Car park scrape

[Gibbo]

Hi there

My advice is avoid car parks but if you have too then park somewhere where your car is less likely to get hit. I will either park across two spaces, disabled or family spot. I don't care as what I care about is my car so I park to make sure it stays dint free. Once I was confronted by some stupid women about my double parking my response was do you see any dints in my car, argument over.... Selfish it maybe but I don't care one bit, my priority is my car staying in dintless condition so when other road users start to respect others property then I won't be selfish any more. Its the actions of the few that spoil it for us all, but we don't live in a perfect world.

If in an multi-story always park near the top as the kind of people who don't care won't park near the top as they are the kind who are too lazy to walk anywhere so always park as close as they can to where they are going. Plus I will always look for a spot on the end or one next to the huge concrete pillars.

Though the best bit of advice is to just avoid car parks altogether.
Thing is when I am forced to park in a tight spot or have gone somewhere with friends in their cars and are in tight spots I always make sure to put my fingers/hand on the outside of the door whilst opening it, that way I can push the door all the way up against the car next to it but its just my hand that touches the others persons car and hence no damage no matter how tight the gap is.

 

[dirtydog]

Though the best bit of advice is to just avoid car parks altogether.

Not very easy if you go to the supermarket, which I'm sure we all do

 

[Kitchster_uk]

This is the reason I park over 2 spaces now at the back of ASDA when i am forced to go there and fold the mirrors in EVERY time I park (got electric folding mirrors). This and parking in the mother and baby bays and please don't start, i'll park where the **** I want while people have no respect for my car so don't come all high and mightly with me about not being able to park in them etc.

A colleague at work has a brand new X3 that some **** in a transit hit in Tesco car park and he just drove off, £2k of damage from her insurance for the trouble.

 

[Matt-Page]

Hi there

My advice is avoid car parks but if you have too then park somewhere where your car is less likely to get hit. I will either park across two spaces, disabled or family spot. I don't care as what I care about is my car so I park to make sure it stays dint free. Once I was confronted by some stupid women about my double parking my response was do you see any dints in my car, argument over.... Selfish it maybe but I don't care one bit, my priority is my car staying in dintless condition so when other road users start to respect others property then I won't be selfish any more.

In some ways, i disagree with you. If you park over 2 spaces do you pay for two tickets? If there is a busy car park, there is nothing that windws me up more than having to drive to another because some selfish person has taken up 2 spaces. I can see your point, and it would keep it dent free, but whats to stop someone smashing into you by accident, road or car-park? Whats to stop "some stupid women" from keying your car for being selfish?

There are other ways to avoid dents, but if you spend all day being paranoid about your car you will spend all day finding somewhere to park.

This is WHY there is CCTV and insurance. Not having a dig, just voicing my opinion.

Hard luck on the damage mate, i would try to get hold of the CCTV tapes, etc. Good luck!

 

[Gibbo]

In some ways, i disagree with you. If you park over 2 spaces do you pay for two tickets? If there is a busy car park, there is nothing that windws me up more than having to drive to another because some selfish person has taken up 2 spaces. I can see your point, and it would keep it dent free, but whats to stop someone smashing into you by accident, road or car-park? Whats to stop "some stupid women" from keying your car for being selfish?

There are other ways to avoid dents, but if you spend all day being paranoid about your car you will spend all day finding somewhere to park.

This is WHY there is CCTV and insurance. Not having a dig, just voicing my opinion.

Hard luck on the damage mate, i would try to get hold of the CCTV tapes, etc. Good luck!

If a car park is busy then I just won't park, I aint that selfish but I do my shoppin at quieter times, can't be doing with all the rushing as I am a laid back do things in my own time kinda person. I shop when other people don't but I will put the protection of my property first before anyone else.

 

[MNuTz]

This is the reason I park over 2 spaces now at the back of ASDA when i am forced to go there and fold the mirrors in EVERY time I park (got electric folding mirrors). This and parking in the mother and baby bays and please don't start, i'll park where the **** I want while people have no respect for my car so don't come all high and mightly with me about not being able to park in them etc.

A colleague at work has a brand new X3 that some **** in a transit hit in Tesco car park and he just drove off, £2k of damage from her insurance for the trouble.

The thing is that its attitudes like yours that attract people that think you are wrong and then damage your car just to spite you! Ive seen it done in the company car park. There is someone that owns a Crossfire and ALWAYS parks up the top end over two spaces. Not that bad as the top end rarely gets used but we had a load of temps come in and spaces where in demand. Obviously someone couldnt find a space and decided that it was the crossfires fault for taking up two spaces.

They took a black marker pen and scribbled over every single panel and piece of glass on the car. Some not so nice comment about parking was written on the side. They never caught the person who did it.

I understand people wanting to keep their car safe but taking up 2 spaces and parking in spaces that have been designated for special groups isnt right either. I would hate for my car to get damaged and if it did then i would be fuming but i would still never park in disabled spaces.

*I am not saying peoples cars should get damaged or that i agree with it before any of you start. But perhaps if people showed more consideration all round it would be better for everyone!

EDIT: If i can find it ive a funny A4 sized leaflet involving Mickey Mouse sticking his finers up and thanking the person for their parking that i will upload for people to see. I keep meaning to use it but never do!

 

[dirtydog]

This is the reason I park over 2 spaces now at the back of ASDA when i am forced to go there and fold the mirrors in EVERY time I park (got electric folding mirrors). This and parking in the mother and baby bays and please don't start, i'll park where the **** I want while people have no respect for my car so don't come all high and mightly with me about not being able to park in them etc.

A colleague at work has a brand new X3 that some **** in a transit hit in Tesco car park and he just drove off, £2k of damage from her insurance for the trouble.

Hmm you want people to have respect for your car yet you display disrespect for others by your attitude and by parking in a manner in which you shouldn't Can you see the irony? It is out of order to behave as you do I'm afraid.

 

[Kitchster_uk]

The thing is that its attitudes like yours that attract people that think you are wrong and then damage your car just to spite you! Ive seen it done in the company car park. There is someone that owns a Crossfire and ALWAYS parks up the top end over two spaces. Not that bad as the top end rarely gets used but we had a load of temps come in and spaces where in demand. Obviously someone couldnt find a space and decided that it was the crossfires fault for taking up two spaces.

They took a black marker pen and scribbled over every single panel and piece of glass on the car. Some not so nice comment about parking was written on the side. They never caught the person who did it.

I understand people wanting to keep their car safe but taking up 2 spaces and parking in spaces that have been designated for special groups isnt right either. I would hate for my car to get damaged and if it did then i would be fuming but i would still never park in disabled spaces.

*I am not saying peoples cars should get damaged or that i agree with it before any of you start. But perhaps if people showed more consideration all round it would be better for everyone!

And it's people like you defending this sort of action that MAKES me do it. Idiots who don't care about other people's property - I get shouted at for using mother and baby spaces (to which the response is normally the same as Gibbo's) so I then park RIGHT at the back, as FAR from the store as I can not to inconvenience anyone and yet there are still mindless morons waiting to scrawl on my car for wanting to protect it? I would birch people like that in public - christ this annoys me! If you parked outside my house am I free to poour lighter fluid over your car because it inconveniences me? How about paint-stripping it becuase of the hassle? The thing people don't understand it that poor guy with his crossfire will have worked his puddings off to get that and it'll be his pride and joy. Why should he leave the fate of his panels in the hands of some dizzy bint and her tribe on the weekly shop, or some moron in a £20 uninsured rust bucket?

/wanders off to cool down

 

[Kitchster_uk]

Hmm you want people to have respect for your car yet you display disrespect for others by your attitude and by parking in a manner in which you shouldn't Can you see the irony? It is out of order to behave as you do I'm afraid.

Grrrr...this is the problem with today's society - I have to respect those who couldn't give a ****. I USED to park normally. I USED to accept that it was ok to park wher eI wanted. Then I had a big dent in my door of my MR2 from where some shopping kart had a passenger fling the door open.

I spent a lot of money on my car and, until the yobbo culture of 'I counldn't give a **** about anyone else's property' subsides, I will continue to take measures to protect my property

 

[dirtydog]

I think half the trouble is that parking spaces are often very narrow in this country, due to land being so scarce and expensive. I don't believe that parking spaces in the US for example, are like that.

 

[Cyanide]

I think half the trouble is that parking spaces are often very narrow in this country, due to land being so scarce and expensive. I don't believe that parking spaces in the US for example, are like that.

And a lot of them are diagonal and thus easier to drive in and out of

 

[dirtydog]

Yeah it can be pretty awkward getting out of a parking space if you've driven in forwards and you have a larger car... and of course when you're going shopping you do generally want to drive in forwards for access to the boot.

 

[MNuTz]

And it's people like you defending this sort of action that MAKES me do it. Idiots who don't care about other people's property - I get shouted at for using mother and baby spaces (to which the response is normally the same as Gibbo's) so I then park RIGHT at the back, as FAR from the store as I can not to inconvenience anyone and yet there are still mindless morons waiting to scrawl on my car for wanting to protect it? I would birch people like that in public - christ this annoys me! If you parked outside my house am I free to poour lighter fluid over your car because it inconveniences me? How about paint-stripping it becuase of the hassle? The thing people don't understand it that poor guy with his crossfire will have worked his puddings off to get that and it'll be his pride and joy. Why should he leave the fate of his panels in the hands of some dizzy bint and her tribe on the weekly shop, or some moron in a £20 uninsured rust bucket?

/wanders off to cool down

As i said i wasnt defending it, i was saying that using two spaces instead of one, parking in spaces that are designated for others is just as bad in my book. I recently saw a huge american 4x4 park in a mother/toddler space. Some arrogant looking tool got out and tbh i would love to of seen it burst into flames. If i had seen the person writing on the car i would have stopped them and kicked three shades out of them, if i had of seen the person bang your MR2's door i would have tried to stop them or at least took their number plate and waited around for you to come out and gave you their info and mine so you could use me as a witness.

However, seeing people damaging property OR having no respect for others and parking where they shouldnt fills me with anger! Its the same thing, they are showing you no respect by damaging your property and your are showing someone no respect by taking a space allocated to them for whatever reason.

 

[Cyanide]

Yeah it can be pretty awkward getting out of a parking space if you've driven in forwards and you have a larger car... and of course when you're going shopping you do generally want to drive in forwards for access to the boot.

It's a pain for me at work, I have to be sure I park next to someone who I know will be leaving before me as it takes 2 spaces for me to reverse out.

Supermarket car parks are fun too... my car's 4.3 metres long with the turning circle of an ocean liner

 

[Kitchster_uk]

However, seeing people damaging property OR having no respect for others and parking where they shouldnt fills me with anger! Its the same thing, they are showing you no respect by damaging your property and your are showing someone no respect by taking a space allocated to them for whatever reason.

But the space allocated is insufficient to protect my property so I take addtional measures to ensure it remains safe whilst causing as little inconvenience to others as possible. The guy in the big 4x4 has my sympathy in some ways as he will have a large, expensive motor he loves and he doesn't want to see it damaged, same as I dn't want a dent in the GTO - do you know how much a panel is for it?

I am afraid that taking up a parent/child space or parking over 2 spots does no-one any harm - the most it does is make them find alternative parking. There is no fiscal cost to them and nothing that will remain with them as a reminder of why I shop on-line as much as possible. They won't have to take the time out of their schedule to take their car to a body shop for repair.

 

[Matt-Page]

Sorry, but no matter how you try to justify this rubbish it isn't going to work.

Do you drive faster when you see someone in a kev'd up fiesta approaching behind you incase he rear-end's you. Do you drive on the wrong side of the road to avoid such people? This again is breaking rules to save your panels. The rules are there for a reason.

The rules are put in place for reason, and you have no right to break them, just as anyone else. Your car is just as likely to get smashed into or damaged if you park in a mother and child space, a that is where these people as you have sterio typed them will be parking.

 

[Kitchster_uk]

Sorry, but no matter how you try to justify this rubbish it isn't going to work.

Do you drive faster when you see someone in a kev'd up fiesta approaching behind you incase he rear-end's you.

Yes

Do you drive on the wrong side of the road to avoid such people?

I overtake on normal single-carriageway roads to avoid such people if that's what you mean?

 

[[TW]Fox]

I recently saw a huge american 4x4 park in a mother/toddler space. Some arrogant looking tool got out and tbh i would love to of seen it burst into flames.

You mean you'd rather he parked it in a normal space where the stupid huge thing would have encroached into other spaces and made it hard for other drivers to get out of their cars?

Mother and Baby spaces are nothing but a marketing ploy to attract customers to the supermarket over going to a competitor - it is only disabled bays which deserve utmost respect.

If i had seen the person writing on the car i would have stopped them and kicked three shades out of them

You are kidding, right? You think someone who parks his car in the wrong space is apalling, yet you think kicking seven shades out of somebody for whatever reason is acceptable behavour?

Oh come on, get it in perspective.

 

[MNuTz]

But the space allocated is insufficient to protect my property so I take addtional measures to ensure it remains safe whilst causing as little inconvenience to others as possible. The guy in the big 4x4 has my sympathy in some ways as he will have a large, expensive motor he loves and he doesn't want to see it damaged, same as I dn't want a dent in the GTO - do you know how much a panel is for it?

I am afraid that taking up a parent/child space or parking over 2 spots does no-one any harm - the most it does is make them find alternative parking. There is no fiscal cost to them and nothing that will remain with them as a reminder of why I shop on-line as much as possible. They won't have to take the time out of their schedule to take their car to a body shop for repair.

If you buy a car that is too big for a single space then personally i could look at it taking up two spaces and know why you where doing so.

As for using a parents/child space not doing anyone any harm, try telling that to a friend of mine with a mondeo and twin 6 month old babies! She needs the extra room of these spaces in order to get the pushchair setup and get the babies SAFELY from the car into the pushchair. I think someones children are far more valuable than any car, even my own.

 

[[TW]Fox]

As for using a parents/child space not doing anyone any harm, try telling that to a friend of mine with a mondeo and twin 6 month old babies! She needs the extra room of these spaces in order to get the pushchair setup and get the babies SAFELY from the car into the pushchair.

[Devils Advocate]

So why doesn't she simply park further away in the more empty area of the carpark? It isn't a chore to push a pushchair a few yards further.

[/Devils Advocate]

I think someones children are far more valuable than any car, even my own.

Whereas some people will think their pride and joy that they worked very hard for is more important than somebody in a beaten up Escorts screaming brats - different people have different priorities and it's unfair to say one persons priorities are more important than anothers - everything has different levels of important to the individual

You know this whole thing would be so much easier if the supermarkets themselves got rid of all gimmick spaces bar disabled bays and simply made the regular bays wide enough to open doors safely. This way no matter who you are - expensive Audi owner or screaming brat mother - you have the space you need without annoying anyone else.

IMHO, the only people who have a RIGHT to convenience spaces are disabled people - it isn't their fault they are disabled, they need to be close to the store and they deserve the extra spaces.

Parents and expensive car owners both made the choice to either have kids or have an expensive car, and no one group is more entitled to extra space than the other..