'Clarkson' Parking

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jockwav said:
I give up with this,people just being awkward or stupid.
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Instead of just insulting people, why not just answer their point? If you reverse your car i no the right of the car n the photo, your driver's side will be adjacent to their driver's side. If they then can't get into their car, how do you get out of yours?*



*unless your car is LHD or you climb over through the passenger side.
 
viv1969 said:
Yep...wet haddock for you too :)

I'd take gear pleasure in parking mm from his driver's door.
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And this comment got lots of likes?

The thing is, thats their pride and joy. The GTO also has quite large doors and looking at the image they've parked far away fromt he shops in the little used spaces, so I don't see an issue with it. I do the same with the TVR at times, park far away, over two spaces as the doors are huge. I'd take up the space to the white line just opening the door to get out.

Then having taken the time to park far away, some clever spark like this thinks it funny to park inches from the drivers door, when there's a lot of spaces around. I don't understand the thinking to be honest, quite an antisocial move.
 
Oh and just had a £560 bill for the MX-5 as someone decided to love tap the front wing/wheel leaving white paint and a broken wheel bearing as they decided they'd like to park very close, despite my car being in the middle of a normal bay.
 
Byker28i said:
I do the same with the TVR at times, park far away, over two spaces as the doors are huge.
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I too have very wide doors on my car, if I spotted something like that, I'd have the other bay and a half,
1) I can get in and out comfortably
2) you know the other person values their car and is highly unlikely to damage yours with his doors

I certainly won't park near Chelsea tractors and even less so if they have "little princess brat on board" stickers
as you you they are bound to kick the doors open onto whatever is parked next to them
 
fabs said:
Instead of just insulting people, why not just answer their point?
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I think some people forget that we can read the edits and the actual word typed, even if its taken out by the swear filter ;)
 
Cobra said:
I think some people forget that we can read the edits and the actual word typed, even if its taken out by the swear filter ;)
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Not to mention their posts being quoted. ;)
 
Steep said:
Car park isn't that busy and if I owned that car I'd park it that way too. Those look like Tesco miserly spaces, too much chance of Mrs Fiat Junker denting my car with her drivers door.
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Sorry, I know it upsets people with cars that are transport, but some people cherish their cars and the DENT FREE lines of a nice car are important to some, IF the people who had no interest in cars or their appearance, dent free status and paint finish gave a toss, those that do care would not have to park like Muppet's


I would not park that way because vindictive people could damage the car anyway, I park way over in the corner of the car park, I never go shopping on a Saturday or a Thursday evening and more so now Fridays are a no go.....Inconsidderate people just damaging other peoples cars bothers me much more than protective parking....
 
Byker28i said:
And this comment got lots of likes?

The thing is, thats their pride and joy. The GTO also has quite large doors and looking at the image they've parked far away fromt he shops in the little used spaces, so I don't see an issue with it. I do the same with the TVR at times, park far away, over two spaces as the doors are huge. I'd take up the space to the white line just opening the door to get out.

Then having taken the time to park far away, some clever spark like this thinks it funny to park inches from the drivers door, when there's a lot of spaces around. I don't understand the thinking to be honest, quite an antisocial move.
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Sorry, but parking like that is equally as antisocial.
The driver has no idea how full the car park will get whilst he's in whichever shop he's in, and I couldn't give s rat's if it's his pride and joy or not.
 
Byker28i said:
And this comment got lots of likes?

The thing is, thats their pride and joy. The GTO also has quite large doors and looking at the image they've parked far away fromt he shops in the little used spaces, so I don't see an issue with it. I do the same with the TVR at times, park far away, over two spaces as the doors are huge. I'd take up the space to the white line just opening the door to get out.

Then having taken the time to park far away, some clever spark like this thinks it funny to park inches from the drivers door, when there's a lot of spaces around. I don't understand the thinking to be honest, quite an antisocial move.
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It's a prime spot just outside Cheltenham's out of town M&S
 
Cartus said:
It's a prime spot just outside Cheltenham's out of town M&S
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In that case it's antisocial and I don't condone that, but usually you'll find cars like this are parked at the back of the car park where there's lots of free spaces, away from the careless drivers who must park as close as possible, so it's not an issue.

viv1969 said:
Sorry, but parking like that is equally as antisocial.
The driver has no idea how full the car park will get whilst he's in whichever shop he's in, and I couldn't give s rat's if it's his pride and joy or not.
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And there's the problem - an attitude like that means ones pride and joys is often damaged. You've openly admitted you'd deliberately park next to it to cause inconvenience, so who's the antisocial one? Two wrongs don't make a right. Jealousy or a superiority complex means people like you think they are right and don't have any care to other people property, think nothing of causing damage, whether deliberate or accidental. Shrug it off with an 'I'm all right jack' attitude.
Sad really to think theres people like that.
 
OldCarlos said:
Re cars getting bigger. They all still fit & drive easily within the width of the roads, just as they did 50 yrs ago.
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TBH no they don't. Round here we have a number of narrow bridges that were wide enough for 2 mid-size family cars of designs that were common 30 years ago to pass, but over the last decade that has become more difficult, and now it's common for only a single vehicle to use the bridges, with the others waiting until they can cross the other way.

TBH parking like this has been going on a long time. There was a guy I worked with who would always try to get the white line down the centre of his Mk3 Escort - Neil was just a bit of a git.
 
Neil? Ford? :muted:
 
Byker28i said:
In that case it's antisocial and I don't condone that, but usually you'll find cars like this are parked at the back of the car park where there's lots of free spaces, away from the careless drivers who must park as close as possible, so it's not an issue.



And there's the problem - an attitude like that means ones pride and joys is often damaged. You've openly admitted you'd deliberately park next to it to cause inconvenience, so who's the antisocial one? Two wrongs don't make a right. Jealousy or a superiority complex means people like you think they are right and don't have any care to other people property, think nothing of causing damage, whether deliberate or accidental. Shrug it off with an 'I'm all right jack' attitude.
Sad really to think theres people like that.
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People like me? Are you clutching your handbag as you type?
I'm not envious of others' cars.
Drivers who park like the pic in the opening post are the ones with the superiorority complexes...thinking it's OK to park in that manner, in a public car park, when it clearly isn't; and you've already included yourself in that bracket.
I've not said anywhere that I would cause any damage, of any kind, deliberate or otherwise have I?

Now, would like a ladder to assist in climbing off that high horse?
 
Show me a picture of a GTO or any other car parked across the line of disabled spaces or even mother and child spaces and I'll join the lynch mob but this business is moaning for the sake of it.
The guy in the picture was inconveniencing nobody, there look to be at least a dozen free spaces in close proximity and probably many more around the car park. It just shows an awful lot of people here have an unhealthy interest in being negative for the sake of it. Take some time out of your busy days to smile at something and if you really must moan, find something that actually matters to moan about, there's plenty of real s*** going on in the world, you won't have to look hard.
 
Steep said:
Show me a picture of a GTO or any other car parked across the line of disabled spaces or even mother and child spaces and I'll join the lynch mob but this business is moaning for the sake of it.
The guy in the picture was inconveniencing nobody, there look to be at least a dozen free spaces in close proximity and probably many more around the car park. It just shows an awful lot of people here have an unhealthy interest in being negative for the sake of it. Take some time out of your busy days to smile at something and if you really must moan, find something that actually matters to moan about, there's plenty of real s*** going on in the world, you won't have to look hard.
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:dummy::D
 
Steep said:
Show me a picture of a GTO or any other car parked across the line of disabled spaces or even mother and child spaces and I'll join the lynch mob but this business is moaning for the sake of it.
The guy in the picture was inconveniencing nobody, there look to be at least a dozen free spaces in close proximity and probably many more around the car park. It just shows an awful lot of people here have an unhealthy interest in being negative for the sake of it. Take some time out of your busy days to smile at something and if you really must moan, find something that actually matters to moan about, there's plenty of real s*** going on in the world, you won't have to look hard.
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My bold
anyone good at photoshop:)
 
Nod said:
Neil? Ford? :muted:
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I've never had a white Mk3 Escort and I only straddle the white line between two spaces in one car park and that is because one space can't be entered when the adjoining space is occupied, because the council saw fit to plant a bollard in front of it to stop people driving into the ticket machine. Rest of the time, as mentioned before, I park at the end of rows, overlapping into the dead hatched area.
 
nilagin said:
I've never had a white Mk3 Escort and I only straddle the white line between two spaces in one car park and that is because one space can't be entered when the adjoining space is occupied, because the council saw fit to plant a bollard in front of it to stop people driving into the ticket machine. Rest of the time, as mentioned before, I park at the end of rows, overlapping into the dead hatched area.
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It's OK, the escort was a sort of muddy grey-brown colour, and this particular Neil was someone who parked across the white lines of life. Unless you happen to be a beardy molecular biologist in your 50's then it's probably not you.
 
its not just the cars that are the bigger its the salad dodging owners as well
 
Mr Bump said:
its not just the cars that are the bigger its the salad dodging owners as well
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That's probably why cars are apparently much larger. Folk getting bigger.......manufacturers build to suit.
Once we are used to the extra space......we can then grow even more to fill the space. (until we get to American sizes :D )

Maybe it's just the DoT/Govt's way of keeping us leaner & fitter. :LOL: (a bit like airlines & their seats/legroom)
 
My dad always had small family cars and always uses his garage(escort, sunny, corolla) He always keeps them for quite a few years and when he recently changed, on a few test drives he struggled to get most into his garage without going for a really small model. He finally settled on a Yaris, it does seem that modern cars with all the side impact protection are a little wider
 
foggy4ever said:
My dad always had small family cars and always uses his garage(escort, sunny, corolla) He always keeps them for quite a few years and when he recently changed, on a few test drives he struggled to get most into his garage without going for a really small model. He finally settled on a Yaris, it does seem that modern cars with all the side impact protection are a little wider
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Which is the reason for cars growing, it's impossible for a car like an original mini or fiat 500 to pass modern safety standards.
 
Phil V said:
Which is the reason for cars growing, it's impossible for a car like an original mini or fiat 500 to pass modern safety standards.
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I disagree. It's all in the car construction and how the body is designed to deform and protect the occupants and pedestrians alike. There are still cars being built to modern safety standards, that are a similar size to the mini of Fiat 500.
 
people just want bigger cars as a lot of people now want an SUV type vehicle with higher ground clearance.
also most car parks are old and based on 20 years old car sizes.
even our 7 year old C3 is quite large and i class it as a small car.
 
Steep said:
or any other car parked across the line of disabled spaces or even mother and child spaces and I'll join the lynch mob
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I'd often park in a mother and child place, when taking my mum shopping / various appointments :D
As they tended to be a lot closer than the disabled spots. ;)


( Caveat she does have a blue badge and very limited mobility)
 
nilagin said:
I disagree. It's all in the car construction and how the body is designed to deform and protect the occupants and pedestrians alike. There are still cars being built to modern safety standards, that are a similar size to the mini of Fiat 500.
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I am not sure about that, uness you include modern "micro" cars such as the GeeWizz and others.

https://www.carthrottle.com/post/10-images-that-show-just-how-fat-cars-have-become/

As Phil said, safety (crumple zones, interior trim, bumpers) has added to the size, and the interiors are more plush with better soundproofing.
 
Phil V said:
One bored afternoon at work I researched Ford cars after a similar chat, and the Focus is now larger than a mk1 Cortina, the Fiesta larger than a mk1 Escort, and the Ka larger than a mk1 Fiesta. Same for Mondeo - Granada

So they've all effectively grown an entire 'class'
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This is something I realised (without researching it). I had a mk4 fiesta but the modern ones are a size larger. The problem is that parking bays are still based on the old sizes. Making them wider means people can park more easily but also fewer people can park. I would love multi-storey carparks to be built underground supermarkets. IMO it would be much more efficient use of space.

As for parking like that - people want to avoid damage to their cars. Those muppets who damage others' cars are IMO no different from people vandalising other peoples' houses.
 
Phil V said:
One bored afternoon at work I researched Ford cars after a similar chat, and the Focus is now larger than a mk1 Cortina, the Fiesta larger than a mk1 Escort, and the Ka larger than a mk1 Fiesta. Same for Mondeo - Granada

So they've all effectively grown an entire 'class'
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I recently saw a new X3 parked next to an original X5, and they were almost the same size.

Years ago I had a Vectra SRI (the 2.2L version) which I traded for a Focus ST. I could never get the ST in to my garage and then open the door, the Vectra was fine.
 
I never got my 1983 Jeep CJ8 Scrambler into a parking space in US outdoor parking lots in towns. No problem at out of town malls [emoji5]

Cars are growing all the time. I was in my youngest's 66 plate Kuga this afternoon (Titanium + Sport model) and we parked next to a Focus Estate outside the gym. ehe Focus wss timy in comparison. I mentioned it to the gym Mansger and he said that the car park at the B&Q store hew manages has been repainted to provide wider and longer spaces for cars. More to come elsewhere?
 
nickEnackEnoo said:
I've been in a lot of garages through work and customers rarely have cars in there, due to lack of space.
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Well if they fill it up with s***e like they do on our estate, I'm not surprised

Lets face it, nobody uses their garage to park a car in, its full of old cupboards, garden furniture, mowers, kids slides, trampolines and misc s***e, the last thing they're gonna put in there is a flippin car when there's a perfectly good street outside they can block up with dimebar parking.

The World is full of absolute dingbats
 
I have an Astra estate. If i drove it into my garage, the boot would still be outside and I would be able to get out of the car! A lot of people seem to be converting garages into rooms these days which seems a more practical solution.
 
I dunno what the answer is apart from bigger parking bays
I do know its extremely irritating to see some div has parked its car across 2 bays, I mean we'd all like plenty of space to open doors and not have to worry about damaging our cars and cars around us, but that's not how it is.
The bay's are marked for a reason, if you're just gonna ignore them then why have them at all, we might as well just have a blank canvas no lines and a free for all.....lets see how that goes down with the 2 space divs.
If you need an extra wide bay for whatever reason, and there isn't one........tough, park somewhere else, that's what I have to do if there are no spaces
 
fabs said:
I have an Astra estate. If i drove it into my garage, the boot would still be outside and I would be able to get out of the car! A lot of people seem to be converting garages into rooms these days which seems a more practical solution.
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That's pretty naff for a garage then
I mean, an Astra estate should fit in an average garage, its not like its a Roller or a RRover or anything ridiculous is it.
An Astra estate will fit in my garage, its a new house so there are housebuilders corner cutting factors to consider, but it still fits fine, I wouldn't like to try an A8 or anything in it but I'm not likely to have an A8 and live in a house like this.
Its fair to say that not everyone living in an average house will have a garage big enough for an average car though.
Garage to room.....hmm......I'm not even gonna go there
 
nickEnackEnoo said:
From what they say, it's usually because the car(s) dont fit that they're full of other crap :D
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Yeah, I'm sure that's sometimes true, but if they wanted the garage to store s***e in and park cars somewhere more convenient...ehem..like on the street opposite my flippin drive, they would say that.
 
The minimum recommended size of a car parking space is 4.8m x 2.4m. If the driver of the GTO parked central in the bay it would give them 280mm each side to get out. By the time you take the depth of the door off it doesn't leave a lot.
Car parking spaces are to small and drivers will park to suit their car, irrespective of where the white lines are.
I had a Ford Fiesta and parked it centrally in a parking space and the big Mercedes next to me was over to one side. When I came back they had deliberately smashed my wing mirror off yet they were the ones parked irresponsibly.
 
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