I can totally see where this could matter to some car owners. Especially with cars like ours, they are top of the range so that puts them sorta in the "prestige" bracket and thats what they are to us, our babies lol. I personally dont have a problem with parking mine in car parks etc, I do like to take care of my cars, mechanically and asthetically and have been lucky (up until recently...) with having no damage been done to my cars by others.
Recently though, lol, my A8 was parked outside my house and some nugget in a van ran into the back of it, damaging quite badly the O/s rear corner (lights, wing, bootlid, bumper etc) Contacted the police, waste of time, werent even interested as I didnt get a registration of the other vehicle as it had done a runner! I found the culprit myself the next day with a bit of snooping about and it turns out I knew the driver (have known him for a long time) Anyway, he did the decent thing and repaired the car to a very high standard and without dealing with insurance, result!
So, onto parking bays lol. I drive artics for a living so, if I cant park a car the size of our A8s, I'm in the wrong job lol! Whenever I go into any parking bay, my car is always perfectly placed within that parking space. If some nugget cant park their car in a space properly and then cant get in their car once I've parked, then thats their problem and usually I look for that type of nugget to park beside lol!Now I know I'm tempting fate by doing so, so I usually take a picture of the other car before I walk away and check my car on return as I'm usually never parked there for more than half an hour. I've come back to my car at times to find the other driver waiting to get back in their car and take great delight in the ensuing conversation lol!
Different story with my bike though, it is never left where I cant see it and I'm usually no more than spitting distance away from it as that is my true pride and joy and would hate for anything to happen to it because of some nugget!
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1999 A8 Quattro Sport in Santorini Blue
2003 Yamaha R1
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