If a car's $hitted up and scratched, I'll walk miles instead of going near it. Same goes for MPVs and cars with kids seats in.

The doors are going to be swung out without a care mostly.

Last year I was in a superstore with the Wife, as I walked out there was a 4x4 just pulling next to mine. As I walked over, the woman driving it opened her door and banged it into my car. I said to her 'Oi ! you've just whacked my door' she replied ' It was a ****ing accident wasn't it !'

Typical Chav

I'll park miles away for anyone and there are spaces I will always go for. I'll park tight to the kerb passenger side to reduce the chance of someone dinging my door. Bird crap comes off ASAP and I've been known to hose a car down late at night. I've been teased about how well I like to look after my cars but these people can quite frankly f@k off. These are the sorts of people who drive round in bog standard Clio's use bumpers to park and have never heard of a service. When I spend several thousand pounds on something you can be damn sure I'll look after it. My mother while drunk last week proudly told their friends I spent 6 hours cleaning and waxing my car that weekend. They seemed to be convinced the £5 wash by the Polish do as good a job. Yeah I bet... :wonder:

Lol my mum's friends love the fact I like to wash cars, they used to pay me to do their cars every weekend!

Last year I was in a superstore with the Wife, as I walked out there was a 4x4 just pulling next to mine. As I walked over, the woman driving it opened her door and banged it into my car. I said to her 'Oi ! you've just whacked my door' she replied ' It was a ****ing accident wasn't it !'

Typical Chav

And could it actually have been that, AN ACCIDENT?

I actually feel sorry for some of you. The weekend after I collected the Yeti I went out greenlaning in it. I did about 15 miles around Claerwen Dam on a rough gravel track, and by the time I got home you would have thought the bottom of the car was grey not brown. Since then it regularly gets covered in mud and gets blasted with the pressure washer when SWMBO complains she's getting muddy getting in it.

It's only a machine, bodywork can be fixed blahh blah, I'm a bit OCD in car parks since i resprayed my pickup though, think I preferred it when it was hangin' with rust holes and dents in every panel, I didn't care what I hit with it then or where I left it or wether or not the keys were in the ignition..

Although I did see something that made me cringe the other day, some of the roads are quite narrow round here, and I saw a brand spanking new Audi get a 6 foot gouge down one side about 2 inches deep from a passing tractor, the trailer had something sticking out from the side which did it, oddly enough I don't even think the Audi driver had even noticed it happened, in fact I don't even think he could see over the steering wheel :wonder:

And could it actually have been that, AN ACCIDENT?

No ?

1) You park at a reasonable distance to the car next to you

2) As you prepare to exit your vehicle, you look out of the window to see just how much room there is

3) Then you carefully open your steel door as not to hit someone elses expensive property

4) If you hit someone elses property, then apologise (as I would) and not be as classy as she was

There's absolutely NO reason for swinging the door in the way she did. It wasn't windy, she didn't have an epileptic fit, she was just plain THICK !

I think the point is being lost. We have OCD about clean cars yes....but thats nothing to do with this.

Point is nobody would come to your house....slam things in to your door......smash things about a bit and have you be happy about it. Doesnt matter what the posession is it just shows that noone respects others anymore

Just been over to the shops and seen a woman getting out of her car by banging her door in to the car next to it and she didnt even acknowledge anything! i would dread that happening to my car.

Ive had various runnings win people. Landscape gardeners strimming next to my car and flicking stones against it. Windowcleaners emptying their dirty water so it splashes my car etc.

I dont know if its just me that likes owning a ncie clean well maintained car but people need to start being respectful

Quite.

I suppose one of the worst recent examples for us was an Audi A3 driving woman with kids in Ludlow supermarket car park. She had parked next to our recently purchased very clean low mileage Fabia VRs.

We were coming back to our car and wife noticed (what the hell I was doing I don’t know) her looking around the edges of our car and then getting back in her car and moving it. We noticed two ding marks in the door next to her car and challenged her as she was moving off to the shops with her Junior schoo kids. Well she went on the attack and said something about our crumby Skoda etc claiming when she/her kids opened the door (she had subsequently moved it) the Audi door did not touch the new ding marks on the Skoda. I was really ****ed off and said keep an eye on your crumby kids when they get out of the car. What really annoyed us was her moving the car to try and prove her kids (probably was one of them) had nothing to do with it. The ruined a nice spring day for us.

I propose something.

You how they have the extra wide spaces for disabled and family & child spaces... They should have Car OCD spaces. Extra wide with room in between them so no body can slam their door into you.

Phil

I propose something.

You how they have the extra wide spaces for disabled and family & child spaces... They should have Car OCD spaces. Extra wide with room in between them so no body can slam their door into you.

Phil

Agreed but that would be wishing for too much. :think:

I can never understand why people treat their own cars so badly never mind other peoples. SWMBO's car is newish and could look really smart but instead it's filled with rubbish always dirty, alloys are all kerbed and she doesn't care. She's not even that bothered about getting it serviced. The last one was held together with duck tape so it's not a new trend.

Same for some expensive cars I've looked at. Big Audis that were 30k+ when new often have interiors that look like the owner had used it for carrying rubble to the skip. I know some of them are company cars but it seems to be the majority that look like no one has cared a jot about them.

Forget being a car enthusiast, with the VRS I'm also thinking I've spent the best part of £18k on this so I'm going to look after it. If nothing else I don't want to pay out any more money because I've not looked after it. So at nearly 5 year old and 56k my VRS looks better than the missus's 3yr old car with 25k.

I propose something.

You how they have the extra wide spaces for disabled and family & child spaces... They should have Car OCD spaces. Extra wide with room in between them so no body can slam their door into you.

Phil

Better still, have an IQ test form part of the driving test. Should at least rid us of some of these numpties

Well i think online shopping may be a thing for me going forward.

And all these people with partners, wifes, girlfriends who mistreat their cars and others.....id of got rid straight away!! and trust me ive done it

Well i think online shopping may be a thing for me going forward.

And all these people with partners, wifes, girlfriends who mistreat their cars and others.....id of got rid straight away!! and trust me ive done it

I've trained my partner well in looking after our cars haha!!

I was dating a girl for a few months and she opened my door on to a bollard.....didnt even acknowledg she had done it and then slammed my door shut......i dumped her the next day :p

From a planner's point of view, Councils are not making the car parking spaces bigger but car manufacturers are, so there's the rub (no pun intended). It's to make you walk, essentially. And to the poster who lambasted users of mobility cars/hire cars etc - let's not generalise, shall we. There are some perfectly good parkers out there and some truly terrible ones. The phrase about Chelsea and tractors springs to mind....

I've trained my partner well in looking after our cars haha!!

+1!!

Some people just think of cars as a lump of metal to get them from A to B. so that's why they have no respect for their own vehicle never mind other people's. If I'm going to spend £18,000 on a car then I will look after it like a baby. Mine is dirty at the moment due to salt from the road, so it's covered in white stuff, and I hate it looking like that. Can't wait for milder weather to arrive so I can give it a wash and wax. I'm proud to drive in a nice new clean car with no damages.

My car is a tool to get me to and from work, to go on holiday, and to do my hobbies. Nothing more than that. It "might" get pressure washed every couple of weeks, but is invariably covered in mud, because my journey to work involves muddy country lanes, plus my hobbies require it to be driven off-road. It is always serviced and checked religiously.

Does it bother me? Not particularly. I bought the vehicle I did for it to do exactly that. End of story.

However I would not INTENTIONALLY open it's doors into other vehicles, but I also accept that accidents happen. One of the good things about having an excessively muddy car is that people don't want to get near it as they don't want to get mucky!

At the moment I haven't got a hope of washing the car since all the car washes and pressure washers are closed, since frozen, but I will have to do something before we go to France in 2 weeks, otherwise SWMBO will complain.

I never wash mine between November and April. Too Damned cold

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I never wash mine between November and April. Too Damned cold

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Mine was last washed (by the garage) when in for a service at the beginning of December and before that when the garage fitted my winter tyres. Just not worth it with the muck and salt on the country roads I drive. Wonder if I can manage 'till the winter boots are due to come off again in about 6 weeks...............

You realise we three are about to be damned by the Obsessive Car Detailers.

I've owned my car just over a month and it's been washed 4 times and detailed once

I've owned my car just over a month and it's been washed 4 times and detailed once

Absolutely nowt wrong with that in my book. It's good to be proud and to care for your possesions that you've worked damned hard to purchase.

+1, and 10/10

Absolutely nowt wrong with that in my book. It's good to be proud and to care for your possesions that you've worked damned hard to purchase.

+1, and 10/10

Why thank you! I have the cleanest car for miles (other than the guy with a mint Ferrari f40 that just sits in his garage)

Come summer I even clean underneath and the engine bay :-)

You realise we three are about to be damned by the Obsessive Car Detailers.

As you have inferred, the car is there to do a job. Don't see the point of washing it just to get it covered in salt and crap again in a few miles of ****ty lanes of filthy motorways. It does get washed more often in the summer months. Might be different if it was mainly being driven as a "pride and joy" and I have no argument with those that want to do that.

Fact that my car is leased probably helps as there is less incentive to keep it pristine. So long as it is not bumped and scraped at the end of the lease that all that matters.