Dents Common?

my god, im so glad im not alone, the mrs is always sayin i need to get a life for parking in the furthest space in tesco or finding a space in a multi storey with a pillar at each side.... showed her all the posts and she just laughed ( her car looks like a washboard!!!)

I love taking my mum shopping as she has a disabled badge and i get to park in the spaces with the mega gaps between them!!!

can i just add that i also avoid any car with a baby/booster seat in as if the driver is puting a baby in the seat they aint exactly watching what the door is doing.

Stay away from shopping trolley "garages" too - far away

I've often wondered if it's possible to park inside the shopping trolley 'garages' to avoid people opening their doors into it.
Although you would probably get people ramming their trolleys into your car if they have no-where to put them!

what about this :

http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=0JGXbIfeuRY

alx_chung said:

I tend to park away from everyone else and even though I used to dislike the practise but I also park over two spaces (again another reason for parking miles away from everyone else) or try to park in an end space.
I tend to avoid parking next to the following too as well:

1) People Carriers (e.g. Zafira)
2) 4x4 (e.g. Q7, Toureg, X5)
3) Old bangers

Not fussy at all really
Alex

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Good advice I feel - I also look out for the cars with baby/kids seats in them as the doors are usually swung open wider for better access.

been sat in my mates car yapping while the women were shopping and had a zafira owner smack into his drivers door while he was sat there with radio on and window open

after a small exchange she turned her nose up and carried on with the usual 'so what' attitude, soon changed face when my mate booted his door open and crushed her whole front door skin in though

Bedlam said:

Could have written this myself, although parking over two spaces in (council run) car parks can result in a £60 "misdemeanour" ticket near where I live

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I once told a parking guy that the £60 was cheaper than having my door fixed. Wasn't even busy.

Greerso said:

Good advice I feel - I also look out for the cars with baby/kids seats in them as the doors are usually swung open wider for better access.

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I have a booster seat in mine but also the child locks on.

AndyVTR said:

I have a booster seat in mine but also the child locks on.

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Your child locks on to the booster seat? - neat mod

I drive my wife nuts constantly looking for an end space in car parks and parking so close to walls etc. she has to jump over the driver seat to get out of the car.... I still have one rear quarter dent from some t****r...

another thing never drive into a space front first then reverse out , i did this by mistake the other day , reversed out carefully nothing around me , i was looking in my rear view mirror braking to stop , then thinking **** im not stopping (but i had stopped) im going to hit a car then bang , a woman in an octavia reversed out straight into the side of my back bumper ,
she said sorry she was looking out of the side window , checked my car and had black paint transfer from her bumper and a little dent ,
so pulled forward again , got out to get her details and get her to write on a piece of paper it was her fault , then the water works started then she said when it was not her fault cause it was clear when she started reversing , i said what colour is my car how the F**K can you not see it? then started on about the economy and she cant afford anything having 2 jobs just to get bye , grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

luckily the paint was easily wiped off (helps if you wax the car a lot) but i have a dent , insurance would have been a 50 / 50 so i now have a dent .

best/worst I saw was a ford probe pull up in b and q. Rather nice porsche one side and a decent motor the other. Both probe doors flung wide open, each hitting the car at the side of it then 2 fat gits got out...........felt like chucking something at them but knowing my luck it would of rebounded and hit me...

Just caught two little gits kicking a football into neighbour's car in private car park. I only became aware because they also smacked it off my window - two floors up. When confronted the response was 'oh I didn't realise, didn't mean to'. People just don't give a damn about anyone else's property these days.

After bad experiences in the past I park away from other cars, easier to get in-out too.