Got to have a moan, sorry. Why oh why can't everybody treat other peoples cars like they would want theirs treated ?. Just noticed a lovely dent in my drivers door where another door has been opened on it. This seems to happen all the time now, just take a look at lots of cars and chances are you'll see similar damage. I'm always careful when I open my door not to hit somebody else's. My husbands car has a really bad dent in it, the other car even left blue paint !. I realise they are only cars but it is so annoying when people are so selfish. Yesterday I saw mum putting her shopping into the boot, oblivious to the fact that her young daughter had opened the door, banging the car next to it. I really wanted to say something but you never know the reaction you'll get and luckily I couldn't see any damage. Having said that, I would have pointed it out to her if there had been and given her registration to the cars owner. Mines only a little car, doesn't even take up a whole parking space !.

Val

ps.moan over - until next time !.

I would - if they all made sure they left enough space to get back in the drivers seat when they parked - I came back to my car the other day to find the previous occupant had left the space next to me, and a Mondeo was parked diagonally across the space - meaning I couldn't open my drivers rear door to put my shopping on the back seat, and the lady on the other side couldn't open her rear door so she could put her little girl in her car seat (she'd reverse parked) :(

I hate that when i get out a car i squeeze out slowly just so i dont wack the other persons door. once i came back to find a lady with a bag on the bonnet and siting on the side of the bonnet on my mums car while on her mobile , i wonder what she would have said if she came back and found me sitting on her car .
always get those scratches down the sides too , why do people have no respect for other peoples belongings . mabe there just jelouse often you will find its the older cars that wack the sides of your car , so we now try to find a space between newer cars and it seems that the newer car owners actully care about not damaging there cars so are carful not to wack ;)

LOL

I'd have checked which was hers and jumped on her car bonnet and waited for her to finish her phonecall :)  after all if she could sit on mine.....:D

Our doors not been dented but I find it very annoying when idiots scratch your car.

Boyf visited his mum last night who doesn't live in one of the best areas and when he left it was very dark and so he didn't notice it, but this morning there was two great big scratches on the front.

He's getting a new car in a month and its so annoying because he wont be able to visit his mum for idiots.

we have beauiful vans designed by me :D there so nice people stop us all the time and ask for cards , but im forever finding gashes down the sides i even came out once to find another vito owner pinched hub caps off of one , i couldent belive it . i already visited the lock up and noticed the van as it was bright yellow but it had the two back missing i came back to find ours had gone and him driving off with two on his ooo i was mad!
Some people look after there own and other peoples stuff others just get jelouse and dont care what they do . its something i would never dream of , if i havent got something i save and get it , its just so wrong!

I wonder, if you wrote down the number of the car parked in the space next to you, and you return to find damage - is it possible to trace the owners or do you have no rights ?. If another car had taken it's place it's unlikely that they would have damaged your car and stayed in the space so you would be pretty sure it was the previous car.

Val

But you wouldn't be able to prove it unless you had witnesses :(

it would be hard to prove , recently my freind parked his car outside a post office i went in , while i was there a van pulled out from behind him but he dident quite make it and clipted the corner of his car , the man very nicely jumpted out and passed his card over , he was a builder . drove away before anything could be said . then we quickly realised that hed just pulled out from the pub , i wonder why he dident stick around lol .
rang the police they said ring and get his details , he rang but the man denied it totaly , the police couldent do anything , how mean is that! the builders lucky he was dealing with my freind whos too nice . other people would be knockin on his door!

One thing i apsolutely loathe is when i am out and have parked, up be it in a disabled bay especially, someone parks next to my car in a bay designated for disabled and they are not.
Then i cant get into my car as they have parked over the lines and i am stuck.
I have to ask someone else to reverse my car out just so i can get into the driving seat.
This has happened to me loads of times.
ggrrrrrrrr
sam

yep i know what you mean our local tesco has a huge row of disabled spaces there always ful not with disabled drivers either , bout time someone slapted a big fine on there windows ! if every supermarket and car park did the same there wouldent be a problem , get rid of these rude lazy people

Abuse of the disabled car parking spaces really annoys me but not nearly as much as those able bodied folks who query users entitilement to the spaces if they dont see a wheelchair, they really make my blood boil. As for denting car doors dont get me started. A good friend parked her car properly outside a shop and came out to find some idiot had totalled her wing then driven off without leaving a note or a number, while my neighbour whos a tree surgeon had his work van nicked, hired another at some expense to get his contracts done then got a call from Lothians Finest to tell him they thought his van had been dumped at another location and could he go down to confirm it was his van ! He was so releived to get it back he didnt turn a hair when they told him he was lucky the drivers door was only crumpled.....

i wouldent question them if they have a wheelchair or not , quite a few mental patients have the badges so theres no reason to have a wheel chair or even blind people .
I got mad when i found my freinds mother was claiming she couldent go to work and got disablity allowance then found her up her tree the next week choping it down, its not up to me to sort out who is allowed it or not but im pretty sure they wouldent have given it her if they had saw what i saw ;)

its not just abled bodied folk which give you the evil eye, at christmas me, simon and the kids went to meadowhall, sheffield for xmas shopping, we parked in a disabled bay and i was approached by a young female struggling in a loading area with an elderly lady in a wheelchair, they were actually quizzing my entitlement to park in the disabled bay as they missed out before we arrived so i got the brunt.
They could'nt see my blue badge so as i said if you go up close to my car in the window youll see it, there attitude was brunt and to the point of disbelief so i lost my temper and banged my leg and said if it helps i can take it off as proof.
I get very emotional at my disability as most of the time i walk unaided and seldom will i use a stick or crutches and try to walk as normally as i can.
So when this happens i clam up and feel why did god curse me this way
i was really steaming and angry.
sam

I've had the "disabled Driver" argument from another angle too. Popped to the Post Office in my lunch hour one day and parked outside in a non disabled bay. Coming back to the car I found I was blocked in by an elderly gent parked outside a wallpapaper shop on double yellow lines. I politely pointed out that he shouldn't be parked there and could he move please etc etc... All I got was abuse and his firm belief that he could park ANYWHERE because he had a disabled badge. At the time I was driving Father in Laws car while he was in hospital, and duly got out his disabled permit and showed this old gent the "small print"! I was very late back to work that day!!!!

Lynn

Well Lynn, disability does not mean people can dispense with good manners. Years of nursing taught me that suffering does not ennoble people and the saintly invalids of What Katy Did are just that, fictional stereotypes. Nowt so queer as folk and 2 wrongs dont make a right etc. Id love to have seen his face when you pulled out the orange badge though.

Lorelei
What was even better than the look on his face with the badge thing, was when I went up to his car to politely ask him to shift, was that he got out of the car and offered to "guide" me out of the parking space!!! Now my car was a large estate and he was parked across my back end without enough room for another car to drive between us!!! Now that was when I went into "on call" mode. That is when at work in the hospital lab at 4am you have to very polite and firmly tell the foreign junior Dr on A&E that his patient is more likely to be bleeding due to the stab wound in his chest that to be a haemophiliac! I digress! He struck me as the kind of bolshy old fogie who would have parked there even if he didn't have a disabled badge.
Lynn

Lovelylady, my neighbour is exactly like that! She has serious heart trouble, a permanent invalidity medical pass and just wont accept she cant do things like moving paving slabs, chopping trees etc. She has this pleasant fantasy that she can still do all the things she used to if she just takes her time - er - wrong! Silverback and I are on permanent watch in the gardening season in case she gets a touch of Titchmarshitis which will be followed by a call for me to come over and ressucitate the pudden! :D

my freinds mothers suposed to have a really bad back. surely she couldent move never mind climb halfway up the tree :D its something i wouldent try fit and healthy lol

If I tried it the blessed branches would break under my Juno-esque figure :D

In case you didnt know there are firms who specialise in cosmetic repairs they are a fraction of the cost of a re spray  one firm is "Flying Colours" they are brilliant they can also repair burns in cars seats dashboards etc.. and come to your home to do it if you want any numbers ill send them to you not sure if allowed to post them but would highly recommend them

Careful flying colours here is a driving school :D :D