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madadd said:
My OPC in Kendal (Thats Cumbria to you Southerners) 
claims that they have hardly any repairs in as a result of malciious damage. Maybe it's more of a southern thing?
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I don't think it's a southern thing at all. I think it's an 'urban' thing.
If you live in any major city in the UK, not just London in the SE but places like Birmingham, Nottingham, Leicester, Coventry in the Midlands or Liverpool, Manchester in the NW or Sheffield, Leeds, Newcastle, Carlisle in the N of England you are going to experience the same problem.
I think Kendall in Cumbria is just not blighted by the same kind of urban problems that affect major cities in the rest of the country.
I always stay in Keswick whenever I go to the Lake District and it's such a genteel, gentrified place compared to London. The kind of place where small shops sell homemade pots of jam, Kendall mint cake, granny's rich fruit cake etc...you get the picture. It doesn't seem like it belongs on the same map as somewhere like London where one area has the Four Seasons with a line of Rolls Royces parked outside and another area has 1970s council blocks with drugs wars going on.
I think if you live in a much quieter town or, better still, a village in the countryside, you might have much less of this problem. Not because the people are any better - people everywhere are just as capable of being jealous and nasty - but because there are simply fewer people to vandalise your car. i.e. if you're in a village car park and 20 people pass your car in the 2-4 hours you are parked there, the chances of one of them vandalising your car are just far lower than if you are parked on a side street just off Oxford Street in London where 200 people might walk past your car every hour.
Obviously one has to use common sense. It's far worse if you park on a Friday or Saturday night in an area near pubs, clubs etc.
Me? I'm ultra careful. I never park near any major streets in London if I can help it.
Also, unfortunately, I have a long-term health problem (which sucks) but one small consolation is that it does entitle me to a Blue Disabled Badge for parking. If there is a disabled parking space free in a car park etc, I usually park there because these spaces have a wide aisle on each side. As a result, I never have a problem of people opening their doors onto my car.
However, there's nothing to stop someone from keying my car. I just try to park somewhere that doesn't seem unsafe to me.
More generally, you know guys, this whole thread just saddens me. We work so hard to earn the money to buy a decent car and some b*stard trashes it for no reason other than jealousy. The guy doesn't even know me/us. I'm not responsible for his situation in life. Maybe he just didn't study hard at school. Maybe he was lazy and got fired from the one decent job he managed to get. Who knows?
It just makes me think that all the careful washing, waxing, polishing, detailing etc that various people here on rennteam do to their cars can so easily just go to waste if someone trashes your car. It really puts it all into perspective.
We take care of our cars so that somebody with no reason can trash them. Doesn't life suck...
