Not trying to be a troll. Just sick of it is always someone else's fault. I really do understand how it feels to have damage done to your beautiful car. When I had a Porsche, brand new, a lady backed into me at a stop sign. Yes, backed into me. I couldn't get out of her way because there was someone behind me.
Larry

 

And you point is it was someone else's (the lady's) fault ?

 

Unrelated, just proof that I do understand what it feels like to have your nice car damaged.

 

 

If you passionately want it to be my fault, then you are entitled to your dreams and aspirations; however, I am allowed to disagree. As stated the exact cause of the accident is not clear and the Klaus machine has known instances of malfunctioning and damaging properly parked cars. If the car was parked too forward this is something that could have easily been prevented with dummy proof better design, if the machine malfunctioned then not sure what could be done to prevent an accident like this in the future. Note: I have parked in this machine hundreds of time without issue.

 

Not to worry. All the logic in the world won’t change his mind.

 

Regadless of where or how the car was parked - it's shocking there's NO sensor to detct a car before they move up and down. Just seems so logical.

" WARNING: Please be sure you park your car precisely where it belongs or your car will be crushed"

REALLY!!!!????

 

Exactly, if it was my parking system, I'd invest a few bucks in some kind of safety measure instead of untold thousands on lawyers after vehicles get damaged.

 

+1. I would agree that it would be negligent. However, I wouldn't be surprised if the lift did have some sensors but they were inoperative due to poor maintenance. If the lift does not have the sensors that common sense would dictate the manufacturer has an incompetent design staff, poor design review process, and/or really, really bad product liability lawyers.

 

or maybe really, really bad engineers.

 

We don't know what engineers were asked to design. They might have been given design requirements for a car compactor.

 

If it is very hard to see what constitutes "proper placement" of the vehicle on this machine, then it is arguably a poor design. Some painted lines on the platform could make all the difference here.

Here's the thing about all this "responsibility" stuff...

When someone can not foresee the consequences of doing something "improperly" are they just as responsible?

For example if there is a concrete pole and you hit it when you're parking, you suffer the consequences of not judging the placement of the car immediately. It feels like common sense to most people. But maybe it is a surprise to some? Should we try to improve on the pole design?

In the case of this machine, you suffer the consequences later. The cause is exactly the same - improper placement of the vehicle, right?

If someone later says "I didn't realize the pole would damage my car when I hit it", we would be siding with the pole right? Why is it any more outrageous in the case of the machine than the pole? A pole does not have a sensor on it to make the pole move out of the way.

It shouldn't be too complicated to park the car in this machine. Good design would dictate that.

It sounds like damage in the machine is very, very, rare. Much more rare than, say, parking your car on the street. How much is too much? For the once in a long while this happens, they (the company or their insurance) probably should just eat the cost and accept it as part of their business model, just like walmart assumes their employees, or their customers will "lose" 15% of their product.

Just playing devils advocate here, don't take it too seriously.

 

lol

 

In which case it failed the brief. The bulk of the car was not crushed. Engineers couldn't even do that one thing...

Gallows humour and all that.

 

After 2 months, a crapload of insurance money, the car is finally back on the road today.

 

All's well that ends well!

 

Hope they made it as good as new and to your satisfaction!

 

Congratulations. I know it's been a painful wait for you.

 

YAY!

 

Congrats! Time to enjoy the car once more