Car Park Damage Avoidance

gardner1

anotherbaldrick wrote: »

Read the car parking conditions which are posted. You could find that it says you are to park within the confines of a bay. Not that they can legally stop you but you could be in for hassloe from the goons.

fair point if in council car park but supermarkets/retail parks/macdonalds etc who cares park where you want

gpkwells

We lease 1 of our cars.

In a quiet car park I will park over 2 bays. (I got a Parking Charge Notice in Tesco - just ignored)

In a busy car park I will hopefully find a corner space and get as far into it as poss.

If there is not a corner space I will park where ever and hope for the best!

Beachview_2

Strider590 wrote: »

There's also a risk that if you park in two spaces, i'll come along and push you into one space :cool:

Good job I never park in 2 spaces then

Dave_C_2

The XKCD solution to those who park in two spaces:
http://xkcd.com/562/

Dave

Gavin83

I've never picked up any noticable damage in a car park but consider myself lucky. Anyway, there are several cars I won't park next to under any circumstances:

Cars with existing damage
Badly parked cars
Cars with obvious signs of children (seats, toys, etc)
Vans or other work vehicles

I would normally try and park next to the nicest car I could find as I figure the more expensive it is, the more they'll take care of it but I don't consider this as important as the other points.

gilbert_and_sullivan

Gavin83 wrote: »

I would normally try and park next to the nicest car I could find as I figure the more expensive it is, the more they'll take care of it but I don't consider this as important as the other points.

I agree with most of your post and previously thought as you do about the newer better car aspect.

Until that is i parked my pristine 10 year old unmarked MB in one of the main car parks in York, parked perfectly square in a remote spot with nothing around me, returned to find a new S type Jaguar in the spot beside me and a massive dent in my door at exactly the spot where the drivers door of this car has connected, closer inspection showed the seat to be baggy already from a fat idle twerps huge backside.

Its fat drones that are the worse culprits IMO, they'd be better off in disabled spaces more suitable to their immense bulk.

Herzlos

gilbert_and_sullivan wrote: »

I try to find a space as far away as possible, preferably an awkward reverse in only space, the lardies who need to throw the door fully open to get their bulk out won't park that far away, and few people are capable of reversing into a space.

I've never understood that personally, since it's easier to reverse in and drive out, than to drive in and reverse out.

skivenov

I can understand it in supermarkets, if you're coming back with a trolley of shopping, you want to be able to get right up to the boot instead of having to fery it down the side of the car.

I've driven vans and bigger stuff for a lot of years, so I live by the rule "if it's a pain in the !!!! to drive in, it'll be worse coming out, so get your reverse out of the way".

interstellaflyer

Herzlos wrote: »

I've never understood that personally, since it's easier to reverse in and drive out, than to drive in and reverse out.

In a lot of supermarket car parks if you reverse in you will have to then pull forward or out of the space when it comes to putting you shopping in the boot, normally I reverse in to a parking space, however at my local Tesco I drive in because the layout does not allow access behind the car.

suki1964

skivenov wrote: »

I can understand it in supermarkets, if you're coming back with a trolley of shopping, you want to be able to get right up to the boot instead of having to fery it down the side of the car.

I've driven vans and bigger stuff for a lot of years, so I live by the rule "if it's a pain in the !!!! to drive in, it'll be worse coming out, so get your reverse out of the way".

This is why I drive in, so I can get too the boot easily without having to push a trolly down the side. Cos sure as eggs are eggs, if I've not taken two spaces, ill have someone come park right beside me and as close to me as they possibly can