Author Topic: Parking a Golf - is it the most difficult thing in the world to do?  (Read 6383 times)

Offline howlingmoon

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Real drivers dont need parking aids... wonder how ppl parked in the 80s or before that...  :evil:
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Real drivers dont need parking aids... wonder how ppl parked in the 80s or before that...  :evil:

They never had Power Steering, ABS, Traction Control, Airbags, Sat Nav etc either... but as time moves on cars get safer and better specced.  Why not move with the times?!
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Like for like, cars in the 80s were smaller, had better visability, cheaper, higher profile tyres and had fat rubber bumpers.



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Like for like, cars in the 80s were smaller, had better visability, cheaper, higher profile tyres and had fat rubber bumpers.





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They never had Power Steering, ABS, Traction Control, Airbags, Sat Nav etc either... but as time moves on cars get safer and better specced.  Why not move with the times?!

I am with the times and I am not saying dont get parking sensors, I just said real drivers dont need aids... focussing only on parking aids...
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I never got the parking sensors but went for the camera instead.
Wouldn't be without it now. Certainly not just a gimmick.
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he he he in the 80s, I didnt mind rubbing my bumpers coz its black and made from tough plastic materials that after a wash and applying some bumper juice, it will look brand new. These days a pedestrian walks by and accidentaly grazes your bumper and there are scratches already. Paint today are supposedly environmentally better as they are softer. But I dont understand this bit, if it is soft and all, when its damaged, we as owners will want to touch it up... therefore it will involve workshops who in turn will need electricity, water, more pain, time etc... would that not cause more harm to the environment?

 
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Chrome plated steel bumpers FTW! :grin:
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I never got the parking sensors but went for the camera instead.
Wouldn't be without it now. Certainly not just a gimmick.

I dont think the camera is a gimmick... depends on how you would use it though... he he he You can use it to check whether spies are planting a bomb in the rear end of your car... ha ha ha...
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Chrome plated steel bumpers FTW! :grin:

Amen to that... bullet proof too... ha ha ha or worst case scenario, just change it...
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