No respect for Cars (Abu Dhabi)
 

Hi Everyone!

Just joined today, but have been reading the forum for a couple of weeks. Basically came on here to rant about something that has really started to annoy me!

I have a car through my work on a lease basis and currently I'm in the centre of Abu Dhabi, so far I have had both my driver and passenger doors dinged by other peoples car doors and I have been a hit while parked. I also constantly get people sitting on my car (seen from my window or marked in the dust) and basically just not showing any respect for others property!! I know its not my car but still!! I now have to go to the police and file a report etc... which will no doubt be an absolute nightmare!

Anyone else notice/get this or am I just really unlucky? :lol:

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You're not unlucky.

I've seen this a number of of times. It seems certain people (who appear to be from the sub-continent in most cases) feel they have a right to sit and lean where they please...even on my car.

I really cannot understand what goes through the mind of someone who feels it is perfectly acceptable to sit on another person's car. In most parts of the world that will get you a fist in the face...perhaps that's the problem. If we were allowed to punch people who violate our personal possessions it probably stop quickly.

N.

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You nailed the nationality and punch in the face deterrent!

Its just made me realise that its not worth having a nice car, just something decent that gets you from A to B, unless you have private underground parking at home and at the office and take taxi's to malls etc...!!

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It's not just in the ME that this happens - In the UK I can park in the most remote part of Sainsbo's car park, but guaranteed that there will a shed of some description parked next to me by the time I come out!

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Very true, I'm just not used to the frequency, all of my knocks have happened within the last month.

Suppose at least its not drunkard kicking off your wing mirror!! :thumbsup:

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Why do you need a police report? if it's just a small dent, no one will care. It's normal.

Personally, I find the freedom to smash your door into the car next to you quite liberating.

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Just the info I got from the car lease company, I'll wait and when I'm in for the next service and ask then. :fingerscrossed:

Maybe I need to embrace it and stop moaning, gonna kick in some land cruisers tonight to catch up!

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I love having a good shout at the guy who sit on my car.

It's like a release after a shitty week in work. I come out, they are sat on my car, I go mental and the world seems OK again.

Its similar to shouting and embarrassing the dicks who can't queue in a petrol station etc. have a go, make them ashamed and give the other people in the queue a good laugh. Awesome!

Ahhhhh

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That's fine...

...until a few days later when you notice the key scratch he's carved right across your bonnet!

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My mrs is always telling to calm down when I get annoyed about people parking in idiot places in our car park at home.

Occasionally had to do 30 point turns to get out of a space because people block you in.

Always want to run my keys over their bonnet but manage to restrain myself just in case they see and then see me get in my car.

That being said, my car has been keyed for no reason (parked with no cars around in a space in a car park in Sharjah). I also have lots of little dings in the side from people being spastics.

My mrs' car was thumped by a kid swinging a back door into it whilst we were sat in the car topping up her Salik. Bloke shat himself when I got out and then got a bit angry when I was yelling at his kid for being an ignorant little ********.

People need to be told. That's my theory. Well, that and to try not to get worked up about it. Remember, you're almost certainly a better human being than them anyway, karma will come around and they'll suffer somehow.

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Can you elaborate more on this point?

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I don't go around smashing my car door off of other peoples. I have some level of respect for other peoples things.

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Have you tried writing a message on offending cars with chalk? The results are, umm, interesting....

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No?

The repeat offenders all have 6ft long key marks down the sides (not done by me) along with daily notes from the security guards. Still they park there like *****.

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I had similar incidents here in AUS (and same in Europe). Possibly not to that extent like in the ME, but still happens. I would not say, however, that people here or there are more human etc.

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Never had it in the UK, never let my car door hit other peoples either.

If it happened in the UK or anywhere to be honest I'd still think the other person was an ignorant, selfish bellend with a total lack of respect, manners.

I know that's all quite stern but it's a very simple thing (to show a smidge of respect to other folks stuff), which is why I fail to understand how people can't just do it.

Oh well. Worse things happen I suppose.

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It's just a car - really, who cares?

And Scamp, your's is an Explorer - they are suppose to have dents, it's a school run machine.

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Doesn't matter. I pay for it, it's my car, it was in perfect nick when I got it.

I will lose money repairing it to sell or when the next bloke comes to buy it and asks for money off for the dents.

Next time I see you I'll show you the picture of the back of it. Tailgate area about 8 inches square where someone has run a key around for no good reason.

Would you be happy if someone walked up to your house in the UK and smashed a divot in the front wall with a sledghammer?

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At least you don't get bastards chucking brake fluid on your car in Dubai (yet...)

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Yup.

I'm always incredibly careful when opening doors to the point I will stick my fingers between the door and the next car to ensure they don't touch when there's a tight squeeze getting out.

I also park as far over to a pillar (when there is one and there's no parking space next to mine on one side), so the guys in the next bay over has a little bit more space.

It all goes back to when I was eight and I slammed open the door of my dad's car when there wasn't room and it hit the wall of my nan's house. He put the fear of death into me that day. Since then, I've always been very, very careful when opening doors.

So from personal experience, I'd agree that shouting them down will make them more careful.

If I was scamp, I'd have shouted at the kid till I scared the shit of of them, then calmly apologised to the father and explained that he wouldn't like it if it was the other way around.

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This costs around 250Dh to fix that if you are that bothered.

In the UK I had someone do a 3 point turn into my car. Annoying, but not much you can do about it but take it to the arches and get Phil 'n Grant to fix it up. I also recall reversing it straight into someone (by accident) the day I collected it from Phil. How we laughed that day.

Shouting at people and getting wound up won't solve your problem though.

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I do that pillar bit too. It's changed here from doing it to be nice to doing it so they don't smack my car.

Parked in MoE once and the Escalade next to me left so little room I had to climb in the passenger back door and through to the drivers seat. Wanted to sit and wait for the person to return but wasn't allowed.

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I asked a bloke to look at it and he said don't bother respraying the boot, someone will notice different colours and then say you had a smash and fixed it on the sly.

I keep looking for one of those T-Cut style pens but yellow-hat and others don't seem to stock black.

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Try Brasso.

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My wife has twice reversed her car (different ones) into my car (different ones) whilst parked on our driveway at home. The second time was in her car which had reversing sensors. :(

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That's all there is to it.

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I don't trust parking sensors. I was reversing my Mum's car and they didn't pick up the tow bar on another one on the drive.

That caused me some pain.

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I use permanent marker pens to touch up black motors.

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Just buy one of the "car polishing" deals from Groupon etc. You can get your motor's paintwork back into decent shape for around 250 dibs.

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I don't trust my wife.

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nope thats what its like..... nowt you can do about it. just go with the flow. i took possession of new car and within hours kids have obviously used a key and scratched down both sides......

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nah nobody is bothered too much about dents and scratches way of life here.... not worth getting repaired to sell on.

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Probably has a lot to do with sizeable segment of SubCon not able to afford a car or entertainement so they tend to walk/lounge around ?? I think they just don't realize/know how much it bothers the vehicle owners. People can be oblivious to cultural norms they are not used to.

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The concept of personal property is not difficult, hundreds of cultures seem to have managed to grasp that one...evidently some of peoples in this region are simply retarded regardless of where they are from.

N.