Car Park Damage Avoidance

suki1964

I use two bays as far from the shop and trolley parks as possible

vikingaero

Mr Sales Reprobate in his 2.0 litre diesel can be your enemy and ally. If his door opens onto your car then it's probable that he'll damage it as he'll be in an almighty rush to shift another pallet load of widgets in his shrunken polyester suit.

But he is also helpful because he never uses the near side doors so if your car is parked on this side it should be safe.

anotherbaldrick

here is the best way, but you might have to heave the trollies out first

Avoriaz

flashnazia wrote: »

I'm talking more about chips and dents that look as if they are likely to have been caused by a door.

I realise that but damage is more or less inevitable with a car.

It is irritating but it helps to try not to be too bothered by them. Life is full of frustrations that you can do little or nothing about.

I avoid parking in the busier sections of a car park if I can but even that is no guarantee that the car avoids door damage from careless people.

neilmcl

interstellaflyer wrote: »

I avoid parking next to 4x4s, vans, MPVs, 2 door cars and cars with child seats in them, I generally choose a space away from the crowd, trouble is, often I will return to the car to find that someone in a tatty builders van has parked next to me even though there are tons of empty spaces, it's called sods law.

^ This. I came out of my local Sainsburys this afternoon to find the adjacent car's drivers door resting against mine with the lady driver leaning over to the backseat attending to her child. When I attempted to move her door off mine, I could see she was busy, she turned and gave me such a look of how dare I touch her car! It didn't even phase her when I calmly explained her car door was in contact with my car.

oldagetraveller

I'm fortunate not to have to shop/park at weekends. When parking, e.g. supermarket, I park as far away as possible from the store entrance where there are usually plenty of empty spaces.
However, why is it that when parking in a space, with maybe 20/30+ vacant spaces around it, somebody parks right next to you?! Even when all those spaces are still vacant.:( Like post no. 5.

davidlizard

I park at the back of the car park, across two bays. Never a problem.

I do not consider this selfish as the car park is rarely more than a 1/3 full.

I would never park near the doors of a supermarket - I was sat in the car once waiting for the wife to get a few things inside, and saw loads of mostly obese women yakking away on mobiles pushing heavily laded trollies between the cars, with the trolley bouncing of the sides of the cars as they went. Then opening their door slamming into the side of the car next to it.

Brother in law worked at Sainsburys. When he was on security, they would get several requests a week for CCTV damage from things happening in the car park - the stores policy was to say the video was not available as they did not want to get into disputes.

C_Mababejive

I just park in a disabled bay or mother/child bay where theres plenty of room.

flashnazia

Those parking across two bays, don't you risk a parking ticket that way?

Crabman

flashnazia wrote: »

Those parking across two bays, don't you risk a parking ticket that way?

Only if it's a council-owned car park.

In a private car park you can only be charged for actual loss/damage caused, which in the majority of cases is £0.00. More info on the Parking sub-board