Carpark 'Ding' - Am I over reacting?
Discussion
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.
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 thisI think you're just the right amount of pissed off and with the correct element of the thing too. Good work.
Simon.
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...
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
...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.
This is why I buy everything I possibly can from grocery delivery/amazon.co.uk.
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.
This is why I buy everything I possibly can from grocery delivery/amazon.co.uk.
It had been a bad day.
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.This is why I buy everything I possibly can from grocery delivery/amazon.co.uk.
grrrrrrrrrr!
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.
Then the same thing happened there.
So I got a takeaway. Delivered to my house.
Please help me.
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. This is why I buy everything I possibly can from grocery delivery/amazon.co.uk.
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.
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. This is why I buy everything I possibly can from grocery delivery/amazon.co.uk.
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.
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.
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.I think you're just the right amount of pissed off and with the correct element of the thing too. Good work.
Simon.
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
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?That should be a strong enough argument to stop you worrying!
As a Yorkshireman, this is very appealing.
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
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.
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). I'll carry on worrying thanks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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