this things is ridiculous, seriously? you strap that on to park? whats the point of a keeping a car pretty if it looks fugly while you own it?

 

I've seen these in use by a couple of r-spec genesis sedan owners I know (on one side of the car), but they use them inside their garages to keep their sedans ding free from kids/wife/or themselves opening up a second cars door to wide/quickly.

Just the consumer version of what some have been doing with Home Depot pipe wrap foam or those 'noodles' you see at the pool (cut in half) after they Macgyver up something.

I can def see the use in the garage, but I certainly wouldnt use these out in public...Makes me recall those vanity/license plate Shox thing you see and I guess those would be more useful in say NYC where street parking is the norm and people play bumper cars w/ no care/remorse when parking near other vehicles.

 

Thanks for the good laugh! I could see the use but once I was that woried about a car I wouldn't drive it any more. When I got to that point with my IPL and it sat in the garage all the time..........well now I have a car that I can drive and feel comfortable driving.

 

again, I will circle a parking lot until I find an out-of-the-way, corner, long distance spot every time. Pisses the wife off so I drop her at the door. I am also one of those guys that will watch his car at while eating dinner. honestly, I wish I could stop doing that but.... not going to happen...

 

My detailing spidey sense is going nuts thinking about all the swirl marks those magnetic door guards are putting in your paint...lol

 

Cool for safe guard in the garage but I can't see myself putting these on in public! Lol! As I was waiting for the pics to load I couldn't help but notice the curb rash, cause it was zoomed in right on the spot and I thought it would be cool if it was some way to safe guard curb rash.

 

That van door is going to ding your rear fender. Doorsock be damned.

When I was young, I knew a few people who would see that nonsense and then go out of their way to vandalize your car because of it. Seriously, you may think you're protecting your car, but I suspect you're doing the opposite, daring douchebags to see exactly how hard they can swing the door of their hooptie into your Vert. And aside from all that, I can't overstate how ridiculous that looks. Completely, utterly ridiculous.

Advice 1: never park between a full-sized SUV and a commercial Van.
Advice 2: park far away. It's good exercise.

 

I live in an apartment and have already had my 13 dinged by a guy in a Hyundai pisses me off nowhere else to park tho

 

That is certainly taking things to a new level. Wow! I thought I was concerned about dings and such- but I guess I am really not too pressed. It seems like someone would go out of his way to ding your car in one of the unprotected spots just to spite you with all of that going on.

I respect you for doing that, but I'd never do it.

 

I now live in Jersey, and grew in NYC, so all this seems perfectly reasonable to me . . . which explains why I have the bumper protectors myself Haven't gone the doorshox route (yet?), but it's crossed my mind more than a few times. Not for street parking but more so the aholes that work in NYC parking garages. If you could see the hundreds of dings and nicks that my beater accumulated over the years, you'd understand.

 

this guy would have 4 flats a few times a month..

 

My grandpa did the same thing to his 95 Mercury Grand Marquis.

Interesting to see this making a come back!

 

Great work OP!!!!

My rear bumper just got destroyed this past weekend by some @ss hole in brooklyn. Looking to get a bumper bully and bumper shox. Which bully did you go with? I'm thinking the platinum edition.

 

Got the platinum edition, no problems. All these guards come off before I drive the car. I also highly recommend the door shox guards, for the side of the car. It mall centric NJ, it's a must.

In response to the side graurds, "it look ugly", who cares what the car looks like parked. The car should look good to me, not some random person walking by it in a parking lot!

 

Z, if people are backing into your car on the streets of NYC then I completely understand why you do this. But in the photos above it seems to me it would be a bit easier to just park away from everyone else. In the end, I completely understand the desire to protect your vehicle! Good luck against the idiots of the world.