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YOUR RESEARCHThis is how you park a Porsche
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My wife frequently parks her SUV in a mall parking lot and the damn thing looks like it was the loser in a demolition derby.
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I believe the real issue is the lack of respect most other people have for other peolpe's property.
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20% is pushing it but then I'll check TWC and see which part of the day it's for.
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You can never be too careful. Also, the exercise does me good.
After parking and running a quick errand, I saw where I had parked and immediately thought to myself, "Is anyone else as neurotic as I am?".
Nice, although i would worry that it would attract a thief, sitting there all by it's lonesome, middle of nowhere.
Best place for me is the valid space right next to a handicapped space. I cheat towards the handicapped side, leaving plenty of room for someone on the left of me.
I also tend to park out away from other cars, but I tend to park next to a curb or "island" in the lot so my car is protected on one side from events like wind-blown shoppnig carts flying across the lot...
There was a thread somewhere re: what you don't know abt your 996 - no matter where you park someone will park next to you ...
and that's 10000% true - I park far far away from everyone (in the shade if possible) and I swear there will be a 1984 ford tempo and a full size soccer mom vehicle on either side - I thought most everybody just sits in the middle of the lane w their blinker on waiting for someone to leave a close space ... no ... and sure someone can easily see the Machbx parked all by herself - but I feel better not giving a thief potential "cover" in the middle of 'Death by Shopping Cart'. Actually my insurance lady said that it's a toss up - kids likely won't steal it for a joy ride bc it's a stick - but if someone wanted it they can just cut the cab top.
I know you all probably get this too. I almost took a pic last time it happened for proof...
I park pretty far out in a pretty empty lot. Come out 30 minutes later to find that the lot is still pretty empty, but for some reason someone decides to park RIGHT NEXT TO ME! What the hell! At least leave a space between us, jesus.
I'd worry more about that little rain cloud hiding behind the mountains in your pic...as soon as you go inside it'll jump out and you'll regret leaving your top down
That's funny! Made my think of another post! "How many of you don't take your Pcar out of the garage if the threat of precipitation is greater than 20%"?
I don't, but fortunately, I don't have to worry about that too often.
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Add this to the list of OCD Porsche Owner actions...I gather up loose shopping carts near my car and return them to their corral. Sad.
Btw, my car is at the body shop getting the bumper fixed and repainted and some dings fixed as well. If it comes out good, I think I'll be less concerned with parking lot events because I'll know that they can be easily corrected - just a matter of money.
That's exactly why I don't do that. There are just enough people who are wise a$$es who will park next to you just because they know it drives you crazy.
Actually, I used to park liked that with my first new car about 25 years ago. Some drunk guy with no insurance plowed right into taking a short cut through the parking lot.
Ever since, I just look for a nice wide spot. Safer that way.
I use all of the parking tactics stated above, preferably a combination of several. I park out and away, next to an "island" that hopefully has a small tree offering shade and no birds, with the drivers door side in so no jerk can block the door from opening, or up front next to the handicapped spots but NOT actually in front of the main door where shopping carts pass. And, I too, might collect a nearby shopping cart to take in, rather than let it free bird in the wind.
The extra walk is good for me.
I parked at an industrial area parking lot on a Sunday a few weeks ago, the parking lot only had 2 or 3 other vehicles when I got there initially, and I was miles away from them.
This is what I found when I came out a few hours later .........
O.K., I have to admit it: I'm one of those a$$holes that will park next to someone out in the middle of a parking lot when I drive my 12 year old full-size 4x4 truck. I do it just because I know it drives them crazy...
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Absolutely! I'm not an isolationist but "IF" I drive one of my cars it's way out there for parking. Besides I get to stare at them when walking back to them and admire them.
Actually, the few times that has also happened to me (maybe twice), I really think the person was thinking, "If I park next to that Porsche, I know they won't ding my doors", as they were also "nice" cars, not some monster truck.
It STILL cracks me up almost no matter where I stop, whether putting gas in, at a store, whatever..."Hey, NICE car!" "Love your car!" ""I love Porsches" "Some day!!" ..I used to say "It's ten years old, you can buy one like it for $25K"...but I don't anymore. I'd hold out for $30k for mine.
I did too!~ Like I was apologizing for having a NICE car. And she is! Heck 10 years ago my 996 was 91k. I think that I did really well, I got the car I wanted - and bc people are a little buggy about the IMS I was able to get it at a reasonable price. With 37k on the clock I will def have it 10 years or longer - It's incredibly well made. I have been in the dash a couple of times and the attention to detail and proper tolerances for things really impresses me.
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I park that way too - like some have said, good for exercise, good for admiring the lines of the car on the way back to it. I also hate it when someone parks next to you when you do park out in the boonies - drives me crazy.
People just don't care - especially a car full of eager 5-8 year olds in Mom's car at the mall eager to run into the arcade - they swing their door open like it's a battering ram.
I always park in East Jesuswaythefredoutthere
And yes, 78% of the time when I make it back to the car there's a beat-to-crap minivan parked 1.2" away from it.
Talk about karma! Think of it this way: at least i'm protecting one side of your car...
All kidding aside, just drive the darn thing. It's a car, when I drive the p-car, i park in with the other cars. I do not have a scratch or ding anywhere except for a little nose patina. Will I end up eventually getting a door ding? Sure, but I won't lose sleep over it.
Quit worrying about the car so much and enjoy it!
That sentiment of 'it's just a car" has it's place, but attention to detail is not worrying for its own sake and worrying about a car is not opposite to enjoying it. Each to his own.
For the owner parking their pride and joy in the far corner of a 2000 space car lot, it's not just a car, it's often a source of great enjoyment and pride of ownership, a place to focus their attention and enthusiasm, a reward for nose-to-the-grindstone years, not just a rolling scratch-n-dent anachronism of fossil fuels and oil industry corruption.
True.. But if you find yourself spending more time worrying about what might happen to the car, than actually enjoying it... You might have gotten lost along the way.
Living in the Metro NYC area, it is hard to park in an isolated spot many times. Somewhat recently I changed my view and have a more nonchalant attitude towards door dings / parking - I will park my Porsche in the streets of NYC, grocery store parking lot, mall parking lot, etc - I have a few door dings, but IMHO - it does not really change how awesome the car is, and if I ever decide to sell the car, $200 worth of PDR should clean it up. That $200 might be worth the money saved from parking in NYC garages when street parking is available, and the stress of being upset when you notice a new ding on your flawless car.
I believe the real issue is the lack of respect most other people have for other peolpe's property. If you respect other people make an effort not to ding or damage someone else's car.
Really??? My wife frequently parks her SUV in a mall parking lot and the damn thing looks like it was the loser in a demolition derby.
I too park in the boonies, but(knock on wood) I rarely find other cars parked next to it.
I do the same thing. The other night I did this at a popular restaurant. Next to my silver 996 TT Cab way out in the back was another silver 996 TT coupe. I welcomed that parked next to me.
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