He touched my car

[middleagecyclist]

I know I'm replying to a very early post here, but this is why you should try and stop people touching your car :

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Small children with suntan lotion on.. The wife was visiting friends, and came back like this. It took a few days to notice, but the car is covered. Put a price on how much it's devalued...

There will be fingerprint evidence of the criminal damage though...

 

[Mugshot]

Blooming cyclists!!

 

[dellzeqq]

I know I'm replying to a very early post here, but this is why you should try and stop people touching your car :

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Small children with suntan lotion on.. The wife was visiting friends, and came back like this. It took a few days to notice, but the car is covered. Put a price on how much it's devalued from a child touching my delicate car.

honestly - if a car is so delicate that it is messed up by suntan lotion...............you may have got the wrong car.

 

[Lanzecki]

There will be fingerprint evidence of the criminal damage though...

True. You suggest we should try and recover the cost of repairs from my wife's best friend? I never did like her

 

[green1]

honestly - if a car is so delicate that it is messed up by suntan lotion...............you may have got the wrong car.

Maybe you can suggest a car that has some of this ever so hard 'Rambo' paint? Anything that is acidic eats paint, whether its suntan lotion, bird droppings or dead bugs, in that same way that anything that moves grit across it can scratch it like sandpaper, i.e.drive through car washers, hands on dirty paintwork etc.

 

[Boris Bajic]

it's not? Never been to a shop and picked up something to look at it? Or lifted a child up to walk along the top of a garden wall? (Preferably a child you've met before, but you know what I mean). Knocked on a door?

What I'm getting at here is that car drivers can be funny items. The car represents the margin between them and what they perceive as a hostile world. It might be that putting a hand on their car might be an educative, uplifting experience for them, inspiring some transcending of this artificial divide. Not just that - bringing the car and the human body together is a reminder of the relationship between the two - the first crude and hard, the second subtle and giving. Frankly any car driver with a brain would be grateful for the attention and the connection.

Feel the love, car drivers!

Yes! That's me! And every other driver I know, apart from Mrs Davies at number 12, but she is over 80 and rarely drives these days.

I have never seen such perceptive and insightful writing, cleverly presented in the style of lazy generalisation. You are probably some sort of social prophet.

I find that when a potentially hostile bicyclist from the scary world outside lays a healing hand on my motor car, it is an uplifting experience and partially lifts the artificial divide between us.

Although I have no brain, I am grateful for those things you said any driver with a brain would be grateful for.

Twice!

Thank you for seeing our pain, joy, anxiety or similar. And thank you for sharing it.

 

[middleagecyclist]

True. You suggest we should try and recover the cost of repairs from my wife's best friend? I never did like her

No. Go for the kids. Get the little b****rs locked up. The cycle of disrespect for law and order cannot be broken if you don't target the younger generation. Failing that go for damamges from the parents!

 

[green1]

We know this, we just don't think it's that important

So because it's not important to you it doesn't matter? Tell you what, I'll come round your house and start throwing stones at your windows because it's not important to me.

 

[green1]

Do you really mean that?

No of course I don't. I'm just trying to get across the point that just because it isn't important to you doesn't mean it isn't important to someone else.
It all comes down to what I said in my first post in this thread:

Have respect for other people and that includes their property.

 

[green1]

Oh do grow up. A window that's been smashed with a stone no longer functions as a window. A scratched car still works fine.

So if someone scratched your pride and joy be it a car, bike, painting, pogo stick, colouring book (quite likely for some on this forum) or child's face, you'd be okay with that because it still functions fine?
One of the best lessons I ever received as a teen was having to repair/or pay for the repair of the damage I did to my mums car with the handlebars of my bike. Seems to me a few here could do with a similar lesson.

 

[green1]

You are assuming that any of us have actually damaged someone's car.

I'm not just talking just about cars, I'm talking about other peoples property and respecting it isn't yours to do with as you wish.

 

[green1]

Well yes, as it goes - my beautiful brand new Orbea road bike got badly scratched when I fell off on some black ice soon after I got it, then the paint on the forks was damaged again when it was being transported back from John O'Groats, but I haven't lost any sleep over it. It still works, and I still love it.

You did it there is a difference.

 

[Lanzecki]

honestly - if a car is so delicate that it is messed up by suntan lotion...............you may have got the wrong car.

Unfortunately (or fortunately) since H&S, and the environmentalists got involved in car manufacturing, no car is safe.

Modern paints are water based. Older cars used Nitro-cellulose or Isocyanate paints. As Green1 said anything acidic or alkaline will damage paint. Sunscreen, bugs, bird poo even some older car shampoo will over time 'eat' into your nice shiny car.

So I'm not gonna put suntan lotion on my kids Let 'em burn!

No. Go for the kids. Get the little b****rs locked up. The cycle of disrespect for law and order cannot be broken if you don't target the younger generation. Failing that go for damamges from the parents!

It wasn't intentional, If the adults didn't know, how should they. Years ago it wasn't a problem.

This is why I don't wash my car

My main issue is the cost of repairs or the potential drop in worth of what is, for most, a large investment. Apart from a house it's the largest investment. And I don't go driving my house around the roads 3 inches from other cars. That said I don't live in my car.

 

[green1]

Right you should have made all this clearer earlier, seeing as everyone else is quite specifically discussing an issue where car drivers hate anyone touching their car because they feel entitled to an extended personal space but dress their concerns up as worrying about the paint.

see page 2:

If you did that to my car you'd soon have your hand on the road, because I'd get out of my car and put you on your arse. Have respect for other people and that includes their property.

I've even increased the font size and put it in bold for you.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

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So that's what Fnaar looks like!


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