Parking bufoonery.

[leef44]

Thanks for this thread. I would feel more confident to just drive to another space if this ever happens to me.

We do need our space

 

[brucemillar]

I know what you mean supermarkets are the pits for parking problems,like you I use 3 different supermarket car parks,and I park in the area with no cars, 20 mins doing some shopping and my car is surrounded,I can only think they see a nice car and think well the owner will not damage my car,I have to admit if I had been you the minute she started to try and park I would have moved a few spaces away,and said I thought you need more room.

Lesson learned now for me.

Sent from my iPhone using MBClub UK

 

[Stratman]

I always try to park next to an expansive car so the thief will ignore mine.

 

[Benzmanc]

I always try to park next to an expansive car so the thief will ignore mine.

you mean like a limo or similar

 

[Giantvanman]

On a slight tangent, does anyone remember when the metal used on cars wasn't tissue paper thin, mirrors were sturdy metal devices and bumpers were fit for purpose?

I'm the guy who will take up two spaces, park partly on kerbs etc etc just to keep as much space between my pride and joy and the f***tards who would damage it given the opportunity. Some will argue that to do so is selfish but I say parking shouldn't be a gamble, not when I'm the one who pays for the repairs.

I will start parking perfectly within a single parking place when showing respect for property that isn't theirs is once again the norm rather than the exception that has to be gambled on.

Completely selfish or protective of an expensive pride and joy? You decide.

 

[markjay]

She'd have cared if you'd used the jack handle on her windscreen.

...or I could have contacted the DVLA and find-out the address of the registered keeper of grey Honda CR-V VRM RY05 TZB, or contact the police, or my insurer... but I did none of the above, life's too short

Here's the photographic evidence - and those of you who sadly have experience with parking dents, will recognise the typical vertical scratch that is cause by the edge of the door moving up while wedged well into the other car as the occupants disembark...

 

[markjay]

And this is how the owner takes care of his/her own car:

 

[AMGeed]

Able bodied drivers parking in disabled bays gets my back up. We need a few of these signs displayed.

 

[NDFR]

Parking bays are too small to be fit for purpose anyway. That's where the problem stems from.

 

[Mrhanky]

I gave up on parking in such places years ago, online food and consumable shopping sees it as a distant memory.

If on the rare occasion I need to park in town I take the wife's car.

 

[rf065]

Parking bays are too small to be fit for purpose anyway. That's where the problem stems from.

Correct, the minimum size for a parking bay was decided in the 1960's when cars like Hillman Imps etc were popular. Go to a supermarket in the US & a large motor home can park next to you causing no-one any problems. Car park design in the UK is a joke.

Russ

 

[Spin_bowler]

And this is how the owner takes care of his/her own car:

in fairness, they used a plate.

 

[Tim203]

My car is ruined from door damage. One dent was from a very elderly person and Mrs. 203 didn't say anything. A friend of mine got his revenge once in McDonalds whilst sat as a passenger in his wife's car eating their food when someone in the car next to them slammed their door open onto his wife's door. No apology, no nothing , didn't give a toss. He calmly lent across his wife's seat, opened the door and repeatedly smashed it into the other car until it was suitably panned in!

 

[Deleted member 6183]

in fairness, they used a plate.

Very civilised.

I came back to my parked car a few months ago to find an old grunter struggling to get into his adjacent car and his door firmly up against mine, I raised my eyebrows and he cheerfully pointed out that he had a clip-on plastic trip on his door.

He wasn't wrong.

 

[Simon_M]

Always carry a bottle of brake fluid to liberally pour over such offenders vehicles...

 

[Edwards521]

Very civilised. I came back to my parked car a few months ago to find an old grunter struggling to get into his adjacent car and his door firmly up against mine, I raised my eyebrows and he cheerfully pointed out that he had a clip-on plastic trip on his door. He wasn't wrong.

Yep, whatever happened to those cool looking rubber door edge things with reflectors.

 

[lisa110rry]

Able bodied drivers parking in disabled bays gets my back up. We need a few of these signs displayed.

Exactly right. I once saw a Bentley parked across TWO disabled bays, no blue badge. I parked across him, blue badge on dash and had a leisurely visit to the shoe shop. When he saw me come out on crutches, he kept his head down...

 

[Stratman]

Costco parking bays are larger than the average, being an American company they probably have a standard specification for their US shops and use it here too.

 

[Deleted member 65149]

Correct, the minimum size for a parking bay was decided in the 1960's when cars like Hillman Imps etc were popular. Go to a supermarket in the US & a large motor home can park next to you causing no-one any problems. Car park design in the UK is a joke. Russ

Who is forcing everyone to buy the cars that are too big for the available spaces? People coped with much smaller cars in the 60s so why can't they now? Is it because so many people are grossly overweight, just like the Americans, so now need a big car to be able to fit inside? I say that if you can't get your car in the space you should do one or more of the following: learn to park, park somewhere else, get a smaller car that you can manage.

Complaining about the small parking spaces is like so many people around here who park their cars in the road rather than in their garages. They say that their garages are too small. Did their garages shrink after they moved into their houses? No. Their garages aren't too small, it's simply that their cars are too big for their parking abilities.

 

[Lennox]

^ but on average we drive larger cars, own larger houses, consume more, moan more and have access to more information. Therefore, parking and spacing imho needs to keep up. NCP I know have and changed some of their Glasgow car parks to reduce and remove small spaces and reline the current areas to accommodate bigger cars. Michelle Lane for example.