paigoomein

When I park the vehicle (garage door still open) and open the liftgate (manually), it still hits the garage door above. I took some pool noodles, cut them in half, taped on some magnets (grabbed the neodymium ones from Amazon.com), and then slipped the pool noodle into an old sock (to put a layer of soft fabric around it). This allows me to place them on the metal panel of the garage door and it softens the impact when I open the power liftgate. Thought I would share in case anyone else might be interested.

2012wagon

I did the exact same thing, as my TSX wagon hits the garage door.

I didn't use a sock though. Where is the sock in the pic?

paigoomein

I didn't take a picture with the sock over it--they were ones with holes destined to be used as rags or what not. I would suggest using thin fabric as the strength of the magnet reduces with additional layers/thickness between the magnet and the surface it sticks to.

tman

Sometimes you can adjust your garage door to open up a little higher, if you use an electric garage door opener. That is what I did.

paigoomein

That's a good suggestion, but unfortunately wasn't an option for me. I have the multi-panel garage door which rolls up on wheels/rails. It was put into an older home which was not built for the larger/taller vehicles produced today.

2012wagon

I have the same thing. However, my dumb butt could have told the installer (4 months ago) to install the garage door rails higher...

Edward'TLS

^^^^^

You can always back the MDX rear-end first into the garage, then the tail gate will have lots of clearance.

VinceCL

So I take it that the opening height of the tailgate cannot be set lower so that it won't collide with the garage doors? If so that would be a strange omission on Acura's part.

2012wagon

When I go to Costco (like yesterday), I just back in the garage, as you suggested