Why do higher end vehicles get all the dings and dents?

[hqduong]

Originally Posted by bmussatti

Well, maybe! But, I have treated all of my cars like this since I was a teenager with my first car, a Fiat 128. Cost me $2,300 used in 1982. I treat my company cars the same, and have had those since 1992...Taurus', Bonnevilles, Explorers.

A rental car? That's a different story.

Ha! So it's you people that drive rental cars that go and give people like us dings

Haha you remind me, I travel a lot for work. One day I was bored because my company sent me to middle of no where bartlesville, OK and wanted to experience what it would be like to drive with the emergency break on. I drove about 20 miles and it started smoking when I was at a stop. Lesson, don't ever buy a used rental car

[Adam]

ahh...the door ding issue. It sucks. I think it keeps a lot of nice cars from being parked at walmart or xxxx resturaunt. I always try to follow the golden rules mentioned below and so far I'm dingless. Fear of parking the vehicle....no way to really get past it.....just try to park smart and if it happens rememeber it's just a car.

[LoveBunny]

Originally Posted by Adam

ahh...the door ding issue. It sucks. I think it keeps a lot of nice cars from being parked at walmart or xxxx resturaunt. I always try to follow the golden rules mentioned below and so far I'm dingless. Fear of parking the vehicle....no way to really get past it.....just try to park smart and if it happens rememeber it's just a car.

I agree. I do my best to avoid it, but this is my only car, and in the end, it's a car, made to be driven. I don't always have the option of rockstar parking.

Originally Posted by hqduong

Ha! So it's you people that drive rental cars that go and give people like us dings

Almost! I just don't park far away from stuff with a rental. I am still careful of other people's property.

[fragdude]

Originally Posted by hqduong

Ha! So it's you people that drive rental cars that go and give people like us dings

Haha you remind me, I travel a lot for work. One day I was bored because my company sent me to middle of no where bartlesville, OK and wanted to experience what it would be like to drive with the emergency break on. I drove about 20 miles and it started smoking when I was at a stop. Lesson, don't ever buy a used rental car

Wow! I never thought about doing that one. I know when I was in Russia a while back, I was teaching myself to drive manual (I was about 15). My dad told me if I got bored or stuck I should just drop the clutch. I spent about 15 min in a parking lot doing 5k rpm drops on the rental. Poor thing...sure was fun though

[Adam]

Originally Posted by fragdude

I spent about 15 min in a parking lot doing 5k rpm drops on the rental. Poor thing...sure was fun though

Ah, 5k clutch drops are fun. Clutch and tire smoke....nothing beats it

[RandallNeighbour]

Bill, here's #10...

10) DON'T PARK ANYWHERE ONE MIGHT FIND A SHOPPING CART.

I never take my boxster to grocery store parking lots. Why frequent a place where one is bound to find people who don't care about cars?

I just wish I could afford to live in Germany. People there value their cars and dogs more than their children it seems. A friend who lived there told me a story I've shared on this forum before. He came out of a shopping center to find a man and his 8 year old son standing quietly next to his car. The man said the boy had something to say, and the kid said, through tears, that he dinged my buddy's door and he was very sorry. The man gave my buddy his card and said he MUST get it fixed and send him the bill so the boy could work off the debt and learn a valuable lesson about respecting other people's property.

Now that's the way to raise a child. Pity we don't have any of this left in this country.

[JTP]

While sitting in my car listening to the news, a Yaris parks a foot away from me but for some reason he leaves 4 ft on his passenger side. Of course he hits my fender as he gets out. I proceed to give him the "hey, what the hell man! Watch what you're doing!". The guy turns out to be a priest and apologizes profusely. I felt like an ass.

[yelojkt]

I truely believe that it is just that we care more about our cars than the average driver. We hand wash our cars and take time to make sure they stay looking nice. And that is why we notice door dings more than other people. I always park on an end of the row or just wind up parking somewhere in whatever lot I am in where I will not get hit by another car door. Like at the Pizza place that I eat at, they have very tight spaces so I just park in the lot next door (a bingo place, that never has traffic until late in the afternoon) on the far side so that other people who don't want to fight the tight parking but are in a hurry don't park beside me and wham. A three minute walk is worth no door ding to me. And the upwind thing is so dead on, certainly here in Kansas. I never ever park on the downwind end of a lot.

[Soetekouw]

Like many of you, I always park far away. The walk is good for you. But.......something I have noticed, no matter how far you park away, or no matter how many empty spaces that there are around you, other people think that my car(s) get lonely and they always want to park next to you. Also, the color red and blue seem to attaract those with the lonely syndrome more than other colors.