I have to get to work for 7.20am every morning to ensure getting a space in the large (and very rough) car park.

Having only had my Octy for around 6 weeks i'm still at the stage of worrying about numpties denting the doors when getting out.

Left work at 4pm today, and returned to my car to find...a silver 56 plate Merc Coupe sitting against my rear bumper, pushing it in slightly!!

WTF - it wasn't as if they had to sit that close, there was plenty of space behind them for cars to get by.

I moved the car forward and found a slight groove, enough to catch you fingernail on so wasn't happy.

Got home, got the polish out and managed to polish it away, but that's not the point - why can't people park more consideratly?!

If I see it again, they may end up with a flat tyre for their troubles Then again, i'll probably get caught and a hard time so maybe a nice wee note on the window would suffice:P

On the way home I spotted 2 different smashes so it could always be a LOT worse!

i may of just took the wheel brace to the wing there and then , but as you said it would be sods law and someone would see you

Got home, got the polish out and managed to polish it away, but that's not the point - why can't people park more consideratly?!

Been in one or two car parks which have loads of space and always find someone has to squeeze next to you, usually a 4x4 lump or something that looks like its been pulled from the scrap yard. These days I try to park in a space where you only have to worry about one side being zapped.

Then again, i'll probably get caught and a hard time so maybe a nice wee note through the window would suffice:P

Post it note stuck to a brick perhaps?

Chris

i dont know if your local sainsbury has them, but at my local sainsbury's they have this motley crew of monkeys that do the hand car washing, i saw one of them deliberately putting a scratch down the side of swmbo's clio with his hand-cart thingy...... needless to say next time i go up to sainsburys i'm gonna taking old "smokey joe" mk2 golf and i'm gonna smash staright into his trolley thing.... they're like crazed animals these people, and they get funny if you refuse to let them wash your car

Feel for you mate. Over the past 2 years I have suffered the following on the works car park and work related business;

1 Break in

1 Person drive into the front of my car

1 Person reverse into the side of my car

1 Messed up Insurance Policy

My conclusion is that if you cherish your car and like to take care of it, don't use it for work save it for the weekend or something and get a car specifically for work, the supermarket etc...that you can live with gettng a few dings on.

I now drive a 1.4 Megane (Had it 2 months, already got 2 dings on the drivers door) and am saving for a decent car for the weekends I can, cherish, clean, polish etc.... without fear of day to day car park related damage

My old car got shot, four times. Luckily it was all on one window which didn't shatter because it was laminated. No bodywork damage. Could have been much worse.

It's not the point and you shouldn't have to and it won't really solve the problem but... what about getting a tow bar?

A nice solid hunk of metal sitting by your rear bumper is the ideal defence for inconsiderate parkers.

I'm lucky enough to have an end space at work and always park right up to the kerb leaving a big gap to the other side - I do the same at the supermarket (or use 2 at the very back if it's quiet). No dings yet...

IIf I see it again, they may end up with a flat tyre for their troubles

where i park my car for work, an ncp lot, has a taxi firm at one side which the taxi drivers use as overspill if the rank is full, they get away with not paying as it's pay & display. anyway, coming back to the car one night i spotted one of the taxi drivers pull in beside my car and fling his door open, jump out, leave something into the rank and then zoom off. when i arrived at my car the t**t had put a long vertical dent and paint transfer on my car!

i went and spoke to the dispatcher who tried to palm me off, then spoke to the taxi firm owner who did the same, rung police but they did'nt want ot know. so a few weeks later, and not like me to do so, i saw said taxi driver's car, they own their cars, he was in the rank and no one was about, so... i booted the driver's door, left a pretty large dent. i know i should'nt have but it ****ed me off so much that some ****** has just no regard for someone else's car and after the fact no-one would do the right thing.

I got back to a shopping car park and found a dirty old MR2 next to mine

looked at my car and found a nice little scratch and some yellow paint on there door frame luckily there car was dirty so wrote a few words on there car door back front etc

Let's hope when they came back they had kids with them asking

What does C*** mean Mummy :P

luckily when i got home i was able to T Cut Colour polish most of it out

I always park in the mother and baby parking specks at supermarkets

due to the area given for swinging doors

Ive only been pulled up once about it

and i told the car park bloke that my furbie was my baby

I always park in the mother and baby parking specks at supermarkets

due to the area given for swinging doors

i park in those because they are closer to the entrance and i'm too lazy to park further away....

Our Local Tesco has recently been refurbished and the car park layout been changed, I VERY raerly goto our local tesco due to the lazy overweight bstrds, who cant walk 10 yrd from carpark to door, and who park on the double yellows on the route causing an obstruction in 1 direction.( Tesco employess will NOT do anything about it).

Anyway back to Tesco car park, Before the refurb of the car park, I could open my door to get out of the car without touching the car next to me quite comfortably, Now they have actually made the parking spaces smaller, so you have to be a contortionist to get out, so it is now deliberate double parking, and it is NOT just me, ALL the chelsea tractors are doing it, and those who want to look after their cars.

I always park in the mother and baby parking specks at supermarkets

due to the area given for swinging doors

I do hope you're kidding.

I've seen prats with kids old enough not to need car seats in those bays, too. Buckling a child in a seat is a frickin nightmare in a tight spot - unless you're a ***** who's happy using the car next to you as a door stop. As soon as my youngest is old enough to buckle herself up, I'll vacate those spaces as I won't need them - and I know what it's like to need them and not have them.

Another option - use delivery services. No supermarket trollies down the side of your car then. What do Asda charge - 3.99? Think of the reduced car-park rage, petrol and temptation to impulse buy nicely stacked products. More than worth 3.99 IMO.

The mother and child spaces if you look at them have about two cars with baby seats in them

The rest are taken up by lazy folk

At least i use them as a car protection area

Didnt use to

but two dints in two supermarket visits

So if there is no clear area right at the end of the carpark ill be the bloke buying his ale parked in one of the mother and child specks

At least i use them as a car protection area

And if there's any justice you'll be the one where a trolley has been "accidentally" scraped down the side of your motor by a cheesed off legit user.

Screw the kids, eh, so long as your paintwork is pristine.

In a nutshell

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