jimh425 wrote:
Jeff, what makes you so sure that people who don't have a DRW have never driven one?
Yes, you are more likely to get door dings. It's not your door opening that you have to worry about. A SRW can cheat against one line in a corner parking space to gain effective space on the other side. The DRW can't go over as far because the wheel/fender sticks out.
I'm happy for those of you that can't tell a difference in the spaces for where you park. That's not the case for many of us. I don't drive my truck to work now because I can only park it in a very few spaces. I can literally be blocked in by people being legally parked. The spaces are barely wide enough for a SRW if you want to stay inside the lines. Like it or not, a DRW track is wider. I would have bought a SC SB GM if I knew I was going to work where I work now, no, it would not be a DRW LB CC. :) I would have had to bail on the Ford. I bought the Ford because it was the most capable diesel that would fit where I had to park at work.
As far as length is concerned, Ford's are longer than Chevys from cab forward, and crew cabs are longer than a super cab. You don't have to like it, but that's the truth just like if the turning radius barely works for a short wb supercab, a DRW CC is going to be a major pain in the neck. Most DRWs seem to be CC. Some people have SRW CCs. Those would be the same length, but for the most part a SC isn't even an option for some DRWs.
Just because you don't have to deal with it doesn't mean it's not true.
From real experience it is much easier to back a crew cab truck into a space vs. pulling in. 9 times out of ten the cars around you have pulled in front first. In this scenario the doors of the cars around you do not line up with the hips of the dually. There is no door ding issue.
I agree that mathematically there is a point where a dually will be too wide to squeeze into or through a given area. With the exception of drive thru's and gated parking lots yo do not find these tight areas very often.
If you do its usually a simple matter of parking a bit farther away. A crew cab dually is no harder to park in real word situations than any truck its same length. I have encountered spots I cannot fit into however I have yet to come upon a scenario where I thought if only I had a SRW I could fit.
Those of us that drive a dually in the real world know duallys can be driven on a daily basis without any real heartache. Those of us that drive dually's on paper can contrive all kinds of problematic scenarios that you simply don't encounter in the real world
