grrrrr. i hate school parking lots, got dinged today

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I absolutely hate parking at school, everyday I always wonder if my car will be damaged upon return. Well today was the day. Well actually, it was on Monday or Wednesday when it happened, I noticed today on my way out. I noticed two reflective scratches in the corner of my bumper. The heck? Upon closer inspection I see a dirty looking spot I cant wipe/scrape off (impact point Id guess) and two fractures/creases in the paint. :mad:

Luckily, its really really minor, minor enough I didn't notice for two days. Well, I mean it could have happened at home sometime yesterday/this morning, but that is very very unlikely, so I will blame school as that's the only other place it could have happened.

Just sucks that people aren't careful.

Next time I wash my car I will hand polish out the impact spot, but the cracks are forever. I just hope it wont lead to paint failure and cause it to flake off.
 
I cringe every time I park in a lot with shopping cart. I try to move 2-3 forward in hopes my doors will be spared by helping others. Unfortunately others aren't as courteous.
 
If you could only see how far away I park at my college for this specific reason.
 
Yep, I feel your pain guys.

My daughter paid extra each semester to park in "G deck" a covered parking garage that was supposed to be safe, and of course monitored. Her car was hit 3 times parking there!!! Luckily I could buff it 2 of the three, but one required a new rear bumper cover. :eek:
 
I have a 2 way alarm and as I've told you before Tony of my parking situation.

I am so close to where I park, that if anybody bumps into my car my alarm goes off in the car. And also my key chain remote controller starts beeping.

Without the remote control the car won't start. (Trust me i've tried it) it's a kill switch that goes on automatically every time I lock the car with the remote. Pretty nice actually...
 
I went once to Chinatown Chicago, with my mint '68 SS 396 Camaro.

Sat there in the restaurant, eating what was known as a "Hong Kong Steak". (This is about a 30oz T-Bone/Porterhouse Char Grilled to perfection, sliced, cut away from the Bone, and placed intact upon a bed of Chinese Wok Fried Veggies, with Oyster Sauce drizzled on top)

As I'm eating, I see a car pull up next to my Camaro. An old lady got out, then got back in two minutes later.

When I left, and inspected my car, you guessed it, not only one nice ding, and chip in the driver's door, but two. Right next to each other.

To say I was furious, and wanted to kill somebody on site, would be an understatement.

On that day, that was the first time I had taken the car out in a month, doing some serious detailing everywhere on the vehicle for that month prior. I spent a lot of money on some parts, painting under hood, belts hoses, tune up, the works on that 396 big block.

Only to have this happen.

I can surely sympathize. Sorry to hear this, and it is truly heartbreaking to see your pride and joy get damaged from some clown who is careless, or just doesn't care.
 
There are times when I park in a space and I will literally not have a good feeling about it... so I'll move. :laughing:

I took my girlfriend to a job interview today, parked in a space, and as soon as she got out and went inside, I shot over to another space, lol.

As you said, people are not careful and they could really care less if they ding your doors or anything on your car because they must not really care about their own vehicle. What's bad about my car is there are no body side moldings, so the door panels are just waiting to get dinged. I somehow managed to keep my last car safe. Always had a guy upstairs from me ask how I never got dinged, lol. I simply told him, "I have no clue." :laughing: Parking far away does help, but it's not a sure fire way to prevent it.
 
it seems the more careful you are, the more likely it will happen. it's gonna happen at some point in time. sorry to hear about it..
 
It's awful at my school. When I brought the minivan one day, I was perfectly centered in the spot and both sides were nearly on the line. The spots need to be at least a foot wider. Also, most people can't park straight.
 
timaishu said:
I absolutely hate parking at school, everyday I always wonder if my car will be damaged upon return. Well today was the day. Well actually, it was on Monday or Wednesday when it happened, I noticed today on my way out. I noticed two reflective scratches in the corner of my bumper. The heck? Upon closer inspection I see a dirty looking spot I cant wipe/scrape off (impact point Id guess) and two fractures/creases in the paint. :mad:

Luckily, its really really minor, minor enough I didn't notice for two days. Well, I mean it could have happened at home sometime yesterday/this morning, but that is very very unlikely, so I will blame school as that's the only other place it could have happened.

Just sucks that people aren't careful.

Next time I wash my car I will hand polish out the impact spot, but the cracks are forever. I just hope it wont lead to paint failure and cause it to flake off.
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Where do you go to school?
 
VISITOR said:
it seems the more careful you are, the more likely it will happen. it's gonna happen at some point in time. sorry to hear about it..
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+1

Law of Attraction

Negative thoughts bring negative consequences. Positive thoughts bring the great things in life :)

(Not quoting btw)

Art
 
SYMAWD said:
It's awful at my school. When I brought the minivan one day, I was perfectly centered in the spot and both sides were nearly on the line. The spots need to be at least a foot wider. Also, most people can't park straight.
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I see people park like damn idiots in the parking lot of my apartment complex. It really makes me wonder why they're angled in a parking spot. It makes it difficult for anyone else to park next to them, not for me because I refuse to park next to anyone who parks in a half-assed manner. I've had people park next to me like that when I'm still in my car and I'll back right out and park elsewhere.
 
I have enough pics of my college campus parking jobs to start a photo series. its just SAD.
 
My GF's blue malibu gets beat up at school. She's come home with dings and long scratches, she claims she parks in a solitary place...

There are sections where people with nice cars park next to each other, so I'll park by the ricers sometimes.
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But i usually find a corner, and only drove my nice truck at slow times
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hernandez.art13 said:
I have a 2 way alarm and as I've told you before Tony of my parking situation.

I am so close to where I park, that if anybody bumps into my car my alarm goes off in the car. And also my key chain remote controller starts beeping.

Without the remote control the car won't start. (Trust me i've tried it) it's a kill switch that goes on automatically every time I lock the car with the remote. Pretty nice actually...
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At Georgia State where my daughter went it's in downtown Atlanta and there are so many alarms going off there that nobody actually pays them any attention what-so-ever. :dunno: She parked on the street for all of about a week one semester and that was the end of that.

The real pisser about "G Deck" parking was that sometimes a kid (well lots of them actually) would drive in (with pass cards) and take their card back out for someone else to use. Which would lead to the deck running out of spaces.

They finally got wise to it and would only let the gate work to let another card in ONLY AFTER it had let a car out in the same day. Then they decided to work around that one by walking back to the exit and scanning the card, opening the gate, and then handing it off to a friend to come into the deck. They found that some roommates and freinds were doing it all the freaking time. Not that they did anything about it! :rolleyes:

Even still, it was a better alternative than other parking on campus as you could access some of the classroom buildings directly without having to go out into the rain. Lots of cutting into this building, through that one, under some streets, over and around etc.... just to get from point A to point B. It did keep her car out of the weather though while she was going which was a GOOD thing. ;) Well that and when she had late days it was a bit more secure than open parking or street parking for sure. (She learned to carry a lock blade that'd shave ya', not being able to carry her .45 on campus.) :props:
 
Brody said:
If you could only see how far away I park at my college for this specific reason.
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Even when I had an older vehicle I always parked as far away in the lot that I could. Have new car and always skittish about
parking close to anyone, except Costco parking lot that has
huge spaces!:buffing:
 
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