Wish all parking lots were like this one!
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Yeah, I especially like the ones that have spaces big enough for a real car! So many these days have spaces so narrow that you can barely open the door to the first notch if you have a 2 door car. If spaces are wide enough, you can park anywhere you like. But most often, they narrow the spaces to give them one or two extra spaces per row. In some lots that have ridiculously narrow spaces, there may be two dozen open spots in random places, but I may pass it up entirely and just go somewhere else. Their loss: making the spaces too narrow only pays off if the lot is completely full. Otherwise they're shooting themselves in the foot because I think I'm not the only one that will pass up their (non-full) lot as it's not worth the risk.
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Yeah be careful with the front splitter, it is very low and will not clear most curbs and concrete wheel stops.
I almost crushed mine after a test drive :surprise:
Sales guy asked me to park head in. Being unfamilar with the car I was more concerned about squeezing between two parked cars. When I came out the front splitter was 2 inches from the curb!!!
I almost crushed mine after a test drive :surprise:
Sales guy asked me to park head in. Being unfamilar with the car I was more concerned about squeezing between two parked cars. When I came out the front splitter was 2 inches from the curb!!!
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I usually park as far away from other cars as possible.
Now and then someone will park right next to me in an otherwise empty lot.
We were in Ocean City Md a few weeks ago and parked in the middle of a 5 acre lot.
Came back to the car and found this guy parked right beside me.
For once, I didn't mind.
Now and then someone will park right next to me in an otherwise empty lot.
We were in Ocean City Md a few weeks ago and parked in the middle of a 5 acre lot.
Came back to the car and found this guy parked right beside me.
For once, I didn't mind.
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Great spot until the careless purse carrying person walks by to use the stairs.
A couple of weeks back I visited what would be I guess described as a shopping precinct built back in the early 60's. I was in the Lightning. There was just no way I could fit the Lightning into a parking bay and actually get out of the Lightning and it is not a big truck. So I had two choices, park on a double yellow line and risk a parking ticket or use a disabled bay. I chose the double yellow line and got away with it. Went back yesterday to pick some stuff up and took our foreman's VW Caddy van.
I sort of get it in the UK were cars have become over bloated. When you look at UK cars of the 60's they are tiny in their width in comparison to modern day stuff. But in the US I don't get it. You have always had big wide cars.
I sort of get it in the UK were cars have become over bloated. When you look at UK cars of the 60's they are tiny in their width in comparison to modern day stuff. But in the US I don't get it. You have always had big wide cars.
The only good thing I got out of my motorcycle wreck back in 2008 was a handicapped placard!!
I don't have to use it that much but had a back injury (compression fracture of L1). Mostly just aggravates me but many days I don't mind using it, especially when I'm in the Challenger.
I don't have to use it that much but had a back injury (compression fracture of L1). Mostly just aggravates me but many days I don't mind using it, especially when I'm in the Challenger.
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