Why don't cars come with the equivalent of yacht fenders? It should be possible to engineer something that drops rubber sheets out from near the window-entry point enough to prevent scratches/chips/minor dents. I suspect that big dents are unusual. The other option would be conspicuous security (even if it's fake) - like having a Google-style camera on your roof (only when parked, obviously).

Who'd park next to this and open their door into it?

"Simply Ridiculous"

 

They already do, its called the Citroen Cactus

Edited 18 December, 201510 yr by Prykey

Ford did something clever a while ago - but I haven´t heard any news from it in a long time:

 

http://www.ford.co.uk/FordFleet/NewsAndReviews/FordForBusiness/2013/June/Door-Edge-Protection

Ford did something clever a while ago - but I haven´t heard any news from it in a long time:

 

http://www.ford.co.uk/FordFleet/NewsAndReviews/FordForBusiness/2013/June/Door-Edge-Protection

 

I have to say this looks like something that is shared on the 1st April (All Fools Day) in the UK

 

Mind you if it is true that would be a step in the right direction, however all of this could be avoided if people were more careful with how they park and took ownership in ensuring that their passengers got out of the car without smashing the door into someone else's pride and joy.

 

I've offered people where I live lessons in parking, they don't like it, however unless someone points out to them that they are being stupid how will they learn?!

 

If I had the cover on my motorcycle one of my neighbours would park so close that you knew he couldn't get out of his vehicle without touching the cover, but when the cover was off he would park sensibly, I stopped him one day and asked him how he expected me to be able to remove the cover and take it off it's stand without me at least leaning on his car and then showed him that everything on a motorcycle is done from the left-hand side and that if I lost control of it whilst taking it off the stand it was his car that would be damaged, he soon got the point!

Ford did something clever a while ago - but I haven´t heard any news from it in a long time:

 

http://www.ford.co.uk/FordFleet/NewsAndReviews/FordForBusiness/2013/June/Door-Edge-Protection

 

The new Focus has these door protectors that flip out when you open the door, my cousin has one so I've seen them..........simply clever.

Doesn't matter what gadgets are invented or how many times you pull them up on it , some people are just thick.

I think that parking dings in supermarkets probably cost 'normal' motorists an undisclosed fortune.  Hence the proliferation of 'dent doctors'.  In common with a previous poster I always select the most isolated part of the supermarket car park but when I return to my car some 'twxt' has decided to park right next to me despite the availability of a hundred other spaces in that particular corner.  And its usually a small two door hatchback with those wardrobe doors so wide that even Fatty Arbuckle could dive through the open doors of the car from one side to the other and land on the tarmacadam completely unscathed.  Then as I rush towards my car to check for damage, Widow T****y appears, gets a side by side pushchair out, puts two jam covered toddlers in it, grabs another kid in her arms, closes her driver's door with her foot, scrapes along my car with the pram and then asks me 'who the fuxx are you looking at you old pervert?' 

If I said what I think about these people it would result in a large number of asterisks plastered all over my post. Let's just leave things as that I have a great distaste for inconsiderate people which sadly makes up most of the population these days.

 

At least it's nice to see so many genuine people on these forums. Maybe Skoda does attract a certain type of like minded buyer

If I ever have to park in a space that's a little tight, it's windy or any other reason the door might catch another car, I won't let my 7yo open the door. He had to wait for me to come round and open it for him. Usually with my hand along the edge of the door. Just incase he knocks it my hand is between the two cars.

I hate the thought that some people just don't care. I've lost count how many marks and scratches I've come back to.

And of course....

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDrzMGdYWZc

Thankfully not damaged but on unloading from the transporter what did I see but a 2" by 1/2" bird strike on rear passenger side door. Just below window. Dried solid.

My new paintwork!!!!

Took 10 minutes of very careful soaking then removing.

Have also agreed with hubby the new car will be good for our health as we will park in as quiet a spot as possible at supermarket and the like lol

Good luck with that.... ;-)

Just cleaned mine before the rain started .... Ignore the damage ..... Ignore the damage ...Ignore the damage ....

And of course....

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDrzMGdYWZc

 

 They did actually exist. Several years ago I was engaged in a Clinical  Trial at Hammersmith Medicines Research and one of the fellow guinea pigs was a chap from South Africa called Fred, who was a very interesting   guy. ( There were  several from South Africa I seem to remember who were  not happy the way things had been going  ) but Fred had  left that country in a hurry apparently because he designed and made the flame throwers. The reason for their need was  that at traffic lights  certain  persons would  hold-up  cars with guns demanding  money etc, so a deterrent  was devised. And that's where Fred came in, ( and out )