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I'm going to buy an SUV so that its running boards can protect the
body from dings caused my neigboring cars' doors. My first choice
is an 2004 Acura TL, but I'm going to get a Toyota Sequoia to avoid
the weekly dings that I'm currently getting on my 10-year-old car.

Andrew

That's a great reason to buy a gas guzzling, road hogging SUV... idiot.

"Andrew" <andrew450121@aol.com> wrote in message
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> I'm going to buy an SUV so that its running boards can protect the
> body from dings caused my neigboring cars' doors. My first choice
> is an 2004 Acura TL, but I'm going to get a Toyota Sequoia to avoid
> the weekly dings that I'm currently getting on my 10-year-old car.

Why don't you also get a 10-year-old SUV while you're at it, so that when it
does get dinged occassionally, it won't hurt you as much, because the
vehicle is old anyway.

Seriously though, to me, getting an SUV would be too much sacrifice in
handling and gas consumption, to offset the lower risk of getting dinged.
That said, I feel your pain and know how many careless people are out there,
not paying attention to the damage they cause to other cars when getting
in/out.

Cheers,

Pete

> My SUV has dings on it. Must be other SUVs ;-)
3 doors on my 2002 CR-V were repainted:
1 - a sign felt on it blown by the wind
2 - vandalism on 2 doors

ehhh

"Andrew" <andrew450121@aol.com> wrote in message
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> I'm going to buy an SUV so that its running boards can protect the
> body from dings caused my neigboring cars' doors

get a 10" lift kit- thatll help too.

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:55:20 +0000 (UTC), Andrew <andrew450121@aol.com>
wrote:

>I'm going to buy an SUV so that its running boards can protect the
>body from dings caused my neigboring cars' doors. My first choice
>is an 2004 Acura TL, but I'm going to get a Toyota Sequoia to avoid
>the weekly dings that I'm currently getting on my 10-year-old car.

SUVs are generally larger and wider than the average car. They fill
more of the parking space and are more likely to get hit by the car
doors next to them. Running boards are not going to be high enough to
stop dings from other SUVs squeezed in next to you either.

What usually get ya is the dog leg on the other guys back door.
Nothing stops that, sorry.



mike hunt



Andrew wrote:
>
> I'm going to buy an SUV so that its running boards can protect the
> body from dings caused my neigboring cars' doors. My first choice
> is an 2004 Acura TL, but I'm going to get a Toyota Sequoia to avoid
> the weekly dings that I'm currently getting on my 10-year-old car.
>
> Andrew

Khosh <test@test.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:55:20 +0000 (UTC), Andrew <andrew450121@aol.com>
> wrote:

>>I'm going to buy an SUV so that its running boards can protect the
>>body from dings caused my neigboring cars' doors. My first choice
>>is an 2004 Acura TL, but I'm going to get a Toyota Sequoia to avoid
>>the weekly dings that I'm currently getting on my 10-year-old car.

> SUVs are generally larger and wider than the average car. They fill
> more of the parking space and are more likely to get hit by the car
> doors next to them. Running boards are not going to be high enough to
> stop dings from other SUVs squeezed in next to you either.

I think that when there's more space, people are more careless and
the swinging door has more momentum. I found that when I claimed a
spot at work that had a two-foot-wide vacant strip next to it to
accomodate a light pole, the dings on that side were the worst.

Andrew

Andrew <andrew450121@aol.com> wrote in message news:<bgrbto$sck$1@news-int.gatech.edu>...
> I'm going to buy an SUV so that its running boards can protect the
> body from dings caused my neigboring cars' doors. My first choice
> is an 2004 Acura TL, but I'm going to get a Toyota Sequoia to avoid
> the weekly dings that I'm currently getting on my 10-year-old car.
>
> Andrew

SUV is far far dangerous than driving a sedan. The purpose of driving SUV
is about crusing rather than driving. I don't recommend a SUV. It has no
advantage whatsoever. it consumes gas more than any sedan.

How can that be? The NHTSA says injuries and deaths among school
age children has been dropping dramatically over the past fire
years. They attribute it to the fact more of children are riding
in larger safer SUV's. Some SUV's get over 30 MPG while some
sedans only get 20 MPG, according to the EPA gas mileage guide..




nike hunt

Lee Leo wrote:
>
> Andrew <andrew450121@aol.com> wrote in message news:<bgrbto$sck$1@news-int.gatech.edu>...
> > I'm going to buy an SUV so that its running boards can protect the
> > body from dings caused my neigboring cars' doors. My first choice
> > is an 2004 Acura TL, but I'm going to get a Toyota Sequoia to avoid
> > the weekly dings that I'm currently getting on my 10-year-old car.
> >
> > Andrew
>
> SUV is far far dangerous than driving a sedan. The purpose of driving SUV
> is about crusing rather than driving. I don't recommend a SUV. It has no
> advantage whatsoever. it consumes gas more than any sedan.