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Why can't people be careful with their cars doors!


krisgowing

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Spent a week of my summer getting out all the dents in the Supra, treating all the rust spots to have the body work all dent free.

 

Just for someone later on to swing open their door or bump into it and dent the front wing.

 

I had the car plasti-dipped so the chunk out the plastidip can be touched up so I'm not to bothered except the whole there now.

 

Reason I got it dipped was because I couldn't afford the respray right now and if i had it resprayed and paid all the money just for some idiot to open their door to much and scratch the paint and dent the body.

 

It seems unavoidable, at the gym I park in the larger spaces out the front, haven't been to a multistory and park miles away from stores to have no cars next to me but STILL had someone do it.

 

Rant over :p

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Spent a week of my summer getting out all the dents in the Supra, treating all the rust spots to have the body work all dent free.

 

Just for someone later on to swing open their door or bump into it and dent the front wing.

 

I had the car plasti-dipped so the chunk out the plastidip can be touched up so I'm not to bothered except the whole there now.

 

Reason I got it dipped was because I couldn't afford the respray right now and if i had it resprayed and paid all the money just for some idiot to open their door to much and scratch the paint and dent the body.

 

It seems unavoidable, at the gym I park in the larger spaces out the front, haven't been to a multistory and park miles away from stores to have no cars next to me but STILL had someone do it.

 

Rant over :p

It happened to me not long ago, it was right outside my flat, someone tried to reverse into the space behind my car, and managed to catch my left side wheel arch, to add the insult that person scratched half of the rear bumper as he/she try to squeeze in to that space, got it sorted with other bits last weekend, just not nice when this happen to anyone or any cars, makes it even worse it'd happen to my pride and joy.

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arrrrgh this has got to be one of those things that get me so mad:cry::cry: .

I park miles away from other cars but when you go back out to your car there is still some muppet ussually parked next to it and even worse they park close to it aswell,even though there are no other cars by it. what the f@ck is that about,it hurts my head even thinking about it.

 

Also it is not easy denting a panel just from lighlty hitting it,itried it with some old panels once and it actually takes a decent amount of effort which makes it seem like they could not even be bothered to be careful.

 

sorry rant over and feel gutted for you.

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I was sitting in the car the other day on the phone, about to go into Tesco's. Parked well away from everyone, spare spaces everywhere surrounding me. Someone comes and parks right next to me, was too fat to get out of their car comfortably and bangs their door into the side of my car, twice! thinking the car was empty.

 

He went home without his shopping....

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I was sitting in the car the other day on the phone, about to go into Tesco's. Parked well away from everyone, spare spaces everywhere surrounding me. Someone comes and parks right next to me, was too fat to get out of their car comfortably and bangs their door into the side of my car, twice! thinking the car was empty.

 

He went home without his shopping....

 

this is what i mean, I don't understand the mentality of these people, its like something in there head is telling them they must park by another car. I occassionally have to pick my mrs up from tesco's (work), and i do the same as you. but still get numpty's park close, to the point they struggle to get out there car.

I asked the one once, why so close and why next to me when there was a million spaces every. They just looked at me with a gone out look lol and scurried off.

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My NA was knocked lightly many times be careless twits. It's not jealousy because they are completely oblivious to what they are doing. It's just careless acts of mindless idiots who have no value awareness.

 

I have also seen kids running over peoples bonnets and roofs. I shouted at them but doubt its made much difference in the world. :(

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I got so fed up with this that I parked length ways across all 3 spaces, yes 3! Right at the back of a Tesco and it was a bay so you couldn't get anything in front or behind me, I accept it was a dick move by me but tbh I think back to all the dick moves iv had against me with absolute tools parking tight and banging into my car that I thought I deserved a break plus why should I have to pay for nobs hitting my car?

 

My advice to you guys is just tally it up in your head and when you've had enough against you, cash it in :lol:

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I think that this is a part of living in a society, someone does something that annoys you in the same manner as you do something that annoys someone and don`t even think about it. This is inevitable that a car will get scratched and dented with so many cars and careless people driving. No need to make a big deal out of it. If a person wants to keep a car immaculate then he should not use it, park in a dry garage in a hermetically sealed box and fill it up with argon. Cant see another solution to the problem.

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I think that this is a part of living in a society, someone does something that annoys you in the same manner as you do something that annoys someone and don`t even think about it. This is inevitable that a car will get scratched and dented with so many cars and careless people driving. No need to make a big deal out of it. If a person wants to keep a car immaculate then he should not use it, park in a dry garage in a hermetically sealed box and fill it up with argon. Cant see another solution to the problem.

 

 

I agree in terms of wear and tear, stone chips and the like but what were talking about here is a pure lack of decency or courtesy. Is it that difficult for people to simply take a bit of care?

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A lot of people genuinely fail to see that a car can be anything more than a means of getting from A to B and that some people love them more than their children, and worry about every mark and blemish.

 

 

I am NOT saying it's good that people open doors or park in a manner that damages another vehicle, it's not, but just saying some people have no real concern for their own or others cars, even when their own car is new or near new.

 

 

Now here is an interesting and true story. A friend's father, back in the early seventies, was parking his Jaguar on King Street in Manchester. He accidentally damaged the bumper of another car parked behind him. The owner was sat in this car at the time and got out, saw damage was done and became nothing less than maniacal. Had he been calm this friend's father would probably have given him a few quid and that would have been that. But his attitude "got his gander up" and he took umbrage and took an unusual stance. He told the guy in the other car that although the damage was of his doing, a bumper, by name and description is sacrificial, and designed to protect the rest of the vehicle. As such it was designed to be bumped... He wouldn't be paying, take it to court and be damned...

 

No this unusual take had been something he had been going on about for years, but he had never had cause to try out this theory. As his day job was as a barrister he decided to test his case, and you know what? He won, the magistrates decided in his favour and that bumpers were, by definition, sacrificial and designed to be damaged and bumped... Whether this formed a precedent that others have, or could, follow I have no idea. Maybe it would need to have gone to Crown Court or higher to form a precedent. But an interestingly moot legal point. Anyone fancy trying it out again?

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A lot of people genuinely fail to see that a car can be anything more than a means of getting from A to B and that some people love them more than their children, and worry about every mark and blemish.

 

 

I am NOT saying it's good that people open doors or park in a manner that damages another vehicle, it's not, but just saying some people have no real concern for their own or others cars, even when their own car is new or near new.

 

 

Now here is an interesting and true story. A friend's father, back in the early seventies, was parking his Jaguar on King Street in Manchester. He accidentally damaged the bumper of another car parked behind him. The owner was sat in this car at the time and got out, saw damage was done and became nothing less than maniacal. Had he been calm this friend's father would probably have given him a few quid and that would have been that. But his attitude "got his gander up" and he took umbrage and took an unusual stance. He told the guy in the other car that although the damage was of his doing, a bumper, by name and description is sacrificial, and designed to protect the rest of the vehicle. As such it was designed to be bumped... He wouldn't be paying, take it to court and be damned...

 

No this unusual take had been something he had been going on about for years, but he had never had cause to try out this theory. As his day job was as a barrister he decided to test his case, and you know what? He won, the magistrates decided in his favour and that bumpers were, by definition, sacrificial and designed to be damaged and bumped... Whether this formed a precedent that others have, or could, follow I have no idea. Maybe it would need to have gone to Crown Court or higher to form a precedent. But an interestingly moot legal point. Anyone fancy trying it out again?

 

Very interesting story, although it shows where law falls short on mechanical understanding. Just because it's a bumper there is no guarantee that structural deformity behind the bumper hasn't taken place. Definitely would have helped the guys cause if he hadn't of gotten out angry and been the one to keep calm.

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  • 1 year later...

Just thought I'd bump this. Unfortunately no picture as I was fuming but I thought to myself today while I had the car out that I'd park in one bay for a change seeing as it was busy. I parked on an end bay all the way over and what happens when I come back? Some moron has parked over the line into my bay. Basically I've been proved right as to why I park in 2 bays all the time. Because of morons like that! Rant over...

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