Check the vehicles next to you when you park.....

johnnyroper

harveybobbles wrote: »

One thing that annoys me in car parks are when you get a 4x4 parking next to you andyou cant see when trying to get out of your space.

They should all be made to park in a designated area...

Agreed ideally on a different continent.

MrsE_2

harveybobbles wrote: »

One thing that annoys me in car parks are when you get a 4x4 parking next to you andyou cant see when trying to get out of your space.

They should all be made to park in a designated area...

Would be great:D
They could make the spaces a little wider too:D

Some carparks are soooo narrow, that even when you park square in the middle of your bay you know you are asking for trouble. You come back & some idiot has parked over or hugging the white line & slammed their door into the side of yours to get out.

Lidls has the tiniest spaces, useless (even if you can park free near to the libary;)) but Waitrose ones are perfect.

Bean_Counter

MrsE wrote: »

They could make the spaces a little wider too:D.

Unlikely. We do some white lining at supermarket car parks and I can tell you that each time we do one, the size of the spaces decreases a few millimetres each time.

flossy_splodge

Bean_Counter wrote: »

Unlikely. We do some white lining at supermarket car parks and I can tell you that each time we do one, the size of the spaces decreases a few millimetres each time.

Doesn't mean they CAN'T, just that as usual the great British public moan but don't pursue these issues. :eek:
We ALL need to get up off our *1$**!'s and make our views known.
Why oh why do we suffer in 'silence', comparatively!:o

vikingaero

harveybobbles wrote: »

One thing that annoys me in car parks are when you get a 4x4 parking next to you andyou cant see when trying to get out of your space.

They should all be made to park in a designated area...

CHR15 wrote: »

In a nearby Field where they were built to be.

:T:T:T

I think that would be a brilliant idea. 4x4's should have a muddy parking area. Think of the savings in providing a field rather than tarmacking and lighting a proper car park.

For those with pseudo 4x4's - Subaru Imprezas and Audi Quattros, you can use the disabled bays that you would normally use anyway. :eek::D

Strider590

Lirin wrote: »

Much damage Strider?

2 fist sized dents.....

But was it really such a great idea?

It'll take me all of a few hours to pull the dents out and smooth them over with the help of a line board, but they'll be spending far more than a few hours being paranoid about a revenge attack.

Pretty stupid to damage someone's car right outside your own house.

Lirin

I've a dent in my door atm- someone's opened a car door into it. While I do know who it was, it happened at work. Rather than create bad feeling over it, and friction at work, I'll sort it myself as it's only going to take time, and it's an old car anyway.
Do hate it happening though. Came back to my car one day at Tesco's to find a group chatting near it, one sitting on my car. That's too much....

johnfarquhar74

MrsE wrote: »

Some carparks are soooo narrow, that even when you park square in the middle of your bay you know you are asking for trouble.

I've always had the crazy notion that we should all park with one side of our cars on the white line. So whether we reverse or nose in(another argument, another day) we make sure an agreed side of the cars wheels are on the line, resulting in a row of cars all equidistant from each other!

That would stop some of the crazy parking I've seen. A line of cars start all perfectly parked in the centre of the space but by the end they move farther and farther over, eventually creeping into two bays. Then theirs the 4x4's or the folk that think their car is better thatn yours so must park in the middle of two spaces,,,,,,,,

Strider590

johnfarquhar74 wrote: »

or the folk that think their car is better thatn yours so must park in the middle of two spaces,,,,,,,,

That's not why they do it.....

Give me a half empty carpark and you'll find my car in two spaces as far from the store as possible, when I get snide comments I simply say "when people get some respect for other peoples property THEN i'll park in one space".

It's not about being better, I don't see my car that way..... It's about protecting your bank balance and your no claims bonus.

sparrer

Slightly off topic but goes to show no matter how big the bays some idiot is going to be annoying. In Morrisons yesterday a 4x4 pulled in in front of me and took up 2 disabled bays by parking diagonally. Admittedly they were showing their blue badge but when my passenger asked the driver if he could park so I could use one of the spaces she got a good few Army quotes in reply :mad:. Obviously brain disabled...