anthscooby01

I sat in B & Q car park recently and deliberately parked maybe 2 inches over white line so as to discourage anyone parking next to me. There was probably at least 2/3 of the car park free including most of spaces around me. Imagine my surprise when some silly cow in her Shogun only tries to pull next to me. She opened her door onto car on her side then realised that her passenger would never be able to get out her side next to me! If I had not been sitting in my var I bet they would have squeezed her out dinging my door big style in process. She muttered something and gave me filthy look as she drove to another space!! FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

anthscooby01

And as for parking well away from anyone I ALWAYS do this. But u can ALWAYS guarantee some numpty will park right next to you in their cack mobile. Why are people so THICK!!!

assti

I got round this problem by buying a shopping car. A £100 ford escort. Now I park where I please but strangely it has the opposite effect. When I come back to it, the car park is full exept for the spaces around my heap.

Leedsarmy

iTrader: (1)

I know the feeling well, was sat outside my mates pub yesterday and noticed something not quite right around the front wheelarch. on closer inspection some **** has bumped it and caused a dent, right on the crease

It defo wasn't there earlier in the day as i washed the car yesterday morning. So i know full well it happened in Tesco's car park.

Was gutted, its not the cost of repairing it or the inconvienience it will cause me to do so, but the fact that this a***hole has just driven off, probably didnt notice, and will no doubt do it again to someone else.

If i had of seen it i would have gone freakin' mental

vindaloo

Parking over two spaces will wind people up. Car parks get busy or other people may not want to have to walk the extra 50 metres to the shop. If the car park was full, I'd find a way to park next to you anyway, in my 1990 Citroen.

As for deliberately damaging other peoples' cars. Doesn't do a bl**dy thing other than leave the other person thinking you're a "tw@t that can't drive" or a "mindless yob". Worst is if they notice the damage immediately and the carpark has CCTV. Want a criminal record or a group of lads to come and play on your car one night?

J.

Brun

So how did you get the handbrake off???

If you wanna use two spaces then fair enough. Do it when you have the last two spaces in the car park and i will squeeze in next to you if i can. Door dings will be free

chocolate_o_brian

iTrader: (22)

oh right, so were just supposed to try grin and bare the fact that all these ********* in their 4x4's etc that cant park to save their lives, are gonna dint and dunk our cars into a kitkat wrapper.

erm i tell you what fella, il stick to parking in two bays, then the day some knobber gets wound up by it, il use the same cctv footage you earlier mentioned and go play on their car one night.

sound fair? i think so.

andy

Ministry Maniac

I find this to be true as well. No matter how far away I park, there always seems to be somebody next to me when I return to the car park, even though there are lots of spaces available.

Whenever possible I take the girlfriend's car to go shopping. It's only a cheap runabout, so I wouldn't be too concerned if it got dented. Although I still would be angry to think that somebody damaged my property and never gave it a second thought.

FMC

With you 100% on the 2-bay thing. To be safe in some car parks (P&D), i've gone and bought 2 tickets!!!

Terminator X

iTrader: (7)

I always park at the end of a bay or fecking miles away from wherever it is that I'm going. My car has lightweight panels so just breathing on them will cause a dent ...

TX.

StickyMicky

cant argue if you have 2 tickets

CLASSIC!!!!!

i never take my car to the supermarket, i park it across the road at my car wash, in its cordoned off parking space with 2 cctv cameras and walk across the road into asda

i can understand that some people will not have that option

actually my mate with his evo used to do the same thing and leave it parked next to mine while he walked across the road as well

its a hard life

The Dogs B******s

Had the same problem last sunday,pulled into the car park at Elvington,not one car near me and when i came back,there were f**king subaru's everywhere.

vindaloo

You've got to accept that at some point some f-idiot is going to ding your car. Park a nice car, especially one with relatively thin panels in TESCO etc. and at some point it'll get dinged. IMO it's the powerlessness of finding out about it afterwards when there's no-one around to engage about it that's the main issue.

My current tactic is to park between two well parked cars. I tend to zoom quickly around TESCO/ASDA and 1/2 the time the same two cars are still there when I get back.

Only way to avoid the dings is to buy maybe a Rav4 where the entire bottom end of the car is wearing a plastic romper suit and at worst it'll scuff up a bit.

I think you've got to draw the line between a mindless ding in the panel from a door and someone doing a full-on hit and run job on you leaving you with a pile of glass and bits on the floor.

J.

Robin Mullan

I gave my car a good clean today.......... and noticed a f***ing big chunk of paint missing from the N/S/F corner of my bumper and lower spoiler. The only time i've used it since i cleaned it last weekend was when i went to tesco's 2 days ago, so someone has actually made a f***ing stupid manouvere, they must have known that they scraped my car, and then just drove off. Now im p***ed off.

If it happens again, my house key is looking as though its gonna have more than just one use.

Jap Import

As far as I see it, a ding or a hit n run job is both criminal damage.
Why do we need to accept this.
How many times have you opened your door and dinged another car?
I bet the answer is never!

Therefore, why should we accept the fact we may get dinged, when we don't do any dinging ourselves. All it requires is for people to be more careful, it's that easy.

Off out on the town now

chocolate_o_brian

iTrader: (22)

good point well made. but, until this happens il continue to park in two bays, as said unless im in a pay & display, by which i will then park in the corner somewhere or not at all.

andy

stara

if i am worried about dings, then i park elsewhere, or get a taxi or bus. i don't turn into mr selfish **** and park across 2 bays.

monkeyboy840

great minds think alike. me too

Brun

^^^^^^
Clearly not a great mind then

SiDHEaD

With the amount of selfish morons you cant expect to take a "pristine" car shopping. Just not going to stay that way. Do what I did and get a crappy fiesta for the times when u need to park by *****.

chocolate_o_brian

iTrader: (22)

i would do that, but the fact is, me and my fiance cannot afford a mortgage, the running costs/insurance etc of the scoob, and the extra costs of running a sh!itter for shopping etc. just not worth it, as im still a young and inexperienced driver. i dare say to insure a crappy fiesta/peugeot it would cost me another £700-800 a year just in insurance. then you have tax, petrol, servicing (as you can run the engine on dust surely ). it would work out cheaper for me to have the dent master go round it every year

not that i am accepting that as a way of life. the mrs dont drive, well cars anyways , so no point what so ever me having two cars. il just park in two bays as usual. dont particularly care about the "selfich" comments et al, and those stupid people on here threatening a big dink from their crappy runarounds (no im not talking about classic scoobs either!), well two words... try it, and see where it gets us both.

NeilP1

in one month i now have a dent on my rear quarter scuff all down one side got forced in to a bush by a bus and some one had's backed into me and now need a boot and bumper was the CCTV working no work man cut cable 3weeks ago cant get if fixed is all i got

vindaloo

If that wasn't @ me, then mentally delete the first bit of this post.

Stick, wrong end of... Thought I was making the point about not damaging peep's cars in frustration, not deliberately doing it 'cos I can't park (due to spaces not skill level).

You can't always control the circumstances. My car's been dinged by a 4 yr old who pushed open his door with his feet (my commuter, not my scoob). My mate's had to pay out to fix someone's beemer after the wind picked up his driver's door, together his g/f who was getting out of the car and flung it into the passenger door of the beemer.

J.

chocolate_o_brian

iTrader: (22)

no it wasnt at you. un twist your gruds

scooby_girlie

What the hell is wrong with you? I was raped when I was younger and it's not something you joke about. (I am assuming you were joking). What guy thinks it's funny to joke about raping someone? When it happpens to you, you're life falls apart. It makes you a total mess and for some people it means they will never trust a guy again, therefore ending all hopes of a relationship. It is something you will think about every day for the rest of your life. You have to live with the sickening feelings that someone did that to you. Simple things like walking to the shops leave you paralysed with fear when an innocent dog-walker just happens to be coming in your direction. You always wonder if it will happen again. I will look over my shoulder for the rest of my life. And reading a comment like that reminds me exactly what happened to me that day and makes me re-live the whole experience.

You'll probably reply saying that you were only joking and that I should lighten up, but that is not an acceptable excuse. And I am not over-reacting. If your girlfriend/wife/sister/mom was raped I can gaurantee you would not find it so amusing and you would be angry if you heard someone joke about it. It is a subject that should NEVER be joked about.

chocolate_o_brian

iTrader: (22)

nothings wrong with me thankyou. ive said something thats offended you so il do the polite thing and apologise. and i do actually mean it

as long as no lass ever parks her car deliberalty malicilously to wind me up, consider the matter never to be repeated again.

andy

DANNYBOY2511

This subject gets my blood boiling
Was in the chimes shopping center in uxbridge 2 saturdays ago shopping with my girlfriend. parked up on the new bigger spaces with the big yellow zig zag lines around(gives enough room between cars to open doors with out dinging)
was in there for around an hour, came back to car to find old red sh!tter of a fiesta parked almost ontop of my scooby
walked over and there was a lovely dent on passenger front door,
but it was hit so hard it had taken paint off down to base coat and left some lovely rust fista red to compliment my silver scooby.
I kept my cool, it was easy after seeing the fiesta's wing mirror suddenly fly accross the car park

I Always do my upmost to never ding anyones doors even if they have a sh!tter and i'm in the work van.

chocolate_o_brian

iTrader: (22)

he shoots.... he scores!

Lydia72

Online Grocery Shopping & Delivery Service - Tesco.com
HTH

scoobyverysoon

iTrader: (1)

- Yep I parked in B & Q in the unbusy carpark miles away from eveybody only to return to a massive trolly ding to my rear door carpark still empty nobody about - the ding had to be popped out - but theres still a small ripple in the sun

If I could afford it I would buy a scrap heap just to go to the shops etc