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Tired of car-park dings?
« on: November 07, 2008, 01:26:44 pm »
I've just spotted a new (to me) product on a car in works car park - www.doordefender.com. Looks amazing, fairly dense foam and well held on with strong magnets. Currently only 29$ per side if you want bright green or pink ones!

I'm trying to get them to send a set over as they dont have a UK distributor - maybe we could test them out and I could distribute them if people like them.

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Re: Tired of car-park dings?
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2008, 01:48:20 pm »
nah i'll pass i think i'll just take up 2 spaces as usual if i'm in a suspect car park

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Re: Tired of car-park dings?
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2008, 02:22:30 pm »
You've obviously not met the "he's taking up two-spaces so we'll abuse his car" brigade then! Or the "he's parking miles from the rest of the cars so we'll draw on his car with permanent marker" crowd either?

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Re: Tired of car-park dings?
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2008, 06:52:41 pm »
er, no... never met them... where DO YOU LIVE coyoteboy?!!


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Re: Tired of car-park dings?
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2008, 07:46:17 pm »
nope i haven't met either of them as i'm usually the latter person and park miles away from the norm.......

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Re: Tired of car-park dings?
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2008, 09:47:29 pm »
:) Suffered the above in a variety of places when parking miles from anyone and across two spaces. Places that come to mind -  a tesco in Bath, an Asda in Liverpool, a country lane car-park when MTBing in the hills near the lakes, near the beach in Newquay.

I must just have everyones bad luck!

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Re: Tired of car-park dings?
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2008, 10:14:27 pm »
sounds like it bud over here its not too bad and generally not as congested as i've seen over there, so maybe a good thing going for us here........ but then we get donegal drivers (bazza and Co lol)

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Re: Tired of car-park dings?
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2008, 11:10:42 pm »
unlucky in the eztreme!  i ahve had car park dings, but as soon as i park in 2 bays etc its ok.  i get evils of course, but then people can erf orf.

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Re: Tired of car-park dings?
« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2008, 11:51:16 am »
Or the "he's parking miles from the rest of the cars so we'll draw on his car with permanent marker" crowd either?

these stick on door defenders wont protect against the permanent marker  ;)

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Re: Tired of car-park dings?
« Reply #9 on: November 10, 2008, 10:00:00 am »
Not a bad idea, but probably would draw the wrong kind of attention from the guttersnipes.

I always just park miles from anyone else when I can - but you always get the tw@ that parks up tight to your car when there's a zillion other spaces to pick from. Go figure?

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Re: Tired of car-park dings?
« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2008, 10:56:37 am »
I always just park miles from anyone else when I can - but you always get the tw@ that parks up tight to your car when there's a zillion other spaces to pick from. Go figure?

they feel the need to "belong", but cant afford a four!

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Re: Tired of car-park dings?
« Reply #11 on: November 11, 2008, 11:06:52 am »
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these stick on door defenders wont protect against the permanent marker 

No, but it does mean you can park in a normal space thats not out in the open and obvious, so marker penning is less likely  ;)

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Re: Tired of car-park dings?
« Reply #12 on: November 11, 2008, 04:00:49 pm »
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No, but it does mean you can park in a normal space thats not out in the open and obvious, so marker penning is less likely  ;)

haha yeah but then the marker-penning crowd will single you out for having stick on door protectors and scribble mercilessly all over ;D

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Re: Tired of car-park dings?
« Reply #13 on: November 13, 2008, 05:52:15 pm »
Possibly  ;D

They do need a second look to notice though, they're fairly inconspicuous. I'm very tempted.

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