Letting others drive your P and J
Discussion
Subject to insurance obviously.
Going to meet up with a mate I haven't seen for years soon and he was like a big kid when I told him I had a Tiv. Obviously take hime out for a spin but I also said that if he's insured he can have a go.
Now i'm really not to bothered, obviously as I volunteered it! and it the day it's only a 5/6k Chim, not a Veyron. I figure whats the point in having such cars if you can't share the fun!
So what are other peoples views of letting people get behind the wheels of their toys?
Going to meet up with a mate I haven't seen for years soon and he was like a big kid when I told him I had a Tiv. Obviously take hime out for a spin but I also said that if he's insured he can have a go.
Now i'm really not to bothered, obviously as I volunteered it! and it the day it's only a 5/6k Chim, not a Veyron. I figure whats the point in having such cars if you can't share the fun!
So what are other peoples views of letting people get behind the wheels of their toys?
If they are insured, usually fine.
However my FIL, who has plenty of money, seems to have recently decided it's fine to treat our cars like his own. He tested our Defender and stoved off the bumper protector then reversed the tow bar into a pile of gravel, covering it in cr4p and scuffing it.
He keeps asking to try our our VW Cali but I keep making excuses.
I generally need to know well someone can drive before they get to drive our cars. If they aren't total halfwits, they can drive them.
However my FIL, who has plenty of money, seems to have recently decided it's fine to treat our cars like his own. He tested our Defender and stoved off the bumper protector then reversed the tow bar into a pile of gravel, covering it in cr4p and scuffing it.
He keeps asking to try our our VW Cali but I keep making excuses.
I generally need to know well someone can drive before they get to drive our cars. If they aren't total halfwits, they can drive them.
I've let mates ride some of my bikes and drive my cars.
On one occasion a (very careful) mate borrowed my Volvo to nip home in. When he came back 2 hours later, the rear door was stoved in
His neighbour reversed off her drive straight into the side of my car!
Wasn't his fault obviously, and wouldn't stop me letting mates drive my cars again...in fact I let the same mate borrow my superbike to go to Silverstone one year for the F1. This time it came back in one piece
Although I did used to get a little twitchy when I let mates drive my Porker, but nothing bad happened.
I guess it depends a little on what your friends are like behind the wheel - most of my mates are petrolheads and drive pretty professionally. So no problem as far as I'm concerned.
If the worst happens, I'd like to think that they'd help do their best to assist in reparing / replacing the vehicle, and I'm sure they would.
I've never had anything 'super rare' or 'mega valuable' - perhaps if I was minted and the vehicle was something like a Ferrari 250 or something extremely difficult to replace, I might think twice...
Be interested to hear what other PH'ers do though.
On one occasion a (very careful) mate borrowed my Volvo to nip home in. When he came back 2 hours later, the rear door was stoved in
His neighbour reversed off her drive straight into the side of my car!
Wasn't his fault obviously, and wouldn't stop me letting mates drive my cars again...in fact I let the same mate borrow my superbike to go to Silverstone one year for the F1. This time it came back in one piece
Although I did used to get a little twitchy when I let mates drive my Porker, but nothing bad happened.
I guess it depends a little on what your friends are like behind the wheel - most of my mates are petrolheads and drive pretty professionally. So no problem as far as I'm concerned.
If the worst happens, I'd like to think that they'd help do their best to assist in reparing / replacing the vehicle, and I'm sure they would.
I've never had anything 'super rare' or 'mega valuable' - perhaps if I was minted and the vehicle was something like a Ferrari 250 or something extremely difficult to replace, I might think twice...
Be interested to hear what other PH'ers do though.
bga said:
I'm pretty comfortable with friends & family driving my cars. The only proviso's are that they are insured and that 'they bend it, they mend it'.
I'm a lot more fussy about letting people play my guitars (which are have a much lower monetary value than my cars).
Funny that - I've been in a few bands as a singer, and I've often asked to have a go on the guys' guitars and drum kits. They seem to quite reluctantly agree, and hand it over with suspicion, hover round whilst I'm having a go, and then when it looks like I'm done, quickly move in to reclaim their instrument!I'm a lot more fussy about letting people play my guitars (which are have a much lower monetary value than my cars).
Fair enough I guess - I think your instrument becomes your baby and almost a part of you?!
My current car nobody has drove, and to be honest, I'd probably let very few people drive it. Most of my mates reckon they are the next Plato and I'd cringe too much. The OH has been driving a year and has a tendency to reverse into gates and wheelie bins and the like.
So for now I'm happy being the only one.
So for now I'm happy being the only one.
MSTRBKR said:
I'd have to witness their driving first I think, especially in something like a TVR! I have a few friends I definitely wouldn't let behind the wheel of my car. 1) They'd crash it. 2) They put the clutch in around corners instead of changing down
There will defo be some observing first!Oh and changing down to brush off speed doesn't end well in Chims, especially in the wet! When I bought mine and took it for a test drive the first thing the then owner told me was NOT to use engine braking as you would in something more....normal!
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