Agony... of a minor degree

[WESHOOT2]

I have a certain distaste for people unable or unwilling to control their behaviors around my stuff.

Stomped by diarreha?





But my current wife made me promise before the wedding: "No more unnecessary killing."

[ipaqxman]

+1 for stomped by diarrhea for people who have no respect for others' properties

[KuroNekko]

After my recent accident, I had my whole bumper fixed and repainted. It now looks perfectly new again. Given that my previous bumper nicks were completely fixed, I bought a bumper protector to protect my pristine bumper. I often see these on expensive cars in the city when they are parallel parked.

It fits the Kizashi's bumper rather nicely and the cut-outs for the exhaust are shaped perfectly for the Kizashi's exhaust outlets.

It features Velcro straps that keep it attached to the car. The Velcro did not stick to my car's accessory trunk carpet, but sticks very well to the standard trunk lining under the carpet. The straps have a steel cable in them to prevent theft.

Overall, I'm impressed with the quality of the product and will use it every time I parallel park in the city (which is very often).

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[Bulldogjoe]

I agree with all you guys. Absolute pain in the bum when you try and take care of your car and some ars-h-le could not care less. Just sit in a shopping centre car park for a little while and you will see things that will make your hair curl. (if you have hair).
People pushing trolleys trying to squeeze between cars, because they are too lazy to go a few feet more. When you see their cars you can see why they don't care. Dirty, rusty pieces of junk. Anyhow I've had my say.

[murcod]

That "bumper bully" is a bit extreme! However, it leaves the corners of the bar unprotected- where you're likely to get scraped from people parallel parking behind ( who've got poor judgement of their vehicle extremities and swing in too soon.)

Also, one on the front would be of greater use wouldn't it? For people reversing in who use their tow bar on your bumper to judge the stopping distance.....

Out of interest, I found one of those vinyl soft backed car bras did a great job protecting one of my cars. It was parked in the garage and somebody (a woman driver, who shall remain nameless ) managed to ram a parked car through the garage roller door with her work vehicle. It pushed my vehicle back into the rear roller door! Luckily, I'd left it in neutral with only the hand brake on and had been too lazy to take the bra off after an interstate trip. I took the bra off and there was no damage whatsoever. Talk about lucky! The roller door was trashed (had to be replaced) and the front and rear of the vehicle that was pushed into the garage (ironically her personal vehicle) required repairs. The work vehicle that did the ramming- a 13 seater Toyota Hiace - also required repairs.

That was an interesting insurance claim....

[Ronzuki]

Wow, I had no idea such a thing existed...bumper bully, interesting. Great idea, but it screams "go ahead, give it a whirl, HIT ME", suggesting merely by its presence "be more careless". Much like the douche that likes to park next to somebody who's parked way out in the middle of an empty lot and intentionally door dinging.

x2 that you can't keep a DD pristine.

[KuroNekko]

The product is great for the kind of scratches you see from parallel parking in a city. The front is not an issue because most cars have license plates and their bolts at the very front of the vehicle. This is what contacts the car in front. So if someone backed into you slowly while parking, your bolts would scratch their rear bumper without damaging your car. However, if someone was to pull forward behind your car, their bolts would scratch your rear bumper.

This very product protects the bumper from being scratched from the bolts of the car behind you. While it does leave the sides of the bumper exposed, these are actually not commonly damaged in parking because impact at the side of the bumper is usually from the side of the bumper of the other car. It's the middle area of the rear bumper that gets scratched up from the license plate bolts of the car behind it. I have seen many cars in DC with scratches almost exclusively on the middle of the rear bumper. This product goes to protect that area.

I will take a picture of a car with these types of scratches and upload them soon. You will see what I'm talking about. It's very common with cars in dense cities with street parallel parking.

[Ronzuki]

PA doesn't use front plates, so no bolts. But I get what your saying. It still screams go ahead and hit me.

[murcod]

The product is great for the kind of scratches you see from parallel parking in a city. The front is not an issue because most cars have license plates and their bolts at the very front of the vehicle. This is what contacts the car in front. So if someone backed into you slowly while parking, your bolts would scratch their rear bumper without damaging your car. However, if someone was to pull forward behind your car, their bolts would scratch your rear bumper.

For that to happen they'd have to be almost perfectly perpendicular to you. I see mostly the corners on bumpers damage here in Australia. Tow bars are also very common and front plates do little to slow their progress when someone is "reverse parking by Braille".

[KuroNekko]

The product is great for the kind of scratches you see from parallel parking in a city. The front is not an issue because most cars have license plates and their bolts at the very front of the vehicle. This is what contacts the car in front. So if someone backed into you slowly while parking, your bolts would scratch their rear bumper without damaging your car. However, if someone was to pull forward behind your car, their bolts would scratch your rear bumper.

For that to happen they'd have to be almost perfectly perpendicular to you. I see mostly the corners on bumpers damage here in Australia. Tow bars are also very common and front plates do little to slow their progress when someone is "reverse parking by Braille".

The parking scene sounds very different from major American cities, especially in the East Coast (NYC, DC, Philly, etc.). You will hardly find a car with a tow hitch in the city here. The #1 source of damage to a bumper in the city is from the front license plate bolts of other cars in tight parallel parking.
Here's a picture of a typical residential street in DC. As you can see, the cars are parallel parked on the street. When people try to get into tight spaces, they might tap the bumpers of the cars to the front and back of them. Tapping the car in front can scratch that other car's rear bumper. The product I got protects my rear bumper from being scratched by the car behind mine which is exactly what happened before.