Whats the magnetic attraction of Tesco's carpark and halfwits in 4x4's?? had to park there yesterday. Left the Coupe so far from the doors /trolly stand that I needed a bus to get to the exit. Car sitting in splendid isolation. Came back 2 hours later and there's now a Suzuki jeep parked so close I had to climb in the passenger side..and a nice dent in the door that wasn't there 2 hours before. No other cars within 30 yds..Felt like kicking some holes in the Jeep but what the FCCUK, just went home in despair.

Yeah, that really annoys me

Why do people feel the need to park right next to you when there's loads of other empty spaces they could park in.

I shop at Tesco and purposely go there about 8pm onwards during the week, so I can park away from everyone else.

This is regardless of what car I'm in.

This is all so true. My brother works at Tescos in my town and within the fisrt 6 months his car looked like it had been used as target practice by yobs with air rifles. It has so many dings. Why are people so ignorant about this! They need a damn good birching!

Unbelievable,the same everywhere,people dont give a damn anymore. I find if I go in my dented mud splattered Land Rover people tend to keep away from me . Ha

You just cant get on our Tesco car park nowadays. It's completely chokka people have to park on the paved areas or just alongside designar=ted a=parking bays as there's simply no room. I wont go in the coop any more

What really bugs me is, as is Skodamans case, how you can park miles away from anyone at the back of the car park yet when you get back there is always a car parked next to you

Funny this i suffer from the same as others

park the coop away from shop on return cars parked around

park transit as above and not a car in sight

Happens all the time to me aswell. I tend to stay with my car and let family do the shop.... otherwise some muppet will stick his old corsa, nova etc and make a nice mark down the side.

I hate this, i allways say to the misses if there's any marks i'll return the favior tyres would be a good starting place as 4x4 owners don't care about things like scratches and dents, not puncture them but let 2 down

Think they call it "hearding", people see a parked car and can't help but park next to it.
Plus there is the thought that if they park next to a car nicer than theirs then the nicer car is more likely to get nicked!!

I know the feeling I park at the far corner in Tescos with no other cars about and there always a 50/50 chance some twat with a corsa/astra has chosen to park tight up to me and done a door mark, even though there 20 spaces closer to the entrance of Tesco WTF

Tesco in Banbury is a big no no for me 3 times i've had to blast my horn at Ford Focus drivers, they just keep reversing straight towards me.
But they always try to blame me, i'm stationary they aren't looking where they're going blast the horn makes them turn around (the way the car is going) but i'm in the wrong.
It's like i've got a target on the side.

The worst thing about my local Tescos in Dumfries is the trolleys don`t have those £1 coin locks so the lazy buggers just leave them lying about everywhere . So now when i park in Tescos as well as parking at the far end of the car park i also have to make sure i`m at the top of a gradient so the trolleys trundle away from me when they`re abandoned .

Baz

Baz, I had a nasty experience in Asda Carlisle thanks to their policy of not having the pound coin trolleys. Watched in horror as the wind caught a trolley and blew it into the side of the Leon The store offered £50 as a "gesture of goodwill" towards the cost of a new wing and painting.........

Trolleys can pick up a good head of speed when caught by wind, remember when I worked at B&Q was collecting trolleys one evening, it was very windy, one got caught by a gust of wind and it was off!! A MK4 escort stopped it though!!
I can remember when our local tesco first opened there was a load of compensation paid because the bollards they put up where too small and people couldn't see them over their bonnets resulting in loads of bashed bumpers, they ended up replacing all the bollards!!

i am hated in every car park i go to

i park diagonaly across two bays


i'm always left with a note saying "do you really need two bays?"

so i have left a few notes saying..... "yes....... yes i do! look at the dents down the side to see why"

on the car that is parked closest to me that wasn't there when i parked

i my be wrong by assuming it's them
making a very confused person

I've managed to nick a relatives disabled badge (who doesnt driv anymore), not proud, but usually te spaces are bigger so theres a fair chance the car will be ok.

and also a fair chance that a proper disabled person can't park there and will have to walk further, but I am pleased your car is OK!

We recently went to a cinema and parked our second car (Ka) in the car park. 250 space car park, 2 cars in it. We came out and the usual 'family' 4X4 scruffy piece of crap had parked within 12" of the Ka and the grotty kids had left a nice dent.

Threads like this amaze me....how do you know it was them, why even do it, what do you get out of that, just whats the point, your as bad as them if it was them, mindless stupid vandalism!

Leaving an admission of causing criminal damage on a public forum is hardly sensible, I feel.

Neil

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Nice backtrack there Perhaps you should have deleted or at least editied your original post

And on the disabled badge front...nothing like a bit of fraud

When I go shipping in the coop I take the sister-in-law’s little girl so I can park in a mother and child space

All it cost's me is a packet of jelly baby’s.

Well its not really hard to work out when someone has dinged your car. My red Coupe was parked in a hotel car park once, ding free. I come out in the morning and a brand new black Range Rover is parked about 12" away. I now have a 1" dent in the rear wing, with black colouring, which lines up exactly with the rear door of the Range Rover.

You don't have to be Inspector Clouseau to work it out. I left a polite note to contact me, with my phone number. Guess what. Nothing.

Maybe you could have asked at the hotel reception? Still no excuse for deliberately keying someone else's car ...I am pretty sure the occupant of the brand new range rover didn't do it on purpose - accidents do happen ultimately, it's rubbish but hey

I didn't key it - I left a note with my number to ring so that we could discuss it.

I agree that where kids are concerned, accidents happen, but the nature of this dent was such that the door must have opened with some force onto my car.

I checked at reception too, but no luck and no record of who owned the car.

It just comes down to people being considerate, and thinking about how and where they are parking.