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[mullet]

A traffic cone in front and behind the car

  will need a big stock of cones

[Ethel]

You could fix one to a bit of board you can park a wheel on, but it'd be tricky to do that at both ends

[mullet]

You could fix one to a bit of board you can park a wheel on, but it'd be tricky to do that at both ends

Problem is there's always one or two characters around here that just break, snap, take, for the sake of it.  We and other neighbours have annoying things happen, like wingmirrors ripped off, wipers bent, etc. So I am trying to make things as unnoticeable as possible.  Maybe a motorised arm with LEDs that pops up hidden inside something like this and drops when no current present: https://www.thelittl...stin-mini.html  That'll really flash through their back windows then.

 

I think there's a little market for this kind of thing, as modern cars get ridiculously bloated and oversized.  Problem is, if this was based on a sensor alone (car getting close, but not actually making contact), people will be densensitised to it and just push back anyway.  So I really only want it to happen when actual contact is made.

[Ethel]

Le link ne marche pas 

 

Avec vous though, quel ce chose what will shock them in to hitting the brake pedal as a reflex.

[MiNiKiN]

 

You could fix one to a bit of board you can park a wheel on, but it'd be tricky to do that at both ends

Problem is there's always one or two characters around here that just break, snap, take, for the sake of it.  We and other neighbours have annoying things happen, like wingmirrors ripped off, wipers bent, etc. So I am trying to make things as unnoticeable as possible.  Maybe a motorised arm with LEDs that pops up hidden inside something like this and drops when no current present: https://www.thelittl...stin-mini.html  That'll really flash through their back windows then.

 

I think there's a little market for this kind of thing, as modern cars get ridiculously bloated and oversized.  Problem is, if this was based on a sensor alone (car getting close, but not actually making contact), people will be densensitised to it and just push back anyway.  So I really only want it to happen when actual contact is made.

 

Fit a paintball gun front and rear, triggered by your bars. So whenever someone touches your mini, they get covered in paint blobs     

[timmy850]

Rubber chicken parking sensors

 

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[mullet]

Rubber chicken parking sensors

 

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Haha!  I did actually think of this, removing the part that makes the noise!  I don't want to wire it to the horn incase the switch jams.  That'd annoy the neighbours.  I might still do the temporary squeek sound though.  Maybe they'll stop thinking the ran over a cat.

[mullet]

A traffic cone in front and behind the car

Well, after setting up a spring-loaded boat ignition switch just behind the nudgebar that makes lights flash, it's changed nothing. I think the nudgebar, if anything, encourages people to push back and damage done.  

 

Although I never wanted attention drawn to the mini parked roadside, I am thinking of attaching a PVC pipe to the grill, coloured to match car, angled in such a way that it moves further forwards at the top.  Then with a smaller diameter PVC electrical gain tube about a meter long, slide that into the pipe attached to the car when parked (padlocked, too).  Maybe with a flag on top.  A bit like some bicycles have.  So flag end will be maybe 25cm from bonnet and IN YOUR FACE to the culprits.

 

Would those reverse sensors pick up on that?  It could be the main culprits hear the sensor, but still look back and see no mini.  Maybe this will solve it.

[Steam]

A highly visisble sign
"THIS VEHICLE IS EQUIPPED WITH VIBRATION ACTIVATED TORPEDOS FRONT AND REAR. IF YOU BINGLE, I MANGLE"

AAlternatively fit large spilkes to the front and rear ssubframes and paint hivis colour

[mullet]

A highly visisble sign
"THIS VEHICLE IS EQUIPPED WITH VIBRATION ACTIVATED TORPEDOS FRONT AND REAR. IF YOU BINGLE, I MANGLE"

AAlternatively fit large spilkes to the front and rear ssubframes and paint hivis colour

Haha!  Maybe a flamethrower, too?  I'll pop out later to see if I can find a couple of squeaky dog toy balls that I could wedge behind the nudgebar.  I'd wire the switch to the horn, only I am worried if the switch jams I'll no longer get xmas cards from the neighbours :)

[Aridgerunner]

This is sad situation. Where's the respect for others property? You shouldn't have to do anything. I know I have a bit of bad temper and I can guarantee you that if some idiot backed into my car and then left theirs sitting there they would have a flat tire when they came back. Lack of respect would work both ways.

Have you considered moving out that area?

Sorry. Rant over.

[mullet]

This is sad situation. Where's the respect for others property? You shouldn't have to do anything. I know I have a bit of bad temper and I can guarantee you that if some idiot backed into my car and then left theirs sitting there they would have a flat tire when they came back. Lack of respect would work both ways.

Have you considered moving out that area?

Sorry. Rant over.

Love the area here and think it'd actually be worse in a posher area, as folk look out for each other here.  Agree with you though, as domestic boss saw it in action (rich tourists, not locals) and gave them an earful.  In fairness, part of this might be people in ******* new cars hearing the beeps, looking back and seeing nothing.  Most the time I think it is accidental.  15 years looking for a garage and nothing   I'll be working on this over the next days and will come back with photos of how ridiculous it'll look ;)

[mullet]

Hi all.  I went cold on this topic deliberately because I wanted to give 'the solution' a few months.  After 3 or 4 months, surprisingly no one has vandalised the solution.  Sure, the neighbours mock me, people laugh, etc.  But not a single person has since caused damage.  There's even no sign of contact on the rubber doorstoppers.  All this to suggest the reversing into the car appeared accidental; car just not seen and people not trusting their own reverse sensors.  Perhaps the solution makes would-be vandals and would-be reversers feel somewhat monitored because it's so in-your-face.  But so far so good.  Pole slips into car easily.

 

One day someone might snap the pole.  5 euro job to make a new one. 

 

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Edited by mullet, 01 March 2026 - 04:21 PM.

[Designer]

Hi,

 

I am pleased that it is having the desired effect.

When are you changing your  name from Mullet to Heath Robinson    .

 

Paddy

[mullet]

Hi,

 

I am pleased that it is having the desired effect.

When are you changing your  name from Mullet to Heath Robinson    .

 

Paddy

Haha!