all my passengers always yell about why I dont pull up and park toward the parking spot closer. I'm usually 12 inches away maybe even more when visibility is bad from the stone or cement barrier and no way would I try to get closer. to many bad stories I'veheard about people scraping. Plus I have the Amuse lip all repainted and if that got scraped

 

yep. guilty as charged. the moment i careless pull into a spot, i just know i'm gonna run the front against the cement divider or something... i pull in just right, with just enough space b/w me and the front of the parking space...

 

yup, scraped my front bumper, so pissed, got myself a oem frontlip to cover that up.

 

I usually park away from all the other cars

 

 

same here. im at least a foot away from the curb/ concrete barrier thing.

 

yeah i learned that the hard way...

 

i don't care. i scrap the s#$#out of the front bumper cuz it already gets creamed by road debris and i'll have to get it repainted anyways. besides, most of the time, the parking slab scrapes the underside of the car which is no biggie anyways.

 

 

Like a lot of people, I'm very picky about parking. Here's a few of the rules I try to follow every time:

-Must be an endspot where other cars can only park on one side of me. Next to a curb is good, because I can pull close to the curb and as far away from the other spot as possible. Even better is next to one of the yellow lined off areas where no parking is allowed, because then I will even park even farther over.

-Must not be under a tree. Sap and bird crap will own you, even though the shade protects you from direct sunlight.

-Must not pull up too close to the concrete barrier. I've scraped the underside of my front bumper on many occasions before I got the distance just right. Like someone else said, I'll be buying an OEM front lip because I like it, but also to cover the scraped part.

-Try to park in sight of a busy area, like the front door of the place I'm in. At least that would act as a deterrent to any potential vandals.

-If I can sit near a window when I'm inside the place, try to park within sight of the window. I used to be able to park where I could see my car from my office window, but now I can't unless I want to get to work at around 6:30am to get one of the spots up front that the security guards always take.

This all might seem pretty anal, but it's stuff I do without a second thought anymore.