Is it practical to unload groceries from the back hatch when parked in the garage?
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Depends on your garage, but the opening height of the hatch is adjustable. I left mine on full height open as I have the necessary clearance.

 

Do it all the time. Back the car in, close the garage door and open the hatch. Have always done this with every car we had when the garage has an interior entry.

 

Just make sure that your back door does not hit the top on your garage door, it might be veeeery close, I think they are all standard, I set mine height manually just to be safe and so I do not have to worry if the hatch going to hit the garage door.

 

Make sure you have enough room in back of the car so it can open without hitting /interfering with the garage door curve part about 2 - 2 1/2 feet behind the car to garage door. Full open height is typically not an issue. Trying to adjust to partial height is not a good solution IMHO.

YMMV,
MidCow3

 

[QUOTE=midcow3;11796003] Trying to adjust to partial height is not a good solution IMHO3/QUOTE]

Curious why, have you found the opening height control settings unreliable?

 

[QUOTE=Droid13;11796023]Because it is easy to whack you head if you don't use full height. It was easier to clear another foot ahead of the NX.

YMMV,
MidCow3

 

The Backup Camera view includes a single red line in all guideline settings.
This denotes roughly 3 feet clearance behind the bumper which is enough to
allow the hatch (rear door in Lexus-speak) to open.

 

If your car is equipped with two buttons on the rear hatch the one on the right will close the hatch and then lock the car doors. If you want to carry two arms full of groceries then stand at the rear, push the button on the right and then you will hear beeps, indicating that you have appx. 30 seconds (plenty of time) to pick up your bags and then simply walk away and the hatch will then close and lock all the doors.

 

I have these same worries in my garage-- that some day I'll accidentally close the garage door while the hatch is open. From a geometry standpoint, it seems to me like a lower hatch setting would actually have it sticking out even further. increasing the risk of a collission. I'd feel better if i had some sort of proximity sensor on my garage door that'd prevent it from trying to close.

 

I guess it would depend on exactly where you park in relation to the door. Unless you have a nice deep garage an open hatch is going to be munch time regardless of its position. In terms of geometry (just for the fun of a thought experiment), I think a partially open hatch will be safer because the garage door will simply push down as the hatch has already arc'd outward in its travel. You'll get scratches, but maybe that's it. With a fully open hatch if the garage door makes contact the hatch will want to arc outwards while the garage is pushing straight down and something will bind up and cause even more damage. My wife closed the garage door on our Sienna many years ago. It got bound up and crunched the hatch pretty good before the resistance made the garage door safety made it back up again. Wasn't a pretty sight.

 

Put a landscape timber in front of your car and drive up to it each time. Or on of those dilly-bobs you hang from the ceiling. Once you have measured ,testesd calculated the distance you never have to worry again

YMMV,
MidCow3

 

Oh yeah, I'm 60 so for sure I got me a dilly-bob. My measurements, which are REALLY close BTW, show I shouldn't need to worry. But I wouldn't want to test it with the real NX. I wish my old garage door opener supported sensors.

 

LOL I used to call them Dilly -bobs when I was only 60

YMMV,
MidCow3

 

I have an attached 1 1/2 car garage that is not very deep as my builder screwed up when he poured the foundation robbing me of about 2 feet of length. On top of that along my back wall in the garage I have a fridge and some shelving. Did the math using the car's overall length with the goal of backing in the car and maximized the rear space by having the front of the car placed as close to the garage door as possible with a 3" margin of error gap remaining. I put down 2 lines on the floor that help to locate the left rear wheel centreline, this is where my wheel centreline MUST be so that the garage door won't hit the front of the car, and allowing me enough room at rear to open and close the hatch without hitting my fridge and enough space for my fat but to squeak by. I also put a black line of tape on the floor at the back and now I back up and watch the camera image for the black tape to JUST disappear and stop! I get out and look at the 2 lines for the centre of left rear wheel as a double check, close my garage door and open my rear hatch! It was a little unnerving at first but I've gotten use to it. The rear hatch is too close to the fridge for the close and lock button to work so I hit the close button then once it's closed there is a little rubber covered button to the right of the open close button up by the licence plate, that button will lock up the car.