Parking
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I've got no issue with parking defensively, but I have a massive issue with people inconveniencing others for their own benefit. Taking up two spaces is seriously inconsiderate. If everyone did it because they felt the same way about their pride and joy - who are we to judge what 'deserves' two bays - we would have half the spaces! If you want to protect your car, park at the back of the lot miles from the door in one space - chances are there will always be a row of empty spots. If there aren't, even more reason not to take up 2 - your robbing someone else of a space...
...when you see some **** has parked over two spots close to the door, I'm not surprised he gets abuse.
...when you see some **** has parked over two spots close to the door, I'm not surprised he gets abuse.
i dont mind it at all because i know how i feel when it happens to me. i would just say do it out of the way a little and no big issue. at my tesco in kingston park i park on the side of a road just outside the carpark, in an industrial estate.
parallel parking is my prefered method and if i have to walk 50 yards further then thats fine....more calories burnt = more MPG
jk im not that tight honest!
parallel parking is my prefered method and if i have to walk 50 yards further then thats fine....more calories burnt = more MPG
jk im not that tight honest!Rudd_2002 said:parallel parking is my prefered method and if i have to walk 50 yards further then thats fine....more calories burnt = more MPG
Parallel parking has to be the worst for damage, the number of times I have seen people simply shunt another car or scrape the corner of one as they manoeuvre and drive off...
Especially in Pimlico!
mcbeee said:
Just to reinforce how tight council's can be, my car is the 350z in black. Empty car park, raining and leaves everywhere. Parked for probably about 20 mins tops, car was over the imaginary white line, see second photo for how bad it was. I parked there regularly to stop door dinks at least on my drivers side!
£70 ticket, which I contested and they refused the contest. Turns out they are building on the site and were probably generating revenue for it. :x Be careful when parking "defensively".
mikedav said:Rudd_2002 said:parallel parking is my prefered method and if i have to walk 50 yards further then thats fine....more calories burnt = more MPG
Parallel parking has to be the worst for damage, the number of times I have seen people simply shunt another car or scrape the corner of one as they manoeuvre and drive off...
Especially in Pimlico!
i have honestly never seen this happen. if i did i would probably change my mind but i would have thought door dings were more common?
Inuit said:Best piece of advice is do not park it in a public carpark of any sorts. Certain supermarkets are laid out better. I like ASDA in burton on trent as it has lots of odd spaces, which are at angles or you park behind each other. It is not the nearest by far, but you can normally get a space where no-one parks next to you. M&S leicester is full of idiots swinging doors open, previous cars been caught there numerous times, wont take the M there unless it really quiet.
Even better get yourself another car, just got a DISCO with side steps (not sure sidesteps would suit a Z4 :lol: ). I am as paranoid with that as i am my M, but to my delight i can put the suspension up and most small euro boxes doors will actually hit the side step first before the car. As i was coming back to my car after a couple of days of owning it, i was horrified to see a car next to me (I parked a long way away) in Sainsburys, with kids in the back swinging the door open, was just about to go and sort it out, when the mother realised her little darling had swung it open and the bottom hit my side steps, no apology or anything. Fortunately her door came off worse.
People squezze into small spaces because they cannot be bothered to walk across a carpark and people park next to you when there are loads of other spaces. It drives me mad. :thumbsdown: to inconsiderate people.
You live in B O T - ha! My family are there (ashby road) and im back every month or so - you might have been my yellow zed going about! (i havent noticed your imola MMM tho!)
Jamie
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Booner said:
You're just down the road from me Booner; I work for a US IT company on the MoD site out at Arncott - no parking problems there, in summer I can leave the roof down and the car unlocked all day, cos if you go near it someone will shoot at you! LOL
lacroupade said:
Ah, I think a friend of mine works there...Luke Thorne? if that rings any bells?! I work over in Bicester, nice secure inside....but if you were to leave your car outside with the roof down, I am sure some Chavs would start using it as a rubbish bin or something! I've probably spotted you driving around at some point?
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Booner said:
You'd have only seen me at the Village feeling sartorially challenged LOL. Where does Luke work exactly? I'm on the old LAIPT site opposite C Site/DSDA by that crappy closed pub in Arncott (the Plough?)... car is a facelift four pot in sterling grey with a silver hardtop (and I like it that way before the interior decorators kick off!_
Doesn't matter where you park or how badly, someone always seems to park some shitter right next to your pride & joy.
Have been sat in the car waiting for the missus before, in a half full car park & watched someone try to squeeze her people carrier into the narrow space between our Focus & a car in the next space along. Had acres of other spaces to choose from. She drove into the space, reversed, then back & forth 3 times before getting it square in the bay. If I'd been in the Z4 I'd have just driven out the space and found another one before her spawn leapt out the back seats. She knew fine well I was watching & held the door open for the child on my side instead.
Does amaze me how often people make life so difficult for themselves in situations like above. You see it time & time again when there can be dozens of easy to use spaces but instead they're like a moth to a light bulb to find & use the space that are the smallest, most awkward to get into & out of, or nigh impossible to get into the car without touching the one alongside.
I'd never use parent & toddler spaces (until I've got a toddler) and use disabled ones only if there's a blue badge in the car. Would far prefer to park miles away & walk.
Have been sat in the car waiting for the missus before, in a half full car park & watched someone try to squeeze her people carrier into the narrow space between our Focus & a car in the next space along. Had acres of other spaces to choose from. She drove into the space, reversed, then back & forth 3 times before getting it square in the bay. If I'd been in the Z4 I'd have just driven out the space and found another one before her spawn leapt out the back seats. She knew fine well I was watching & held the door open for the child on my side instead.
Does amaze me how often people make life so difficult for themselves in situations like above. You see it time & time again when there can be dozens of easy to use spaces but instead they're like a moth to a light bulb to find & use the space that are the smallest, most awkward to get into & out of, or nigh impossible to get into the car without touching the one alongside.
I'd never use parent & toddler spaces (until I've got a toddler) and use disabled ones only if there's a blue badge in the car. Would far prefer to park miles away & walk.
I always try and park in an end spot, back into the spot with the rear tyre about 5cm from the kerb, front tyre about 30cm from the kerb with the wheel fully turned out. Keeps the car within the space and just looks like an untidy parking job, but it increases the clearance to the next car significantly. Turning the tyre out also gives a bit of insurance against corner scrapes when someone is backing out of the next spot and not paying attention to their clearances.
