Too big for shopping car parks

Good on ya, my trucks a diesel guzzlin beast...................... get it right duh!

As for parking I've had more dings from cars hitting my car or motorbike, in fact I have never had a ding from a 4by.

As for your completely coherent and logical point about women drivers, every dent I have ever received were from blokes.

As for "stay off road", stay off the drugs mate and get real.

Gee I have had my vehicle damaged by some person pushing their shopping trolley into my vehicle. Guess I had better find a shopping trolley website to make a statement.

The responsible owners of 4WD vehicles are not the reason that shopping centre car parks are made so small. Why not complain to the centre management about the small spaces they leave in the car parks, be it 4WD or mini vans or whatever they are all big vehicles. The footprint on most large sedans is just as large as some 4WD and I can assure you that I have seen plenty of lilttle cars damage other little cars in car parks. No to mention shopping trolleys!

Why do you think that it is only the big vehicles that are driven by idiots - from your post it is obvious that they also drive small vehicles. Regards ExplorOz Team - David
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Always working, not enough travelling ;-)

Dear StayOffRoad,
What makes you think that women can't drive a 4wd ?
A bit sexist don't you think?
My wifes previous car was a Excel and it had dents all over it from carparks and being parked next to "normal" cars.
I don't have a motor boat so do you think that you could stop these fuel spilling craft from using the rivers.
Oh and while you at it, it would be beaut if you could get the shopping centres to make bigger parking spaces as it is a bugger to get into them!

Thanks

PS. What is your point of going looking for trouble?

Whats the point getting upset with StayOffRoad, he/she had a part of my cruisers crumplezone damaged by someone with a 4wd who didnt have the descency to leave a sorry note. I feel for you StayOff Road, and by the way,offroad does include shopping centre carparks. Ask NRMA.
Andrew wheredayathinkwer mike?

Yep - I think he is making a very good point and I am sure that from now on we will see our fourbies as really just big four wheel motor bikes and take them to the bush on tandem trailers behind our Falcons. I am gunna look out this morning on the road and I reckon I will be lucky to see a fourby there after StayoffRoad raised such a good point.

Got hit by a tree last month, lets chop down all the trees, but don't let women drive the chain saw!!

Got hit by an unmarked police car last year, lets get rid of police cars, and yes it was being driven by a women!

Backed into a pole supporting a building a few years back, lets get rid of buildings, I'll let a women blow them up!

Mates missus reversed into my car on their property a few years back also, lets ban everyone except me from the road!

My level of inadequacy must be greater than average as my "road weapon" is about 3 tonne, but it guzzles diesel so I assume I am exempt from this morons tyraid!

Cheers

Buggerlux

I have three family sized 4x4's and they're all smaller than a "normal" Falcon station wagon and they have all sustained more damage from "normal" cars in carparks than off-road thats why i now park on the street!

Look its only a dent......get it fixed and just be thankful it wasnt meant for you!!

Look pal, i drive what i want to drive and if that means a thumping v8 then so be it, if it happens to be a zeta (any one remember these) then i will also.

One reason i drive 2 ton oversized big tyred monster rather than a crumble bar on wheels is to get extra safety insurance from wankers like you. Wow! am I cute
If yer ain't fishing, Yer ain't livin
Richard

Gee.. I was gonna leave this well alone... especially 'cos everyone else seems to have covered the bases so well!!
But the thing is... the sexist comment has got me here!! Ok... StayOffRoad has stated that "MOST" women can't drive "these monster shopping carts" and I realise that most ain't all.. but did he take a survey on this??? does he have a percentage??? does he have a clue?? My other half has been driving for 18 years..... no accidents... thats NO accidents... and only one speeding fine.. and drives our Patrol both to the shopping centre and off road. We shared the driving 50/50 on Fraser, 50/50 at Crystalvale, 50/50 at Ormeau... she has driven mud runs at Ormeau, over fallen trees at the Forest, through the gorges at Nerang, and reverse parks it at the shops first time every time!

If StayOffRoad doesn't want his pride and joy scratched or dented, keep it at home!!!!!!!!!!!

Are we not taking his comments a bit too seriously. He was obviously just trying to wind us up.

He managed to get a shot in at everybody - women drivers, the poor (those who only have 1 vehicle) and anybody who has ever used a 4WD to go shopping. In fact, everybody on this forum. Not bad eh! The only target he's missed is the English rugby team.

Regards
Larry

PS The only problem I (& all of you, no doubt) ever have in a car park is when the 2 adjoining bays both have morons in them who DON'T PARK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BAY! Perhaps StayOffRoad fits into this latter category ;-)

300 million sperm and this fool was the fastest?

I too have dings in my 4by from shopping centres. Mainly from vans, including Tarago type with long front doors!

There is a parking spot wide enough for you to park safely from other cars. It's the Handicapped parking spot!

I too have dings in my 4by from shopping centres. Mainly from vans, including Tarago type with long front doors!

There is a parking spot wide enough for you to park safely from other cars. It's the Handicapped parking spot!

mate im spewing too.......my two tonne fuel guzzling monster has a dent in the side step from a hyundai driving female that couldnt park in the shopping centre
it wasnt your missus was it

ah the internet troll.........fyi forum users it feeds on comments.....dont feed it
anymore and it will just curl up in front of its pc and die

Stayoffroad you appear to have more hide than the tannery down the road..

But everyone is entitled to an opinion and I for one am happy if you are representative of the anti-four wheel drive lobby.

You didn’t say where you were from so it is difficult to form any substantial view on your analysis. After all if you come from a country area it might be reasonable to assume there will be a high number of four-wheel drives in the shopping centre car park.

No doubt you could clarify this and a few other points surrounding your observation. In particular, I and I’m sure others, would be interested to know specifically and on average:

The size of car parks in shopping centres,

What percentage of shopping centre car park spaces can the average four-wheel drive access,

What percentage of the number of cars in shopping centre car parks, at any given time, are four-wheel drives,

How many cars are dented in shopping car parks,

What percentage of dents can be attributed to four-wheel drives, and

The demographic representation of where these incidents generally occur.

No doubt the information will be at your fingertips, lest you be accused of simply being another one of the many 1,000s of ill-informed and ignorant persons when it comes to a view on four-wheel drives. I won’t go the male/female thing, as your main gripe seems to be four-wheel drives in car park.

Landie (tongue-in-cheek)

Fishing Trips . . . . . I love fishing . . . .

Blame the driver not the vehicle. If a vehicle kills a pedestrian on a street do the police book the vehicle or the driver?

It is not the 4WDrives fault that your car was damaged but the drivers fault. Did you actually see that the vehicle responsible? or was it gone.

4WD vehicles in many cases are actually smaller in length and width than the commodore and falcon (which are the most common cars on the road. A Falcon wagon is actually longer than most full sized 4WD vehicles.

I'm not sure what the point of this note is. You may as well have gone to the AFL Grand Final and yelled "Football sucks"!

i agree ive seen my mrs drive/park hahahahahahahahaback by popular demand
:-)

We probably would all stay off road but you lot keep putting all that black tar based bleep everywhere...lol

Well, near where I live in S.A. at Burnside shopping centre, a posh part of town, they actually have dedicated 4x4 parking spaces. They are twice as wide, right by the door, its great. I would never take my other car shopping now. Quite a few people kicked up a fuss when they came in, clearly this is a case off not what you know but who you know,

Dean

No followups please - just responses.The real oskar

Ah Stayoffroad
i must say that you have very large balls coming onto this site & attacking anybody & everybody,the only problem is that they hang down in front if your eyes & are attached to their conterparts,this seems to have obscuered your vission.
how do i know you have two of the male organs becauce you could not be that big a w****ker with 1.
iknow many female 4wd drivers who would drive rings around you , several whom are a1 4wd instructors , so i sujest next time you pull into a parking bay along side a 4wd that you park in the middle of the bay so that the poor 4wd driver can at least get out.

WAKE UP TO YOURSELF, HOW ABOUT DOING A BIT OF RESEARCH BEFORE OPENING YOUR BIG MOUTH, OR ENGAGE YOUR BRAIN BEFORE YOUR MOUTH. I OWN A LANDCRUISER WITH ALL THE GOODIES AND AN AU FALCON WAGON, THE CRUSER FITS IN THE GARAGE AND THE WAGON WONT, BOTH WIDTH AND LENGTH, SO WHAT DOES THIS TELL YOU?? IT TELLS ME THAT YOU ARE A DEAD SET IDIOT WITHOUT A CLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Had this email sent to me this morning - probably appropriate timing

Driving to the office this morning on the motorway. I looked over to my right and there was a woman in a brand new MG doing 90 miles per hour with her face up close to her rear view mirror putting on her eyeliner!

I looked away for a couple of seconds and when I looked back she was halfway over in my lane still working on that makeup!!

It scared me (I'm a man) so much that I dropped my electric shaver, which, knocked the bacon roll out of my other hand. In all the confusion of trying to straighten out the car using my knees against the steering wheel, it knocked my mobile from my ear, which fell into the coffee between my legs, causing it to splash and burn BIG JIM AND THE ROUND TWINS, causing me to scream, which made me drop the cigarette out of my mouth, ruined my shirt and DISCONNNECTED AN IMPORTANT CALL

$%$#%$# WOMEN DRIVERSDead in the City - Alive in the Bush

How does this idiot know it was a 4wd ???.
This idiots making assumptions about something thats not known.

Q. Did you see the vehicle that struck your vehicle
A. URRRR NO.

Q. Do you know the exact type of object that caused the damage to your
vehicle.
A. URRRR NO.

Q. How do you know it was a 4wd.
A. Well it was a nasty dent so I assumed it was something big and nasty

Q. So you just assumed it was a 4wd without knowing the facts
A. Well um yes.

No further questions

Step down tosser.....

i like ferris wheels weeeeeeee!1999 NISSAN NAVARA DUALCAB
DIESEL 3.2 & SPRINGY CARLTON TOY
2 awestruck kids (dads driving!)

And here was me thinking that all the damage had been done offroad. Geez, look at this mate...this was when I had to drive over the kerb to miss a shopping trolley. Good grief fellas/shielas what is the 4by world coming to................Willem

Always going somewhere

Aw what the heck ,why the hell do you think I got that big shiny bull bar for. Anyway I like driving around for no reason in my gas guzzling monster truck with the 4ft tyres gettin 1 mpg ,stuffin down those 1/4 pound cheese burgers and throwin the non biodgradeale styrofoam containers out the window while Elvis the King plays on my 8 track sanyo cassette deck with my 12 gauge permanently in the back ready for emergencies ect.
It would solve all the problems by having special xtra lge parking spots right outside the liquor store/supermarket where all those disabled spots are that take up all the room
Bring back some common sense
ITS A FREE COUNTRY

StayOffRoad
You're a bleeding idiot... Frag off!!!
Prado Boy