ancientsanskrit

All,

Need some insight for those of you that live in big cities. Wife and I recently moved back to Dallas downtown and in two weeks, someone backed into my wife's new Lexus leaving deep scratches. This evening, to my horror, I saw a couple of small scratches on the front of my 911 which appears someone backed into. We live in a dense parking lot with four cars. I protect the 911 from the sides and back with my other cars, but now need something to protect the front when parked.

Any suggestions? I don't have front license holes so those larger front rubber license brackets are out.

I'm thinking something similar to this link that will fit our cars ( )

Ughh, just pisses me off to no end with the blatant disrespect of other's property.

911997c2

Petza914

98% of people don't car about other peoples cars and are going to use the "parking by braile" method in the big cites - I've seen in over and over in Chicago when visiting. Those are going to be a PITA to use and just attract attention to your car where some idiot is going to bump it harder just because you went to the trouble of trying to protect it. I'd have the bumpers clear-brad which will help protect them from abrasions and if it gets messed up you can have it redone, but really I'd check the marketplace for a spare set of bumpers (they're cheap, like a few hundred bucks each), have them color matched to your car and put them away. When you move to where you won't be parking in the big city or it's time to sell the car, install the fresh bumpers.

cannonball05

okbarnett

if somebody hits that or rubs it against your car, its going to scrape the paint anyway.

aaks38

Get 3m clearbra for the front and back which will help for light taps and some minor contact. But there is a company that makes a proper rubber bumper attachment designed for parallel parkers..

Kuhl997.2!

sandwedge

I'm about as far away from you as one could be in the US but I've had exactly the same thing happen here along with tailgating and other rage like behavior by pickup drivers. Not once but on a somewhat regular basis. Seems there's some kind of mental hatred signal triggered when some of these pickup characters spot a Porsche and I'm sure other high end cars no matter where in the US you live since I doubt it's just an Oregon/Florida phenomena. One of them rear ended my -09 C4S and there was definitely a lot of attitude on display the moment he stepped out of his car even though there was never any question of who was at fault. I called the cops to get a report on file and even the officer who arrived had to tell this guy to "gather himself and tone it down". He had nothing on me. I was just sitting at a stop sign waiting for traffic to pass.

Worth mentioning. I've never had anything like any of the events described above happen with anything other than large pickup trucks.