Freaking dings! How to avoid them?
08-08-2005, 05:09 PM
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RE: Freaking dings! How to avoid them?
ORIGINAL: JD1969
I saw a shopping cart go all the way across a supermarket parking lot one time and smash right into the side of a parked cop car, the cop almost jumped threw the roof.
ORIGINAL: ToplessGT
Heres my advice (not practical for most people though). I rarely drive it anywhere where i know it will be sitting out and vunerable to dings etc.... for example, havent drove it to work since i have owned it (4 years now). Mostly just a cruising car and if i do have to stop some place, its a park far away, get in get out kind of thing. I dont trust anybody!! Thats probaly why it has so few miles on it..1995 gt vert-just turned 50000 miles last week. Oh, and one more thing, my buddy parked his stang in a parking lot of a grocery store and did the usual park like a mile away and walk to the store thing. Well, he come out to see something that would just make me cry!! A friggn' shopping cart on the side of his new stang. Talk about a major ding! For some reason, the parking lot must slope out and of course some loser just left there cart sittiing in the lot. Probaly picked up some speed and BAM!
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Heres my advice (not practical for most people though). I rarely drive it anywhere where i know it will be sitting out and vunerable to dings etc.... for example, havent drove it to work since i have owned it (4 years now). Mostly just a cruising car and if i do have to stop some place, its a park far away, get in get out kind of thing. I dont trust anybody!! Thats probaly why it has so few miles on it..1995 gt vert-just turned 50000 miles last week. Oh, and one more thing, my buddy parked his stang in a parking lot of a grocery store and did the usual park like a mile away and walk to the store thing. Well, he come out to see something that would just make me cry!! A friggn' shopping cart on the side of his new stang. Talk about a major ding! For some reason, the parking lot must slope out and of course some loser just left there cart sittiing in the lot. Probaly picked up some speed and BAM!
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08-08-2005, 05:25 PM
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RE: Freaking dings! How to avoid them?
Park further away, all you can do.
Whatever you do, don't be a jackass and park vertically across two spots in a busy part of the lot. A lot of the ricer kids do that here, even at xmas time when it's nuts, and I've seen some really pissed off guys key their cars for doing it. I cheered them on!
Whatever you do, don't be a jackass and park vertically across two spots in a busy part of the lot. A lot of the ricer kids do that here, even at xmas time when it's nuts, and I've seen some really pissed off guys key their cars for doing it. I cheered them on!
08-08-2005, 05:34 PM
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RE: Freaking dings! How to avoid them?
ORIGINAL: _Shifty_
Park further away, all you can do.
Whatever you do, don't be a jackass and park vertically across two spots in a busy part of the lot. A lot of the ricer kids do that here, even at xmas time when it's nuts, and I've seen some really pissed off guys key their cars for doing it. I cheered them on!
Park further away, all you can do.
Whatever you do, don't be a jackass and park vertically across two spots in a busy part of the lot. A lot of the ricer kids do that here, even at xmas time when it's nuts, and I've seen some really pissed off guys key their cars for doing it. I cheered them on!
08-11-2005, 03:10 AM
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RE: Freaking dings! How to avoid them?
ORIGINAL: _Shifty_
Park further away, all you can do.
Whatever you do, don't be a jackass and park vertically across two spots in a busy part of the lot. A lot of the ricer kids do that here, even at xmas time when it's nuts, and I've seen some really pissed off guys key their cars for doing it. I cheered them on!
Park further away, all you can do.
Whatever you do, don't be a jackass and park vertically across two spots in a busy part of the lot. A lot of the ricer kids do that here, even at xmas time when it's nuts, and I've seen some really pissed off guys key their cars for doing it. I cheered them on!
I've been getting dings at work, there's not much that can be done about it... I'm sure I'd kill the guy who did it if I saw him do it, but for now I can't let myself get angry about it, I need to let it get to a degree (and watch very carefully for corrosion or any other problems) and get them repaired and repainted in a batch.
There's someone else at my workplace who owns a 97 Mustang (black, like mine) who parks however he feels, even though he parks way out at the end of the lot, next to mine. Had a couple angry notes on his door telling him to learn how to park or they would show him how to. He ignored them and they keyed his mustang, whoever they were. His insurance is covering a new paint job, not a bad deal, but I wouldn't want to do that to my Mustang.
08-11-2005, 01:52 PM
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RE: Freaking dings! How to avoid them?
ORIGINAL: 4600cc
If you caught the freak right there, saw him do the damage, what can you do? If you know the ding wasn't there before you left, and now it is there, and you suspect the car beside you, what you do then?
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If you caught the freak right there, saw him do the damage, what can you do? If you know the ding wasn't there before you left, and now it is there, and you suspect the car beside you, what you do then?
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Not that you're at a HS or anything.
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