Yet another car park door dent case

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These posts must be getting pretty boring to read for everyone else, but the victim of yet another inconsiderate moron ... or two. Had my car parked in a multi-storey car park, came back - there are TWO dents on both sides!

I must admit, the greedy council had allocated tiny parking spaces*, but then again - I've been parking here for over a month now and I never hit someone's car swinging open my door as if I'm in an empty field somewhere!

Thankfully, it's not a new, shiny, expensive motor, so I won't lose any sleep over it, but still ... BTW, which DIY dent repair pulling thingy would you guys recommend?

* I'm surprised the Health & Safety brigade hasn't come up with some law requiring the minimum parking space to take into account not just the width of the car, but open doors as well. How the hell you're supposed to get out of some of these spaces is beyond me. I guess the idea is to only produce ridiculously stupid laws, with no trace of common sense, hence nothing useful about parking

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[LTD]

The only true answer is to have all spaces the same size as disabled / parent & child bays.

Then everyone gets treated the same fair way with no discrimination at all.

 

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We can always adopt Bahamian/American bay sizes!
From what I can see, those are just slightly WIDER than UK disabled/parent & child ones!

 

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... managed to fix one side almost completely and the other to reasonably decent look, using one of the cheap little dent pullers from amazon ... not bad at all

 

[carshack]

I had the same on my car a little while ago...So annoying they are mindless morons who dont take car of their car!

 

[steve333]

I had the same on my car a little while ago...So annoying they are mindless morons who dont take car of their car!

Don't have a problem with people like that not taking care of their cars,it's when they damage other peoples,stopped parking my car in supermarket/multi storey car parks for this reason

 

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[jaymanek]

^ thats excellent... but being a ford, they will break within the first year...

 

[MOCAŠ]

^ thats excellent... but being a ford, they will break within the first year...

I think it's an brilliant idea but, as you say, I do wonder how long it will continue to retract reliably within 60ms for.

Also, it would need to be fitted universally, otherwise when people (especially kids) who are used to travelling in cars that have it fitted find themselves in one that doesn't...

 

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Who cares about these morons protecting the edges of their own doors ?

These contraptions still won't do anything to prevent denting the flat surfaces of adjacent cars these doors are opened into .

 

[Ream]

Use 4x4 whenever i have to use a car park if the issue is forced on me with the merc I act a pig and take 2 spaces, I am convinced some idiots do it on purpose usually the chip on shoulder types many I grew up with as a kid.

 

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Who cares about these morons protecting the edges of their own doors ?

These contraptions still won't do anything to prevent denting the flat surfaces of adjacent cars these doors are opened into .

It's designed to protect both surfaces.

 

[dulayj]

far too many inconsiderate idiots

 

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My Japanese A190 came with rubber door protectors, that didn't look out of place on the car, but as Derek quite rightly pointed out, its main function is to protect your own door ...

Wish I can avoid multi-storey car parks, but [in the UK] I live in a town centre, no on/off street parking, even with resident permit, so a multi-storey a block away is the only solution.