Side protectors

[guest6167]

A bit of advice please

Is it worth getting side protectors fitted. Am getting a 2013 jazz without them, but have them on my older 2009 one and wonder whether it's worth fitting.
 Close fit of car into garage and open door to get out and will be parking near supermarket trolleys!

Thanks

[longlegpete]

Are the one's on your 2009 car scuffed? , if not i guess its not worth fitting them?

[guest5079]

Ours came fitted when we bought the car. How much damage they have saved we know not but they certainly didn't stop a 'B' supermarket trolley!!!!!!!!!!!!!leaving it's mark.

[culzean]

The supermarket trollies and SUV / 4X4 doors are never gonna hit the car where the protectors are fitted anyway - they will be higher up. 

Put door edge vertical edging strips on the door to stop damage when hitting garage wall etc. but I have fitted these in the past and found that they can cause damage to paint underneath anyway.

[guest1372]

Taping a bit of corrugated cardboard to the garage wall solves the door edge problem, with supermarkets you just need to park a bit further from the entrance.
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TG

[guest6167]

Thanks everyone for your comments. They confirm what I thought

[guest5079]

Being one of those pain in the bum motorist with a blue badge, sometimes we can park in the bays allocated to people like my Wife and I. One day, in a supermarket car park, I saw a woman unload her trolley and then push the empty trolley across three bays at speed, with it ending up against a car door. My voice was raised!!!!!!! My intention was quite obvious and the 'lady' was in no doubt as to what I was going to do if the car was damaged.
It wasn't luckily BUT what sort of moron was this person?  Even after this she still couldn't be bothered to return the trolley to the trolley bay.

[culzean]

Being one of those pain in the bum motorist with a blue badge, sometimes we can park in the bays allocated to people like my Wife and I. One day, in a supermarket car park, I saw a woman unload her trolley and then push the empty trolley across three bays at speed, with it ending up against a car door. My voice was raised!!!!!!! My intention was quite obvious and the 'lady' was in no doubt as to what I was going to do if the car was damaged.
It wasn't luckily BUT what sort of moron was this person?  Even after this she still couldn't be bothered to return the trolley to the trolley bay.

Supermarkets who do not charge for trolleys are doing no-one a favour as at least if the original person who gets trolley can't be ars#d to return it to a proper place someone else will and get the pound coin back.   It is even worse at our local Tesco (who don't charge for trolleys) because the carpark is on a slope and when I take my wife there (I won't shop there) I am always amazed at how many peeps will precariously push the trolleys together on the slope and walk away,  once when it was windy quite a few trolleys decided to make a break for it and rolled away into the access roads and sides of cars.  And to think these people drove to the supermarket - wonder what they are like on the road.