So long story, I'll try and keep it short. Her 7 series was rear ended last week so it's in the shop getting fixed, and my parents don't drive their corvette in the rain and it's supposed to rain today, and they're having the air-conditioner fixed in their cadillac, so they ran out of cars to use, so I let my mom use my 8 today to get to work and I drove my truck. You're probably thinking why not let her take your truck? Cause it's too big for her to get into with the lift.

Hopefully the 8 comes back in one piece. I went over the whole 'don't shut it off cold, don't rev above 4k rpm's till the engine is warmed up, yada-yada, etc., etc.'

Have any of you had to let someone use your 8?

 

Once, and then never again after that

 

ha you sound like a mother leaving her child with the baby-sitter for the first time lol

I've let people drive my car. With my line of work, I'm not always around to take care of her. Not my sister! Nope. That won't happen lol. But, anyone of my friends, I'd trust with my car. If I didn't, we wouldn't be friends

 

I hope that doesn't mean you learned the hard way.

Half my friends don't even know how to drive a manual car, sad, but true.

 

I had to...and let me just say never ever again. I have a 2004 AT (wish it were MT but whatever) and i had to let my mom use it while i fixed her car that day (its a ford, explains the need for fixing).
long story short, she drove to and from work (thankfully only 5 miles each way) with it in MANUAL MODE and she wasnt shifting because she didnt know it was in manual mode and didnt know how to shift it either. she was completely oblivious the whole time.

So even though my mom pulled the cash needed out of her savings to buy my car (yeah buy we have its title), she will not be driving my car again. Ever. I knew it was a bad idea from the start when i asked her how to check the oil on her car to see how much my car would be on the line with her driving, and she responded "i have no idea. i just drive it and put gas when the little light comes on"
....never, ever, again...

 

My ex wife never drove my car. My son moved it into the street once so he could get his car out. The only other person, in 7 yrs, was the service manager at the dealership. He took it for the weekend to try to diagnose a problem.

 

Yikes! Good thing it was your mom. Anyone else I'd wanna punch em in the face.

 

Hope he drove it around the block first to warm it up

 

Probably didn't, but I don't either. I've never had a flooding problem.

 

How many cars does you family freaking have?! a bmw, a caddy, a vette ...

 

Ex-girlfriend parked the front bumper on a parking stop with a 1/2 inch of rebar sticking up. She's my ex for a reason...

 

Escalade, cts-v, truck and a couple bikes. What can I say? We like our cars.

 

My mother would periodically drive my car as the "fun car" until I put my exhaust on. Now she calls it, and I quote, a "stupid piece of **** rust bucket"

Which is good because she would wear high heels and grind the gears ALL THE TIME.

p.s. I have no rust

 

That made me laugh.

I asked my mom how the ride to work was and said, "It's a fun lil car ain't it?" Her response was, "It was okay, I'm too old to drive a stick anymore."

Great signature quote btw.

 

How old is she?

 

you don't ask a mother how old she is

big no no!

 

No, you never directly ask how old a woman is. And if age does come up you say "It stops at 29, right?"

 

If you want to eat tonight

 

I got to hear my wife almost have a wreck in my car over the phone last week (her MS6 blew a rod through the block)...

Good thing I have VERY VERY VERY good brakes.

 

A son knows how old his mother is.

 

let me do some math hers....

she's 44

 

I'm turning 55 in 3 days and I drive stick. That's why I asked.

 

She just turned 60. She had a knee replaced a few years back, so she just doesn't enjoy driving manual cars anymore.

 

Doesn't everyone know how old their mother is?

Happy pre-birthday.

 

My girlfriend has my 8 right now. I tore a tendon in my foot and can't use it to drive so I can only use an automatic. At the moment I driver her Jeep and she has my 8.
I taught her to drive stick 2 weekends ago and then let her autocross it last weekend. After I saw how she handled the car on course I have no worries about her driving it around town.