Door dings
 

Is it just me, or does it seem like the more you try and prevent door dings the more often they happen?

Whenever possible I park my car at the far end of the parking lot so people can only park on one side of me, and I move as far as I can to leave enough room for the other cars. If I can't park in an end spot, I try to park next to other cars where it looks like their owners take care of them.

Even so, I have two fairly good size door dings. One's on the rear fender but it's not as noticeable as it's near a bend, but the other is a good 1-1.5" dent/scratch right in the middle of the passenger door. Whenever I look at my car the sleek curves are ruined by this large ding :mad0259:

Does anyone know what sort of charge a repair shop would charge me to have the dent pulled back out (if it's possible)? I can live with the slight scratches, I polished it and it's not too bad, but I just want to get rid of this fricken dent!

If the paint is not cracked, just use a PDR shop. It can range fro $50-150 per panel depending on your location. I had 2 dents removed from my passenger door and it's perfect now.

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When you see a car parked really far away in the middle of no where, you know that they care about their car. People that are door ding conscious recognise that and park next to you because they know you wont hit their car. They protect one side of your car and you protect one side of theirs, win win. well generally thats the case

Seems to be different up here. I could park in the middle of a parking lot with no cars around me for say 20 parking spots, and some idiot in a POS car will park right next to me.

Probably does it to get your goat!

dent wizard charges $135.00 a ding. sometimes you can get the tech to come to your place of work,or your home.

+1

generally today,it's NOT a good idea to f**k with people!..just sayin'

this is one of reasons that i always park at middle of nowhere eventhough my wife complains. lol

This is why I set up my Weyland Yutani sentry guns before leaving my car out in public. The first shot goes in front of beat up old pickups. The second shot goes into the engine, and if they still insist on trying to park near my BRZ, the third burst goes into the driver. In case of xenomorphs, they're set to just open up straight away. You don't wanna know what those claws can do to your vehicle's paint, not to mention the acid blood.

Get there earlier or later.

like someone mentioned do PDR. It snot expensive and works good

Parking to avoid door dings is an obsession of mine that I have fine tuned over the years. Try to park on end spots, further away the better. Also look for spots that are angled with lines painted to define extra room between the space next to you. Angle your car with the tail closer to edge of the space next to you so when a car pulls in straight his door will be farther away from yours. Also only park next to 4 door sedans. Avoid large trucks and SUVs especially if it looks like they have kids. It does take a lot of effort, but anything I can to do to minimize the chance of a door ding is worth it to me.

Look out for car seats. I have kids myself, but if the car next to you is an SUV with car seats then you're probably a good target for getting a ding. Whether the mom/dad dings you opening the car or the kid kicks the door open, I can see this happening.

Parking next to vans is usually okay because of the sliding rear which takes the reckless parent/kid out of the equation.

Also avoid other two door cars. The doors are generally longer and need more space to open.

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Was just about to mention the moms & kids and their suvs.

Just stay clear from them... mainly.

I got a door ding 5 days after I got my car. I parked away from everyone, and when I did park, I was inside for only 15-20 minutes, and never saw anyone around my car. Still got one. I think it was from some retard parking in my company's employee only parking spots at work because no one with that paint color works where I do.

This car really attracts people to park next to it for some reason.

I was at the mall a while ago, on a weekday so there weren't many people there. I still parked in the back, away from everyone, when there were still MANY other open spots.


Come out, see this:

I saw this from a movie alright ?

This kid saw this Brand New Car, which was looking for a Parking space.

The car decided to park at a Far Far away spot with No One around. Walking out was 2 other younger man, who was having fun discussing stuff.

The 2 guys entered the market.

This kid was curious, he came toward the car to see it. It was such a beautiful car

This kid think "Hmm....these Jerks have the money to purchase a brand new car, and is sissy to park the car this far. Come to think about it, Is there any car in Daily use which has never had a Door Ding, or Scratch ?"

This kid took out the key, and decided to do a Key Scratch A long the Side of the Passenger car.

This kid took a picture in his cell phone.

This kid was proud to piss another man off.

This kid pulled out the paper and wrote "Car Dings, and Dents, and Scratches are the Inevitable, Please don't be a sissy"


***Disclaimer*** This was a story from a movie I watched, which I have forgot the name. But it is interesting enough to tell

As a father of three kids under the age of 8... This...

We were in the market to replace our 2006 Honda Odyssey a few months ago and I wanted an SUV (my wife loves her minivan). My wife pointed out having kids opening wide doors of an SUV to get in and out in tight parking spaces and she was correct.. We bought another Odyssey. There is something to be said for the sliding doors and never worrying about our kids opening the door into another car.

As to the OP, I feel for you. I was at Target recently and now have this random dent on my car on the rear top portion of the trunk. I still have no idea how it happened and am planning to take it to a paintless dent repair place because it drives me nuts.

I have seen some Jerks putting their Heavy Boxes, and Objects on my Trunk lid, instead of having it on the ground while loading it into their car.

If I caught some young punk going out of their way to do this to my car, I don't know if I would have the control not to punch his lights out..

Many people nowadays have little to no respect for others property, nor do they understand what it means to take responsibility for your actions. My five year old opened the door to my coupe (after I told her 100 times to wait for me to help her open the door and to always open it slowly and carefully) and hit a nice Mercedes parked right next to us (it made a little scratch on the door handle of the Mercedes). I made her wait with me until the gentleman came back to his car. I made her apologize (she was in tears) and then I offered to pay for the touch-up. He told me not to worry about it and told my little girl that he was not upset with her and he really appreciated her honesty.

Did you say anything. I sure would have and corrected their mistake real quick. That's not cool, not at all.

That is just it, it is not on the top, it is on the back of the trunk. Like someone smacked it hard with a cart or something. And what is wrong with people putting their things on another persons car!

I feel like if anyone is parking their car away from everyone else then you're just setting yourself up for some attention.

You can't help but notice a nice car sitting all by itself so maybe that's why some people are compelled to check it out and/or park next to it.

I couldn't say anything at all, because I didn't even want to bother running toward him like taking down a robber, so I was just walking toward it, and he finished loading, and got away. Luckily, there was no damage, beside some scratches as where he dragged his box off the surface

LooooL...
Either that guy was trying to mess your mind or did it because he also have the same mindset and knew you'd be kind enough to not bang your doors.

Yeah there are really some crazy people out there.
Especially when they really don't care of what they drive and view car as just a mean of transport.

I usually always park in parallel in 1st spot so nobody can hit my doors and the worse they can hit will be my rear bumper and slow hit hopefully.
I always think people who do parallel parking are better driver.

If I cannot find parallel space then I would try to park as far as I can but not really in the middle or eye catching.

If I were you I'd park few spots next to those boxes.

I always, always, always, park in the safest possible section of a parking lot. Dents still happen. No matter what, if you drive a car on a regular basis, you will get dings, dents, scratches, chips, etc. Hell, my BRZ came with 2 dents from the dealer! Rather than bitching, I had my paintless dent removal guy take care of it because he does amazing work and is very reasonably priced. I had a vice president in my company open his Mercedes CLK door right into my quarter panel and not even tell me about it (I notified him and he paid for the damage). The moral of the story is its going to happen, don't get all bent out of shape about it. Try to establish a good relationship with a body shop/dent removal company and it will pay off in the long run.

i would have gone ballistic.

I agree. I have a 5 inch hortional door ding and a half dollar size dent from probably a big car. I got.it pulled from a friend shop here in socal for 80.

All good recommendations. One more I'd like to add. On windy days, when I can't find a good spot, I avoid parking next to a car whose door will get whipped open by the wind resulting in an instant ding.

This usually means you park in the row where cars will point towards the wind.

Thanks for all the advice! Most of what you guys have suggested I try to do, but in this case I was gone for a week and who knows who parked next to me during that time. I'll try and get some PDR done, that's not very expensive though, I was expecting worse.

Parking to avoid door dings is science in itself lol

Gotta analyze the chances.

Kids, pets, handicap, vans trucks, expensive cars, compact spaces, beaters, shopping carts, other sports cars. Factors to consider when parking haha

Another is baby on board sticker. Maybe they have to carry baby seat out and not pay attention to the door as it swings open and bangs you.

may have been mentioned, but look for curbs, poles, barriers on one side of the spot. then park as close as you possible can to it. that way one side of the car is protected and there should be plenty of extra space on the other side.

I used to get door dings once in a while. I stopped giving a shit years ago and that seems to have helped quit a bit...

Agreed, fucking xenomorphs

yeah! i sorta feel the same way,but i still park away from others.i try to make some kind of "half-ass" effort such as it is! thing is,IF ya can keep it to maybe one or two ''dings" over time,then when you are ready to sell,you can use "pdr",and get way for short money!..just sayin'

You may want to watch less movies and learn how to write.

Ha...I still do that sometimes just for fun...I'll park out in the middle of nowhere, and 9 out of 10 times I'll come out to find at least one car parked right next to mine. It's just so confounding I can't help but laugh...:bonk:

OMFG I hate this so much happens all the time... I want to start ripping heads off :mad0259:

I've found the best way to avoid door dings is to not worry about them and just park your car like a normal human being.