I Hate car parks

[V8Silverfox]

On Saturday I parked my car at the local Mitre10 Mega (as you do), choosing a spot about as far away from the entrance and other cars. I returned to my car to find a bloody great mark down the drivers side rear door like someone had used my car to stop their trolley / or as something to lean their boxes against as they stuffed them in their car...

I'm getting REALLY pissed off , this is the second time in as many weeks I come back to my car to find a scratch / door ding from some w*nker who has no respect for someone else's property!!

What do you guys do when you park your car? Do you just put up with this sort of carry on as a 'fact' of life, and I should as well (i.e. get over it!)?

Anyway that my over, I feel better already.

[W84N01]

stuff like that really sucks. I tend to park my car between 2 cars that look half decent, weather they be Holden, Ford, Toyota, Porsche or whatever. You usually find that people with nicer cars look after them alot more than people with crappy or standard cars.

Even parking your car away with no other cars around will make your car a target for those run away trolleys / prams or whatever else gets away from you.

I haven't had a problem yet : )

[peckzz]

i agree totally, do not know how to prevent it?

[illusionalvr]

rubber coat it.

[Jesterarts]

Yeah sucks mate, always used to annoy me when people where not careful around my old car in parking lots.

Or if they damaged it and didn't leave a note.

I had an incident when I parked at uni and on my return someone had opened their door on me car SO hard that my locking mechanism was pushing against the skin on the door.

No note ofcourse.

Some people have no respect... even worse are oldies who can barely see over the wheel and have those black rubber things on the corners of their car.

Their bascailly saying they KNOW they will hit over cars while parking.

Unfortunately, it is a fact of life when you park your pride and joy in public carparks. You either have to learn to live with it or get a daily runabout like I did...

[blky]

i like to find a park next to a pole/column/kerb/plantbed anything really that only leaves one side of my car unprotected. doing this means i can also park super close to the object leaving more than ample room on the other side for doors to open on the other car!

[Calaber]

Back around 1972, in my young and very impetuous days, I owned an HD Premier which was my pride and joy. I came out to the car one day from the shops to find a woman had placed her box of groceries on my boot while she opened her boot. I didn't ask any questions, just walked up, picked up the box and dropped it on the ground near her feet. Gave her the filthiest look, entered my car and drove away. I'm about 195cm tall, so I guess I frightened the crap out of her and she wasn't about to say anything.

Would I do that sort of thing today?

Probably.....

[W84N01]

Jesterarts just reminded me of a poor bloke back at TAFE back in 1998. He bought that years model brand new Ute. When he came back to his car to go home int he arvo, he put it in gear and nothing happened. After a whole lot of stuffing around, he got out of his car with it still in gear and was trying to suss out what the problem with it was, and after having a closer look under neath the Ute, he noticed his tailshaft had been flogged!!!!

Doesn't matter how much you try and protect your property, or keep it safe, if someone wants something badly enough, the will take. As long as they have that disrespectful attitude, they will never care about anyones property.

i mean, how can you care about someone elses stuff when you don't care about your own stuff???

[illusionalvr]

wheels, radio i could understand... but a tailshaft?

[W84N01]

wheels, radio i could understand... but a tailshaft?

Yeah no kidding mate............he was devastated aye. Obviously someone wanted it more than he did

[VXdarkmagic]

As was suggested previously, I usually park between two cars that look half decent and haven't had a problem with anyone doing this to my car yet in a parking lot...however I have had family members open their car doors on mine...I mean seriously?!?!?! you would think family would have the decency to actually be careful around their son's/brothers car...apparently not, and I haven't made them pay for it because they can't really afford it but yeah it's a pain...

[GLITRES]

As already said, I too park between two nice, clean looking cars. I also stay away from P platers cars.
Sometimes, if the car park is kinda empty, I park in the middle of two carparks. Some people get pissed off with me, but I'm tired of having my cars scratched and dented, so I dont really give a s**t if people dont like it, cause I dont like people treating my car with disrespect...

[VYMAD]

stuff like that really sucks. I tend to park my car between 2 cars that look half decent, weather they be Holden, Ford, Toyota, Porsche or whatever. You usually find that people with nicer cars look after them alot more than people with crappy or standard cars.

Even parking your car away with no other cars around will make your car a target for those run away trolleys / prams or whatever else gets away from you.

I haven't had a problem yet : )

Yeah but then the owner of the nice car comes out of the shop and drives off and then some wretch in an old shit box or someone with kids/old people etc parks there and BANG! nice dent/scratch in your door. I park at the far end of the carpark and walk the extra distance to the shop. Mind you, I live in a relatively quiet area where it's not hard to find a park way up the end that has no one else parked near it.

[Asmodai78]

my old man takes down the rego of any car that he parks next to ( time consuming i know) along with photo on his mobile, its payed off a few times with insurance, or as a mate does if he knows for sure it was the car next to him, he takes out the tyre iron and proceeds to push it into their door with force.

[strgas]

my old man takes down the rego of any car that he parks next to ( time consuming i know) along with photo on his mobile, its payed off a few times with insurance, or as a mate does if he knows for sure it was the car next to him, he takes out the tyre iron and proceeds to push it into their door with force.

Nothing like alittle instant justice i agree .
Parked at the pub one night for dinner parked my VB sedan on the far side of the car park come back and some prick in a truck had rammed the boot lid and tore the sheetmetal open was rather pissed off yet no one saw or heard anything .

[sik_dose]

I parked my VN outside the auto room before the HSC markers came to mark the major works, after around 9 months work and about 7k. I had just waxed and buffed it, cleaned the windows tyre shined the black bumpers and tyres, had the engine bay all detailed and sparkly and a group of F***wit year 7 kids where leaning on it while their mates where having a look. I told the little animals to get the F*** off my car and they just looked at me like i was speaking a foreign language so using my thumb and fore finger unerneath one of the kids chin i pushed forward making him air born and landing on his back. as mean and unfair it is to pick on little kids it solved my problem lol.

[VZ_SS]

my old man takes down the rego of any car that he parks next to ( time consuming i know) along with photo on his mobile, its payed off a few times with insurance, or as a mate does if he knows for sure it was the car next to him, he takes out the tyre iron and proceeds to push it into their door with force.

Haha good on him. I remember when i bought my vy ute, it was only 2 months old at the time, i came out from the shop to find a F$%^^& camry parked soo close i couldnt get in the door, AND a big swipe up my front gaurd!! Needless to say He never found his side mirrors! I'm getting cut just thinking bout it again LOL.

[vysute]

when i bought my vy ute i went to work (2 weeks after purchasing it) and came out from my worksite to find that on the passenger side behind the door was a large scrape that went all the way back to the rear wheel well... no note or anything some people are just downright rotten.

[VjamesY]

mate same story as me..

I always park far away in car parks and somehow every fortnight when I wash my car I discovery a new mark/scratch/dint on my car.

It annoys the shit out of me, but I guess Ive gotten used to it now.

[axemurderer101]

i rekon all carparks should have security cameras these days, that would help alot.

[Maxxiz]

Theres nothing that can be done to stop it. These threads get people listing every method under the sun to stop this sort of thing, but at the end of the day theres no way you can stop it unless you hire someone to sit and watch it. I got my P's three weeks ago, within 3 days I'd been keyed. Yeah I was pissed at first, but then I realised. Shit happens, its only a material thing. You still have your arms, legs and family.

[Fonzie]

In public carparks, I've seen people with nicer cars park over two carparks... Frankly, this just makes them a dick, and while your car will be safer from impact it's more likely to be keyed by someone. I tend to park next to objects aswell if I can, or next to nicer cars if the earlier wasn't an option. In an empty-ish carpark I'd usually try and find an elevated part so runaway trolleys couldn't get me.

But as for people putting things on your car... That's a touchy spot. I've got two stories on that, and I flipped out both times.
1. Driving home from the pubs, I'd dropped my mates off and had to head back through town. Saw a few other mates walking home and pulled up to offer them a lift. Came to a stop, window down, chatted to the mates for a sec... Some bloke - who had f***ing metal studs on his jeans I might add - came up and asked my mates for a light. Then proceeded to sit on the front quarter of my car and light up. Obscenities and... various other things followed.
2. Similar car park story to earlier, except this time the carpark was on a relatively steep hill and someone had the nerve to rest a trolley against the rear quarter of my car while opening their boot. Inwardly I flipped of course, But I casually checked that there were no other cars and nothing I could damage further down the hill, pulled the trolley back and gave it a hell of a shove.

[21AZI]

roll up in a datsun.
know will park next you.

[nemesis_adrasteia]

In public carparks, I've seen people with nicer cars park over two carparks... Frankly, this just makes them a dick, and while your car will be safer from impact it's more likely to be keyed by someone. I tend to park next to objects aswell if I can, or next to nicer cars if the earlier wasn't an option. In an empty-ish carpark I'd usually try and find an elevated part so runaway trolleys couldn't get me.

But as for people putting things on your car... That's a touchy spot. I've got two stories on that, and I flipped out both times.
1. Driving home from the pubs, I'd dropped my mates off and had to head back through town. Saw a few other mates walking home and pulled up to offer them a lift. Came to a stop, window down, chatted to the mates for a sec... Some bloke - who had f***ing metal studs on his jeans I might add - came up and asked my mates for a light. Then proceeded to sit on the front quarter of my car and light up. Obscenities and... various other things followed.
2. Similar car park story to earlier, except this time the carpark was on a relatively steep hill and someone had the nerve to rest a trolley against the rear quarter of my car while opening their boot. Inwardly I flipped of course, But I casually checked that there were no other cars and nothing I could damage further down the hill, pulled the trolley back and gave it a hell of a shove.

****ing lol, yeah i wouldnt be to happy if someone did that to my car either

[1SIKR8]

amazingly my old vt suffered from asshole shoppers too ! parking in the furthest corner agaist the wall dosn't work !!! u still manage to have a trolly attack your car .... on a flat surface how do u get a trolly mark right up the side of your car ?!?! especially when no car was near it =(

( oh well i got a new car now hahaha don't even go in car parks ! )