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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Del Boy on 12 May 2011, 15:45:50
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Are they getting smaller or what? Now I may have just purchased a rather large vehicle, but I couldn't open either door, and I was over hanging by miles. This was in a brand new Sainsburys car park! I can't understand how they can keep making spaces smaller to cram more in >:(
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Are they getting smaller of what? .......
It wouldn't surprise me :-/ :-/
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Cars are getting bigger as well ;)
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Are they getting smaller of what? .......
It wouldn't surprise me :-/ :-/
It's to the point of, a Fiat Punto was quite tight, I understand they want to get as many spaces in as possible, but when my car would literally take a space and a half, it's a bit pointless in my mind?
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Cars are getting bigger as well ;)
Granted it's a large barge ;D
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Cars are getting bigger e.g.:
Astra G L=4,199 mm W=1,753 mm
Astra H L=4,331 mm W=1,753 mm
Astra J L=4,419 mm W=1,814mm
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Well they need to make spaces bigger then ;D
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Cars are getting bigger e.g.:
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Yep! Have you seen a MK1 Golf recently? They look tiny compared with everything else on the road. :-?
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Cars are getting bigger e.g.:
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Yep! Have you seen a MK1 Golf recently? They look tiny compared with everything else on the road. :-?
Similar size to a Lupo when I last saw one, maybe a touch bigger.
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I was in a council run pay-and-display car park on Windemere a couple of days ago and they clearly stated that if you took up two bays, you paid for two bays. Mind you the bays were a reasonable size there.
So it looks as if things are going that way.
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I was in a council run pay-and-display car park on Windemere a couple of days ago and they clearly stated that if you took up two bays, you paid for two bays. Mind you the bays were a reasonable size there.
So it looks as if things are going that way.
Remind me not to go there ;D
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Cars are getting bigger e.g.:
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Yep! Have you seen a MK1 Golf recently? They look tiny compared with everything else on the road. :-?
Similar size to a Lupo when I last saw one, maybe a touch bigger.
This is true of a lot manufacturers; their cars have grown so much they need a 'new' small model. Like 1 series BMWs, Lupo/Fox, Ka instead of the Fiesta etc etc. Even something like a Triumph 2000 estate, considered a large car at the time is about the same size as an Astra.
Plus, look at the weights of modern cars; a mk1 Golf was around 800KG, a current one is about 1500!
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Or just park a little further away and take up 2bays! thats what i tend to do.. :y
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Or just park a little further away and take up 2bays! thats what i tend to do.. :y
Then that's walking, which is effort, mind you it'd help with my health kick ;D
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Then that's walking, which is effort, mind you it'd help with my health kick
Like that! :D :D :D
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Or just park a little further away and take up 2bays! thats what i tend to do.. :y
With you on that one :y :y
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The planners insist on a certain number of parking places, so the developers cram in as many as possible to meet the numbers.
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You blokes just need to learn to park instead of over-estimating your size as per usual! ;) ;D :P
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You blokes just need to learn to park instead of over-estimating your size as per usual! ;) ;D :P
There's nothing small about my bigness ;)
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Don't get me started on the size of parking bays I'm p1ssed of with dings on my doors. If you park correctly in a bay you have to be very carful when opening the door to avoid contact with the car next to you. I have also noticed that most of the little dents that appear on car doors are on the rear exits, no doubt caused by everyones "little darlings" getting out of the car >:(
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Don't get me started on the size of parking bays I'm p1ssed of with dings on my doors. If you park correctly in a bay you have to be very carful when opening the door to avoid contact with the car next to you. I have also noticed that most of the little dents that appear on car doors are on the rear exits, no doubt caused by everyones "little darlings" getting out of the car >:(
Resulting in a few dings and a small dent in my car in the office car park, I now park in another car park over the road which is less well used..... :(
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You blokes just need to learn to park instead of over-estimating your size as per usual! ;) ;D :P
swmbo and miss Vamps say I don't park my car, I abandon it, particularly if parking in a disabled bay which are much wider.......just cos I like to park at a slight angle...... :D :D :D
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An angle I didn't think of that. Saying that though, that'd probably irritate someone ;D
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I parked up at the hospital last week when taking swmbo in came out an hour later to a chunk of bumper scratched with a load of paint down it >:( looked at the car directly behind me and yes the t##ser had hit that as well, not impressed >:(
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Yeah, I park as far away from the entrance to the building, and everyone else as possible. Most people can't be bothered to walk more than 20 feet, so that's how I avoid dings, although sometime you still get someone parking so close to you you can't get in your car, despite there being nothing else around! Idiots!
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......... although sometime you still get someone parking so close to you you can't get in your car, despite there being nothing else around! Idiots!
Why do people do this? I had this last week, I parked as far away from the rest of the cars on a quiet car park but when I came back someone had parked in the space next to me!!!!!!!! WHY? :-? Must be safety in numbers ..... :-/ :-/
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......... although sometime you still get someone parking so close to you you can't get in your car, despite there being nothing else around! Idiots!
Why do people do this? I had this last week, I parked as far away from the rest of the cars on a quiet car park but when I came back someone had parked in the space next to me!!!!!!!! WHY? :-? Must be safety in numbers ..... :-/ :-/
Shoaling inctinct??? :-/
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Bloody women mostly ime. Oblivious. I wait in the car while Mrs G goes in sometimes. I make no appologies for what I've seen with my own eyes btw.
Hand bags scraped up doors with bloody great buckles and dangly metal 'dangle berries' hanging off them. Hang off shoulder and walk around taking no account for the space. If your bag is a foot wide on your shoulder you can't walk down the MIDDLE of two cars and not idiot one of them. Scratch clang ding.
Can't park. Can't get out of the car without dinging the next one (which is understandably difficult) when there's 3 empty spaces 10 feet away.
I reckon this is a good way to spot a spouse, if she can park, and park away from other cars, not batter other cars and holds her bag in behind as she walks to the shop, worth a go I reckon. ( ;D )
There are a few about with what appears to be awareness, sense, and respect for others property. No really I've seen them. I've sat there for days. :-X ;D (I haven't really ;D ) men too sometimes.
But add in obviously smaller spaces and it's a joke. Stradle a line and we risk a ticket. So who pays for our damage then, hmm?
Sit in the car in the car park and just watch the comings and goings if you get a chance. It's unbelievable.
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Sit in the car in the car park and just watch the comings and goings if you get a chance. It's unbelievable.
I do, and you're absolutely right - it kind of shows you how pathetic some people are with their 'don't give a f*** ' attitudes to peoples' property, parking in disabled bays so they can save about 5 yards' walk, banging doors into adjacent cars then walking away as if nothing happened, blocking people in so they can step out of their cars to use a cash dispenser, it makes me sick...
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buy a car you don't give a fig about and never wash it - most people will avoid parking their nice shiny SUV next to it :y
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buy a car you don't give a fig about and never wash it - most people will avoid parking their nice shiny SUV next to it :y
Yup! And I love parking it next to brand new shiny cars, that close they can't open their doors and then running my handbag along the paintwork! ;D
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Yeah, I park as far away from the entrance to the building, and everyone else as possible. Most people can't be bothered to walk more than 20 feet, so that's how I avoid dings, although sometime you still get someone parking so close to you you can't get in your car, despite there being nothing else around! Idiots!
That's the best way to do it - although for a while I found that the car attracted empty taxis, parked right next to it in an otherwise deserted section of the car park. :-?
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buy a car you don't give a fig about and never wash it - most people will avoid parking their nice shiny SUV next to it :y
You mean like an Omega? ;D (That's what my first TD was like, anyway - when I bought it the front bumper was hanging off already ;D)
I reckon this is a good way to spot a spouse, if she can park, and park away from other cars, not batter other cars and holds her bag in behind as she walks to the shop, worth a go I reckon. ( ;D )
See I spotted one of those recently somewhere.. nice looking, funny, intelligent, into cars, can drive, park, etc..
Sadly someone got in there before me. (not that I'd have stood a chance anyway, I imagine) >:(
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When I has my Corsa I had no problems parking it in the centre of a bay - even if the person next to me was well across the line. If that meant they had to get in their passenger door, no problem. The Corsa didn't have one straight panel, the paint had faded to that washed out, oxidised red,
where there was paint it had been keyed, scratched or cracked, and it never got washed, and where there wasn't paint the rust was beginning to take hold, blistering nicely.
I used to get much less bother with people parking too close with that car than any other I've owned.
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When I has my Corsa ...
And here's how you stop them dinging the sides of a corsa:
(http://thatwillbuffout.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/funny-car-photos-it-pays-to-recycle1.jpg)
;D
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When I has my Corsa ...
And here's how you stop them dinging the sides of a corsa:
http://thatwillbuffout.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/funny-car-photos-it-pays-to-recycle1.jpg
;D
The driver might want to skip that parking place in future. :y
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When I has my Corsa ...
And here's how you stop them dinging the sides of a corsa:
http://thatwillbuffout.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/funny-car-photos-it-pays-to-recycle1.jpg
;D
The driver might want to skip that parking place in future. :y
;D ;D ;D ;D
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When I has my Corsa I had no problems parking it in the centre of a bay - even if the person next to me was well across the line. If that meant they had to get in their passenger door, no problem. The Corsa didn't have one straight panel, the paint had faded to that washed out, oxidised red,
where there was paint it had been keyed, scratched or cracked, and it never got washed, and where there wasn't paint the rust was beginning to take hold, blistering nicely.
I used to get much less bother with people parking too close with that car than any other I've owned.
My Disco has huge wheels large bumpers and rocksliders on the cills,
I like to park it neatly in the space next to the one parked at an angle, Im not bothered about the paint, it wont dent if they hit it,
funnily enough I often come back to find two empty spaces either side ;D
I have been known to tow badly parked cars outside my old house, 100 yds sideways into the industrial estate so I can get into my drive, :-*
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I park next to nice cars - they tend to be more careful.
I was once blocked in a space, I had to smash my door repeatedly into the other to open the door enough to let off handbrake and drop out of park, lampost lh door, self-abuser rh door. Then push car put was late back to work.
self-abuser had big dent in passenger side from me squashing between the cars and opening my door, I was touching both sides sideways :o :o :o :o
And I was not exagerating I did dent it and it was about 1 foot from my car.
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the warehouseman at a place I worked got blocked to the staff car park by a complete t*ss*r who worked next door. (for the third day running!)
he picked it up with the forktruck and dropped it on the main road outside the yard.
the police towed it after about twenty minutes of it blocking one of the main roads into Leeds city centre...
as to parking - drive a 15 year old transit, and the odd car park ding actually straightens out the panels.
it's the deep gouges that annoy me - cos they're too shiney to match the rest of the paintwork.
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I park next to nice cars - they tend to be more careful.
I was once blocked in a space, I had to smash my door repeatedly into the other to open the door enough to let off handbrake and drop out of park, lampost lh door, self-abuser rh door. Then push car put was late back to work.
self-abuser had big dent in passenger side from me squashing between the cars and opening my door, I was touching both sides sideways :o :o :o :o
And I was not exagerating I did dent it and it was about 1 foot from my car.
And dont forget all those pesky trees and gateposts that get in the way of your car :y
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I park next to nice cars - they tend to be more careful.
I was once blocked in a space, I had to smash my door repeatedly into the other to open the door enough to let off handbrake and drop out of park, lampost lh door, self-abuser rh door. Then push car put was late back to work.
self-abuser had big dent in passenger side from me squashing between the cars and opening my door, I was touching both sides sideways :o :o :o :o
And I was not exagerating I did dent it and it was about 1 foot from my car.
And dont forget all those pesky trees and gateposts that get in the way of your car :y
No trees and the gate was this car not one I had 8 years ago
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The other anoying thing with carparks is you've got empty spaces but people still walk down between the cars and smack into the door mirrors now I know they're supposed to move but the paint still gets scratched and they don't check the mirror they just leave it bent round.