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Protecting front and rear fenders in the city
I'm going to have to park on the street in SF with my new Miata. Any
tricks or products for keeping the braile parkers from scratching the heck out of the paint? I've thought of a car bra, but I only really want it for parking and I want to protect both front and rear. JJ |
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Me > wrote: > I'm going to have to park on the street in SF with my new Miata. Any > tricks or products for keeping the braile parkers from scratching the > heck out of the paint? Remove your front license plate from the bumper and ty-rap it to the supports inside the mouth. Or at last make sure the mounting nuts are on the front side of the plate, so they won't be driven into the front mask. -- Lanny Chambers, St. Louis, USA '94C the alignment page: http://www.hummingbirds.net/alignment.html |
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Scratching the paint! That is the least of your worries! By parking on the
street, you invite SUV's and others to see how far they can shorten your parking space and car length! I saw one poor 97 miata that had the misfortune to be backed into by a pickup with a long trailer hitch less the ball. The driver used the back until bang parking method.One new front bumper and radiator later, along with a bit of paint, the miata was back to more or less normal. "Me" > wrote in message ... > I'm going to have to park on the street in SF with my new Miata. Any > tricks or products for keeping the braile parkers from scratching the > heck out of the paint? > > I've thought of a car bra, but I only really want it for parking and I > want to protect both front and rear. > > JJ --- Outgoing mail is AVG certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.775 / Virus Database: 522 - Release Date: 10/8/2004 |
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After 20 years here, I've seen a lot of wierdness as well--including
an old guy with a "stuck accelerator" that trashed about 6 cars and an out of control bus that totaled 7 or 8. The trick is to use the individual spaces where braile parkers can't get to you. To answer my own question... Take a look at www.bumperpad.com You could probably contruct something like this fairly cheap on your own but I'll probably toss them a few bucks for thinking of it first. JJ On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:53:51 -0400, "chuckk" > wrote: >Scratching the paint! That is the least of your worries! By parking on the >street, you invite SUV's and others to see how far they can shorten your >parking space and car length! I saw one poor 97 miata that had the >misfortune to be backed into by a pickup with a long trailer hitch less the >ball. The driver used the back until bang parking method.One new front >bumper and radiator later, along with a bit of paint, the miata was back to >more or less normal. >"Me" > wrote in message .. . >> I'm going to have to park on the street in SF with my new Miata. Any >> tricks or products for keeping the braile parkers from scratching the >> heck out of the paint? >> >> I've thought of a car bra, but I only really want it for parking and I >> want to protect both front and rear. >> >> JJ > > >--- >Outgoing mail is AVG certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.775 / Virus Database: 522 - Release Date: 10/8/2004 > |
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I bought some of those cheap clear plastic tag covers (the brittle plastic
ones). When a Braille parker backs up on my car the clear plastic breaks and makes an awful sound. I go through a couple a year but most people stop when they hear the plate cover break and there are only two small marks on the front end where the screws for the plate were pushed back by a blind and deaf parker. As for the fenders and doors in angled parking I haven't found much that helps but always remember to leave your car BACK in the space. A couple of times a moron thought there was an empty space between two SUVs and tried to get in at Mach 1 only to find out there was my little Miata pulled forward to the curb. Leave your rear end back far enough to be even with the other cars rear ends. As a side benefit your doors will only pick up dings from the rear doors of most cars, your front fenders will look like a WW-1 battlefield and your rear end fenders will stay new forever. Hank "Me" > wrote in message ... > I'm going to have to park on the street in SF with my new Miata. Any > tricks or products for keeping the braile parkers from scratching the > heck out of the paint? > > I've thought of a car bra, but I only really want it for parking and I > want to protect both front and rear. > > JJ ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! >100,000 Newsgroups ---= East/West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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In article >, "hjarrett" >
wrote: > As a side benefit your doors will only pick > up dings from the rear doors of most cars, your front fenders will look like > a WW-1 battlefield and your rear end fenders will stay new forever. See my black beltline molding: http://memimage.cardomain.net/member...4999/374151_14 _full.jpg It runs around the upper arcs of the wheelwells, too. Worth its weight in door dings. I actually kinda like the way it looks, but YMMV. -- Lanny Chambers, St. Louis, USA '94C the alignment page: http://www.hummingbirds.net/alignment.html |
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>It runs around the upper arcs of the wheelwells, too. Worth its weight
>in door dings. I actually kinda like the way it looks, but YMMV. > Where did you get the molding at? Is it glued on or magnetic or whatever? Thank you, Larry Hill |
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