130hp

at my brother's work parking lot some idiot hit our TL on the body near the rear left wheel. we don't know who did it cause the car was parked when it was hit. im so pissed. the paint is scraped off and you can see the black coat under the paint about the size of a credit card. grrrr....!!!!

NsX Pilot

if i was you id check to see if any of the cars in the parking lot has and damage that may have resulted in hitting your car ,,,this is an employee parking lot isnt it or do other cars park there that do not belong ?

130hp

yea its an employee parking lot...at a FORD dealership. my bro is on the lookout in the parking lot for the other car. he got the estimate for the damage repair....$150 canadian. we're getting it repaired on thursday.

NsX Pilot

same thing happened to my car somewhere ...but at least u got a better chance of catching the person then i did

99LagunaTL

This reminds me of an interesting story:

At this company where I used to work, an executive's car got hit in the parking lot (minor damage). Needless to say he was pi$$ed. So he sent an email to the entire company asking whoever hit his car to come forward before he gets security to replay the tapes and reports it as a hit and run. Within an hour, a secretary came forward and they were able to work it out. Problem solved. (If security doesn't tape the lot, you can scare them by saying you have witnesses .)

The kicker in this story was the fact that the executive's car was a crappy old Chevy Caprice Classic .

bigman

The other day this fat fvck of a man was getting something from his car, i was parked right next to him. this was at napa auto. While i was standing on line, i saw him bending in the car and his door was millimeters from my door. I dropped everything, ran outside and pushed him in his car and blocked my door. I went off at him so bad that he was offereing me money and didnt do any damage to my car. I moved it and then went and bought my stuff. people have no consideration.

pianoman41

:toothless :toothless

Not too many ROTFLs anymore, but this got one....

NsX Pilot

lmfao.....yooooo bigman that shiets funnny as helll....i did the samething one day and the guy said " what its just a car"......arrrrrgh if there were not witnesses i swear.

130hp

LOL!!!
thats hilarious. it reminds me of the time my cousin and i were walking out of a supermarket and we saw an old lady let go of a shopping cart and it rolled down the lot and hit my cousin's bmw 530. there was a small dent and that old lady never heard the end of it.

Howard22

You will never, never, never be safe parking in a regular parking space where people can park within 2 feet of your car. There is always some S.F.J.A who will slam their door into you without a care or any consideration in violating your space.

Your best bet is to park in the most remote spot with only one parking space next to you and edge over as far as you can. I also try to park at a slight angle and it seems to have worked so far. I only have one really small ding that happened when my wife parked the car at the mall without taking these precautions. I still love her though.

NsX Pilot

i once saw a Benz that had these foam cushions on strings that she just hung by closing the door on the strings and it protected her doors

130hp

update:

i got the damage fixed. it looks brand new now. i detailed it and im happy again

i usually park in spaces far from everyone else too. u can never be too careful

Glen

That's interesting. I've been toying with the idea of doing something like that .....hanging some kind of protection on the sides. I've tried parking away from other cars in the supermarket parking lot, hogging two spaces (when the lot is mostly empty) etc., to no avail. There is always the jerk who has to park right next to my car when there's lots of empty spaces in the lot. On one occasion, this fool parked so close to my driver's side door that I almost could not get in.