Door dings

[M-17]

Originally Posted by soulstice

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.

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

Just stay clear from them... mainly.

[KevinBRZ]

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.

[campy]

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:

[Whitigir]

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

[thill]

Originally Posted by M-17

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

Just stay clear from them... mainly.

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.

[Whitigir]

Originally Posted by thill

I was at Target recently and now have this random dent on my car on the rear top portion of the trunk.

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.

[thill]

Originally Posted by Whitigir

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

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.

[M-17]

Originally Posted by Whitigir

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.

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

[thill]

Originally Posted by Whitigir

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.

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!

[M-17]

Originally Posted by campy

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.

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.

[Whitigir]

Originally Posted by M-17

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

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

[gzpermadi]

Originally Posted by campy

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:

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.

[Umbie]

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.

[asia_minor]

Originally Posted by Whitigir

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.

i would have gone ballistic.