Gear guard saves me

[Megavolt]

If I didn't have gear guard I'd be on the hook for this. I can't believe this kid didn't report this.

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[Laserboy1054]

Did you have a chat with the management of whatever store you were at, or just letting the insurance company deal with the communication?

Let's hear it for Gary! At a minimum, this saves you an insurance deductible.

 

[Megavolt]

Bjs loss prevention is reviewing the parking lot video.

 

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Wow! That's a lot of damage. ? Looks like he ran right into it with the motorized cart mover? Good luck, let us know what they say and how long it takes to repair.

 

[DaveA]

Wait, you park next to people? Brave. Glad you caught this though.

 

[R1Sezejay]

Good job gary!

 

[marlontaze]

He hit it good and just casually walked off

 

[UnsungZero_OldTimeAdMan]

Low paying and low skilled job. Either can't afford to lose job or just DGAF (and counting on it just blowing over).

 

[NY_Rob]

Damnnnnn! He might as well gone back inside to get a sledge hammer to unstick the cart!

Sorry OP, that sucks!

Whenever we go to one of the big box stores like Costco, BJ's, Home Depot, etc.. and we take my vehicle, I give fair warning that we will be parking out in the boonies, period, no discussion! That particular area in the R1 seems to be the dent magnet super strong attraction spot. Tons of threads here about hits in this exact location

IMO Home Depot is the most dangerous because you get a lot of ghetto contractors in old huge, long, beater vans (without windows) that have no backup cameras and by the look of their vehicles, probably half of them don't have insurance, so they hit you and just take off. When I have to go to Home Depot now, I park in the next shopping center over. Between the nails and screws in the parking lot and possibly of dents, it's safer to just park elsewhere and walk to HD.

 

[Donald Stanfield]

What a jerk, wrecking someone else's property and then leaving. At least it's going to be hard to argue whos fault this is and you should get made whole without an insurance hit.

 

[tjrivian]

IMO Home Depot is the most dangerous because you get a lot of ghetto contractors in old huge, long, beater vans (without windows) that have no backup cameras and by the look of their vehicles, probably half of them don't have insurance, so they hit you and just take off. When I have to go to Home Depot now, I park in the next shopping center over. Between the nails and screws in the parking lot and possibly of dents, it's safer to just park elsewhere and walk to HD.

Just got my Rivian a few days ago and went to home depot with it. I had this exact same thought. The home depot was so crowded that even most of the parking spots out in the boonies were taken. Plus, out in the boonies you've got dozens of day laborers just milling around trying to get someone to hire them for work. There were no good options for places to park a new vehicle that you're concerned about getting dinged.

 

[ttphhi]

Just got my Rivian a few days ago and went to home depot with it. I had this exact same thought. The home depot was so crowded that even most of the parking spots out in the boonies were taken. Plus, out in the boonies you've got dozens of day laborers just milling around trying to get someone to hire them for work. There were no good options for places to park a new vehicle that you're concerned about getting dinged.

We frequent a Sam's Club and I never went up to the 2nd floor parking until now. It's in the sun but very open and you can actually park kinda close to the elevator/escalator. That's the only hassle, getting back up to the 2nd floor with the cart, half the time that cart escalator thing is broken so I have to wait for the elevator.

 

[Megavolt]

Think I could also use the extra steps.

 

[Jonger1150]

Wait, you park next to people? Brave. Glad you caught this though.

I go out of my way to park next to EVs and other vehicles where the owner might not being walking around raging with FUD on the brain.

 

[KBabione]

Anywhere I take the Rivian, I always try to park past the furthest cart return for a number of reasons:

• I don't have to worry about the motorized cart movers that whacked the OP's R1T
• If people don't take their carts to the cart returns, they usually put them up on a curb or in the grass where they're less likely to roll into my car
• Nobody is playing "Putt-Putt" trying to get their cart into the cart return from 50 feet away

That last one actually happened to me...Years ago I parked next to a cart return and was heading into the store when I saw a cart rolling at a good clip right towards my car. I ran and stopped it and looked around and a young gentleman was watching from a distance. He shrugged his shoulders, got in his car, and left. I was too dumbfounded to do anything other than watch him drive away. That was the last time I parked near a cart return.

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