Car Park Psychology.

[james280779]

icetea said:

There are various people (in this thread and others) basically saying "if you don't want your main car to get damaged, have another car just for mundane journeys".

To me it just shows complete detachment from reality... most people simply can't afford to run two cars of any description.

or buy a fibreglass or plastic car?

never had these issues in the TVR or the Lotus!

[irocfan]

james280779 said:

icetea said:

There are various people (in this thread and others) basically saying "if you don't want your main car to get damaged, have another car just for mundane journeys".

To me it just shows complete detachment from reality... most people simply can't afford to run two cars of any description.

or buy a fibreglass or plastic car?

never had these issues in the TVR or the Lotus!

wouldn't a fibreglass car be more prone to chipping etc and therefore a potential heuuuuge bill?

[Harry Flashman]

irocfan said:

wouldn't a fibreglass car be more prone to chipping etc and therefore a potential heuuuuge bill?

Yes.

It is why, while I live in London, I won't drive a fibreglass car.

Damage to my old V8S in a car park was thousands - what appeared to be a minor parking dink was a cracked front clamshell and thousands of pounds. Insurance wrote it off.

[Silver]

james280779 said:

or buy a fibreglass or plastic car?

never had these issues in the TVR or the Lotus!

Again, you're lucky. I posted previously about someone taking a chip out of my newly-painted TVR in a car park with a carelessly-opened door.

[knitware]

A while ago my wife came to pick me up from work. She parked up in the communal car park on the industrial estate and sat with her book and waited. As she waited someone parked next to her. The woman driver of the other car parked very close and as she opened her door it banged my wife's car door, not once or twice but repeatedly. My wife wound down her window and angrily suggested she stopped fckig up her door. The woman's reply, ' ooh sorry, I didn't know you were in there'!! WTF?

[SLacKer]

Pontoneer said:

martin84 said:

Pontoneer said:

Good drivers reverse into spaces ; bad drivers reverse into children , shopping trolleys , other cars , OAP's ............................

But why do people just wander behind a moving car? I mean why? Seriously? They can see it's moving, they can see the lights are on but they just stick their blinkers on and keep walking anyway. Are people no longer afraid of being run over? Do schools teach kids that cars are spongey? Pedestrians seem to think a human being can look in 74 different directions at once whilst inside a motorcar.

Anybody who walks in the way of moving vehicles deserves whatever happens to them because these people are clearly low IQ drains on resources that we could do without as a civilisation. Total spastics.

Why do drivers just drive along a road when some idiot is reversing blindly out into the road from a drive or parking space ? The logic is exactly the same . I will keep walking by blind blunderers , and bang on their bootlid if need be , because they should be looking where they are going and giving way to passers by . Most people in car parks will be drivers themselves .

What a strange attitude. When I am in a car park I am aware of what the cars are doing and if I see one reversing out I don't put myself in its way. I simply stop and wait or go a different route.

Why not try being considerate of others if we all did it we would all be a lot better off. Let parents park in the spaces set aside for them and disabled drivers in their spaces and the rest of us be grateful we are not in need of a disabled space. If someone parks over two spaces then disapprove by all means but don't become some kind of Judge Dredd who will Judge and punish for the crime.

I have read some of these posts and thought I had gone through a portal to mumsnet, parking next to a car that is parked away from it all just to show em, leaving trolleys near to other cars just to show em, it is just a car, that is a fancy car it deserves to be keyed. Is this a car enthusiast site anymore?

If you feel the need to do this then maybe the problem lies within you and not the driver who has inadvertently enraged you.

[Face for Radio]

GoneAnon said:

Our kids are 21 and 24 so grew up before P&C spaces were widely available (or maybe hadn't even been invented?)

We seem to have coped with getting them in and out of their cots/child-seats/booster-seats without dislocating our backs, damaging our own or another car, or losing a child to a manic car-park racer.

Car doors are a lot thicker now than they used to be.

I'm sure if you looked at a European/Japanese car from the 1980s you'd laugh at how thin and flimsy the doors are in comparison to a car of today.