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Green Machine

Member Since: 19 Nov 2010
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 1226

I try to park my Defender well away from other vehicles, but no matter how hard I try every time I return to it there's always another bloody Defender parked next to it!

2005 Td5 | 90 Station Wagon | Tonga Green

19th Feb 2017 7:31pm

Pickles

Member Since: 26 May 2013
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 3786

2013 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 CSW Keswick Green

It's the same in Aussie, lots of people just don't care,..and you can see it by looking at the opening edge of their driver's door,...lots of paint chips off the edge signifies, "I don't care".
Wifey has an Audi RS3, & she NEVER parks in a supermarket, and when we're travelling in our 90 we try to find good safe parking in any Motel we might stay at.
It's a continual worry, trouble is some drivers just don't care,....I've seen heaps of drivers park up against a curb, I've heard & seen the wheel scraping the curb, leaving nice wheel rash, and the driver gets out,...doesn't even look,....same with low front spoilers, air dams etc, I've seen people park, scraping the spoiler on the footpath as they park,...again, just get out,...don't even look!
Even in our Church car park,..we have to watch where we park!
Pickles.

19th Feb 2017 9:09pm

xcentric

Member Since: 17 Jan 2016
Location: Midlands
Posts: 247

Re: Why lie about it?

defender4 wrote:

A wonderful life lesson for the boys. If you get caught deny everything, lie and keep on lying until they give up.

I think it's now called "doing a Trump".....

It would be

if it wasn't so

19th Feb 2017 9:27pm

Riverboy

Member Since: 16 May 2016
Location: French sector, Earth
Posts: 1288

2014 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 SW Corris Grey

I carry two of these.

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19th Feb 2017 10:08pm

Pilgrimmick

Member Since: 16 Nov 2015
Location: Highlands
Posts: 582

Recently I saw a similar incident where someone parked and opened there door into another car parked alongside. I left a note under the wiper telling the victim what had happened, but when I returned the victim had left. I was just putting a load from one shop in the car before continuing retail therapy in another.
The devil in me came out and made me move my 90 into the adjacent bay, close to the offending vehicle. The 90 is a work horse with galvanised box section sills that protrude enough to protect the dors, so is virtually car park proof.
On return I saw that there was a tiny mark on the sill and several months worth of road and farm grime had been wiped off the side where the driver had to rub against the 90 to enter their car!.
Justice of sorts! 80" 1948
Lightweight V8
Bowler Tomcat
130 Station wagon
90 300tdi
(Santana PS10 pick up)
Range Rover L322 (Ful fat)

19th Feb 2017 10:26pm

David T

Member Since: 01 Sep 2016
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 190

2012 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 USW Santorini Black

Don't park anywhere in range of someone else's door. That's the first rule of supermarket shopping here in Harrogate.
We also have to contend with ignorant old cows on Motability scooters, yummie-mummies in Cayennes, well meaning but clumsy vicars in Honda Civics and retired librarians in multi-coloured knitwear reversing battered 2CV's all over the place

On the plus side, I saw this in Waitrose. An FF, just been driven all the way to Harrogate from Finland.

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19th Feb 2017 10:48pm

agentmulder

Member Since: 16 Apr 2016
Location: Outer Space
Posts: 1324

Posted this in another thread a few weeks back:

Quote:
Young kid in a car next to me dinged my rear arch the other day.

It's fine, kids do that, need to learn how things work - I get it - however the mother appeared to not give a toss and did a nice job of ignoring it, the look on the kids face when he realised the vehicle was occupied though ( ).

It got to me, I said "yeah so your kid did just hit mine"

"No he didn't!" (as opposed to 'what?? hit? excuse me?? etc...)

"Yes he did, not only did I hear it, but I felt it"

She ignored me, and my better half suggested I leave it there - no big fuss, it's got more impressive dings...

Thread was discussing these: http://doordefender.net Solved the bowel problem, working on the consonants...

20th Feb 2017 5:36am

flydive

Member Since: 27 Aug 2015
Location: Lugano
Posts: 290

2015 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 Heritage Edition SW Grasmere Green

David T wrote:
On the plus side, I saw this in Waitrose. An FF, just been driven all the way to Harrogate from Finland.

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Beautiful

20th Feb 2017 9:38am

blackwolf

Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: South West England
Posts: 17480

2007 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 DCPU Stornoway Grey

Over the years I have found that my vehicles are much less likely to get dinged by doors in a carpark if they are absolutely filthy and plastered in mud etc. Every single door dent I have ever had has been when the victim was clean.

My conclusion is that people are more worried about getting themselves or their vehicles dirty than damaging other people's vehicles.

It's a great excuse too for nto washing the vehicles too often!

20th Feb 2017 9:59am

Happyoldgit

Member Since: 14 Sep 2007
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 3471

2015 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 USW Corris Grey

The amazing thing in these type of threads is that contributors appear to never be guilty of causing the merest kiss of their own vehicle door against another vehicle.

It's usually always the other person - another reflection on the morals of modern society. Steve.
Owned numerous Land Rover vehicles of all shapes and sizes over the decades.
Current Defender: A non tarts hand-bagged Puma 110 XS USW.

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20th Feb 2017 1:37pm

scotty38

Member Since: 21 May 2011
Location: Lincolnshire
Posts: 571

2012 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 USW Aintree Green

Very true although I find "standards of driving" topics even more polarising

I could add that if only everyone was as law abiding and as upstanding as folk on motoring forums the world would be a far better place

20th Feb 2017 1:46pm

Retroanaconda

Member Since: 04 Jan 2012
Location: Scotland
Posts: 2664

I'm not sure what's worse to be honest, people opening their doors onto other people's cars or those who park their expensive car across two bays to avoid some peasant opening their door on to it.

20th Feb 2017 2:45pm

blackwolf

Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: South West England
Posts: 17480

Happyoldgit wrote:
The amazing thing in these type of threads is that contributors appear to never be guilty of causing the merest kiss of their own vehicle door against another vehicle.

It's usually always the other person - another reflection on the morals of modern society.

Well, I don't believe that I have EVER touched someone else's vehicle with my door, because I take the same level of care of their vehicle that I hope they take of mine.

I see no excuse for it.

20th Feb 2017 2:54pm

smb

Member Since: 15 Jan 2013
Location: Cheshire
Posts: 1232

2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Santorini Black

Just like all the to..ers that park in Dissabled Bays who aren't disabled

I suppose it could always be argued that they weren't actually in a disabled bay!!![/img]

20th Feb 2017 4:39pm

L110CDL

Member Since: 31 Oct 2015
Location: Devon
Posts: 10818

On the plus side, I saw this in Waitrose. An FF, just been driven all the way to Harrogate from Finland.

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Now that is a thing of beauty

1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up.

Keeper.

Clayton.

20th Feb 2017 7:59pm

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