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• Amazon Sales Rank: #175078 in Home Improvement

Customer Reviews

Wished I would have bought the other one
I didn't think the manufacturer made a difference. I thought all parking guides were the same. I bought this one because was less expensive than the other ones I was looking at. I'm pretty sure I would have been happier with a more flexible model.

This Racor unit is HARD, inflexible plastic. This means it SLIDES across your garage floor. My Mother In Law has a flexible, bright yellow parking guide and it doesn't move. She doesn't have to tape hers to the floor. She donesn't have to learn fancy parking maneuvers to avoid it from slipping. Hers "just works". Mine does not "just work".

Rather than return it, I'm going to try gluing a flexible rubbery surface to the bottom of this unit. Like some old rubbery mouse pads. Something to give this device some badly-needed friction.

If I had to do it again, I'd make sure that the parking guide I was buying said that it was flexible and "grippy" to floor surfaces.

Works...but technique is required.
I have one of these and also have experienced the same forward movement of this parking "block". But there is a simple and very effective solution (that does not involve duct taping the "block" to the floor). As you climb over (slowly) and reach the top of the first hump, shift the transmission into neutral and (with the brakes lightly applied) allow the wheel/tire to gently roll down the first hump. Then, release the brakes and let your car rock back-and-forth into place. Your "block" will never again move outside of your chalk line template. Try it and post a comment if that works for you. Good luck.

slippery & ineffective
I first saw the Prostar parking guide in one of those infamous in-flight catalogs. I thought to myself - what a great idea! I look at this catalog with all sorts of nonsense, and finally here's something worthwhile to purchase! Eventually bought it elsewhere (go figure). I have a tight garage space: 203 inches for a car that is 192" long . That just about means parking is a surgical procedure. And if you're tired after a long day+drive, fuggeboutit. My front license plate & fender have the scars to prove it.
So I lay down the Prostar, and it works great the first few times. before the end of the week, my heart skips a beat when I hear the all too familiar thud, get out and see the fron fender expressing its love to the concrete wall. What could have happened? So I pull the car back all teary-eyed (me, not the car) and draw chalk lines for the Prostar. Two days later i notice the Prostar has slid forward about 3 inches. Ah-ah, gotcha. So now the Prostar is graced with more or less an entire roll of duct tape. All of this is still no match for a V8 beast trying to get to its long lost love - the wall - again. It's a battle royale.
And Prostar is on the losing side. I'm back to the tennis ball hanging from the garage ceiling. Except this technique is no match for the kid that decides to use it as a kick-boxing challenge. The beemer loses again.