ggrr im mad - why ding a car and not stop?

divadee

i was at the school last monday night for parents evening, parked in the car park well within the lines when we come out someone had obviously opened there door onto our drivers door 2 dings in the door. :mad:

did think oh well it was very very windy or a child might of done it (being the school) put it down to expereince and called the local dent man who is coming on thursday quote for work £50

Went to pick up little miss divadee from school today went early as i had to walk round to the school office to deliver a letter.

Came back to wait in the car, and some other f***er has dinged my car on the drivers side wing. :mad: :mad: :mad: so will cost me more when dent man comes now

I was parked well into the curb and the road is wide enough for cars to get through.

How can people do this with a clear conscience (sp?) ????? I hope that a a million flies infest there bum i really do :mad:

steveo3002

one of my hates too

seems alot of folk have no respect for other peoples cars, lets hope karma gets em good lol

anewman

Schools do tend to attract some dim witted lazy people who drove there from around the corner with the journey taking longer by car than walking, and all trying to get the space nearest the gates as they can't be bothered walking the short distance extra.

Get an alarm installed with a shock sensor, any hits hard enough to dent it should set the alarm off. All you have to do is run out and get the reg number as they drive off and give insurance a ring. Only problem is this would cost at least £200 to get professionally done.

It can work out in your favour sometimes. My car used to be my GF's and she said someone banged into it in a supermarket car park and hastily drove off with their bumper hanging off, and no damage to the car whatsoever :rotfl: Although I did make a note of telling her not all damage is instantly visible and in such a situations it would be best to grab details as they drive away.

As for how people can do it and have a clear conscience, from a purely academic perspective, a famous Psychologist called Albert Bandura has a theory called Moral Disengagement theory. It's basically a theory cobbled together from a variety of social psychological theories and is probably best described here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_disengagement Although I would personally call those who stick dents in cars and drive off so they don't have to face the consequences and pay increased premiums or hand over £50 w@nkers.

steveo3002

i try to park furthest away from the shop door whenever we go out...chances are the lazy pig ignorant slobs will be squezing into a space right up near the doors of the shop

i always inspect the car for dings when i get back to it as well...incase i need to leave the car next me a reminder not to ding cars

squidge60

yep theres always 1 xsswipx dont know whats worse someone doing it when youre not there or someone slamming their car door when you are sat in it !:mad: then the other faverite is to park sooooooooo close to your car there is no way they could have got out without banging your car (and of course theres lots of other spaces)!makes me so mad .:mad:

divadee

anewman wrote: »

Schools do tend to attract some dim witted lazy people who drove there from around the corner with the journey taking longer by car than walking, and all trying to get the space nearest the gates as they can't be bothered walking the short distance extra.

i know exactly what you mean!!! i actually park further away from the school so i dont normally get the [EMAIL="tw@ts"]tw@ts[/EMAIL] that try and squeeze in an inch nearer the gate than someone else!!!!!

it would take 40mins to walk from our house so were not the lazy ones either lol but i might start having to cant afford all this damage to my car.

i wouldnt mind if it was an old banger but its less than a year old and this is the first type of thing to happen to me in 10 years!!!! i am just waiting for the 3rd one!!!! they say it comes in threes :rolleyes:

OK_Sauce

My car is quite wide and I have had so many knocks on the doors now I've given up worrying about it. I even caught someone once! I was in a Tesco car park sitting in my car when this dozy woman banged her door onto mine getting her kid out of a car seat. I got out and she had banged it so hard it had dented my door and left paint from her car on it too. :mad: What got my goat was, when confronted, she was totally oblivious to the fact that there was a problem! If this is just one example of many people's 'don't care' attitude no wonder the country is going downhill!

pulliptears

anewman wrote: »

Get an alarm installed with a shock sensor, any hits hard enough to dent it should set the alarm off. All you have to do is run out and get the reg number as they drive off and give insurance a ring. Only problem is this would cost at least £200 to get professionally done.

There is another problem with that, any sort of high wind will set it off, as will the local chav with his big bore exhaust. Ours is ultra sensitive like that, yes, it would warn us if someone dinged it, but to be honest the amount of times we have had to get up and turn the alarm off at 3am because its really windy and rocking the car just doesnt seem worth it

banger9365

last year i was in a multi story car park not the main part put a little part out of the way and a person parked at the side off me when i was leaving and she hit my car with her door (a big 4X4)and when i got out i said what you doing,there was no damage put i would thought a sorry was in order,instead i got abruse and was gob smacked has she had a kid with her too, i said again you just hit my car ,well she started shouting i am going to get the police this is racist harasment , right i am a white bloke she was coloured,i kept the car between us all the time,
i could not beleave poeple would stoop so low to us the racist line when they had done wrong needless to say i just got in my car and went,i was not staying around for abuse like this,thinking if the police did come it would be me that would get done has i was white and a male.what is the country coming to,it's sad when all she had to do is say sorry and that would have been it

anewman

pulliptears wrote: »

There is another problem with that, any sort of high wind will set it off, as will the local chav with his big bore exhaust. Ours is ultra sensitive like that, yes, it would warn us if someone dinged it, but to be honest the amount of times we have had to get up and turn the alarm off at 3am because its really windy and rocking the car just doesnt seem worth it

I self-installed a Clifford Arrow 5 alarm which uses a shock sensor. As you may be aware there has been some very heavy winds recently. I think those winds only set it off once. But the alarm was sensitive enough to make me run out to find my next door neighbour close to my car claiming to be checking as the alarm had gone off - only to find egg over car as she'd gone (she must have done it, grrr).

So I have had no problems with wind myself. The alarm has two types of alarm. For gentle knocks it will just do a "beep beep beep beep beep" (called warn away by manual), I believe the idea is to warn off anyone who comes up to the car and starts fiddling. Then further/harder knocks set off the full alarm. I think the wind may set off the beep beep beep and not the full alarm. It may be that the sensor on yours needs adjusting/repositioning or perhaps the sensor isn't a good one?

However, after egg incident I installed a 508d proximity sensor which I bought off ebay for £25 from America. It is supposed to detect movement of mass. Mass near the car (e.g. someone looking in through the window) is supposed to trigger the warn away, and the full alarm only go off when someone goes inside the car itself. This occasionally triggers the full alarm, at the most it did it 3 times in one day, but it is usually once a day if it happens. It seems to happen when air pressure is falling I think. I wish I'd read reviews on the net as it seems I'm not the only one to experience such problems. The alarm tells you which sensor tripped the alarm by flashing the light a number of times. On my alarm it's 8 flashes for proximity sensor, 3 for shock sensor, 5 for door open.

I guess it's better to have an alarm that false alarms occasionally *and* protects your car so you know it's working, than to have no protection at all.

balsingh

ask the school if there is any CCTV in the car park which might allow you to identify the offenders!!