MK5 Golf GTI
General => Random Chat => Topic started by: gtlee on August 09, 2010, 07:55:50 pm
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I know I know we ALL do it trying to prevent some INCONSIDERATE people denting OUR pride and joy..our lovingly cared for motors.
Well this afternoon Mrs Lee wanted to pop into Sainsburys to get some milk and like I do always I park miles away from the entrance from the store thinking NO ONE WILL park there..........Wrong,coming back to the car and seeing a peice of cr*p park not near but right next to my car hardly any room for Mrs Lee to get in.
Straight away I looked at the passenger door for dents but could not see any..........phew I thought,away we went back home and as I always do I have a last look at the car before I enter the house (SAD I know)............Sh*t a dent is visible just,why didn't I see it at the supermarket otherwise I would of waited "it" to come out so I can have a word!
Sorry had to have rant and being myself a fussy git same with my cars am a little peeved as I tried my best to avoid carpark dents.
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When you park far from the entrance in a nice quiet spot with no other vehicles around, you car suddenly becomes magnetic, so when you get back your pride & joy is surrounded by cars that should have been scrapped a decade ago.
It's one of the unexplained mysteries of supermarket car parks :wink:
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I've always parked miles away to the frustration of my missus (don't know why I'm the one pushing or carry the shopping!) and really hate it when some clown parks right or left of me.
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Many of us here know the feeling! Sorry to hear about it when you took so much care.
A guy I know who repairs windscreens has a pitch in the local Morrisons supermarket car park and he tells me I simply wouldn't believe what he sees going on regarding 'parking'. Some so called 'drivers' think it's perfectly acceptable to continue parking until their car actually has physical contact with another car.
Did anyone see that TV advert where a guy parks in the empty far corner of a supermarket carpark.. Walks away smiling and being obviously pleased that his car is well out of harm's way and.. Huge bang and crash.. An engine falls out of the sky off a plane.. Crushes his whole car!
It's very funny, but not.
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I rember that advert well funny at the time but sometimes I wished it fell on the people who annoying park next to you!!! :fighting: :fighting:
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One thing i always take with me now to a supermarket, is one of my kids, a childseat, and head for a Mother/baby carparking slot.
Makes me laugh, you park well away from all in sundry, and you return to find an old banger parked right up next to your car :fighting:
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Sorry to herer this mate, you could always try parking between the nicest cars you can see and hope the drivers respect there own cars enough to not damage them while opening the door on yours :happy2:
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Sorry to herer this mate, you could always try parking between the nicest cars you can see and hope the drivers respect there own cars enough to not damage them while opening the door on yours :happy2:
I normall do that but on this instance the carpark was full of CR*P, thought I made a good decision......WRONG.
BTW the dent is only visible if you look at an angle ( I know that seems a bit OTT to be a ball ache but thats how I feel right now). :signLOL:
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Is there any paintwork damage? If not, may be able to get paintless dent removal using a portable dent removal company eg dent devils.
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If its only visable from an angle, chances are Dent master will easily remove it :happy2:
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Theres no paint damage as such but I was having a rant and its the extra £'s just 'cos someone who care no sh*t about other peoples property.
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I take up 2 park slots... i park my car bang in the middle of the line... :wink: :signLOL:
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Well I have been parking a sales car up at the local shops last week with a For Sale sign in the window to see if it would drum up a bit of business.
Picked the car up Saturday night after a lovely curry to find not one of the doors badly dented but two!! :fighting: :fighting:
The dent on the drivers door is HUGE and whoever inflicted it must of known what they did!! :angry015: :angry015:
Does make my pi$$ boil that people can be so inconsiderate with other peoples property!! Even my 5 year old knows to be careful and often waits for me to get out and open the door for her if the space is a bit tight!
I suppose the only good thing is that it wasnt my car that got damaged!! (still gonna cost me to get repaired though!) :fighting2:
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Thats just typical of people nowadays no care in the world for other people and property!
I know its only a car but its the principle that hurts more.
Its still more money that you've got spend on other peoples' inconsiderate behavior. :indifferent:
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Thats just typical of people nowadays no care in the world for other people and property!
I know its only a car but its the principle that hurts more.
Its still more money that you've got spend on other peoples' inconsiderate behavior. :indifferent:
....I don't know how old you are but as I'm 63yo I find it refereshing that younger people haven't lost such a sense of values.. I was beginning to wonder if it was a generation thing but really it's simply a basic that parents should pass on to their children: Simple consideration for other people. It actually has great rewards! :happy2:
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Whenever I have to park my car in a car park eg supermarket, I always try to park in an end space, this sort of 'halves' the risk of doors being dented as there can only be one car parked next to you (if that makes sense).
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Thats just typical of people nowadays no care in the world for other people and property!
I know its only a car but its the principle that hurts more.
Its still more money that you've got spend on other peoples' inconsiderate behavior. :indifferent:
....I don't know how old you are but as I'm 63yo I find it refereshing that younger people haven't lost such a sense of values.. I was beginning to wonder if it was a generation thing but really it's simply a basic that parents should pass on to their children: Simple consideration for other people. It actually has great rewards! :happy2:
I'm 43 Redrobin,and I totally agree with what you're saying its the parents duty to teach their children manners and respect!!
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I take up 2 park slots... i park my car bang in the middle of the line... :wink: :signLOL:
I'm very tempted to do that but somehow it makes me guilty and also the problem arises that some brat is going to scratch your car for parking like that.
can't win :stupid:
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I think this probably says more about modern society than anything else.
Complete lack of respect for people and property and if you do or say something about it then there must be something wrong with you. :fighting:
I caught a woman resting her car door against the car I was driving so I stood there waiting and after a minute or so finally said something. She looked at me is if she had trodden in something apologised, climbed into her people carrier and chavved off.
Fortunately the car was a loaner but the principle still counted.
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I| avoid taking my car to any "busy" car parks, a few weeks ago i went to the cinema and it was packed and couldnt find a space i liked so i left and drove back :signLOL: my passenger wasnt 2 impressed!
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I'm afraid that if I'm directly confronted with such behaviour it can bring out the very worst in me - I feel a controlled (just about!) anger and my words are cutting and very poisonous.
As a friend once said who witnessed me in such a moment: "Crikey, Robin! You didn't just cut them with an axe, you chopped them into small pieces and buried them as well!"
Fortunately I don't suffer from road rage.
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I| avoid taking my car to any "busy" car parks, a few weeks ago i went to the cinema and it was packed and couldnt find a space i liked so i left and drove back :signLOL: my passenger wasnt 2 impressed!
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That's very funny! I can imagine the look on your passenger's face.
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:congrats: :congrats:
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I| avoid taking my car to any "busy" car parks, a few weeks ago i went to the cinema and it was packed and couldnt find a space i liked so i left and drove back :signLOL: my passenger wasnt 2 impressed!
A hot date he wont forget in a hurry :signLOL:
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Wouldnt park over 2 spaces. They will give tickets out for it.
I always see people hit other cars, no damage but still. Old people are the worst, if they reverse they cant turn round as there neck is stiff i guess so just go backwards and hope :confused:
I park next to colleagues. If you go to the same supermarket learn what cars are always there, usually in a corner, and park there as it will most likely be staff
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Wouldnt park over 2 spaces. They will give tickets out for it.
I always see people hit other cars, no damage but still. Old people are the worst, if they reverse they cant turn round as there neck is stiff i guess so just go backwards and hope :confused:
I park next to colleagues. If you go to the same supermarket learn what cars are always there, usually in a corner, and park there as it will most likely be staff
nice tip mate
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As much as I hate it I started parking over two spaces but only during quiet times. Usually its an end space that is at the furthest point to the entrance.
Always find another car parked next to me though!! :fighting:
Alex
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I'm very tempted to do that but somehow it makes me guilty and also the problem arises that some brat is going to scratch your car for parking like that.
+1. I remember reading about one guy getting ticketed and another getting his car keyed. Both had parked in the same way.
Whenever I have to park my car in a car park eg supermarket, I always try to park in an end space, this sort of 'halves' the risk of doors being dented as there can only be one car parked next to you (if that makes sense).
I do the same when parking at work. When it's an indoor carpark, I park next to a pillar, as close as I dare. When in an open carpark, next to a kerb, so instead of parking in the middle of my parking space, it's all the way to one side. Leaves a mahoosive gap and means even if some arse in a 4-door saloon parks next to me in the centre of their bay, there's still enough room for them to get out without their door touching my car.
I also tend to go supermarket shopping at night time or very late evening, when there's hardly any cars parked.
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I saw a Porsche do this the other day in a shopping car park. Shortly after I heard some scroat say he was going to scratch it for doing so. IMO parking over two spaces just makes the car more apparent that you want to avoid a dent and therefore the jealous scroats out there love this :fighting:
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I take up 2 park slots... i park my car bang in the middle of the line... :wink: :signLOL:
If I have to use a non parent & child space, I always 'accidentally' take up two spaces :evilgrin:
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Just get your shopping delivered and your car stays safely on your drive :happy2:
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Went to tesco's today and i parked 6 inches from the side of a Reflex silver R32 on his passenger side at the back of the Carpark...................
Fortunatly for its owner, it was Sparky craig's car from this very Forum :signLOL:
He did see the funny side :laugh:
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Good job you can`t lip read.....
Caught me on my way back from JKM....
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Someone suggested to me that the psychology of those that park next to the farthest spot possible relates to the fact that the do so in order to line up correctly against another car. It could be that or they just think they too will be safe as you obviously are careful re dents. Lol. I was parking at the most diametrically distant spot from the asda entrance when some arsehole parked besides me. I glowered at the prick waited for him to leave his car and parked away from the useless btard.
He was lucky I didn't just dingg him!
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* update*
Couldn't stop thinking about the dent so the oppotunity arises when the missus says lets go shopping to Sainsburys I thought yeah I wondering if I would be a slim chance to find the culprit there since it was roughly the same time in the day.
Got to the shops eye on the look out for the car and as I traced my way to the same spot there it was, parked in the same space,aha I thought REVENGE time.
I waited for the missus to go in stepped out the car had a look round the car notably the door that dinged mine and out of the blue I gave it a boot......nice big dent ,yes revenge is sweet.
Sorry it was just a thought that I had since I left the shops with this dent!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :signLOL: :signLOL: :signLOL::angry015: :angry015:
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We didn't see anything G'uv. 'onest!
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We didn't see anything G'uv. 'onest!
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Lets hope it was the same car eh! :surprised:
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I order my shopping online, or go to the 24 hour tescos at 10pm now to avoid this happening with completely mindless f*cks.
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I order my shopping online, or go to the 24 hour tescos at 10pm now to avoid this happening with completely mindless f*cks.
The things we f8ckin do trying protect and avoid our property being damaged is unbeleivable but we love our cars (don't tell the missus that). :signLOL: :signLOL:
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I've just returned from Tenerife, I had no option but to park in the car park, came back to two dings on the drivers side door... I'm feckin sick as a parrot (oh and randomly on that subject) thanks Darren (mortygti) got the parcel ... I'm going to attempt a fit today :happy2:
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Saying that, I used to do the same when I had the ED30 - park far away in open space.
With my current car I stick it anywhere - as close to the entrance as possible usually. And guess what - sods law! Not a single ding yet [touch wood]! I think people just do it on purpose when you park further away!
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I too do this, I park miles away from the store door, and park over two spaces
I take up 2 park slots... i park my car bang in the middle of the line... :wink: :signLOL: