no need for bumper guards, a new car, etc ...

its simple - buy a gun

j/k - I live in Chicago and use a parking garage.

 

I guess the worry comes with owning and maintaining a nice car. I have a regular parking spot at the office and still worry that the next car on either side would open their doors and put a dent on mine (or some a**hole would scratch it)

 

I don't think I could have anything too nice if I had to regularly park it on the street. As others have said, a Mini would be a great city car.

 

Yea. My girlfriend has a mini cooper s which i drive quite a bit. Funny thing is, her car is in the body shop now. We got back to her place late saturday night and found that her car had been sideswiped. $1500 worth of damage. That's NYC for you. She lives in queens, ny.

 

Carry a cone!

 

Maybe a body shop might be a good business to be in.

 

Driving in and around the NYC/Metro area is to share the road and parking privilege with everyone from Animal House. No one gives a crap about what you drive, as they drive and park, oblivious to everyone around them.
Although I just posted this on another thread, I realize now it’s an accidental thread started off this one … here’s my solution and it’s worked quite well.
I have two little orange cones in the car that get put into position anywhere near someone else’s ignorance or ‘tap-to-feel’ nature may take place. 2 years running and it’s worked quite well. Seems people take heed to the orange cone thing pretty well. Hating to admit it, but the only thing that’s happened since using them was a note on the windshield stating I wasn’t allowed to use them (don’t know why someone would say such a thing as it’s not illegal), and someone spit on the car. Significantly better than paint repairs. In the NYC parking garages, I’ll tip BEFORE walking out, and request a spot ‘up-front’, this keeps them caring from the moment they take possession and I’ve never had incident.
As for the ‘other car or daily driver’, it’s currently a Ridgeline with step-bars and brush-guards front and rear (rear being a hitch-mount guard) easily protecting from door dings and paint damage. Before that was a Dodge Ram Quad-Cab, with an 18 inch strip of “Diamond-Plate” welded on the brush-guards from one side of the truck to the other. The step-bars were mounted to protrude as far off the side of the truck as possible. I loved seeing people swing their car door into the step-bar and denting their own door! It was the wakeup call they’ve been waiting for. Still a few would have the audacity to tell me off – as if it was an ‘assumed privilege’ to use another car to stop the swing of their door. One instance had me open the truck door back into her car so she could see what she was arguing for! Argument Over!
I LOVE these little perspective enema’s of respecting another’s property!
Seems the inconsiderate drivers have no problem bump-tapping a car to Parallel Park, UNLESS it will obviously damage THEIR car. I never had someone bump-tap the truck after the Diamond-Plate went on, yet witnessed people get out of the car to see how much room they had to continue backing into a spot. Something I KNOW they’d never have done if it wasn’t for the diamond-plate. I truly enjoyed when someone got out and loudly proclaimed to their passenger what an a$$hole the owner of that truck would be to put something like to purposely damage another’s bumper. I jump to the chance to provide them the perspective-enema they’re so in need of … pointing out their bumper is riddled with marks from hitting someone else’s car and if it WASN’T for people like them, we wouldn’t feel the need to aggressively protect our own vehicles in a manner that forces them to protect theirs.

Sorry … off on another one of my rants. I’ll get off the soap-box and allow someone else. Don’t forget the orange cone thing … works for me.

 

why do i think they'll steal the cones or at least move them out of the way?