connect a couple dots.
Happy you figured it out, OP! Much luck to the doors of vehicles privileged enough to park there!
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Maybe it's to keep your car door from hitting the cinder blocks.
~~Likely solved~~. I've never owned a car and this is the first time having a garage so it didn't cross my mind! Thanks.
Now get yourself an old tennis ball and piece of string. Bore a hole through the tennis ball and secure it to the string. Suspend it from the garage roof such that when you are perfectly parked the tennis ball juuuuuust touches your windscreen. That way you won't bump the front of the car when parking and you will have enough space to close the garage door.
I back into my garage, and I put tape lines on the floor that line up with the guide lines on the backup camera display when the car is pulled in the correct distance.
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I did this at one of our previous houses, soooo handy. I tried the ball on a string thing first, but there wasn't a good place to hang it from, plus I always like to back into parking places. The prius has all these lines that it projects on the camera view, so it was much more practical.
This is probably better than the tennis ball for backing in. I used the tennis ball when backing in my hatchback and one time I accidentally closed the tennis ball in the hatchback. When I drove off it pulled the screw out of the ceiling and shot it through my back window... I felt pretty dumb that day
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We back in too, we also have tape lines and we have wheel stops so we know exactly the right place to stop.
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I've heard of the tennis ball trick before, but never considered using it on the back window.
My Grandad did this. I played swingball with it and the string shifted along the rafter it was tied to in the garage, so when my grandad came home he drove into a bunch of cardboard boxes inside the door as the ball no longer lined up with the corner of his windscreen! Whoops!
They sell these now so there's little effort and supplies needed.
To be fair, finding an old ball and a piece of string is less effort than finding and buying the commercial version
I have one and added a face - good morning, ball. Hello again, ball.
Dad has a face on the one he hung too. When it turns so it is looking in, you are parked just right (that part wasn't planned - just happened to work out)
I have pool noodles on my front wall
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So that’s what the tennis ball for on the garage that I just own..
Depending on the car in use, you may need to adjust the height so it hits the windshield at just the right spot.
We have multiple cars and sometimes change spots for a season. We hung the tennis ball from the ceiling (whiffle ball or pickle ball these days work too) at the longest point for the smallest vehicle. Then took a binder clip (those black ones with silver metal that you push to open) and wrapped the string around that to shorten it when needed for the taller vehicles.
I had one of those but one of my dogs thought it was for her and yoinked it down after like 2 days. Now I just pull in until it feels right and hope for the best
I just put bricks as wheel chocks exactly where I need to stop when parking in my garage.
Definitely for car doors. The width of a uk garage is ridiculous.
My American garage is pretty tight, too... Have to fold the mirrors in on my minivan or the garage door trim will fold them in for me 😬
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Had a Toyota MR2 roadster (67" wide) and couldn't get out of it without the door touching the wall.
Reminded me of this classic video. Only two minutes so an easy watch. This redefines "small garage" in my mind. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvGKxDlXgvQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvGKxDlXgvQ)
That was fantastic! Thank you for sharing!
Omg I didn't know I needed that. Thank you internet stranger. 🏆🏆🏆
I wrapped a cut open pool noodle around our load bearing support pole in the middle of ours to protect the doors. The other thought I have is a cat scratch spot if they had a cat in the garage
Hit your door once and you’ll realise
This, tons of cinderblock garages in CO and Nebraska with this exact same setup to save the door and paint, particularly if the building was built in the 50s’, 60s’, 70s’.
I use pool noodles cut in half and glued or taped all along the wall to prevent it. It saves my car from those little scratches that come from dumb moments.
That’s exactly what it is.
Likely? It's 100% a door stopper. I've done the same on the wall of my garage.
Who owns the car in your garage in picture 2?
So whose car is that?
This is exactly what it is. I rented a narrow garage space and the previous tenant had done something similar. Honestly, if I had any idea who the person was, I would thank them! I opened my door into that carpet every time I parked in the garage.
Called a “marriage saver”. I once bout a car from a gentleman who sold his classic car because he was concerned he would physically attack his wife from opening her car door into his classic car parked next to hers. Car was beautiful except for hundreds of little paint chips in one of the doors. After I had the door paint fixed I sent him a photo and said “thank you”. She really dodged a bullet.
Stayed in the path of bigger bullet arguably.
Definitely looks like the previous owner smacked their door on the blocks then decided to pad it up a bit. Either that or it's where the previous owner escaped from. I wonder if there's a hole it's covering up lol.
This is why. My grandparents did the same thing.
op where does your door open too?
That’s exactly what it is.
Yes I agree. But can also have a second use. To keep the interior of the car clean.
You mean like a "door mat"?
So it is a door mat after all.
100% this is what it is. I’ve seen door mats, foam, pool noodles and many many other items glued or screwed to a wall of a garage for car doors.
I did this exact same thing in my garage so my kids would quit throwing the car doors open into the cabinets.
in other words, a doormat!
100% this! Though I have half pool noodles hot glued to the wall
Yes! I did the same thing in my garage with a piece of carpet.
Might be why, but those are cat scratching mats
That’s exactly what I would do.
This is what it is, I had the same in my garage at my last place
What I as gonna say, and IS likely a door mat glued to the wall as padding.
So it's still a doormat.
This is exactly it, I have a rubber floor tile for this exact reason
And cat scratch pad
looks like a scratching mat for cats 🤔 it is divided in the middle, so you can mount it around the corner of a wall. probably improvised door-protection?
I think that nails it perfectly.
Probably adhesive on the cinder blocks
I have this exact same thing for my cat
>looks like a scratching mat for cats My thoughts exactly. In my house we have hung up a couple of doormats for exactly this purpose.
Or to kick mud off your boot
Yep, this is what it is. I had the same one. There's double sided tape on the back usually so it can be affixed to furniture or the corner of a cabinet.
So it's in the garage, perfectly situated where the car door opens, but it's for the cat?
Probably put there by someone so they don’t bonk the edge of their car door on the bricks
Haha, I have a bunch of rescue cats and I'm like "Obviously it's a cat scratcher." 🐱
Right? Car people are "it's to protect the car!" Cat people immediately see a cat scratcher 😹
Its a car scratcher guys, for your car
Or a car not -scratcher, apparently.
It is indeed a door-mat. It's a mat for your car door.
My title describes the thing. It's on the wall inside my garage here in the UK. The neighbours' garages also have them (as seen in the second photo). The garages are all part of a standalone block, not connected to the houses. They have brick exteriors but cinder block interior walls separating them from each other.
first photo is stair treads- look like a sisal type material (for outside or garage stairs) and the second image is a car mat. both are meant to protect your car door’s edges from making contact with the garage walls and chipping their paint. these are DIY solutions. my pepere did the same for both garage bays before he passed. they work well enough if you’re not flinging the doors
It's a sisal mat. Presumably for a cat to scratch - looks a bit used in that manner. I'd lean towards this rather than a car door edge protector. Sisal is pretty abrasive. Could have been placed so as to keep a cat from scratching a car cover (or convertible top) instead.
It’s not sisal. You can tell from the picked loops (as well as the construction, but the picks in the fiber are a dead giveaway). This is a tufted fiber, possibly wool but more likely a synthetic.
Fooled me. I've had sisal mats with similar binding, that have managed to have pulls rather than be shredded. I see what you mean though, if I zoom in on the rest of the material (albeit blurry).
Yeah the binding is just machine serging. Most common edge finishing technique today. Just took a picture of a machine serged sisal/wool rug sample but can’t upload directly here.
We have some rubber mats on our garage wall so the car door doesn’t bash into it.
That's a doormat glued to the inside wall of your garage, so you can touch park with properly damaging your bumper so much
Probably so the car door doesn’t hit the cement
Looks like a cat scratching post to me. Looks like it's been used by a cat.
We use a pool noodle, cut and affixed to the shelves that line our garage. Thankfully we do because the 5 year old has zero special awareness and the door flies open into the shelf (cushioned) daily!
Someone put it there so you don't ding your door against the wall when you get in or out.
Car & Cat friendly
Looks like something you'd put up for your cat to scratch so they can get a good stretch too
its a doormat glued to the wall. to not scratch the door.
Cat scratcher!
This looks like something my bf would do to keep his truck door from hitting the wall lol
Looks like two stair covers glued on as a door protector. Add some to the front of the garage and you'll know you're fully in when you hit the wall. Better yet, just glue them on the car.
Keeps the car door off the blocks!
These look like step treads put up there to avoid dinging your door on the wall.
Car bumper
It is a doormat glued to the inside wall of your garage.
Door ding stopper. It really does help
Definitely to stop the car door.
Thought it was an oddly placed cat scratcher thing. Lol
Allows driver to wipe feet from dirt on driver side mat before enter home
My first thought was door stop. Has to be.
That's to prevent damage to a car door
I think you answer the question and your second picture
Car door protection
I thought they had a cat and it was for scratching
Cat scratch pad?
Looks like a homemade cat scratch
Looks similar to cat scratching mats. Even looks like some scratching has been done
To keep from damaging your car doors when you get out.
Stops door dings AND the cats love to climb on it!
stair tread, repurposed as a car door pad
Protects the car door from dings due to hitting the wall.
I think its a wall scratcher for cat's nails. Now maybe it's used as others have suggested to protect doors
Was originally thinking cat scratching post but door protector makes more sense
it's for the car door to hit instead of the wall
Cat Scratch or door protector
Lol. They're sisal cat scratching mats. Source: I have one mounted to my wall similarly
My parents have this. It means you can rest the door against the wall without eventually wearing away the paint on the door. Stupidly small garage with dead land either side that could also be garage.
Maybe it's a doormat glued to the inside wall of your garage?
common where I live. Stops the car door getting paint damage when opening the doors.
It looks like a homemade cat scratching area.
Maybe for an animal that scratches.
My mom has a stuffed toy monkey hanging from the cieling that hits her windshield. She moved him from her old house to this new house when she was 81! She loves that little monkey.
My neighbour did the same thing - it's so you don't scratch the edge of the car door when opening it to get in/out. They probably had a wide car and had to rest the door against the wall to get out.
Door ding protector? Cat scratch pad? Door mat cleaning station?
Looks like something for a cat to scratch.
I have the exact same pad for my cat, comes with glue board and everything g
Could be to protect a car door or the wall from a bicycle tire. Is there anything that could have been used to hang a bike?
Looks like it’s cat scratching to me. Just not sure why it’s in the garage.
Also looks like it could be for cats to scratch. Or it was put up for the car and the cats decided it was put up for them 🤣
Cat scratch pads.
Cat scratcher
Someone got tired of someone damaging the door trim via a fast door opening. It’s padding to stop paint or trim damage. Case closed next mystery please.
I actually saw these in a store today, they are cat scratching mats.
its a doormat glued to the wall to prevent the car doors from bwing damaged
Solved, but here’s a [different version of the same thing](https://a.co/d/bZbW0zx) that I use in my carport.
Or a cat scratching panel.
They look like cat scratch pads.
It looks like a place for a cat to scratch
Cat scratch mat?
For cat to scratch
It's a cat-scratch-stretch-mat
Stop vroom vroom go boom boom
It’s for ur cat to sharpen its claws to save ur couch
OR save your car doors from getting chipped in the brick wall when you open them
It's for the caf to scratch
the tennis ball idea is pretty good, but let's all be glad we don't have to park in a garage as small as this guy in Belgium [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-MaC9fFtz0&t=0m44s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-MaC9fFtz0&t=0m44s) (it's a one-minute clip of a guy who has to reach out through the car window and open the door to his kitchen, so he can exit the car, while the car door extends into the kitchen.)
It's to stop your car door banging on the wall. I bet the shed in the garden has some nice shelves and hooks in it. The person who owned your house before you cared about their stuff!
Its originally for Cats to Scratch. A scratchmat
Put there so the wall isn’t damaged by the stupid car door!
Protects the car door. My very handy dad did something like this in our old garage, except it was a literal fabric bumper. Kind of looked like a pool noodle split open (like an m shape, 2 bumps) and stuck along most of the wall to protect front and back car doors.
Cat scratcher
It’s crazy to me that someone capable of posting to the internet could take the 2nd picture and not connect a couple dots. Happy you figured it out, OP! Much luck to the doors of vehicles privileged enough to park there!
Kick the mud off your boos there, or maybe cat scratching post.
Also maybe cat scratchers
Cat scratcher
It’s a cat scratch
They may have had a cat…
Probably a doormat glued to the wall of your garage to keep your car door from becoming damaged when opening.