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10 messages, Last post on Oct 03, 2003 at 5:04 PM
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#1 of 10 Bumper guards by dowam
Sep 22, 2003 (11:27 am)
Anyone out there have any ideas on alternatives to bumper guards in terms of protecting your vehicle from parallel parking dings (from other parking around your car that is)? Any advice would be appreciated.
#2 of 10 crew-served weapons work nicely by swschrad
Sep 22, 2003 (12:02 pm)
but it's not the bumper guards that affect me, but door-kickers parking on either side. wide steps and cladding work much of the time on my SUV for that.problem with crew-served weapons is, most malls won't allow the scaffolding around their light towers for them to set the machine guns on, and those parking spaces around the towers are invariably full.
also, I am not Iraq, and can't attract the attention of the army to get the crews and the weapons.
IN THE REAL WORLD, you could park way the hay on the other end of the parking lot, and have a nice long walk to and from the mall. good for the heart.
parking diagonally in two spaces will probably get you keyed, not door-dinged, so I don't recommend it.
I don't have much occasion to parallel park any more, outside of trips to Ax-Man Surplus and parks, and there, nobody plays bumper cars.
#3 of 10 My answer to dings by dweiser
Sep 22, 2003 (4:41 pm)
People cause dings, cars don't.My answer was to move to the mountains of western NC, keep my Murano garaged at home, and to hardly if ever go anywhere near other people.
Stay home, shop on the internet, don't worry, be happy.
No dings so far!
#4 of 10 dweiser by dowam
Sep 23, 2003 (6:15 am)
Agreed, unfortunately that is not an option for me. Any other solutions?#5 of 10 boat fenders? by swschrad
Sep 23, 2003 (5:36 pm)
if you don't want to put on bumper guards, hang a couple boat fenders across each bumper.it ain't legal to tape shaped charges to the fenders to blow inwards the bumpers of the characters who are using the "thump-thump" method of parallel parking. nice to dream, though
#6 of 10 Lift Gate Replacement by tbarber1
Oct 02, 2003 (9:46 pm)
My beautiful Murano was "rear ended" by another vehicle in August 2003 and it has been a fiasco for the past 2 months in dealing with replacing the lift gate. Nissan has sent 3 replacement lift gates, but each one has been defective in construction. It still hasn't been repaired! Apparently Nissan has an investigation into the construction of these lift gates. So, Murano owners BE ALERTED to this concerning issue! Has anyone experienced this same problem?#7 of 10 tbarber1 by dowam
Oct 03, 2003 (6:24 am)
That sucks. I am hoping to avoid any rearending. I just have problems with neighbors playing bumper cars because they dont know how to parallel park! Good luck with the repairs. let us know what happens.#8 of 10 tbarber1: Lift Gate Replacement by htn123
Oct 03, 2003 (11:26 am)
tbarber1:What kind of defect the lift gates have? bad welding? crack metal sheet?.....
Thanks
#9 of 10 RE:What kind of defect the lift gates have? bad welding? crack metal sheet? by dmmakoski
Oct 03, 2003 (4:11 pm)
The rear lift gate is plastic over a metal frame.#10 of 10 metal? that's indefensable ;) by swschrad
Oct 03, 2003 (5:04 pm)
put something strong in a body part? horrible
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