QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Aug 30 2011, 04:01 PM)
Fortunately I have door savers and did no damage, that is, on one occasion the driver was sat in the car and said 'forget it', and the other occasion despite leaving a phone number, I never heard from the owner (I couldn't see any damage, although it was dark).
It's good though you are honest and left notes, etc.. Unfortunately most people are not like that.
This is the most annoying thing in the world. I'm very car proud, keeping it very clean, waxed and polished, etc. There were no dents at all on my car when i bought it. and in the 8 months i've had it, there is now a dent in my rear passenger side door, which i can tell is done by another car because you can see the line.. It can't be removed because it's not deep enough and can't be pulled/filled. It's creased! The only way to fix it would be to get a whole new door.
Second is a small dent on my rear 3/4 panel. It also seems to be done by a door. That could be pulled as it's more circular but that's not the point.
Third, on the other rear 3/4, are small scuff marks which were clearly done by a troller scraping against it. No notes were left on ANY of these occasions.
All of these things would probably cost about 350 quid. My car, being silver, is incredibly hard to colour match across panels. There are actually 9 shades of the silver of my car.
Whether done by accident, or on purpose, it's not the point. It's about respect for peoples property. Saying something was an accident is not an excuse for being careless!
Where possible i'll park as far away as possible from most people. Failing that i will use a parent/baby space, especially at Sainsburys. I will not however use the disabled spaces, even if half of them are never in use.
Thats not mentioning the indian family who openly slammed their car door (several times) against a honda jazz in halfords car park the other month...
On the topic of motorcycle bike parking, ive never paid to park in town centres/supermarkets. Normally you can put them on the path or out of the way anyway.