I never park beside beaters because they don't usually care what their cars look like. I try to park beside really nice cars. However, in Richmond I don't think this plan works very well so i just park far away.

im still paranoid when i leave my car, apparently its incredibly easy to break into aswell
i remember i locked my keys in my car at g5 and the one guy got a coat hanger and opened my door in about 10 seconds.
but yea every time i wash my car now i find new dings etc, ive kinda got used to it but it still bugs me, just wait till your car gets hit. And i actaully do write down plate numbers if I parallel into a tight space, ya never know who's on the road these days

When I bought my first new car I was the same, didn't really care so much with the bunch of used cars before that. I still drive new vehicles but now there trucks and I don't really care. People who ding other peoples doors are the retards I can honestly say I've never hit anyones door in the 18 years I've been driving. How hard is it for someone to put their hand between their door and the car next to them if it's a tight spot.

To the OP, with time you won't be so paranoid.

Whenever you own a car there's the initial honeymoon phase that lasts a couple of months. Get over that, get a few dings, and then you'll be a lot less anxious leaving your car alone.

Watch where you park, find spots that will be out of the way or hard to get into. Take advantage of other driver's innate laziness. Other than that, it is out of your hands.

on some bikes like a R6, the turn signal would snap off unless u get flush mount. and u will most likely get scraches on ur plastic fairing...

Hire snipers and call it a day.

had a door scratch from stupid ppl who let their kids open the door full force without thinking about any other cars/ ppl who are just too stupid in general to think about other ppls stuff and then had it fixed...LITERALLY the NEXT day ..same spot..same markings..was not happy to say the least..shit happens

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Compustar 2 way paging remote than if someone dings your car you can go see who it was. But ya when I got my first car I was paranoid as well and my car was a civic as well. Just because its a civic doesnt mean that it doesnt hurt just as much if you get a ding. But you will get over it like everyone said after the first few dings you wont care to much anymore.

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I don't get why some of you are saying it's just a Civic...
I remember when I had my '94 Ford Tempo in high school. It wasn't anything special so I wasn't paranoid, but I still cared about it.

I do the same things with my new car as when I had the Tempo. Park next to walls, last stall in the lot or the widest one I can find.

Don't get a Compustar, it'll make you even more paranoid. I can't tell you how many times the shock sensor went off while I was at a dinner and my pager went off. Conversations stop dead in it's track and I look out the nearest window.

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Thats why you park in front of the restaurant, and get a window seat.
You can see your car, and so can other people.

Actually what I try to do is park in spaces where the adjacent cars have their passenger doors facing my spot. I figure the chances of a car having 2 people (driver + passenger) riding on any given day is lower than the chances of 1 (driver only). Of course this only applies if there's more than 1 space to choose from. You just have to hope for the best.

Dings/scratches/gouges are an unfortunate but expected part of driving. Don't worry, it'll stop hurting after the 1st time. ;)

im not too sure about that one cuz when i drive people around, i tend to avoid dings being the driver but my passengers don't even know about dinging others when they leave my car. I've seen passengers do dings moreso than drivers..

it's kind of the eye for an eye situation. driver of car A won't ding car B and driver of car B won't ding car A.

after a few scratches and dings here and there, eventually you will be too numb to feel anything ...

either park at the back of the lot or something, or calm the fuck down.

oh and alarms really are useless, if it's a cheap one it won't do shit, a 2 way you won't get there fast enough anyways, if someone really wants to steal your car they'll flatbed it or bypass the alarm easily, and if it's a smash and grab, well again their gone before you can get there.

misleading title, i thought this was about getting ur car stolen
anyways getting dings r a part of dd a car so dont worry too much about it unless it has turbo lol