BRITAIN’S tiny parking spaces are costing big time.
It’s reckoned that company car drivers, business car managers and members of the public pay over £500m per year in repair bills for damaged paintwork.
Repair bills for damaged paintwork are reckoned to cost over £500 million a year
Popular car accessory retailer, Halfords, and paint renovation experts G3 Pro, have revealed that over 10 million car owners have suffered scuffs or scratches over the past 12 months.
More than 60 per cent have needed to pay more than £50 to fix car bodywork.
This may be down to the fact that while the size of cars is growing, the rules governing car park space sizes in the UK hasn’t changed since 1994.
Research showed that supermarkets, shopping centres and railway stations were among the places reported as the worst for car park scuffs and scratches.
Donna Howard from G3 Pro, said: “Even the smallest scratch can be very annoying and reduce the value of a vehicle by hundreds of pounds. But with car park operators looking to maximise visitor volumes and revenue, there is little incentive for them to exceed the recommended minimum size requirements.”
Perhaps it’s no coincidence then, that the Citroen Cactus concept car made its debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show last week. The Cactus is a small family SUV that uses innovative Airbump technology to protect the car’s bodywork.
