car park dent rage
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It goes along the lines of people wanting medals for having children....
Like mothers having all that maternity leave....My mother didn't have that.....
I don't hate children or anything.....I just think they should scrap those parking spaces and make all the spaces larger width!!
Or people should work out how to get out of their car without needing a shoe-horn....
So I say again, yes I will park in the child bays if need be
Like mothers having all that maternity leave....My mother didn't have that.....
I don't hate children or anything.....I just think they should scrap those parking spaces and make all the spaces larger width!!
Or people should work out how to get out of their car without needing a shoe-horn....
So I say again, yes I will park in the child bays if need be
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I cannot get too excited about this either way but it did occur to me that one of the reasons for these mother/children bays is the allowance of extra width to strap kids in the back having seen this being done with the back doors opened fully, surely it would increase the chance of denting your car if they were parked ina "normal" space????
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Originally Posted by Tripple'O G
Indeed it would increase the chances....if I was parked in a non child bay 
just go shopping later a night most are open 24hour now loads off space
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waste of time fighting it tbh, if you had a photo showing cars parked next to each other and then shwoing the damage you'd have more or less proven your case.
but his argument could be, we'll it wasn't me, so must have been the ar parked there before me
but his argument could be, we'll it wasn't me, so must have been the ar parked there before me
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wait till you got kids and you cant get into a child and parent space because some1 without kids takes it. then you thoughts might change
Or even better....send the Mrs in her car
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Originally Posted by easyscoob
aaahhhh i parked in a far away spot in a car park went shopping with the kid for 1/2 an hour come back and a merc ml320 is next to my car pretty close and low and behold a dent is on the passenger door
it's not acutally that big but you can see it if you go to the back of the car and look toward the front u know one of the annoying ones that will show up in certain lights
anyway i left a message on guys windscreen asking him to give me a phone
since the call he denies even parking next to me!!!!
where do i stand with no witnessess? i mean the dent is only gonna be about 70 bucks from dentwizard or something but what gets me is the way he is lieing about all of this i feel like tracking his car down and holding a rave on his bonnet!
any suggestions i have his number btw
it's not acutally that big but you can see it if you go to the back of the car and look toward the front u know one of the annoying ones that will show up in certain lights
anyway i left a message on guys windscreen asking him to give me a phone
since the call he denies even parking next to me!!!!
where do i stand with no witnessess? i mean the dent is only gonna be about 70 bucks from dentwizard or something but what gets me is the way he is lieing about all of this i feel like tracking his car down and holding a rave on his bonnet!
any suggestions i have his number btw
Frustrating i know. I check the car everytime i return to it.
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Originally Posted by Micky D
Geordiewrx,
That has got to be a **** take. Are you seriously saying that if you pop into Asdas you take photos and get the reg numbers of the cars next to you ?
FFs get a life. IT IS ONLY A CAR. get over it.
That has got to be a **** take. Are you seriously saying that if you pop into Asdas you take photos and get the reg numbers of the cars next to you ?
FFs get a life. IT IS ONLY A CAR. get over it.
who the hell do you think you are like, how do you know the bloke hasnt had loads of parking dents.
i know people that now wont buy decent cars because of these loosers with no respect. It the people with your attitude that go around denting cars and not giving a ****.
Oh, shut up man, its only a little dent, not the end of the world is it
back in ya box squirt
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Originally Posted by easyscoob
aaahhhh i parked in a far away spot in a car park went shopping with the kid for 1/2 an hour come back and a merc ml320 is next to my car pretty close and low and behold a dent is on the passenger door
it's not acutally that big but you can see it if you go to the back of the car and look toward the front u know one of the annoying ones that will show up in certain lights
anyway i left a message on guys windscreen asking him to give me a phone
since the call he denies even parking next to me!!!!
where do i stand with no witnessess? i mean the dent is only gonna be about 70 bucks from dentwizard or something but what gets me is the way he is lieing about all of this i feel like tracking his car down and holding a rave on his bonnet!
any suggestions i have his number btw
it's not acutally that big but you can see it if you go to the back of the car and look toward the front u know one of the annoying ones that will show up in certain lights
anyway i left a message on guys windscreen asking him to give me a phone
since the call he denies even parking next to me!!!!
where do i stand with no witnessess? i mean the dent is only gonna be about 70 bucks from dentwizard or something but what gets me is the way he is lieing about all of this i feel like tracking his car down and holding a rave on his bonnet!
any suggestions i have his number btw
1) Go to the pub
2) Buy a glass of your preferred choice of alcohol
3) Toast yourself for being a better person than the idiot that damaged your car and didn't even have the common decency to leave a note apologising!
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Mother and Baby spaces are there specifically to help the extraction and insertion of children with a reduced risk of damage to cars either side.
Seems no one thinks of that when moaning about them.
Also, those who have children and park in M&B spaces - anyone notice what happens to the empty trolley once the food is in the car?
99% it gets left where it is and not returned. Be quite amusing for someone who parks in one of these spaces out of parking space size jealousy / lazyness or to avoid being dented by anothers door to find a trolley leaning nicely against a body panel.
I've got a daughter and I park at the other end of the car park irrespective of what spaces are availabe.
Seems no one thinks of that when moaning about them.
Also, those who have children and park in M&B spaces - anyone notice what happens to the empty trolley once the food is in the car?
99% it gets left where it is and not returned. Be quite amusing for someone who parks in one of these spaces out of parking space size jealousy / lazyness or to avoid being dented by anothers door to find a trolley leaning nicely against a body panel.
I've got a daughter and I park at the other end of the car park irrespective of what spaces are availabe.
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Originally Posted by EddScott
Mother and Baby spaces are there specifically to help the extraction and insertion of children with a reduced risk of damage to cars either side.
Seems no one thinks of that when moaning about them.
Also, those who have children and park in M&B spaces - anyone notice what happens to the empty trolley once the food is in the car?
99% it gets left where it is and not returned. Be quite amusing for someone who parks in one of these spaces out of parking space size jealousy / lazyness or to avoid being dented by anothers door to find a trolley leaning nicely against a body panel.
I've got a daughter and I park at the other end of the car park irrespective of what spaces are availabe.
Seems no one thinks of that when moaning about them.
Also, those who have children and park in M&B spaces - anyone notice what happens to the empty trolley once the food is in the car?
99% it gets left where it is and not returned. Be quite amusing for someone who parks in one of these spaces out of parking space size jealousy / lazyness or to avoid being dented by anothers door to find a trolley leaning nicely against a body panel.
I've got a daughter and I park at the other end of the car park irrespective of what spaces are availabe.
Ah, but i would rather the dent off the trolly than another car door.
The supermarket is then responsible if its the tolly, all you have to do is photo the trolly next to the dent, ie, match up the 2 connecting surfaces, take a pic and then threaten them with legal action. it works, i know.
Thats why most companies have the £1 thing to realease them, its not for theft, its to counteract the amount of claims
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Originally Posted by EVOLUTION
Ah, but i would rather the dent off the trolly than another car door.
The supermarket is then responsible if its the tolly, all you have to do is photo the trolly next to the dent, ie, match up the 2 connecting surfaces, take a pic and then threaten them with legal action. it works, i know.
Thats why most companies have the £1 thing to realease them, its not for theft, its to counteract the amount of claims
The supermarket is then responsible if its the tolly, all you have to do is photo the trolly next to the dent, ie, match up the 2 connecting surfaces, take a pic and then threaten them with legal action. it works, i know.
Thats why most companies have the £1 thing to realease them, its not for theft, its to counteract the amount of claims
Really?
Maybe the OP can go to a supermarket, when no one is looking place a trolly next to his car by the dent, take a pic and claim off the supermarket. Job done
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I can't understand these f****rs that wack your car door, i also drive an old van as well as my scoob and even when im in that i always make sure im really careful not to knock anyone elses car.
I was in mcdonalds once in the van eating my food and this cow in the space next to me came back with her kid and opens her car door and wacks it right against the van and starts loading the kid in! this was quite a nice new car aswell! In response i got out of my van to take my rubbish to the bin and as i opened the door smashed it into her car, causing a nice big dent. The van's pretty battered anyway so i didn't care, and seeing her face was well worth it
She tried to have a go at me aswell but as i pointed out what she had just done and the dent (all be it a lot smaller than the one i did) on my van she didn't really have a leg to stand on
I was in mcdonalds once in the van eating my food and this cow in the space next to me came back with her kid and opens her car door and wacks it right against the van and starts loading the kid in! this was quite a nice new car aswell! In response i got out of my van to take my rubbish to the bin and as i opened the door smashed it into her car, causing a nice big dent. The van's pretty battered anyway so i didn't care, and seeing her face was well worth it
She tried to have a go at me aswell but as i pointed out what she had just done and the dent (all be it a lot smaller than the one i did) on my van she didn't really have a leg to stand on
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Originally Posted by Tripple'O G
.........then go back to it and do some car surfing.....
How's it going NS04....long time no....er....type?
Have seen the care is running rather sweet....
How's it going NS04....long time no....er....type?
Have seen the care is running rather sweet....
What's this about you selling your car?? 
Yep, the car is going very well post mods and map, especially with the colder nights; certainly feels 320bp quick
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Not too bad at all as it goes NS04.... apart from like you say, selling the subaru....
But needs must and i'm looking forward to starting the next project....
Ah....cold air (can't wait till the fog either) and spinning turbos.....only makes you wish the ground was dry enough!!
TOG
apart from like you say, selling the subaru.... But needs must and i'm looking forward to starting the next project....
Ah....cold air (can't wait till the fog
either) and spinning turbos.....only makes you wish the ground was dry enough!!TOG
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Originally Posted by Tripple'O G
I don't hate children or anything.....I just think they should scrap those parking spaces and make all the spaces larger width!!
Or people should work out how to get out of their car without needing a shoe-horn....
So I say again, yes I will park in the child bays if need be
Or people should work out how to get out of their car without needing a shoe-horn....
So I say again, yes I will park in the child bays if need be
Dave
PS: I always return my trolley to the trolley park!
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"Oh I have a child and I have to take them shopping with me and I need more space to get them in and get the buggy in the boot and I can't walk as far as everyone else because I have to carry them or push them....everybody help me because I have a child!!"
If there's a parking space there, i'll park in it, plain and simple.
If the spaces were full then you'd have to park at the other end and walk anyway....first come, first serve, stop trying to get to the front of the queue
If there's a parking space there, i'll park in it, plain and simple.
If the spaces were full then you'd have to park at the other end and walk anyway....first come, first serve, stop trying to get to the front of the queue
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Jeez!
Some people talk some tosh and almost convince me that all parents conspire to have special parking bays just so they do not have to return their trolleys.
Does anyone have the statistics for this, or is it just based on a few personal observations??
When my kids were too young to walk, I used to use P&T spaces (you ever tried getting a car seat unbuckled out of a half open door?) because that this is what they are for. It says so on the tin! 'Parent and Todler'.
As soon as my kids could walk, I started to use the normal spaces.
But, I have always wondered what makes people so inflexible, of low esteem and self officious as to think they are above everyone else so they have to justify parking in clearly designated spaces simpley because they do not qualify normally?
It really does make you look very sad and selfish to everybody else just like the 'spoilt little kid' at nursery school who have to burst the balloon, simply because they cannot have it.
You may THINK you have a justified reason for doing some of these 'inconsiderate to others' actions (someone did it to me - once!), but at the end of the day you are now causing the problem and not simply retaliating.
If everybody did the same thing, you would not be able to as they would beat you too it. You are simply able to show bad judgement, because 99% of the other people who got there before you have not.
If you are happy with everyone calling you these things (quite legitimately) behind your back and to your face then carry on.
Some people talk some tosh and almost convince me that all parents conspire to have special parking bays just so they do not have to return their trolleys.
Does anyone have the statistics for this, or is it just based on a few personal observations??
When my kids were too young to walk, I used to use P&T spaces (you ever tried getting a car seat unbuckled out of a half open door?) because that this is what they are for. It says so on the tin! 'Parent and Todler'.
As soon as my kids could walk, I started to use the normal spaces.
But, I have always wondered what makes people so inflexible, of low esteem and self officious as to think they are above everyone else so they have to justify parking in clearly designated spaces simpley because they do not qualify normally?
It really does make you look very sad and selfish to everybody else just like the 'spoilt little kid' at nursery school who have to burst the balloon, simply because they cannot have it.
You may THINK you have a justified reason for doing some of these 'inconsiderate to others' actions (someone did it to me - once!), but at the end of the day you are now causing the problem and not simply retaliating.
If everybody did the same thing, you would not be able to as they would beat you too it. You are simply able to show bad judgement, because 99% of the other people who got there before you have not.
If you are happy with everyone calling you these things (quite legitimately) behind your back and to your face then carry on.
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So the reason for these spaces are to help you get the kids in and out of the cars? and to be closer to the entrance? correct?
So back when I was young and there was no such convenience for my parents, did they whinge and moan about it?
No.....they got on with it....
[quote]low esteem and self officious[quote]
Not at all....I just think they should scrap them, make all spaces bigger and make it even.....plain and simple.....
So it comes down to me not infact being selfish, but parents wanting the world to move for them because they have the children....with bigger parking spaces....now who's selfish?
the door is that way ->
So back when I was young and there was no such convenience for my parents, did they whinge and moan about it?
No.....they got on with it....
[quote]low esteem and self officious[quote]
Not at all....I just think they should scrap them, make all spaces bigger and make it even.....plain and simple.....
So it comes down to me not infact being selfish, but parents wanting the world to move for them because they have the children....with bigger parking spaces....now who's selfish?
the door is that way ->
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When I used to work for Mitsubishi I drove an L200 Warrior pick-up truck as a demonstrator. On returning to the vehicle in my local supermarket car park I witnessed some to$$er open his door and deliberately attempt to smash it into the door of the L200.
Funny thing was, the L200 was fitted with rather large side sill bars which stuck out a good couple of inches from the rest of the bodywork. The pr1ck actually bent the edge of his own door on the bar. It was good to see him come off a lot worse... the question is.... can I now get some bars for the scoob?
Mitsubishi L200 Side Protector Bars (stainless steel)
Funny thing was, the L200 was fitted with rather large side sill bars which stuck out a good couple of inches from the rest of the bodywork. The pr1ck actually bent the edge of his own door on the bar. It was good to see him come off a lot worse... the question is.... can I now get some bars for the scoob? Mitsubishi L200 Side Protector Bars (stainless steel)
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Originally Posted by Tripple'O G
So the reason for these spaces are to help you get the kids in and out of the cars? and to be closer to the entrance? correct?
Your comment about 'being closer to the entrance' actually shows your real reasons for parking there. As I said park, further away and get the exercise.
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Originally Posted by Sweepickit
When I used to work for Mitsubishi I drove an L200 Warrior pick-up truck as a demonstrator. On returning to the vehicle in my local supermarket car park I witnessed some to$$er open his door and deliberately attempt to smash it into the door of the L200. Funny thing was, the L200 was fitted with rather large side sill bars which stuck out a good couple of inches from the rest of the bodywork. The pr1ck actually bent the edge of his own door on the bar. It was good to see him come off a lot worse... the question is.... can I now get some bars for the scoob?
Mitsubishi L200 Side Protector Bars (stainless steel)
Funny thing was, the L200 was fitted with rather large side sill bars which stuck out a good couple of inches from the rest of the bodywork. The pr1ck actually bent the edge of his own door on the bar. It was good to see him come off a lot worse... the question is.... can I now get some bars for the scoob? Mitsubishi L200 Side Protector Bars (stainless steel)
Dave