Several weeks ago I was notified by our business park no more taking up two spaces. There are several of us with nice cars that did this and mind you this is in a parking lot with excess of 100 spaces and less than 40% are ever used. We all parked at the far end of the lot and in my case if I knew the real estate company next door was having a meeting (every Thursday) it was a good opt to leave the car in the garage and walk to work. I'd do this to make sure I wasn't inconveniencing someone else. So now I'm terrified about my car doors. Ours is basically an office park of doctors and a few other businesses. I can see the entire parking lot from my window and what I see, the lack of care and respect for other people's property is appalling. The Crossfire side panels are pretty vulnerable to door dings. I decided I needed to come up with my own protection to prevent the dings. I checked the internet and came up empty so I took a trip to the local craft store. I decided on styrofoam because it was light and would absorb much of any impact. Then came how to mount and make sure the entire thing didn't scratch the side of the car. As you can see in the pics it ain't pretty but it works. The main thing you want is a fairly thick piece. I wish I could have made them a little longer but these work just fine. I glued some 100% cotton terry material to the part that would touch the door (3M styrofoam spray glue) and then used 3M strip magnets with adhesive on one side. These strips are rubberized and wont scratch or rust. I then painted the styrofoam as close as I could to the car color. I have another with a lanyard through it that attaches to the door handle and you roll the window up, I did that thinking they may not stick in a storm but the magnets I used are fine. They are wide enough and stick out from the car far enough to keep just about any door way away from my door and just yesterday some idiot in a pickup put a nice gash with his door in one of my protectors.
just thought I'd share this idea with the forum, I'm looking into some other variations of this same idea and I'll post them when I get them made up.
Here are some pics, total cost was about $25 and about an hour of work.
Pat
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