On 18/03/2020 20:43, NY wrote:
Really? So you are forced to have two doors which are too narrow to
accommodate many modern cars safely, when a single door with no central
pillar would allow both cars to enter with ease? A triumph of aesthetics
over usefulness. That's a real bummer. We were planning to get the two
chocolate-teapot doors replaced with one big one that was actually useful.

Say the doors are 5ft6, the car is 5ft, and the central pillar is 2ft.

You can get your car in the left hand garage, and you've got 2ft6 gap
before the car door hits the other car. That'll work. Just. Hope you've
got a gap at the right of the garage for the other car.

Make it one big door, removing the central pillar, and you have a much
larger gap of ... oh. 2ft6 to the other car. Maybe a little less because
you don't put it through the door as carefully.

Andy