people that can't park & have no respect for other peoples properties!

[fuzion]

on Sunday morning the Polo was parked in Homebush near Moto Ex show being held.

Left for about 1 hour ish if that in total.

some f****er decided to leave a nice gash into the rear bar and leave of course with no details as they cannot own up to damaging other peoples property!



luckily with of a bit of paint correction i got about 95% off thankfully but some fine marks still evident that will not come out unfortunately



Very disheartening how rude and disrespect people still are these days. If you cant afford to insure it, dont drive it.

[Blitzen]

People are scum man. I have no hope in humanity these days, and I haven't seen anything lately that will change that opinion...

[rayray086]

That's ****ed, hate to say this but Sydney's just bad when it comes to this.

[mikinoz]

That's ****ed, hate to say this but Sydney's just bad when it comes to this.

Truth. I think if they cared any less, they wouldn't be motivated to leave the house but - which would be an improvement.

[wai]

The current driving test is designed so that new drivers achieve a number and not such that they achieve a particular level of vehicle control. They have to maintain a log, but there is no real assessment process that happens while learning. Parents are the worst people to teach their children (a general statement, but sadly true in the vast majority of situations). I know of parents (both of them) who will drive kilometres out of their way so that they don't have to parallel park, or to ensure that they are at the start or end of a parallel parking block.

How can such a person be considered acceptable to teach a new driver?

Those operating car parks are not blameless. The bay widths are less than the Australian Standard, as are the bay lengths. Where you have parking bays mirrored, the distance between them is also generally undersized. I know this happens as I prepare engineering drawings. When the matter is raised with a client, I am told to "carry on as instructed".

The worst car parks are those where you have to pay as every additional bay you can squeeze in means more money. The state government approving bodies let them get away with this only requiring a sign saying "Small cars only". This begs the question "How small does a car have to be to be classed as a 'small car'"?

[bombsquad21]

The current driving test is designed so that new drivers achieve a number and not such that they achieve a particular level of vehicle control. They have to maintain a log, but there is no real assessment process that happens while learning. Parents are the worst people to teach their children (a general statement, but sadly true in the vast majority of situations). I know of parents (both of them) who will drive kilometres out of their way so that they don't have to parallel park, or to ensure that they are at the start or end of a parallel parking block.

How can such a person be considered acceptable to teach a new driver?

Those operating car parks are not blameless. The bay widths are less than the Australian Standard, as are the bay lengths. Where you have parking bays mirrored, the distance between them is also generally undersized. I know this happens as I prepare engineering drawings. When the matter is raised with a client, I am told to "carry on as instructed".

The worst car parks are those where you have to pay as every additional bay you can squeeze in means more money. The state government approving bodies let them get away with this only requiring a sign saying "Small cars only". This begs the question "How small does a car have to be to be classed as a 'small car'"?

Thats a pretty good post...good job.

[Blitzen]

The small car only bays weren't that small there the other day. My cousin managed to fit his 68 Camaro between my car and a pylon with heaps of room each side.

I think people, more often than not, just don't care about other people's belongings.

[valgamesh]

Yeah when I'm at work I'll try my best to park next to one of my bosses cos I know at least one side of my car is safe.

One time I parked fairly close as the car in the next bay had its wheels over the lines so I was about half a metre away, the next car that took the spot decided since there was so much room they'd park almost sideways.

Scariest one was when the truck below decided to park next to me in a "small car" spot

[bigfoot]

man that sucks! some people just have no consideration

my brother's R36 got similarly scratched in bondi when it was 1 day old

Parents are the worst people to teach their children (a general statement, but sadly true in the vast majority of situations).

bingo!

doing x number of hours with your mum is simply not sufficient. we need a system like Scandinavia with theory and practical lessons on closed roads and an exam before you are let loose on the roads and more of the same to get your unrestricted licence.

[rayray086]

And what with parking sensors and nanny technology on cars now, I fear this situation won't improve at all, the opposite in fact. I've seen drivers not bother looking back at all or using their mirrors as their reversing because they have these circles in the back of their car. It's stupid.


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[wai]

I should fess up.

Around 1989, I was driving home from work, and a moment's inattention saw me run up the back of a Camira wagon in my Torana at around 30 km/h. My fault, but fortunately the Camira had the bumper integrated into the tailgate so was extremely strong. Also, my bumper bar and its were a perfect match for height. My bumper bar did its job and was quite flattened. The Camira had no damage at all, except for a couple of rubber marks from my bumper which rubbed of at the scene.

A couple of years later, I had bought a new bumper but just did not have the time to fit it. I was parked on the street near where I worked, and one day on my way home I noticed a little note flapping under the wiper. When I retrieved it, it was an apology in very shaky handwriting admitting to having accidentally rolled back into my car (it was on a slight slope). The driver (female) got out to survey the damage, and was quite horrified to see what she thought she had done!

Anyhow, I called the number on the note and her brother answered and I told him what had happened, and that if she had actually done any more damage, it would be hard to tell. He said he would pass the message on "after he had some fun with her as she always told him how good a driver she was".

So, accidents do happen, and you have to be on your guard at all times. As a minimum, every car should be covered by what used to be called "third party property, fire and theft" insurance. With that comes the responsibility to do the right thing.

On the issue of driving standards, my current client has a system of 6 monthly driver checks for all its salaried employees. Every 6 months, every employee must undergo a driving check. That's everyone from the CEO down. They are assessed by other employees, however there are no favours asked or given. Employees (all levels) have failed and have had to undergo formal driver training before undergoing a fresh driving check.

It might sound a bit much, but their argument is that as an employee you might have to transport other employees around and so you need to meet a minimum acceptable driving standard. Until you pass a drive check, you cannot drive any other employee or client around.

We all need to undergo periodic testing.

On the issue of park assist and reversing and front parking sensors, they are only tools and drivers should be able to park a car without the need for them. They do not remove the need for looking.

[valgamesh]

When I finally convinced my dad to get a Golf TDI he kept it at home for the first 4 days, the first time he parked it at the shops his entire back end got crushed in and the stupid lady told him after he rang her she had considered not leaving details as he'd most likely not get it fix through her insurance or at least thats what everyone else had done in the past.

[Corey_R]

I think that with excesses being ~$600 for a standard excess, but with people having the "option" of increasing that up to $2000 (even higher?) to decrease the cost of their premium, it makes people less likely to be honest in these situations. If you hit someone's car, and cause the damage they did to fuzion's Polo above... that's effectively a $2000 mistake for some of these people. Whilst they are scum for not owning up, I feel that this is a negative side effect of these high excesses. No idea what the case is here of course, but I feel that this is one thing contributing to the problem. Apart from people these days are just lame

[djorkboy]

On some occasions when I park my car I notice that the car in the next spot is clearly parked by someone who can't control their car properly, is parked hard up against one side of the parking spot (which means there is a higher than usual chance they will smack their door into my car) or a car next to me has parking scrapes all over it ....or I just "get a feeling". I quickly, and discreetly, take 3 photos on my phone. 1 of my car, 1 of theirs and a wide view of both cars.

It may seem a bit extreme to go to these lengths but there are so many dishonest people out there. If they do pull out and scrape my car I will have a picture of their license plate, a picture of them parked badly, a picture of my car before the damage was done and a picture of their car before the damage was done, all conveniently geo-tagged and time-stamped by my phone.

[elephino]

Random dings that appear on the car from car parks are so annoying. On my MkV GTI, I had a dent on the rear door from about a week after I got it due to parents letting their child open the door for themselves. A few over the years make you wonder what had happened that the other person was able to make a dent or scratch in that spot.