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Post by Ricketi on Feb 12, 2023 17:31:35 GMT -5
I hate when people don't give a crap about opening there car doors. I always try to park in the boonies but sometimes you can't help it and have to park with the rest of the careless people. Well figures I get a penny size ding in my 2022 Explorer St . Just pisses me off to no end. Anybody here deal with getting a dimple fixed? I'm going to google it to see if there is anything I can do.
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Post by jazzguy on Feb 12, 2023 17:57:22 GMT -5
man I hate that and will always park as far away as possible.
back in the day I had these long magnetic rubberized rods that you stick on the sides to prevent dings
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Post by Taildragger on Feb 12, 2023 18:12:21 GMT -5
It's a "your car is nicer than mine: we can't have that..." thing.
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Post by Laker on Feb 12, 2023 18:47:21 GMT -5
I really hate it when I do that ding to my own car. I’ve been carefully backing our Harleys into the garage for 30+ years, sneaking them past our garaged cars, without ever putting a mark on one of the vehicles. Last fall I’m pushing my StreetGlide into the garage and my foot slipped a tad and, whoops, the end of the brake lever dings my Escalade and now I’ve got this little dimple in the side of my (otherwise) flawless car.
You can’t win ‘em all I guess.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Feb 12, 2023 19:35:16 GMT -5
The first ding always sucks, but having it makes you worry less about the next one.
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Post by Leftee on Feb 12, 2023 19:52:12 GMT -5
My truck is 5+ years old and still doesn’t have one. I have no idea why that is.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Feb 12, 2023 19:53:53 GMT -5
My truck is 5+ years old and still doesn’t have one. I have no idea why that is. Because you don’t live in Staten Island. That’s not physically possible here. |
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Post by Leftee on Feb 12, 2023 20:05:50 GMT -5
My truck is 5+ years old and still doesn’t have one. I have no idea why that is. Because you don’t live in Staten Island. That’s not physically possible here. True. There have been a couple close calls with deer almost running into the side of my truck in our driveway. *That* would be a helluva ding. |
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Post by Ricketi on Feb 12, 2023 20:06:05 GMT -5
I have a 3 year old truck that is unscathed , knock on wood
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Post by Leftee on Feb 12, 2023 20:15:45 GMT -5
I kept my Mustang out of harm’s way the three years I had it. I got my steps in. 😂
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Post by Ricketi on Feb 12, 2023 20:25:14 GMT -5
So I just ordered a small dent puller from Amazon . Hope it works. YouTube had some successful videos ,so we will see.
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Post by Pinetree on Feb 12, 2023 21:24:37 GMT -5
When I was stationed in Germany, I had a Datsun B210 station wagon that I paid $50 for.
I went to check my mail at the post office one day, and there were four guys in a Mercedes sedan parked next to me.
The guy on the passenger side opened his door right into mine, I said "Hey man you dinged my door!".
He chuckled and said "But your car is a piece of ____".
I said "Oh yeah, you're right".
And then I opened my door right into his.
After I unfolded my 6'4" self out of my car, they wisely said nothing.
People who carelessly ding doors are trash.. unfortunately they seem to be everywhere.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Feb 12, 2023 21:32:32 GMT -5
When I got my 2015 Honda CRV the first time I went to a Publix grocery store I parked in the boonies. No other cars around. Came back out to a sizeable ding in the front right quarter panel. Still PMO.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Feb 12, 2023 21:33:18 GMT -5
^ It annoys me as well. It seems like clipping the corner of your bumper when parking in a parking lot is also something people will do and not care about. My last car that I just turned in had scrapes on 3 of the 4 corners, none of which were my doing.
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Post by Taildragger on Feb 12, 2023 21:58:06 GMT -5
For several years, I had an beat-up, GMC V6 pickup that I bought from an old avocado farmer for about $275.
It ran great, but was a rusty, banged up hulk, appearance-wise.
People would avoid getting near it both in parking lots and on the road, because it reeked of "I don't give a shirt and have nothing to lose".
At the time, I was surfing some kind of remote breaks where car break-ins were fairly common. Nobody ever bothered that truck, because it didn't look like the person who would be driving it could possibly own anything of value.
I ended up selling it to some woodcutters for $100 and would occasionally see it around town for several years thereafter.
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Post by roly on Feb 12, 2023 22:00:29 GMT -5
"And then I opened my door right into his."
+1...that is the correct response when one whiteness the other party not caring.
It also works for shorter people.
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Post by LTB on Feb 12, 2023 22:40:43 GMT -5
Walmart near me seems no one cares. Before I traded my 2005 Ford focus in after 15 years I never worried about it after the 2nd year but will not take my 2021 Elantra Limited anywhere near there.
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Post by Taildragger on Feb 12, 2023 23:06:39 GMT -5
The way they stripe parking lots these days (excessively narrow spots) makes it much harder to avoid giving/getting door dings.
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Post by Ragtop on Feb 13, 2023 7:52:59 GMT -5
When I was in HS, I bought a '65 Corvair Corsa convertible. Cool car, had it painted a pale yellow and put a black pinstripe around it.
I had a PT job at the local JCPenney's, where I would park waaayyyy out in the far corner of the parking lot, about a $5 cab ride to the store. One evening I came out after work and, sure enough, some butthead had parked right on top of my car. And, sure enough, there was a nickel-sized chip in the paint on a fender.
So I took my key, jammed it into the paint on the other (nice) car, and walked clear around it, removing a line of paint.
Did I commit a crime?
Yes, I did.
Do I care?
No, I do not.
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Post by Larry Madsen on Feb 13, 2023 8:06:54 GMT -5
The first ding always sucks, but having it makes you worry less about the next one. I think Mike sums it up pretty nicely there.  |
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Post by Laker on Feb 13, 2023 10:15:26 GMT -5
When I got my 2015 Honda CRV the first time I went to a Publix grocery store I parked in the boonies. No other cars around. Came back out to a sizeable ding in the front right quarter panel. Still PMO. Back in ‘68 I was taking my ‘66 Vette home from the dealer (just traded a new GTO for it) and stopped in one of the old Mickey D golden arches drive-in restaurants to get a quick burger and drink. I’m sitting my car, parked with about twenty empty spaces between me and the building, when a bunch of giggling girls pull up alongside me in a puke green ‘49/‘50 four door Plymouth. One flips her passenger door open and slams it into the driver’s side door of my Vette. I looked at her and told her “lady, get your F’n door off the side of my Corvette. All giggling stopped, the door slammed shut, and the girls sped away. In 53 years of ownership that was the only time that ever happened…the first hour I owned the car. |
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Post by JDC on Feb 15, 2023 3:10:28 GMT -5
I'd just picked up my car from the auto body shop where I'd had the rear bumper repainted after some maroon had backed into it. That evening, I drove to a casino where I was gigging and purposely parked way the heck out in the far part of the lot where there were no other cars. NATURALLY, when the gig was over and I walked out to the "back forty" to get in my car, someone had backed into the newly painted rear bumper.
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Post by slacker 🐨 on Feb 16, 2023 12:05:52 GMT -5
My '18 Fusion Sport was still pristine until my wife turned in front of a guy down in KC and got t-boned. I'm big on parking way out and walking to prevent dings which works most of the time. I usually try to find an "end spot" where I can park offset to the end to create an even bigger buffer on the other side.
Even parked way out, on an end spot, I still have returned to find someone parked right on top of me and a ding on the door. At that point, it almost has to be intentional. Why the heck someone would intentionally ding your car I can't fathom, but I can't come up with any other explanation why someone would park way far away and over the line to get close enough to ding me.
My '21 F-150 was pristine until the dealership dinged it when I had it in for an oil change. They told me and are paying to get it fixed, which is honorable, but it still sucks.
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Post by Pinetree on Feb 16, 2023 12:14:19 GMT -5
Once while driving me to town (probably a guitar lesson), my dad said that he'd had his '55 Chevy in the body shop for some reason, and upon leaving some lady ran into him.
Dad: "Lady I hope you have insurance."
12 year old me: "YOU HAD A '55 CHEVY?!?!?!???"
Dad: "It was 1955."
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Post by Lesterstrat on Feb 16, 2023 13:23:48 GMT -5
Most yahoos can’t drive in a straight line anymore. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that they can’t park squarely in a parking spot so that they don’t have to smack your ride to get out of theirs.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Feb 16, 2023 13:34:04 GMT -5
Most yahoos can’t drive in a straight line anymore. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that they can’t park squarely in a parking spot so that they don’t have to smack your ride to get out of theirs. The way some people pull out of a space in a parking lot is actually frightening. |
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Feb 16, 2023 14:18:33 GMT -5
I thought this was gonna be about the successful installation of a new doorbell.  |
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Post by Mfitz804 on Feb 17, 2023 19:06:28 GMT -5
I thought this was gonna be about the successful installation of a new doorbell. Whats that thing, it doesn’t even look like it has a camera in it. |
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Post by LTB on Feb 20, 2023 21:00:47 GMT -5
The first ding always sucks, but having it makes you worry less about the next one. Unfortunately true! |
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Post by LTB on Apr 6, 2023 4:29:28 GMT -5
I will give a “beat up” car a wide birth if I have no other choice but to park next to them but as a general rule I avoid them all together. When I go to a store That has a curb on one side or a grocery cart collection area I park as close as possible to give a good amount of space between my car and the car next to mine. As mentioned I will at times park out in the “North 40”.
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