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Where do you keep your car at night?

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I'm interested to know where you all keep your car(s) parked at night! :p

My car is usually kept on the road outside my house in the back lane at night and I seem to be always collecting scratches or other abuse from people walking by. Yet I see shiny new cars parked at the side of busy roads with heavy footfall every night too but have not a single mark on them! How do they do it!

Where do you keep your car at night? 78 votes

Garage
15%
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Driveway
50%
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Road outside house
30%
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Car park
3%
CPJames19pogofishMsHoarder 3 votes
Other
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  • Harry_Flashman
    Harry_Flashman Posts: 1,922 Forumite
    Road outside house
    Road outside the house (when the crone visiting her daughter over the road hasn't left her decaying pile of frog crap outside ours - thankfully rare since we had the blazing row) ;)
  • oldagetraveller
    oldagetraveller Posts: 3,653 Forumite
    edited 6 July 2010 at 7:48AM
    Driveway
    I had to tick both garage and driveway because the "classic" is in the garage and the modern heap is on the drive!

    They've got three next door. One on the road and two on their drive.
    Across the road there are five! Two in the garage, one on the drive, one on the road and one on someone else's drive.:p
  • LandyAndy
    LandyAndy Posts: 26,377 Forumite
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    Driveway
    Ours are all kept on the drive in the summer, see my avatar. The Landy is in the garage over winter.

    What 'classic' do you have, oldagetraveller?
  • Strider590
    Strider590 Posts: 11,874 Forumite
    Road outside house
    Mine is a similar situation to oldagetraveller, the kitcar lives in my garage and the eurobox live's on the road behind my house (which is widened and more like residential parking with cars able to park nose first)

    The only problem I get is kids occasionally playing football, cricket or "lets see how far we can throw half a house brick" games.
    But they soon move when I sneak out the front (so they still don't know where I live), walk round the back and tell them to F off.
    I had to tick both garage and driveway because the "classic" is in the garage and the modern heap is on the drive!

    And yet these day's the Classic would be the "shed" that nobody cares about hitting. Whilst the modern eurobox would be seen in a more favourable light..... So sad :(
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  • Indout96
    Indout96 Posts: 2,371 Forumite
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    Driveway
    We have 2 on driveway (mine & wife's) with my daughters car (newest of all 3) on the road outside the house.
    Garage is full of crap LOL
    Totally Debt Free & Mortgage Free Semi retired and happy
  • Driveway
    You forgot half on the road and half on the pavement which seems to be the way around here.
    Nothing to see here, move along.
  • davemorton
    davemorton Posts: 29,084 Forumite
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    Road outside house
    Again, classic in the garage, and modern ratter half on the road, half on the path ;-)
    “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
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  • dampdaveski
    dampdaveski Posts: 529 Forumite
    Driveway
    mines on the driveway, had the f###ing thing 2 weeks and next doors offspring kicked his football over the fence and scratched the bonnet :(
    The advice I give on here is based on my many years in the preservation industry. I choose to remain anonymous, I have no desire to get work from anyone. No one can give 100% accurate advice on a forum if I get it wrong you'll get a sincere apology and that's all:D
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  • movilogo
    movilogo Posts: 3,217 Forumite
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    Those who have garages, put crap inside and keep the car outside.

    Those who do not have garage, keep the car outside anyway.

    That means everyone keep the car outside - either driveway or on road.
    Happiness is buying an item and then not checking its price after a month to discover it was reduced further.
  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    we have a drive at the side of the house,but its tight
    to get the car in and shut the gates takes a bit of work
    so for day to day i keep it on the road
    when i plkan to not use it for a few days then its on the drive
    for insurance purposes its declared as on the road
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