Owning a luxury car in New York is an empowering, exhilarating, exciting experience. It can give people a sense of freedom nothing else can match.
Owning a luxury car in New York is an empowering, exhilarating, exciting experience. It can give people a sense of freedom nothing else can match.
Its soundproof interior can provide respite from the cacophony of the screeching subway, vendors hawking their wares, jazz, hip-hop, salsa, and countless other types of music blasting and the sound of over 8 million people living, loving and making their mark in the city that never sleeps. While a luxury car makes Ikea runs and spontaneous weekend getaways to upstate New York easy, keeping your luxury car from getting dents and dings can be challenging.
Tips For Preventing Dents, Dings And Scratches
Preventing a luxury car from getting dents, dings, and scratches while navigating the traffic and pedestrian choked streets of New York is difficult, but possible. It calls for vigilance, awareness, and proper planning. The following are a few tips that can help you to keep your luxury carding, dent, and scratch-free if you live or work in New York.
If you want to make sure your luxury car continues to look clean, smooth, and shiny, you should rent some garage space so you can keep it safe from erratic drivers, playing children, and the harsh elements. There is garage space for rent all over New York. But garage space is precious and in great demand, so you may have to pay between $300 and $1,000 a month depending on where the garage space is located and what type of security is provided. There are even websites and services you can use designed to help people with luxury cars who want to keep in pristine condition find garage space.
Bumper guards are typically two vertical crosspieces that can be attached to a car's front and rear bumpers. Bumper guards are an easy way to protect your luxury car from ding, dents, scuffs, and scratches when you are driving in bumper to bumper traffic, parked in tight spaces between two vehicles, or simply park on the street and leave your car unattended. Commonly made from rubber, industrial-grade foam, or stainless steel, the bumper guards can be securely attached to your front and back bumpers to prevent your luxury car from dings, dents, scuffs, and scratches when driving or parking in New York.
One place where your luxury car is in danger of getting dings, scratches, and dents is in the parking lots of supermarkets and other types of stores. This happens because most people try to park as close to the entrance as possible. As a result, there are usually many cars parked close to each other. As people pull in or out of tight parking spaces or open their doors to get in or out, they often bump or scratch the cars that are closest to them. To avoid this type of accident from leaving scratches and dents in your luxury car, when shopping park as far away from the crowded areas as possible.
Another way to protect your luxury vehicle from being damaged in parking lots is to try to park near places with curbed edges like islands. In grocery stores and retail plazas in New York people often leave the shopping carts they use in the parking lot. These stray carts are notorious for rolling into people's parked cars and causing scratches, dents, dings and scuff marks. However, if you take the time to find a parking spot next to a curb and park your luxury car there, you reduce the chances of a stray shopping cart crashing into it. The curb will help block the cart from hitting your luxury car.
A common way vehicle doors get dents and scratch in when opening and closing them in parking lots and garages. If you are not extra careful when you open your car door in these types of places, it's easy to hit the wall or a vehicle that's parked next to you and damage the edge of your car door. One way to prevent those ugly dents and scratches these inadvertent minor accidents can cause is to install door edge guards on your luxury car. Usually made out of rubber or plastic, door edge guards can help to prevent your luxury car's doors from sustaining unsightly dings, dents, and scratches.
Another simple common-sense step you can take to help keep your beautiful, shiny, new luxury vehicle dent free is to purchase and use a car cover. Made from plastic with a thin layer of padding on the inside, a car cover is an easy, inexpensive way to protect the paint job and finish of your luxury car. Car covers usually cost less than $100, are stored in your trunk and can be pulled over your car in seconds to protect it from the weather's harsh elements, playing children, bird dropping, sap from trees, stray cats and anything else New York throws at your luxury car when it's parked outdoors.
Whether you are parking your luxury vehicle in a garage or in the parking lot at the supermarket or the mall, it behooves you to park your vehicle carefully and safely. By taking a few extra seconds to make sure you park your car in the center of the parking space and not too close to either side, you won't hit the wall or another vehicle when you open your door. Plus, parking smart reduce the chances someone will scratch or dent your vehicle when they are trying to park. Don't put your shiny, new luxury car in a position where it's more likely to be damaged by someone who's parking in a hurry.
One common way your luxury car can quickly get a bunch of dings, dents, and scratches is if you or your passengers regularly rush and open your car door willy-nilly without paying attention to who or what is close to it. People in New York often bang their car doors into gas pumps, poles, parked bikes, and even people because they are in too much of a hurry or they simply fail to pay attention to their surroundings. This is very important when you are parking on the streets. If you aren't careful, a speeding bike or a car can slam into your door. Get in the habit of looking in the side view mirror and opening your car door slowly and cautiously if you want to prevent dents.
Another simple thing you can do to reduce the chances of your sweet-looking luxury car getting all dented and scratched up is to choose to use a parking spot that is at the end of a row. That means you only have to worry about one vehicle opening their doors too wide, bumping into your vehicle and damaging the body of your car. It may not seem like a major difference, but if you always park in an end spot, half as many cars will be in danger of denting and scratching the doors of your luxury vehicle. Over the course of just one year that can help to prevent thousands of cars from being a threat to your car's pristine finish.
Kids are not always aware that playing near your luxury car or not taking the time to slowly open and close the doors carefully can lead to expensive damage to your vehicle. They are not aware of the high cost of dent repair or why it's important to look before opening the car door. It's up to you as a parent to help them to understand how much it will cost you if they scratch or dent the door of your luxury automobile with their bikes, bats, balls or other toys. Give them regular gentle reminders and praise them when they look before they open the car door. Not only will it prevent dents, but it will also help to keep them safe as well.
To avoid scratching, scuffing, or damaging your luxury car's finish, don't put items on the hood trunk or roof of your car when you are getting in or out of it. Often when people's hands are full they are tempted to put their grocery bags, coffee cups, or keys in their car. This is a bad idea if keeping your car scuff, scratch and dent free is important to you. All of these items have the potential to scratch, scuff, or otherwise damage your car's finish. Plus, putting items on your car can become second nature. By the time you realize what you have been doing, your car will be all scratched up.
Another reason to avoid putting items on your luxury car is that heavier items can put dents in the hood, roof or trunk of your car even if you just leave them there for a few minutes. Don't put heavy items on your car even if you plan to run inside to grab something and come right back. You can easily get distracted and by the time you come back to remove the item, it may have dented your car or damaged your paint job. Another mistake people make is storing items on top of their car because they can't find a spot on the shelf in their garage for it. This can cause hard to remove dents on cars.
Many people feel once they pass their driver's license exam they are parallel parking experts and don't need any more practice. However, every year thousands of experienced drivers scratch and dent their cars because they didn't parallel park properly. LeBron James is a highly skilled professional basketball player, but he still practices the basketball fundamentals every day. Practicing parallel parking is important. The more your practice the better you will and eventually you will be able to parallel park in the tightest spots without scratching or denting your car.
Often a nice spot in the shade cast by a tree may look like the perfect place to park. While it may keep the blazing sun from heating up your car's interior and fading your paint job, parking under trees poses serious risks to your cars finish. Not only can the birds sitting in the tree release its paint dissolving droppings on your car, tree sap, twigs, and branches can also fall on your car and do serious damage. Plus, rodents in the tree can drop nuts and other food items on your car or jump down on it and leave deep scratches in your paint job with their sharp nails.
When driving in tight New York traffic, you may be tempted to stay close to the car in front of you so no one can cut in. Don't tailgate. Maintain a 3-second distance between you and the car ahead of you. This reduces the risk that rocks, salt, sticks, and other types of road debris will be kicked up and hit your headlights, hood, windshield, and side mirrors and leave scratches, dings, and dents all over your car. And, if something falls off or out of the vehicle in front of you, if you are tailgating you won't be able to avoid it damaging your hood and potentially shattering your windshield.
A Relaxing Comfortable Ride
In New York, a luxury car can be your happy place. A private spot where you can relax,
listen to some music and enjoy peaceful Sunday morning drives in the comfort of its plush seats and beautiful interior appointments. But to enjoy this simple pleasure while preventing scratches, dents and dings, you have to be attentive, proactive and careful.
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