Don't park next to Range Rovers

I totally agree with the OP about the attitude of the offending SUV driver. And for anyone to say that the OP provoked the hostile response by saying, "Hey, did you just hit my car?" the person(s) need to go flush their head down the toilet. How should one have expressed that concern? "Excuse me, I do not wish to offend, but might your SUV have just come in contact with my little car?"

So, sorry; this has happened to me and I am always nice, polite and professional-but I tell the person they just hit my car and to standby while I take a look for damage. I do not care if it is just a door ding- I am not going to pay $100 or more out of my pocket for their carelessness. I tell them, if damaged, what they just did. I then tell them I wish to see their license and insurance information or if they wish, they can just pay for the damage on their own. I take a picture (camera in phone) of their car, their ID and insurance card. I then get an estimate for the damage and send it to them. I have yet to be burned and have always been paid for the damage. Usually $100 or thereabouts for the dent doctor dudes. The only way to teach people not to be careless is to hold them accountable for their actions.

I truly appreciate people are in a hurry, etc., but I will not just ignore damage caused by someone else's carelessness. Be polite but do not let them get away with it. The caveat being an old person as described above somewhere. I would eat that one as I am pretty sure my dad may have done that at some point during his later driving years before he surrendered his license at 84.

Oh, and I have never hit someone's car with my door. I do not care if I am driving a heap and I park next to a heap. I am always careful and respect the property of others.

 

Yep, I would have got her details and put in an insurance claim. It would have been her children who ultimately paid for the repair if she was so old (reduced inheritance). If you don't get the details and make a claim you will have to pay for the damage either when it's repaired of when you sell the car with the damage. Why should you do that when it wasn't your fault?

 

OK. I was reading the thread and HAD to reply. I picked up my 2010 and drove it to the campground where we were spending the weekend camping. When I parked it, "Bullet" had 34 miles on him. My girlfireid, who had had an altercation with another camper, told me she was worried something might be done to my car. The next morning I found an EMPTY gallon of paint stripper lying behing my car and a stream of the s*it from the front bumper to rear bumper. The paint was bubbled up on the hatchback lid and the clear coat was stained from fornt to rear including the wheel covers. S*it!! The good news is we reported it and a cop got who took the report and got they guy admit to doing it. The bad news is, it going to cost $4,000 to fix it and $500 out of pocket for comprehensive; I'm calling the DA to find out when they expect to press charges and am considering filing a personal suit against the perp for what I will have to pay put-of-pocket. So, I'm looking at a civil suit aginst the SOB to recover my deductible plus other expenses (including lose of gas milage as a result of having to rent a car with inferior milage). Consider a "door-ding" a lucky break!! Wth????

 

I recognized it for the way you meant it. No Offense taken (I love that concept)

 

Maybe she was ticked at you for parking in the drop off zone.

 

Hummm, I guess no offense taken although you didn't say it

 

You don't have "no fault, no cost" insurance? My car is being repaired right now because of some feral mole backing into the door. She didn't have a licence or insurance but I will have no out of pocket costs because my insurance recover all costs from the person at fault. My rating one insurance survives intact too!

 

When you contact the DA's Office re the damage to your car and the confession of the suspect provide them with pictures and an estimate of the damage and request restitution for the damage be set as a part of the sentencing if and when it happens. I would also give them a redacted copy of your purchase contract so they realize this was a brand new car. Sorry that some people are really not fit to draw breath and you were victimized by them.

 

Sunday, Rudy received another small little dent, from a car whose back door, apparently, had been flung open too far (probably by a kid, I'm thinking)... there was a bit of white on that door, and a smudge of black on Rudy, along with a little ding.

Sigh.

DH suggested finding another black Spot to cover it with...

 

I think you should pursue additional repayment for the fact that your new paint job will not be half as good as you factory one. I've had many cars painted and they simply do not hold up as well as the factory paint job. Generally the painters booth cannot bake the paint as high in temperature as they do at the factory and you end up with a softer and less resilient paint job AND you run the risk of getting shoddy work that includes "fish-eyes", "orange peel", bad color sanding, overspray, and a host of other issues that go along with non-factory paint jobs. Some people get lucky but after having 6 cars painted I have never been as happy with the results as I was from the factory. Well, my show truck was an exception but that cost $7,000 in 1992 and took 2yrs to complete.

 

SUVs are a big problem in parking lots because of their height difference. Doors often open into the wrong places next to a much lower passenger car. There ought to be a special place in parking lots reserved just for trucks and SUVs. The government lists them as "commercial trucks", but there is one in every driveway in the suburbs. And they do not stay out of outside highway lanes which exclude trucks. The lack of government regulation in trucks and SUVs is the main problem with excessive fuel consumption.

 

Ruby, after yet another black spot is added to cover yet another door ding

 

well...the loading and unloading zone fits 8-10 cars and there were at least two other cars parked behind me waiting to pickup kids...

my girlfriend came out about 4 min later, cool it. haha no I told her I'm never picking her up from work again.

 

I'm leaning towards telling the old people off. They probably can't get mad and hurt you (unless they are packing).
My observation is that grumpy pushy old people were probably grumpy pushy young people at one time. They have been getting away with it too long.

I go to the grocery store and when in checkout line they constantly bump into you with their cart, Is it old age and reflexes (?) or is it their personality and their senses are not sharp enough anymore to realize they need to hide their faults better? I've seen really grumpy old people and I know how they were when they were young, so maybe that is typical. Then again maybe other old people don't fit into the same category as my in-laws

 

This post is periously close to being moved. My last thread where I was interested in finding out how others planned to carry concealed in their Prius has been deemed too political and moved to the Political Forum. Problem is I have no access to that.

In order to not upset the intolerant I will try to refrain from any controversal issues. And from what I can see a thread debating if you should start, participate, stop or walk away from an altercation is periously close to being political. It certainly has nothing to do with a Prius. That is unless you think driving a Prius makes a political statement and you are being harrassed because of that. Then that makes it a political issue again and the thread will be moved to obscurity into the political forum. Can't win with that logic.

Anyway, fighting old people is probably a win-win. You can possibly beat them and they in turn learn a lesson, if they can remember it. Young people just enjoy fighting and no lesson is learned so it's fruitless. Oh come on, that's funny. No offense old people

 

So that's where it went.... I can't seem to access it either.
Sorry if I helped get it too far off topic. Maybe you could recast the question as something like: "I carry a really delicate and expensive handheld scanner, is there a good place to mount its holster so it's out-of-sight but within easy reach?"

 

LOL, I'll just let it go. It wasn't heading in the direction I wanted anyway

Maybe what I really need is something like (in reverse) they had in "The Fast and The Furious" They shot some sort of taser onto a car and it would shut it down. What if we could hook our drive battery up to the car and send a large voltage shot (low amps) to anyone touching the car. People would quit touching the car

Or so as not to appear aggressive as in the Range Rover forum comments, rather than approach someone, simply have a setting on the security system that senses when someone touches or "taps" the vehicle and lights flash and the horn beeps, just like if some one bumps your car hard or tries to break in. People would learn not to ding a door or lean on a car if it publicly embarrased them every time they did so.

 

Default is no access, you must choose to sign up. Select 'User CP', 'Group Memberships', 'Join Group'.

 

How about a camera?

When hiking, I have a holster with two cameras, in separate compartments. One is 4Mpix, of unknown focal length. The other is 10pix, 9mm 'focal length'.