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Title: OCD Parking
Post by: Mutley75 on 15 May 2019, 06:58
There was a similar thread in an Audi forum I used to follow, which was quite amusing. Post your photos to show the lengths you’ll go to, to protect your pride and joy when forced to park in a public place. Here’s my favourite parking spot in a local multi-storey. Ramp on one side, cast iron girders on the other. No door dings going on here.  :grin:

(https://i.postimg.cc/JsCB47L9/3-B3-C8-BDB-B2-BD-4850-8457-D656006-B3880.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/JsCB47L9)
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: davyk31 on 15 May 2019, 07:13
Brilliant space for sure. They are not girders though but let’s bit get too fussy lol.
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: Jim_mk7.5 on 15 May 2019, 09:03
Let's hope there aren't lots of 2 space takers on here as that can't stand that. Not cool.

Ps ^^ Perfect space that though!
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: AGB on 15 May 2019, 09:46
There was a similar thread in an Audi forum I used to follow, which was quite amusing. Post your photos to show the lengths you’ll go to, to protect your pride and joy when forced to park in a public place. Here’s my favourite parking spot in a local multi-storey. Ramp on one side, cast iron girders on the other. No door dings going on here.  :grin:

(https://i.postimg.cc/JsCB47L9/3-B3-C8-BDB-B2-BD-4850-8457-D656006-B3880.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/JsCB47L9)

Approve of your work! There is a car parking space in my local city centre car park and it's the golden ticket space. You could park a bus in there and it's a single bay between two concrete posts as it's not large enough for two and the motorbike parking is elsewhere and much larger. It's in direct line of a camera, not too far from the ticket dispenser and there is no need for pedestrians to pass it unless you're going to the car.

Which is why there is always a Nissan Micra that looked like it escaped a demolition derby in there.
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: dubber36 on 15 May 2019, 09:51
Brilliant space for sure. They are not girders though but let’s bit get too fussy lol.

They are not cast iron either, they are rolled steel.  :wink:
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: dubber36 on 15 May 2019, 11:28
I didn't take a picture, but there were no decent spaces in a busy hospital car park the other day, so I made my own. Popped the Amarok up over a 8" kerb and up a sloping grass bank. Just like parking in a far flung corner of a car park, you'll come back and someone has squeezed as close as they can next to you, when they had the choice of dozens of other spaces, there was a Ford Ranger next to me. At least he'd left plenty of room.
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: Jim_mk7.5 on 15 May 2019, 11:30
I didn't take a picture, but there were no decent spaces in a busy hospital car park the other day, so I made my own. Popped the Amarok up over a 8" kerb and up a sloping grass bank. Just like parking in a far flung corner of a car park, you'll come back and someone has squeezed as close as they can next to you, when they had the choice of dozens of other spaces, there was a Ford Ranger next to me. At least he'd left plenty of room.

It's a comfort thing in car parks. You park in the empty part of a carpark and guaranteed you'll have someone next to you or both sides!  :grin:
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: MKgti on 15 May 2019, 13:19
(https://i.postimg.cc/sxX0yQhL/20190216-150541.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/dkb9j0nR)
Found this spot in town multi-storey!
Bit of a trip to ground floor but worth it.
My wife hates it when I'm looking for a parking spot,  but she knows what I'm like.
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: Jim_mk7.5 on 15 May 2019, 14:55
That's a great space!!  :cool:
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: AGB on 15 May 2019, 15:01
I didn't take a picture, but there were no decent spaces in a busy hospital car park the other day, so I made my own. Popped the Amarok up over a 8" kerb and up a sloping grass bank. Just like parking in a far flung corner of a car park, you'll come back and someone has squeezed as close as they can next to you, when they had the choice of dozens of other spaces, there was a Ford Ranger next to me. At least he'd left plenty of room.

It's a comfort thing in car parks. You park in the empty part of a carpark and guaranteed you'll have someone next to you or both sides!  :grin:

It's one of my pet peeves. I've reasoned that it's people who are incredibly lazy and can't drive. They use your car to position theirs in the bay. I find it declines sharply if you park in the furtherest corner of an empty car park proving the 'incredibly lazy' part of my theory perfectly.
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: dubber36 on 15 May 2019, 16:38
Here's one for you. There is only one space left in a car park. The cars either side of it are parked on the skunt. Do you...

A-Park parallel to them, leaving the largest possible gap, but risk them leaving first, making you look like you can't park between the lines,

B-Park properly in the space, but leave your car quite close to the badly parked cars, risking damage when they come back and need to squeeze into them, then manoeuver out perilously close to your bumpers,

C-Sit in the car and wait for a better space to become available, even if it takes an hour, or

D-Go home.
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: Jim_mk7.5 on 15 May 2019, 16:50
Here's one for you. There is only one space left in a car park. The cars either side of it are parked on the skunt. Do you...

A-Park parallel to them, leaving the largest possible gap, but risk them leaving first, making you look like you can't park between the lines,

B-Park properly in the space, but leave your car quite close to the badly parked cars, risking damage when they come back and need to squeeze into them, then manoeuver out perilously close to your bumpers,

C-Sit in the car and wait for a better space to become available, even if it takes an hour, or

D-Go home.

C or D  :grin:
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: mcmaddy on 15 May 2019, 17:20
C or D for me too  :grin:
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: mcmaddy on 15 May 2019, 17:22
I didn't take a picture, but there were no decent spaces in a busy hospital car park the other day, so I made my own. Popped the Amarok up over a 8" kerb and up a sloping grass bank. Just like parking in a far flung corner of a car park, you'll come back and someone has squeezed as close as they can next to you, when they had the choice of dozens of other spaces, there was a Ford Ranger next to me. At least he'd left plenty of room.

It's a comfort thing in car parks. You park in the empty part of a carpark and guaranteed you'll have someone next to you or both sides!  :grin:

It's one of my pet peeves. I've reasoned that it's people who are incredibly lazy and can't drive. They use your car to position theirs in the bay. I find it declines sharply if you park in the furtherest corner of an empty car park proving the 'incredibly lazy' part of my theory perfectly.
Unfortunately your theory is wrong. I've parked in the farthest spot available in local supermarkets and also b and q and always come back to some clown hat parked next to me in some s4itbox fiesta or ford fungus. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: king monkey on 15 May 2019, 18:16
There was a similar thread in an Audi forum I used to follow, which was quite amusing. Post your photos to show the lengths you’ll go to, to protect your pride and joy when forced to park in a public place. Here’s my favourite parking spot in a local multi-storey. Ramp on one side, cast iron girders on the other. No door dings going on here.  :grin:

(https://i.postimg.cc/JsCB47L9/3-B3-C8-BDB-B2-BD-4850-8457-D656006-B3880.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/JsCB47L9)

Well done Mutley. This always made me laugh on the Audi forum. Do drone shots get bonus points?
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: Dr Mike Oxgreen on 15 May 2019, 19:01
I'm convinced that some people believe that their car will get lonely if it's parked on its own in a distant corner of a car park.

Twice each week I work in Winchester, in a multi-storey car park.  There are two spaces on each floor where the floor turns through a slight angle, and the spaces are wider at the back than the front, and have the added advantage that there are vertical galvanised steel girders on either side at the front, so the outsized SUV's which infest our streets can't park in them, and the timid parkers (usually those who can't park a small hatchback straight in a space) are too frightened to risk them. 

Unfortunately, two elderly parents in poor health mean that I've spent far too much time visiting Southampton General Hospital, and its overpriced and under-sized car park.  I hate the place with a passion, and much of that is due to the abysmal car park, with undersized spaces inhabited by oversized cars, SUV's and OAP's depositing their small hatchbacks haphazardly and inconsiderately in the inadequate spaces. 

My car is parked, wherever possible, either on the end of a row, in the far corner of the car park, between two pillars, or all of those things.  I've had to pay £450 to have a dent in the offside front wing of my Golf repaired during the last year.  I hate using public car parks.  I hate the fact that the spaces haven't been enlarged, but cars have, and I hate the chavvy, inconsiderate attitudes of some of the cretins who use them.
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: Mutley75 on 15 May 2019, 20:31
Brilliant space for sure. They are not girders though but let’s bit get too fussy lol.

They are not cast iron either, they are rolled steel.  :wink:

Strewth!! Either way, it’s a protective metal barrier between my car and the native morons.
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: andy28 on 15 May 2019, 20:48
Here's one for you. There is only one space left in a car park. The cars either side of it are parked on the skunt. Do you...

A-Park parallel to them, leaving the largest possible gap, but risk them leaving first, making you look like you can't park between the lines,

B-Park properly in the space, but leave your car quite close to the badly parked cars, risking damage when they come back and need to squeeze into them, then manoeuver out perilously close to your bumpers,

C-Sit in the car and wait for a better space to become available, even if it takes an hour, or

D-Go home.

D) then E) Jump in wife's car and go back   :grin:
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: Mutley75 on 15 May 2019, 21:06
Here's one for you. There is only one space left in a car park. The cars either side of it are parked on the skunt. Do you...

A-Park parallel to them, leaving the largest possible gap, but risk them leaving first, making you look like you can't park between the lines,

B-Park properly in the space, but leave your car quite close to the badly parked cars, risking damage when they come back and need to squeeze into them, then manoeuver out perilously close to your bumpers,

C-Sit in the car and wait for a better space to become available, even if it takes an hour, or

D-Go home.

D) then E) Jump in wife's car and go back   :grin:

D.

But more often than not, I have an idea what the parking arrangements at my destination are like in advance and decide whether to take the GTI or the 1.2 Polo, accordingly.  :grin:
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: dubber36 on 16 May 2019, 07:54

Unfortunately, two elderly parents in poor health mean that I've spent far too much time visiting Southampton General Hospital

Serious question. Have you thought about applying for a blue badge for one or both of them?
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: AGB on 16 May 2019, 08:19
I didn't take a picture, but there were no decent spaces in a busy hospital car park the other day, so I made my own. Popped the Amarok up over a 8" kerb and up a sloping grass bank. Just like parking in a far flung corner of a car park, you'll come back and someone has squeezed as close as they can next to you, when they had the choice of dozens of other spaces, there was a Ford Ranger next to me. At least he'd left plenty of room.

It's a comfort thing in car parks. You park in the empty part of a carpark and guaranteed you'll have someone next to you or both sides!  :grin:

It's one of my pet peeves. I've reasoned that it's people who are incredibly lazy and can't drive. They use your car to position theirs in the bay. I find it declines sharply if you park in the furtherest corner of an empty car park proving the 'incredibly lazy' part of my theory perfectly.
Unfortunately your theory is wrong. I've parked in the farthest spot available in local supermarkets and also b and q and always come back to some clown hat parked next to me in some s4itbox fiesta or ford fungus. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

I don't know why people do it. Maybe this will brighten your day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MI1jEesuzI
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: Ryan90GTI on 17 May 2019, 20:21
Excellent thread this. I flat out refuse to go places in my car unless I know the parking situation.
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: Watts on 17 May 2019, 20:57
What I don't understand is why some people would make it difficult for themselves by parking large vehicles in tight spaces when there are plenty of easier places to park? Or specifically the dozy old duffer who parked very close to me when he didn't have to and had pronounced mobility issues. There was absolutely no way he was going to extricate himself from his car without damaging mine. I was just fortunate enough to appear before he tried :rolleyes:
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: Mutley75 on 17 May 2019, 21:10
What I don’t understand is why some people are so utterly careless, disrespectful or just spiteful about nice cars. If you go to someone’s house who’s got a few quid, you don’t walk in with your muddy boots on or carelessly knock into lamps or other furniture so why don’t the general populous respect a nice car?
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: Mr.Edge1974 on 18 May 2019, 10:52
Just been to the local dump to get rid of some junk around the house. Had to play the lottery of parking whereever possible. In and out 5 minutes.Panic over!!
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: Mutley75 on 18 May 2019, 14:05
Just been to the local dump to get rid of some junk around the house. Had to play the lottery of parking whereever possible. In and out 5 minutes.Panic over!!

What concerns me just as much, is the fact you used the GTI to transport the junk!  :shocked:
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: SRGTD on 18 May 2019, 15:52
Just been to the local dump to get rid of some junk around the house. Had to play the lottery of parking whereever possible. In and out 5 minutes.Panic over!!

What concerns me just as much, is the fact you used the GTI to transport the junk!  :shocked:

If it’s your only car, you don’t really have a choice.

I’ve done many a run with my car to the local tip/recycling centre. I’m always very careful how I pack the rubbish in the car to minimise risk of damage to the interior trim and I’ve not sustained any damage so far.

I try to time one of my trips to the tip/recycling centre when my car’s being serviced. The garage courtesy car is great for transporting junk to the tip! :grin:
Title: Re: OCD Parking
Post by: dubber36 on 18 May 2019, 22:29
I try to time one of my trips to the tip/recycling centre when my car’s being serviced. The garage courtesy car is great for transporting junk to the tip! :grin:

I used to do something similar. Seeing how many miles I could do. My best was when my Mk4 Golf was in for warranty work. They gave me a Polo with about 50 miles on the clock. 2 days later I took it back with over 800.