F10 5 M-Sport near miss

[Pferdestarke]

I got a call from a friend today who had returned to his car to find someone had parked their Astra so close that it was touching.

It had scraped all down the side taking paint off the doors and filler cap. It turns out some crazy woman had left her handbrake off and it had rolled after she'd left it. Worryingly, there are train tracks on the other side of the wall.

He's swapped insurance details and reported it to the police. I believe she also got a parking ticket for her troubles.

Nothing's safe these days!

[RicksAlfas]

Pferdestarke said:

left her handbrake off

Sorry to see that. The crazy woman may just be one of the crazy fools who don't leave their cars in gear when they park. Assuming it has disks on the back, as the disks cool down the handbrake slackens and it rolls. We've had a couple of instances at work (two Passats and many years ago an Omega).

[Vee]

Great parking by your mate !

[stevesuk]

Vee said:

Great parking by your mate !

This... If he'd parked the left side of the white line, rather than straddling it, the Astra would have sailed past to meet an untimely death on the railway tracks...

[bobalog]

Vee said:

Great parking by your mate !

To be fair, the other side may have been parked badly. I often come to park outside where I live and am forced to park badly due to others have parked terribly further down the line. 5 Series' are quite wide too!

[Cheib]

bobalog said:

Vee said:

Great parking by your mate !

To be fair, the other side may have been parked badly. I often come to park outside where I live and am forced to park badly due to others have parked terribly further down the line. 5 Series' are quite wide too!

True but still if you park you car so it is straddling the dividing lines that means you leave a narrow gap next to you.....which means there are higher chances of damage from doors or bad parking. I'd never park like that is I can possibly avoid it.

[Pferdestarke]

I have a message for you from the F10 owner:

"Seems like I'm getting heat on your PH thread for bad parking!

If you'd care to elaborate - there wasn't another space next to me where the Astra came to rest.

I accept I had parked right on the extremity of the white line though to prevent drivers to my left hand side ttting my rig when exiting their vehicle.

If I parked centrally, the Astra would have missed me but I'd have picked up plenty of dings on my passenger side in the meantime, as I always use this same spot."

Photo to prove it too but as it's got both reg plates on show I'll protect them from view.

[contracttor]

Sorry, but if you are going to park on the line you should pay for two spaces. If that doesn't work then either get a smaller car or walk to the station etc.

I drive a wide car myself and park within the white lines, with the car nearer the line on the passender side. If people park passenger-to-passenger then it's not a problem.

[Andy665]

Pferdestarke said:

"Seems like I'm getting heat on your PH thread for bad parking!

If you'd care to elaborate - there wasn't another space next to me where the Astra came to rest.

I accept I had parked right on the extremity of the white line though to prevent drivers to my left hand side ttting my rig when exiting their vehicle.

If I parked centrally, the Astra would have missed me but I'd have picked up plenty of dings on my passenger side in the meantime, as I always use this same spot."

Photo to prove it too but as it's got both reg plates on show I'll protect them from view.

Pillock

[yajeed]

contracttor said:

Sorry, but if you are going to park on the line you should pay for two spaces. If that doesn't work then either get a smaller car or walk to the station etc.

I drive a wide car myself and park within the white lines, with the car nearer the line on the passender side. If people park passenger-to-passenger then it's not a problem.

I thought he'd just said that there wasn't a parking space to the right of his car, so why would he pay for 2 spaces?

[4damski]

Hate leaving my car in public car partks for exactly that reason. You never know what you're gonna come back and see.

Nightmare

[Thejimreaper]

Bad times pal, I always straddle the white line as it prevents people parking next to me and damaging my car. I personally dont care if it means that someone in there 20 year old corsa stbox has to drive round and look for another space, rather than parking next to me and smashing their door into my car whilst unloading the kids. If it saves my pride and joy then im happy. Far to many times I have come back to find damage and this is the only way to prevent it as far as I can see. I have had the odd ticket in the past for not parking correctly, but the odd £30 here and there is far better then the hassle of having to pay the dent man £85 a time.

Anyway, back on topic. Sorry to see your car damaged mate, hope it gets repaired to as new condition.

[Vee]

Pferdestarke said:

I have a message for you from the F10 owner:

"Seems like I'm getting heat on your PH thread for bad parking!

If you'd care to elaborate - there wasn't another space next to me where the Astra came to rest.

I accept I had parked right on the extremity of the white line though to prevent drivers to my left hand side ttting my rig when exiting their vehicle.

If I parked centrally, the Astra would have missed me but I'd have picked up plenty of dings on my passenger side in the meantime, as I always use this same spot."

Photo to prove it too but as it's got both reg plates on show I'll protect them from view.

Fair enough but 99/100 people would look at that picture and think that the 5 series was badly parked originally.

Anyway, shame it is damaged but if it was an accident rather than someone stupidly parking against his car deliberately, then I guess it is just bad luck.

[illmonkey]

Oh come on guys, even if the 5-er was 6 inches to the left. All it would have taken was a slight turn of the astra's wheel when the lady parked and the same result would have happened! Even if he straddled the white line, its not his fault someone else left the handbrake off!

[Tielst]

illmonkey said:

Oh come on guys, even if the 5-er was 6 inches to the left. All it would have taken was a slight turn of the astra's wheel when the lady parked and the same result would have happened! Even if he straddled the white line, its not his fault someone else left the handbrake off!

+1

[Andy665]

Doesn't stop him being a pillock for trying to justify why he was parking in a selfish, inconsiderate manner though

Fine - park how you want but never try to justify it

[Drek]

Thejimreaper said:

Bad times pal, I always straddle the white line as it prevents people parking next to me and damaging my car. I personally dont care if it means that someone in there 20 year old corsa stbox has to drive round and look for another space, rather than parking next to me and smashing their door into my car whilst unloading the kids. If it saves my pride and joy then im happy. Far to many times I have come back to find damage and this is the only way to prevent it as far as I can see. I have had the odd ticket in the past for not parking correctly, but the odd £30 here and there is far better then the hassle of having to pay the dent man £85 a time.

Anyway, back on topic. Sorry to see your car damaged mate, hope it gets repaired to as new condition.

If I saw you park like that I'd go out and buy a shed, park it next to yours and smack the door off it repeatedly.

Arrogant prick.

[Pferdestarke]

Andy665 said:

Doesn't stop him being a pillock for trying to justify why he was parking in a selfish, inconsiderate manner though

Fine - park how you want but never try to justify it

There's no space next to him on the right. It's a large car. It's his pride and joy. He's not causing an obstruction, merely protecting his passenger door from inevitable dings and giving the car on the left of him more room.

There, I've justified it.

[BorkFactor]

Pferdestarke said:

Andy665 said:

Doesn't stop him being a pillock for trying to justify why he was parking in a selfish, inconsiderate manner though

Fine - park how you want but never try to justify it

There's no space next to him on the right. It's a large car. It's his pride and joy. He's not causing an obstruction, merely protecting his passenger door from inevitable dings and giving the car on the left of him more room.

There, I've justified it.

Exactly this. If there is really no space to the right of him then he is not causing any harm.

[Pferdestarke]

BorkFactor said:

Pferdestarke said:

Andy665 said:

Doesn't stop him being a pillock for trying to justify why he was parking in a selfish, inconsiderate manner though

Fine - park how you want but never try to justify it

There's no space next to him on the right. It's a large car. It's his pride and joy. He's not causing an obstruction, merely protecting his passenger door from inevitable dings and giving the car on the left of him more room.

There, I've justified it.

Exactly this. If there is really no space to the right of him then he is not causing any harm.

There you go, picture to prove it.

Now calm down.