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jcommin jcommin is offline
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
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Originally Posted by wayner View Post
I just got back from Manhattan

All the nice cars there have boards dangling from ropes tied to their trunks in order to protect their bumpers.

NEVER park at the end of a row the last spot from a fire hydrant. Your car will get shoved into the fire hydrant spot where you will get a ticket.

If it is a short enough line, and a big enough SUV, the whole line of cars will be sifted forward one spot by the guy at the back looking for a paring space.
We have bumper boards in Chicago too. You can tell a city car from a suburb car by just looking at the bumpers. I have a 2003 Passat for the past 4 years and both F & R bumpers are scratched and dinged. When I lived in the burbs, I had a Volvo station wagon. The bumpers looked untouched but I had several door dent dings.

I'm not vengeful either - it's impossible to keep anything nice in a city.
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