Supermarket car park, absolutely petrified
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It's not just cars parked.in car parks either.
At my last house our cars were parked on the road more or less.outside the house.
I was peering out of our front window waiting for my brother to pick me up, maybe 10-15 mins.
In that time someone :-
1) parallel parked in front of my car and nudged it when reversing in.
2) some young scrotes walked down the line of cars and tried every single car door handle as they went past
3) some kids larking about play fighting staggered / fell onto next doors car bodywork
At that same house there was always something unsavoury happening:- to name a few
I had my camper door mirrors kicked off twice
Same camper scratched down every nearside panel in one incident
Wifes car scratched and footprints on the roof and bonnet with dents
Umpteen door mirrors kicked off other people's cars
Watched some unruly drunks take a run and jump onto the bonnet of a Merc SL and ran over the top of it
Watched a gang of kids just lob empty beer bottles down the middle of the street hitting cars and smashing
Another gang booting a football as high in the air as they could coming down on cars bonnets / roofs
Thoroughly depressing behaviour with no respect for other people's property or environment
It's probably for the best we don't get to see all that goes on in the "life of a car" when our back is turned!
OH AND WE MOVED !!
At my last house our cars were parked on the road more or less.outside the house.
I was peering out of our front window waiting for my brother to pick me up, maybe 10-15 mins.
In that time someone :-
1) parallel parked in front of my car and nudged it when reversing in.
2) some young scrotes walked down the line of cars and tried every single car door handle as they went past
3) some kids larking about play fighting staggered / fell onto next doors car bodywork
At that same house there was always something unsavoury happening:- to name a few
I had my camper door mirrors kicked off twice
Same camper scratched down every nearside panel in one incident
Wifes car scratched and footprints on the roof and bonnet with dents
Umpteen door mirrors kicked off other people's cars
Watched some unruly drunks take a run and jump onto the bonnet of a Merc SL and ran over the top of it
Watched a gang of kids just lob empty beer bottles down the middle of the street hitting cars and smashing
Another gang booting a football as high in the air as they could coming down on cars bonnets / roofs
Thoroughly depressing behaviour with no respect for other people's property or environment
It's probably for the best we don't get to see all that goes on in the "life of a car" when our back is turned!
OH AND WE MOVED !!
Andeh1 said:
We had someone force a trolley down the side of my wife's car, leaving deep gouges along her car & neighbour car.
Went to tescos manager who promptly fobbed me off (politely) saying we were about the 6th people that MORNING to come in asking for cctv for the car park. Chap before came back to find his bump pushed under his car (ie it had been ripped off & someone had tucked it under his car to get it out of the car of others)
He explained this is why the store have no access to the cctv, otherwise it'd be a full time team needed to keep up with the demands for copies of it.
They should just make it available online and free for anyone to look at and download. It might make people behave themselves when parking and save Tesco staff a job. Went to tescos manager who promptly fobbed me off (politely) saying we were about the 6th people that MORNING to come in asking for cctv for the car park. Chap before came back to find his bump pushed under his car (ie it had been ripped off & someone had tucked it under his car to get it out of the car of others)
He explained this is why the store have no access to the cctv, otherwise it'd be a full time team needed to keep up with the demands for copies of it.
MGirl said:
Yup! It’s absolutely terrifying. I’ve once had a bit of a scummy woman give me abuse about my ‘precious’ car when I was sat in an Asda car park waiting on my Mum. I think she thought I was so worried about the car I hadn’t left it when it was actually that I don’t like Asda and had no need to go in. I just ignored the scrote..
First time I’ve heard a woman being called a ‘scrote’!Andeh1 said:
We had someone force a trolley down the side of my wife's car, leaving deep gouges along her car & neighbour car.
Went to tescos manager who promptly fobbed me off (politely) saying we were about the 6th people that MORNING to come in asking for cctv for the car park. Chap before came back to find his bump pushed under his car (ie it had been ripped off & someone had tucked it under his car to get it out of the car of others)
He explained this is why the store have no access to the cctv, otherwise it'd be a full time team needed to keep up with the demands for copies of it.
... the 6th people ... ???Went to tescos manager who promptly fobbed me off (politely) saying we were about the 6th people that MORNING to come in asking for cctv for the car park. Chap before came back to find his bump pushed under his car (ie it had been ripped off & someone had tucked it under his car to get it out of the car of others)
He explained this is why the store have no access to the cctv, otherwise it'd be a full time team needed to keep up with the demands for copies of it.
I feel for you, OP. I would never take my weekend cars to a supermarket car parks these days. The mouth-breathers have been busy breeding these last few years and, what with the advent of lease and PCP, the vast majority of people just don’t give a damn about other people’s possessions. I’m even nervous going to such places in my family workhorse and that’s already covered in dings.
I hate to point this out on a forum for car enthusiasts but cars are literally just stuff. Completely replaceable and repairable stuff.
Yes we love them, yes we would like to care for them but if you want to use one to do anything other than stand and stare at you must accept that it may get damaged including by people who don’t see anything other than just another tin box.
Yes we love them, yes we would like to care for them but if you want to use one to do anything other than stand and stare at you must accept that it may get damaged including by people who don’t see anything other than just another tin box.
Chrishum said:
I hate to point this out on a forum for car enthusiasts but cars are literally just stuff. Completely replaceable and repairable stuff.
Yes we love them, yes we would like to care for them but if you want to use one to do anything other than stand and stare at you must accept that it may get damaged including by people who don’t see anything other than just another tin box.
This. Plus I must've been incredibly lucky over the years not to ever accrue any significant damage to any of my cars ever due to parking in car parks. I've had people open doors into my car before, often elderly people who need to get the door open quite a long way to get out, but cars are amazingly tough, you rarely get so much as a scratch. You'd really have to be going some to really damage a car with a car door or a shopping trolley.Yes we love them, yes we would like to care for them but if you want to use one to do anything other than stand and stare at you must accept that it may get damaged including by people who don’t see anything other than just another tin box.
I agree that parking spaces probably could be rather bigger these day, especially widthways.
I've become paranoid about parking anywhere. In general I don't think people set out to dent cars, but i too have stood by my car and watched people drive in (pet hate) or reverse right close. I once stood between their car and mine (this was at WBAC last week) and the guy got the idea and moved. But I'm having the car appraised and he parks so bloody close he would have to push the door against the car to open his.
Anyway, they are only things, but it doesn't stop it being annoying. Still keeps dent folk in work.
Regarding chap about kids bashing doors, simple, photograph cars, call insurance company, he loses NCB over a few dents. I assume bing PH you are also a millionaire so this wouldn't bother your premium woes.
Anyway, they are only things, but it doesn't stop it being annoying. Still keeps dent folk in work.
Regarding chap about kids bashing doors, simple, photograph cars, call insurance company, he loses NCB over a few dents. I assume bing PH you are also a millionaire so this wouldn't bother your premium woes.
Chrishum said:
I hate to point this out on a forum for car enthusiasts but cars are literally just stuff. Completely replaceable and repairable stuff.
Yes we love them, yes we would like to care for them but if you want to use one to do anything other than stand and stare at you must accept that it may get damaged including by people who don’t see anything other than just another tin box.
That doesn’t change the fact that damaging someone else’s property is a scummy thing to do.Yes we love them, yes we would like to care for them but if you want to use one to do anything other than stand and stare at you must accept that it may get damaged including by people who don’t see anything other than just another tin box.
W201_190e said:
gforceg said:
W201_190e said:
Where did you find the E34? There are hardly any for sale any more. I wish I picked one up when they were plentiful and £1500!
I think it's an E32. https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
If I'd had my way I'd have had a E23 (I've posted a stunning looking one as my pick) but that threat made me have a browse - I saw this and I bought it the next day. Only 88k miles and drives superbly. Very fresh too. I'm so pleased with it that I'm really on the hunt for another interesting shed, and an 840Ci/850Ci to complete my collection.
The Moose said:
Chrishum said:
I hate to point this out on a forum for car enthusiasts but cars are literally just stuff. Completely replaceable and repairable stuff.
Yes we love them, yes we would like to care for them but if you want to use one to do anything other than stand and stare at you must accept that it may get damaged including by people who don’t see anything other than just another tin box.
That doesn’t change the fact that damaging someone else’s property is a scummy thing to do.Yes we love them, yes we would like to care for them but if you want to use one to do anything other than stand and stare at you must accept that it may get damaged including by people who don’t see anything other than just another tin box.
deeen said:
Yes cars are "stuff", but they're also most people's second most expensive bit of "stuff" after their home. So how about... I don't devalue yours, and you don't devalue mine? Sadly, as noted above, this concept seems to have passed a few people by.
But it is stuff that regularly (daily in my case) gets thrown into incredibly close contact with other people's stuff, and with the best will in the world accidents happen. People are often careless but rarely acting with malice aforethought. These threads always devolve into the same whinges about people, people with kids, or poor people who drive SUVs or people carriers who have lots of kids and are too fick to care about other people's property. Usually the term scum is wheeled out.
Yes it is bloody annoying if people open doors into your car, but I think life's too short to spend all day guarding your car, like a bloke I once saw in a supermarket carpark who actually prevented my wife from parking next to his new BMW. He was clearly a bit obsessive but I prefer to own a car, and not worry about minor dings and scratches, rather than have the car own me.
Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 22 May 16:42
Chrishum said:
I hate to point this out on a forum for car enthusiasts but cars are literally just stuff. Completely replaceable and repairable stuff.
Yes we love them, yes we would like to care for them but if you want to use one to do anything other than stand and stare at you must accept that it may get damaged including by people who don’t see anything other than just another tin box.
I think it's terrible that this attitude is prevalent in Britain today. You should have every right to expect others to respect your property.Yes we love them, yes we would like to care for them but if you want to use one to do anything other than stand and stare at you must accept that it may get damaged including by people who don’t see anything other than just another tin box.
As I often say these days, most of society's problems could be fixed if ownership of a taser was allowed... (kidding).
I actually trained my kids to be careful opening their car doors from when they were very little. They still are now.
As a car nut it mattered to me that I wasn't going to get into a situation where I had to defend them because they'd thoughtlessly dinged someone else's car.
I did have a situation with a couple in a RR sport. which was hit by a reversing vehicle in the rear whilst they sat in it (the other vehicle drove off). The couple jumped out, enraged, and blamed my eldest for hitting their front with a trolley (we were walking about 2 feet away with one of those very low flatbed Ikea trolleys, and no where near them) . The two of them were pointing to bug splatter, about 2 foot higher than the trolley bed, on their front wing and describing how my 6 stone weakling had hit the front of their vehicle so hard they had been jolted **forwards** in their seats and were already suffering whiplash. I never did get how they couldn't understand that this would have broken the laws of physics. Being nice, I did also call the Ikea security later on to give them their name and workplace address requesting they send them a copy of the CCTV of the accident (it was a local doc and his wife).
As a car nut it mattered to me that I wasn't going to get into a situation where I had to defend them because they'd thoughtlessly dinged someone else's car.
I did have a situation with a couple in a RR sport. which was hit by a reversing vehicle in the rear whilst they sat in it (the other vehicle drove off). The couple jumped out, enraged, and blamed my eldest for hitting their front with a trolley (we were walking about 2 feet away with one of those very low flatbed Ikea trolleys, and no where near them) . The two of them were pointing to bug splatter, about 2 foot higher than the trolley bed, on their front wing and describing how my 6 stone weakling had hit the front of their vehicle so hard they had been jolted **forwards** in their seats and were already suffering whiplash. I never did get how they couldn't understand that this would have broken the laws of physics. Being nice, I did also call the Ikea security later on to give them their name and workplace address requesting they send them a copy of the CCTV of the accident (it was a local doc and his wife).
I think a large problem is parking spaces being too small for people who either don't care enough to park slowly and properly or people who don't possess the ability to park properly, which if they don't hit your car when entering or exiting their space causes havoc opening doors. My Honda Prelude is the exact length of my local Tesco car park spaces and I always have to extract myself due to small spaces and long coupe doors. If a 25 year old Honda coupe can barely fit in these spaces god help anybody who daily drives a sensible estate car or needs an SUV for any reason.
My solution is dashcam parking mode, end spaces and shopping during the night (which conveniently fits in well with my studies and job). Ashley Neal did a video about his brand new BMW 320d being scraped by a woman with questionable morals and how his dashcam caught it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XhyDxuKMcc&ab...
and the follow up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBj0bg7lc4I&ab...
My solution is dashcam parking mode, end spaces and shopping during the night (which conveniently fits in well with my studies and job). Ashley Neal did a video about his brand new BMW 320d being scraped by a woman with questionable morals and how his dashcam caught it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XhyDxuKMcc&ab...
and the follow up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBj0bg7lc4I&ab...
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