Carpark 'Ding' - Am I over reacting?

Carpark 'Ding' - Am I over reacting?

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SEE YA

3,522 posts

244 months

Saturday 1st November 2014
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1983shj said:
That would never happen in a Waitrose car park! smile
No one is safe people in general, just do not care until its their car that gets damaged?

Coolbanana

4,382 posts

199 months

Saturday 1st November 2014
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hotchy said:
Just leave them a little a4 sized note on there window, politly asking them to not bang your door again. Obviously this note is on with pritstick and will be a right pain to get off, leaving messy pritstick all over which is another pain to get off. It'll teach them a lesson though.
Done something similar and it really does work in getting some form of satisfaction.

A few years ago someone dinged my car - cost me £125 to repair - but the chap who did the damage wasn't interested and told me so quite aggressively. His car was still there when I returned from shopping so I left a load of well-placed stickers on his windscreen (the cheap paper parcel note sort with the ultra-adhesive backing that causes the paper to come off in bits if you're not careful) with various choice derogatory remarks about the car owner written on them.

I moved my car and waited from a distance and watched his reaction. He was fuming when he discovered the stickers were going to be a pain to remove. He actually tipped his trolley over in a rage and stamped his feet and had a small bemused audience. It was a joy to watch him have to pick up all his groceries while he cursed. Looked like he used an ice-scraper to get them off in the end.

skyrover

12,668 posts

203 months

Saturday 1st November 2014
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buy an old Land Rover as a supermarket hack, than fit these smile


StottyEvo

6,860 posts

162 months

Saturday 1st November 2014
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ferrariF50lover said:
He should have apologised (well, he SHOULD have been more careful), but it's a tiny, tiny dab of paint which will come off with 2 minutes work.

I think you're just the right amount of pissed off and with the correct element of the thing too. Good work.

Simon.
Pretty much this

feef

5,206 posts

182 months

Saturday 1st November 2014
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The converse happened to me. I pulled in behind a Skoda Favorit estate in a motorways services in my C6. Still relatively new to driving an auto, I let the parking sensors do their beeping, stopped the car, put it in "park" and when I took my foot off the brake, it rolled forward JUST enough to touch the towball on the Skoda. The touch was so gentle I didn't even feel it, and the first I knew was the chap and his wife, who'd been sitting in the Skoda, leaping out yelling at me "what the hell you doing, you just crashed into me".

I apologised, incredulous that I had even touched the car, but indeed, he had a little clean spot on his tow-bar, where the rust had been cleaned off by my numberplate.

I wiped off the rusty spot on my numberplate, apologised again and assumed that was the end of it, at which point he started going on about exchanging insurance details and getting the car checked as his local garage as "who knows what damage [you've] done to the chassis"...

TBH, if a touch so gentle that is just cleans off some greasy rust on a towball can damage a chassis, then I'd be worried about the state of the car... but to keep him quiet I have him my card... didn't hear anything more, tho...



Edited by feef on Saturday 1st November 11:48

Andehh

7,107 posts

205 months

Saturday 1st November 2014
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...and this is why I find the furthest possible bay from the entrance to avoid the cretins who have a total lack of respect for other peoples property. I'd really loose it if someone bashed their door into my car, and then laughed/told me to fk off. I'd be really worried I'd match their stupidity with a good kick to them/their car or -more likely- 'drop' something and let down their tyres.

This is why I buy everything I possibly can from grocery delivery/amazon.co.uk.

Clivey

5,108 posts

203 months

Saturday 1st November 2014
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Andehh said:
...and this is why I find the furthest possible bay from the entrance to avoid the cretins who have a total lack of respect for other peoples property. I'd really loose it if someone bashed their door into my car, and then laughed/told me to fk off. I'd be really worried I'd match their stupidity with a good kick to them/their car or -more likely- 'drop' something and let down their tyres.

This is why I buy everything I possibly can from grocery delivery/amazon.co.uk.
whistle

It had been a bad day.

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 1st November 2014
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Andehh said:
...and this is why I find the furthest possible bay from the entrance to avoid the cretins who have a total lack of respect for other peoples property. I'd really loose it if someone bashed their door into my car, and then laughed/told me to fk off. I'd be really worried I'd match their stupidity with a good kick to them/their car or -more likely- 'drop' something and let down their tyres.

This is why I buy everything I possibly can from grocery delivery/amazon.co.uk.
I will drive to the empty top level of a multi-storey car park when the car park is only full at the lower levels. Without exception I return to the car in a still largely empty level to find someone parked right next to me.
grrrrrrrrrr!

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 7th November 2014
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I am getting paranoid. I drove to Waitrose tonight to pick up a quick meal for supper, found a totally empty area and parked there. Within seconds a woman had parked right next to me, her driver side door next to my car. I drove off, not wanting to let her know how weird and neurotic I am I didn't just move the car I actually went across town to Sainsburys!

Then the same thing happened there.

So I got a takeaway. Delivered to my house.

Please help me.

ecsrobin

17,016 posts

164 months

Friday 7th November 2014
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Andehh said:
...and this is why I find the furthest possible bay from the entrance to avoid the cretins who have a total lack of respect for other peoples property. I'd really loose it if someone bashed their door into my car, and then laughed/told me to fk off. I'd be really worried I'd match their stupidity with a good kick to them/their car or -more likely- 'drop' something and let down their tyres.

This is why I buy everything I possibly can from grocery delivery/amazon.co.uk.
I saw a nice car the other day in the supermarket parked miles away from the store instantly I knew they were avoiding cars being near them that could damage them, it did cross my mind to park as close to them as possible but bailed, it might be my new sport though.

I gave up caring about the small chips here and there from people opening there doors on my car long ago, sadly it's a part of motoring and matches all the stone chips.

9mm

3,128 posts

209 months

Friday 7th November 2014
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ecsrobin said:
Andehh said:
...and this is why I find the furthest possible bay from the entrance to avoid the cretins who have a total lack of respect for other peoples property. I'd really loose it if someone bashed their door into my car, and then laughed/told me to fk off. I'd be really worried I'd match their stupidity with a good kick to them/their car or -more likely- 'drop' something and let down their tyres.

This is why I buy everything I possibly can from grocery delivery/amazon.co.uk.
I saw a nice car the other day in the supermarket parked miles away from the store instantly I knew they were avoiding cars being near them that could damage them, it did cross my mind to park as close to them as possible but bailed, it might be my new sport though.

I gave up caring about the small chips here and there from people opening there doors on my car long ago, sadly it's a part of motoring and matches all the stone chips.
You may not care about your car, which is your right, but other people aren't necessarily the same, which is theirs.

Plenty of people change vehicles every year or two and keep them in exceptional condition. Stone chips are unavoidable but dents and scrapes most definitely are.

StottyEvo

6,860 posts

162 months

Friday 7th November 2014
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anonymous said:
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I can point that that dents and scrapes are very cheap to fix. So if you stop worrying and park wherever you want, after 2months you might have to spend £50 getting it perfect again hehe

That should be a strong enough argument to stop you worrying!

M3DGE

1,979 posts

163 months

Friday 7th November 2014
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ferrariF50lover said:
He should have apologised (well, he SHOULD have been more careful), but it's a tiny, tiny dab of paint which will come off with 2 minutes work.

I think you're just the right amount of pissed off and with the correct element of the thing too. Good work.

Simon.
Agree thoroughly, but also with the comment that so many people are inconsiderate arses. I used to take the piss out of my father in law for parking in isolated spaces in the far corner of supermarket car parks - now I do exactly the same thing, having suffered from 'dings' on far too many occasions.

tomjol

532 posts

116 months

Friday 7th November 2014
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StottyEvo said:
I can point that that dents and scrapes are very cheap to fix. So if you stop worrying and park wherever you want, after 2months you might have to spend £50 getting it perfect again hehe

That should be a strong enough argument to stop you worrying!
So you're saying I can save £300 per annum by worrying about it and parking accordingly?

As a Yorkshireman, this is very appealing.

so called

9,073 posts

208 months

Friday 7th November 2014
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Drove down to Spain in my spotless MB CLS in the summer.
I came away with six huge door dings frown The sort of dings that needed great effect to create.

LordHaveMurci

12,034 posts

168 months

Friday 7th November 2014
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StottyEvo said:
I can point that that dents and scrapes are very cheap to fix. So if you stop worrying and park wherever you want, after 2months you might have to spend £50 getting it perfect again hehe
Find me somebody to resparay my 172 front bumper for £50, or to respray my 996 rear bumper for £50. That's without all the tiny little 'dings' in the side panels.

I'll carry on worrying thanks.

Clivey

5,108 posts

203 months

Friday 7th November 2014
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LordHaveMurci said:
Find me somebody to resparay my 172 front bumper for £50, or to respray my 996 rear bumper for £50. That's without all the tiny little 'dings' in the side panels.

I'll carry on worrying thanks.
+1. Sod's law dictates that the damage will always be in an awkward spot that'll cost a fortune to put right. It's happened to me before when someone dropped their pushbike on my car (and subsequently buggered off). rage

sebhaque

6,402 posts

180 months

Friday 7th November 2014
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Recently paid out £200 as I parked like an idiot and scuffed a few panels on a van on my way in. Left a note, the owner was a nice chap and it was all resolved amicably.

If I'm in my shed I just abandon the car wherever, I'm sure it's picked up a few knocks from kids opening their doors into it but I'm not really fussed when I can count at least five different paint colours on the bumper (only one of which was me). If I'm in my weekend car then I tend to park out of the way - normally a space away from a similarly nice car parked out of the way, or with a generous gap in between if there aren't any marked bays. My principle is that I'd rather come back to see a similarly well-maintained car parked a reasonable distance away from me, as it lessens the risk of some idiot parking four inches from my door - and I know the driver of the other car isn't likely to throw their door open into my car as well.

Klippie

3,096 posts

144 months

Friday 7th November 2014
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A few years back one of my mates at worked told me a story of car park dents...

He owned a beat up old Triumph 2000 and was sitting in it waiting on his wife coming out of the supermarket when this guy parks next to him and opens and bangs his door on his he shouts at him and his reply was its just another dent one of many, now my mate liked revenge for all sorts of things so he waited till the guy went into the shop then reversed his car to the front and used his door to put dents all down the side from the front to the back of the guys car and left a note under his wiper...just a dent one of many.



jeff666

2,314 posts

190 months

Friday 7th November 2014
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Fkin LOL at that ^^^^^