Anyone else experience the total lack of care for others property nowadays in regards to cars, letalone anything else?

 

everytime i park in a carpark i do so as far away from other vehicles as possible, and someone STILL parks next to me! and to add insult to injury tiny dents appear around the same time ,

 

due to have my roof resprayed soon to another colour and a remap also soon to come, but keep looking at the car and seeing these bloody dents is making me want to just trade it in and get another car rather than waste my money..

 

 

just to add, im rather OCD, these dents arent even noticeable to the majority.. fecking brain, turn off :peek:

Im OCD too

And suffered a ding in my passenger door. ( and dont want it redone, because im sure I'll be able to tell the difference in the paint. Id rather have the paint all original)

So now i park nowhere where someone can park next to me. Parallel parking is generally okay, but carparks are a no no.

People say its ridiculous, its only a fabia etc etc but i dont care, if it stops my car from being dinged. People are just far too careless.

My car looks trashed, dents chips dings everywhere, do I care? Yes, but my car is a daily driver, just need to learn not to get upset everytime I wash it and see another chip in the paint, still not sure how they get there, I to park 6 miles away when I visit Sainsburys so no one touches my car 

I cant do that though

I wanna just keep mine looking new for aslong as possible

Not so much as a swirl mark!

Other than that ding

I cant do that though

I wanna just keep mine looking new for aslong as possible

Not so much as a swirl mark!

Other than that ding

 

aye frustrating isnt it, the dents to count so far for me are about 3-4 that are visible, and i think they are small enough to be paintless, but still frustrating that i have to pay to remove dents that i didnt even cause!!

I was sat in my car this weekend in an end bay with extra space between me and any potential people parking next to me. Bloke pulls up (youngish lad) in a 51 plate Micra 3door and promptly kicked his door open slamming straight into my car :(

Luckily he had some rubber edge things which gave a dull thud and did not dent it.

He saw me and just slammed the door shut and walked off!

aye frustrating isnt it, the dents to count so far for me are about 3-4 that are visible, and i think they are small enough to be paintless, but still frustrating that i have to pay to remove dents that i didnt even cause!!

Yeah. Worth doing if its pointless though

Mines just creased the door abit. Doesnt look too bad but needs all the side spraying to get it perfect.

N im not brave enough. I can spot new paint a mile away

I was sat in my car this weekend in an end bay with extra space between me and any potential people parking next to me. Bloke pulls up (youngish lad) in a 51 plate Micra 3door and promptly kicked his door open slamming straight into my car :(

Luckily he had some rubber edge things which gave a dull thud and did not dent it.

He saw me and just slammed the door shut and walked off!

I do hope you set fire to his car before leaving

Had a go at a bloke in a van driver who did it to Clio got a reply of it only hit your plastic mate so turned round with a reply, that shouldn't matter you ****, get some respect for other people's property

Just browsing local dent repair places, unfortunately they dont seem to give an 'estimate' or pics accompanied by average cost for repair so no idea what its gonna cost to get out 3 tiny dents.. hmmm without taking it in ofc.

Here's one of the dents, im right in saying thats very minor?

 

 

(no its not where's wally, look at the wall pillar nearest the gate.)

 

 

 

 

I feel your pain

I've got 18 car park dents at last count, some very minor with only panel distortion and no paint removal at current on the car, if I decide to keep I shall be getting every single one removed and a full respray

I dont have any dings at all

I've never had one

Had a go at a bloke in a van driver who did it to Clio got a reply of it only hit your plastic mate so turned round with a reply, that shouldn't matter you ****, get some respect for other people's property

You do have incredibly strong love for that little Clio of yours but knob heads will see a car like yours (bone stock not modified) and not batter an eyelid if they hit it (curses them) my mum was with me in my car once and opened my door and slammed it into the car next to me, I went mental at her and made her get down on her knees and check the car she'd knocked had no damage :evil:

You do have incredibly strong love for that little Clio of yours but knob heads will see a car like yours (bone stock not modified) and not batter an eyelid if they hit it (curses them) my mum was with me in my car once and opened my door and slammed it into the car next to me, I went mental at her and made her get down on her knees and check the car she'd knocked had no damage :evil:

Women are the worst offenders,sad to say their minds are never focused on what they are doing,one pulled in next to me the other day,home made tattoos and with her bingo wings flapping,parked about 9 inches from me.I just rolled the window down knocked on her window and said "dont even think about opening that door,try parking it properly first"

And handbags being used as a weapon...pfft......watched a woman squeeze past a BMW dragging the metal zipper of her handbag right down one side in Tesco last week.Having realised what she had done she still seemed more worried about what possible damage  her handbag had incurred.So I slipped a note under the BMW's windscreen wipers with my phone number on and her reg' number and car description attached..I'm really pleased to report that that evening the guy with the Beemer phoned me and said his wife had waited and confronted the woman and she had cut them a cheque on the spot for the damage.Kerching.....RESULT. :clap:

Edited 16 May, 201511 yr by faradaycage

Im dreading the day I find dings in my Roomster, its bad enough finding tiny scratches in the paintwork.

Yes there is a total lack of respect for other people full stop, maybe its always been like this but it just doesnt seem like it. I cant say that its gender related either.

Not a great deal you can do about it, change your car itll only happen again.

You do have incredibly strong love for that little Clio of yours but knob heads will see a car like yours (bone stock not modified) and not batter an eyelid if they hit it (curses them) my mum was with me in my car once and opened my door and slammed it into the car next to me, I went mental at her and made her get down on her knees and check the car she'd knocked had no damage :evil:

At the point of saying best car I've owned which says something, it does my head in, especially as I'm OCD about the car

It's bloody annoying! SWMBO has a 13 year old Mazda 626 that we try to look after. We had all four corners resprayed last year as they came with scrapes when we bought the car. It now has damage to two corners again and three significant door dents, along with a multitude of small chips. I find it infuriating. It's far from a flash car but it's decent and we want to keep it for a while longer. Why don't people have any respect?

Parking... Park well alongside another car and in theory you are protecting each other. Or use an end bay to reduce risk.

I try not to park anywhere near badly parked cars or cars where they've not bothered straightening the steering.

As usual on this subject, this scene from Pulp Fiction sums up my feelings on the matter:

 

Link not embedded as NSFW (language used)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1TSsS-mB6c

To be fair, I've given up. I can be in 20 different supermarket car parks a day, all with their own batch of *****. I now just have a rough looking car for work, and play about with it under the bonnet, and something better in the shed.

 

Although, when I catch someone, if they don't say sorry, their car gets the toe cap treatment more often than not.

I know a good local dent repair man, does my cars for £30 a panel. Hoping I don't get any for a while in the citigo, but the doors do look incredibly vulnerable!

Parking... Park well alongside another car and in theory you are protecting each other. Or use an end bay to reduce risk.

 

Glad you say "in theory" cause in most car parks that I visit, there's never enough room to open a door anywhere near fully without hitting the one next to it!

Saying that, I don't hit other peoples cars.

 

If I cannot find a space 'well out of the way' I park with my near side parked just within the lines, hopefully with another car already done the same on the other side (but one) so there is no chance of a vehicle (other than a motorcycle) getting in between. This gives me the best chance of not getting 'Dinged'.

 

Bought a lovely one year old Saab 9-3. Parked in Morrisons car park one time when it was very busy and before a big extension. Old geezer from next car comes back, opens the door, sticks his head in the car and pushes his door into my car with his feckin arse.

 

I did not notice any damage, (so did not say anything as it was an old chap) until I got home. .

Edited 19 May, 201511 yr by Tilt

Like yourself I used to get so worked up with this, but after years of trying to protect and look after my car, I've now just given up. If I don't I'll just end up stressed all the time and who wants to live life like that.

 

It's easier to say than do, I still get angry at it but I calm down quicker and I'm able to ignore the defects more than I used to.

 

Today for example my boss has hit my car whilst she was parking, bent the metal number plate. Did I get ticked off? Hell yes but chose to ignore it and not say anything as it's easier than the fall out with her.

 

Personal I've heard and obviously I'd never do this, but when someone has done this in the past I've "heard" of people retuning the favour by using their keys on the offenders paint work.