Protecting a street parked car.

[Outlaw]

So once again, my car is coming back from the shop and it is parked on the street. Please help give me some ideas to protect the car. It has been hit while parked 5 times now. Hit and runs and neighbors backing into it. How can I make it safer or do anything? Its my daily driver and I've put maybe 100 miles on it in 9 months because it keeps getting damaged. Here is roughly where I park, I usually go as far forward as I can so people can park on the opposite side of the street so it remains a wider place to pass through but people are blind, dumb and have no accountability and will still side swipe it or ding it and then run away. I have a viofo dashcam but it's parking mode sucks and captures nothing

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[Skye]

You're immediately opposite two driveways. With a black car. On an asphalt street.

I understand you want to give space to the opposite side of the road. Maybe if you could reach an agreement with the neighbor. You park further south of the opposing driveways. The neighbors park on their side, closest to their drive entries.

For night time drive-by risk, you could try some reflective markers at the base of the wheels. Something that would make it easier to identify the perimeter of the car. Simple squares or small triangles, one at each wheel. Nothing huge. Just something left near the car that would catch attention.

 

[Fordphanatic]

Any chance of not parking on the street?

 

[NGOT8R]

I agree with @Skye‘s suggestion. Is it just a thing of inconvenience to park in your driveway and have to shuffle cars around to get in/out? If so, as much of a hassle as it may be, I suggest that you try it for a couple of weeks and see if it feels like less of a hassle and gives you peace of mind. There are too many other things that could cause damage, such as, kids on bikes or skateboards.

 

[Unbridled5.0]

There's a panel van that parks on a city street here that has been using an orange parking cone at his left rear quarter for years. It must work.

Having said that, if it was mine, that 5.0 would be parked in the driveway or garage where it rightfully belongs. Someone else can punt their stuff to the curb for a change. Jmo.

 

[jlchoutex]

Don't park directly behind a driveway and park in a garage would be the best way.

 

[MustangS550Dream]

Park on the grass..? I see that cars on tight streets will park their passenger side tires on the curb / grass, gives an extra 2 feet of clearance.

You can also try putting a traffic cone next to it.. Ive never heard of a car getting hit 5 times infront of someones house, maybe you can put Spikes on your tire rims

 

[sk47]

Hello; I am going to figure you cannot park in a garage or driveway for some reason. Here is a lousy idea. Next time it gets hit do not fix it right away unless the hit is serious enough to disable the car. I get the idea sucks but live with it until you get better parking, then get it fixed.
Might even be some sort of cosmic force which will stop attracting cars into it once it is damaged.

Many years ago, 1967, I had to drive over 40 blocks to north Indianapolis IN for work. The route i took had me passing by a real Shelby Ford Cobra parked on the street. They were around $7K or so at the time. and out of my range.

I posted about this in my unofficial off topic thread. You answered my question without meaning to.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/new...1&cvid=6a4a4c9640c74dd49e8d9b204c3d5afa&ei=73

His car was a Ferrari parked in public.

 

[Gen 6 Mach1]

Sorry but parking on the street your dealing with what's happens . If you have a driveway and you're parking on the street to avoid the car shuffle, I would be parking on the driveway and shuffling cars daily , unless we are talking a Toyota Prius.

 

[WItoTX]

Any chance of not parking on the street?

This was my thought. Both driveways seem to have plenty of room.

 

[ORRadtech]

Any chance of not parking on the street?

This was my thought. Both driveways seem to have plenty of room.

Yeah, there's not been any explanation of why it has to park on the street. Especially in such a precarious spot.I suppose that's his right but it might help us understand.
I know that I'd go through quite a bit of inconvenience to not park in the street. Maybe even go so far as to ask the neighbors if I could rent a spot in their drive.

 

[ray=out]

I had a colleague many years ago who totaled 2 very expensive cars in 1 month. My boss' viewpoint at that time was: "Sometimes people are a**holes, but if the same keeps thing happening, sometimes you might be the a**hole". That's always stuck with me.

Overall: that's not a great place to street park. I would also hit your car if you were street parked behind my driveway in what looks like a tight sub-division. Not because I suck at driving, but because an S550 Mustang is huge and your car basically takes up half the width of the street. And I'm not going to ask you every day to move your car to live my life if you value your convenience more than mine

Suggestion: If you actually care about that thing (which it appears that you do), park somewhere else. It's convenient for me to say that with limited info, but seriously, that's a terrible place to park if you are anywhere close to being a considerate neighbor.

Thanks for listening to my TED Talk.

 

[Outlaw]

I had a colleague many years ago who totaled 2 very expensive cars in 1 month. My boss' viewpoint at that time was: "Sometimes people are a**holes, but if the same keeps thing happening, sometimes you might be the a**hole". That's always stuck with me.

Overall: that's not a great place to street park. I would also hit your car if you were street parked behind my driveway in what looks like a tight sub-division. Not because I suck at driving, but because an S550 Mustang is huge and your car basically takes up half the width of the street. And I'm not going to ask you every day to move your car to live my life if you value your convenience more than mine

Suggestion: If you actually care about that thing (which it appears that you do), park somewhere else. It's convenient for me to say that with limited info, but seriously, that's a terrible place to park if you are anywhere close to being a considerate neighbor.

Thanks for listening to my TED Talk.

Not sure why you guys are all stuck up on the driveway. It's a NON ISSUE. the s550 is also pretty small compared to other vehicles. They can leave that driveway with 0 issue once they learned to navigate the car, which is easy because one side of that driveway has a parked car that never moves which makes angling out super easy. If I parked down then the street goes from 60% width open to 15% of so because 2 cars side by side make for a VERY tight squeeze even in a small vehicle. Which with how people speed around means it'll get hit much much more likely. It also means I'm catching hundreds to thousands of dollars in damage by parking under a dying tree that looses big branches and causes dents and scratches. The spot it's in now gives it the most space it can have. But there has to be more than can be done because drunk blind drivers are everywhere. And I wouldn't call it a subdivision. It's a side street that really shouldn't have any thru traffic since it's not the first street off the main roads and maps wouldn't navigate down it unless you miss a turn or are stopping here, it's also a street that's very short.

 

[wingnutt]

Grass is a no go, my dad would hang me from the porch for that lol.

ahhhhhh…THERE it is

 

[MyStang]

Outlaw,
What hood is that?

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