is there a hump? how are they going to regrade it? ultimately you have a fixed elevation on one end and a fixed elevation on the other end. Usually city regs require going up intot he driveway and you may be required to have a flat spot for a (future) sidewalk.

Unless there's something wonky - this just may be what it is and there's no resolving...

But yes - I see this kind of driveway nightmare more and more - and those of us who drive lower slung sports (sporty) cars are the victims!

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In any case, best to use a wheelchock.

Contact your local authority having jurisdiction to see if there are published standards.

Did the architectural site drawings indicate the slope for the driveway? Was the driveway built to that slope? Those are the questions I would start with to see who might be at fault.

I don't know how you fix this but I do know that approaching the driveway on the diagonal helps the vehicle clear the slope in many cases.

I hope you don't live in an area with snow and ice that can make your driveway steep and dangerous. Do you have it in writing where he said he would fix it? If you do, keep forwarding that message and asking when it will get done.

Why does that matter? Even if Toll Brothers built her house, that is still her "contractor". Who else is going to fix it, but the person who built it?

Your "contractor" had to pull permits to build (on what may be on his subdivided property).

How did the approved plan address steep driveways? Run off is a big issue (conservation).

Turn to your town/city for help.

Is yours the only drive like that in neighboring homes? Yikes! Hope you can get resolved.

I wish I could understand how this happens and how to put a stop to it.

I'd like to know who the infants and children are. Developers? Home-buyers?

I use to have the same problem. We solved it by buying a different car.

Where we built, driveways can't have more than a 10% grade. Check your local codes. And until then, as mentioned above, approach on an angle.

We actually had this exact problem in our tract home in SoCal 25 years ago,and it got worse over time. Although it was not so steep and long to start with! One of our problems was that the contractor had failed to put rebar in the driveway. If this is a new build, address it now, through the city and codes and you 1 year home warenty. Otherwise, eventually, the solution will be totally on your nickel.

Maybe try something like this, my asphalt-scraping neighbor got one and it solved the problem.

www.bridjit.com

Given the geometry of the driveway and the car, I'm not sure there is any easy solution. You can't change the elevation of the street, and you can't change the distance from the street to the garage, so the only way to have less of an incline with the garage in that location would be to lower the floor of the garage, which would be an incredibly expensive redo. Unfortunately, it would probably be cheaper to trade the car in for something else that rides higher or has a shorter wheelbase.

I should have mentioned that my car is a Hyundai Accord. It's a pretty common compact car.

worthy Thanks for the picture. I'll show it to the contractor I hired to do this job, as well as the paver.

kudzu9 I think if the initial entry from the road was not so immediatly steep it would help. If it went in at a lower angle far enough for the length of the car to get off the road and then went up it might not scrape. It's a problem between the road and the driveway, not the garage.

As someone else suggested check with your local zoning or building department to see if your contractor has constructed your driveway at too steep and angle.

BeverlyFLADeziner I get that the approach can help. I don't want to have to explain to anyone who visits, that they have to come up the driveway at an angle or the bottom of their car might scrape the asphalt. The sound of that happening is terrible. My car is a Hyundai which is a pretty common car. It makes me think that other compact cars could have the same problem.

CeeWhy Thank you. That's a great idea. I'll suggest adding that to the guy that paved the driveway.

Mark Bischak, Architect I more worried about the cars driven by people that visit me. A lot of my friends drive compact cars similar to mine.

You bought a new house and YOU separately hired a " ....contractor I hired to do this job, as well as the paver."

Stax I hired a contracting company to build my new house. He took care of hiring all the subcontractors to do their various jobs. I did meet the paver though. Sorry if I didn't explain it correctly. The house contractor assured me that, even though it was a "tricky" job, the paver he hired could do it right.

I did not catch that . Now the guy who built the driveway is the only guy you can approach .

Pictures are worth a thousand words.

Patricia Colwell Consulting No, I'm still going through the contractor. I just wanted to get other people's opinions and ideas. I did meet the paver and demostrated what was happening when I drove in and out. He said he would fix it but it's not any better. I'm trying to get some ideas on ways to fix it that I can mention to him. I'm sure they don't want to do anything major. maybe I should get a second opinion from another company n how they would have constructeed it.

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Virgil Carter Fine Art Holy God! Is that San Fransisco! it looks like a roller coaster ride!

A lot of internet photos are photoshopped.

Post a few pictures if you can that would help.

3onthetree So true. I'll take some today

We lived in LA for 10 years and some of the driveways on hillside houses were crazy. Luckily no snow or ice to deal with otherwise lots of people would be driving/sliding off the hills every year!

I have seen a few houses with steep driveways that installed electric heating systems so you never have snow or ice build-up, it cost a bit more but you save in the long run.

That said the driveway doesn't have to be steep, I have seen driveway aprons installed wrong and the cars would scrape entering from the roadway onto an apron, especially nowadays with some cars designed to be low to the ground or they attach skit extensions and bumpers lip spoiler kits, etc in some cases you cannot open the door unless they car is far enough from the curb.

It's a thang now on Ytube and TikTk where bystanders video cars going up steep aprons, many low cars have to tripod it (on 3 wheels from the angle).

What happened with this driveway? Was it ever corrected?

Dianne, do you have a picture that you can post of your driveway to get an idea of what you have?

GN Builders L.L.C I'll have to go take a few but I'm at work at the moment. I'll post some later today.

No rush, whenever you have a chance. Thanks!