Thread: you take your life into your own hands when walking through a carpark.

Must admit I backed the corner of the Defender into the rear passenger corner of the wife's Yaris the other day while reversing into our carport at an angle. She came rushing out, rubbed her hands caringly over the scratched plastic, and then said, very meaningfully, "That had better polish out!"
Message received. Got out the polish and applied lots of elbow grease. Fortunately it did polish out. Very relieved.
Of course, the Defender was unmarked.

And they all think they are F1 drivers , They see a car park two lanes over & have to race there before some one else gets it & can't wait if you are backing out, they have to drive around you.

In response to the earlier comment re backing into spaces.

As we approached a parking space at Erina Fair this morning my wife said.

"Nose in so that we can open the tailgate to load the groceries from the trolley"

And it's true. If you reverse in the odds are that some idiot will park up behind you so close you cannot open the tailgate.

Regards Philip A

Originally Posted by SPROVER

That would really **** me off. When I had my D1 you would be amazed how many people would just let there door swing open into the side of the car. The thing was, it had some heavy duty sliders on it
So there doors usually had a small dent in it! I caught 2 people who let it happen while I was sitting in the Disco.

IVe had that, some flash car that opened up the door into fozzy....

I asked the guy if he was going to do the right hting and leave a note..

"nahh, that cars a piece of ****, who cares."

one full force opening of the door later.

"Probably the owner"

Our kids need shooting!
They all think they have to fling the doors open without a care of what we happen to be parked beside.
I have now activated the Lock when moving thing-a-me & don't take the key out of the ignition until I have warned all & sundry to open the doors carefully.
I did have the child locks on but the kids complained they were old enough to not open the door while moving & that I was treating them like babies.
I probably should have left them on because the kids act like babies most of the time.
Jonesfam

I once had a snooty woman complain that I had parked my dented old Disco too close to her shiny BMW and she couldn't open the door to get in.
So, I pointed out I was parked between the lines, just like her. Then I opened my door, got into the Disco without touching her car, backed out, gave her a smirk and drove off. Silly nitwit!

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I once had a snooty woman complain that I had parked my dented old Disco too close to her shiny BMW and she couldn't open the door to get in.
So, I pointed out I was parked between the lines, just like her. Then I opened my door, got into the Disco without touching her car, backed out, gave her a smirk and drove off. Silly nitwit!

I love it when they're parked over the line but you can still get your car in and when they come back they give you a serve for "parking too close"

I especially love when they abuse you and demand to know if you could have parked any closer, epecailly if they use lots of expletives.

It makes my day demonstrating that I wasnt being a smart ass when I told you I could, i was advising you of facts.

Originally Posted by solmanic

Rule 1 in car parks for me - always reverse IN. Not only is it usually easier, but you are less likely to hit someone reversing into the space as you have the chance to see everything before you start backing. Reversing out is a recipe for disaster.

Our shopping centre has nose to nose parking so if I back in I can't access the boot in our car or rear door in the disco.

As for pedestrians, I backed into one at Bunnings. I was looking for a park when I spotted some one about to reverse out.

I checked my mirror to make sure there was no car behind so I could reverse to give the other car room.

At the same time a pedestrian walked behind me.