Little Car Park Dents..

Seems a reasonable price.

No help to you, but I read a lot of Ebay auctions with the words "Usual car park dents" in the description and I think "Usual??". I've never hit anything in a car park and it does concern me that so many drivers seem to.

Si

si a carpark dent is where a small dent is made in the car by some twit that cannot steer a shopping trolly

Just like a "carpark smashed headlight" is made in the car park by some dizzy blond in a bloody 4x4 who can't reverse, and leaves without the curtesy of acknowledging an accident.

(sorry, rant-mode off)

Or flings open rear doors.

Ahhhhhhhh, of course - today I is mostly dim.

Si

I find the worst culprits are the 2 door cars as these doors are generally wider and can therefore reach further.

What really annoys me is when I park in a half empty car park well away from everyone else and on an end bay. I then return to the car and find some moron parked about 1 foot away from me while the car park is still half empty.

Steven.

People just don't have respect, or at least a way of doing things properly.

It's pathetic, this parking dent problem. It's the number 1 reason my Dad really regrets buying a newish car.

Actually I find that two door cars do the least damage because the door tends to have a vertical edge and to hit the protective bump strip (if any) on the adjoining car. The rear doors on four-door cars, on the other hand, are often shaped in such a way that the impact point is way above the bump strip.

It's the herding instinct.

It's laziness and/or no physical coordination and/or no space awareness!

As the proud owner, for over four years, of an Alfa 156 which has nice soft, rounded doors and no rubbing strip, I can vouch for the technique of parking as far away as possible (really!) from the entrance/exit doors of any retailer with a car park. The lazy hashy crew tend to park as near to the doors as they have extreme difficulty with the concept of walking. Indeed many healthy lazies just use the disabled/mother and baby spaces too!

I've tried most other solutions, and while mine isn't foolproof, it has worked so far. I was quite surprised to find that even sitting in the car with open windows and growling didn't stop the hooligans. Also, there's nothing worse than having your pride and joy banged then jumping out ready and willing to do physical violence to the perpetrator only to discover a hyper-apologetic dizzy pensioner!!!

I've lots of experience of car parks but, by far, my favourite incident that persuaded me to park far away was when I saw a car which hadn't had the door shut properly. It had blown open and, in the gusts, was rhythmically trying to batter its way into the car parked next to it..what a mess.

They tend to charge per panel, so two dents on the same one may not cost double, as it were.

Shoppers should think themselves lucky. The people who work in the supermarkets have to endure far more damage.

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I've often wondered why supermarkets staff park so near the entrance. You'd have thought it'd be more sensible to park over the other side.

Perhaps because there is less chance of it being stolen/vandalised?

Chris

The closer you park to the store the more shoppers will return trolley's to the storage area.

The farther away you are, the more likely your chances of being hit by an abandoned trolley being flung into and open space.

DJ_Crazy_Frog

I was parked outside Homebase a few months ago and this guy took his stuff out of his trolley and just let it go, went straight down the hill and into the side of my door. I got out to complain and got called every name under the sun because I'd dared to challenge him.

IMO women are the worst culprits for this (which incidentally also really irritates me!) I think it's the need to cuddle up to things!

When you park right tight up to the kerb in an end square they rarely park centrally in the square next to you, they just centre their car on the gap and ignore the lines.

I also avoid anything with panel damage, baby seats, large 4x4's, company vans etc I think I may be getting paranoid!

They have their limitations. They need access to the back of the panel and they cannot fix a dent that extends over the edge of a panel or over a swage line.

DG