Parking, a different kind of question.

[RichardG]

I have just been reading yet another thread about parking and the anxiety a lot of Forumites seem to suffer over it.
Now don't get me wrong I don't try and squeeze into non existent spots and when I am parking I will always try to park in the quieter areas and as for multi storeys one of my pet hates is the idiot who drives round the first level for half an hour at 1/2mph waiting for someone to leave, I nearly always make a bee line for the top where ironically it is usually quiet with loads of parking spaces available.
Again I would be as p1ssed off as the next man should I come back and see any damage on my Zed (it has a couple of marks on it that I have no idea how they got there, and some that were self inflicted :headbang, but I don't lose sleep over it nor do I constantly worry abd fret about it.
I can't believe I'm alone in this or is it just that I've had my Zed so long I have become immune to the stress of it all.

 

[Adamski]

I admit my anxiety is an illness

Had it with my last car too. Only takes a couple of bad dents to ruin your trust in other motorists


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[andysat]

I admit my anxiety is an illness

Had it with my last car too. Only takes a couple of bad dents to ruin your trust in other motorists


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+1

 

[Finisterre]

I have kerbed our wheels, the mrs has scraped the snow plough, once someone dents a door we can stop worrying.

 

[Rich-hill]

My old car and it hit in car park twice. Both times a respray needed. £900 of my only I had to spend to correct it.
Im always nervouse where ever I park it. Except the garage at home

 

[Bradders75]

Richard, there are bound to be as many people who don't have a care in the world as there are OCD freaks like myself. Just as there will be forumites with a very relaxed attitude to speeding vs. those who wouldn't dream of breaking the limit. All horses for courses really.

 

[un1eash]

Depending on where i was going i wouldnt take the Z4 or our "Nice" car. In town i have a private carpark at work so thats fine but not late at night, anywhere else where i know parking is hard i take the 24 year old MR2.

Even when i use to visit the parents my dad would move his Octavia of the drive so i could park my car on it.

 

[RubyBlueZ4MC]

Depending on where i was going i wouldnt take the Z4 or our "Nice" car. In town i have a private carpark at work so thats fine but not late at night, anywhere else where i know parking is hard i take the 24 year old MR2.

Even when i use to visit the parents my dad would move his Octavia of the drive so i could park my car on it.

Same, I am using my VW Polo a lot for the overly crowded, tight bay work car park which is a recipe for asking for damage. Before I visit my parents a text to dad to move his car out of the drive is always necessary. I guess I spent a few years of my hard earned savings on my car and its the most expensive thing I've ever bought without help from my folks - I think this is why I am being so precious about it. And the fact that it is so beautiful :driving:

 

[teamemmenracing]

I guess its a mind set thing ......... I see everything as an opportunity ... when satan's sister (my ex wife) divorced me and took everything hahahhaha, I saw it as an opportunity to start a new life without her ........

a dent in the door is an excuse for a new colour, kerbed wheels are excuses for a new set, a full on collision puts you back in the BMW shop .....

of course I also have an attitude that would result in maiming or death of anyone I caught messing with the car ..... or anything I own I think.

Racing bikes taught me never to get attached to a machine, cos you will throw it up the road and there's always a new one in the shop. It's what credit cards are made for .......

 

[a11y]

I think I'm somewhere in the middle: I certainly have OCD tendencies (or CDO, to put the letters in their correct alphabetical order...), but it's an outdoor/practical object that gets used and it ain't going to stay immaculate/pristine/as-new condition for that reason.

I DO take all the usual precautions - highly selective in my parking space choices, etc - and would be massively pissed off if someone carelessly dented it, but it's not life or death like I see sometimes on this forum

 

[stevedruidstone]

yeah, its a car- a nice car but still a car

 

[Gerry]

Yes! I do park away from the MPVs, the trolly parks and sheds and I have been known to take up two parking bays, the doors are ding free, however Iv kerbed all my wheels and as finestre suggests , the first cut IS the deepest .

 

[chrisj900]

i try and park over 2 spaces in supermarkets and free carparks to avoid this problem. still have a dent in each door from some idiot though :headbang:
my biggest problem is parallel parking. my alloys are chiped to hell and im dreading the day when i get my new ones anyone eles have this problem?

 

[Taz]

i will not take the zed to a supermarket carpark

 

[Sim_Simma]

I work at morrisons lol, and I park near the entrance, even though we aren't supposed to. Maybe that's because I'm going to respray my mine

 

[SpikedJuice]

I used to not care. However, parking in the car park bays at work has taught me a lesson. I borrowed my brother's Clio for a month after which both sides of the car were so marked, you could be forgiven for thinking a child had come along and marked it with a piece of chalk on both sides. All were from other people opening their car doors and slamming into the side of the car. Both my parents and brother had a go at me for this and I've never been able to live it down.

So yeah, now I park on the other side of the car park. You're never going to win if you're the only one who cares.