Would you allow the Mrs to drive your M5?
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Well, would you?
I let her drive mine today and it almost came to blows.....she says she gets nervous with me there, but I can't help being anxious.....she's a decent driver (by female standards), but I just don't trust her.....she seems to freeze and lose the ability think when the pressure is on.....very worrying. And what annoys me more than anything is her random gear changes.....you know.....cruising along at constant speed, then for no apparent reason, a shift up or down.....or accelerating in third, but hanging on and not changing up...as if she cannot understand the relationship between the engine sound/feel and the need for a gear change.....she just cannot understand this....aaaaaaaaagh!!
She has a CTR (FN2), with 19" rage alloys.....she kerbs them, but denies all knowledge of what happened and when it happened.....makes my blood boil....£50 a pop for a good job to fix them, although being diamond cut, the best work is less than perfect.
So.....should I calm down and let her go for a drive on her own or just politely request that she drives only her own car (unless of course I get hammered and need a driver!!)
Jazzer
I let her drive mine today and it almost came to blows.....she says she gets nervous with me there, but I can't help being anxious.....she's a decent driver (by female standards), but I just don't trust her.....she seems to freeze and lose the ability think when the pressure is on.....very worrying. And what annoys me more than anything is her random gear changes.....you know.....cruising along at constant speed, then for no apparent reason, a shift up or down.....or accelerating in third, but hanging on and not changing up...as if she cannot understand the relationship between the engine sound/feel and the need for a gear change.....she just cannot understand this....aaaaaaaaagh!!
She has a CTR (FN2), with 19" rage alloys.....she kerbs them, but denies all knowledge of what happened and when it happened.....makes my blood boil....£50 a pop for a good job to fix them, although being diamond cut, the best work is less than perfect.
So.....should I calm down and let her go for a drive on her own or just politely request that she drives only her own car (unless of course I get hammered and need a driver!!)
Jazzer
I must admit my other half is not your 'typical' female driver either and she does a lot of driving for her job but I learnt long ago not to let her drive my cars. I nearly exploded when she took out my 911 GT3 many years ago. Lets just say the trip got so heated she doesn't want the grief from me and so doesn't ask anymore.... result!
For your own sanity and pocket... don't do it, unless you can handle your pride and joy with a few dinks, chips and grazed alloys every now and again. However good luck with telling her she can't drive it.
For your own sanity and pocket... don't do it, unless you can handle your pride and joy with a few dinks, chips and grazed alloys every now and again. However good luck with telling her she can't drive it.
Edited by GameOverMan! on Monday 17th August 20:06
MrsJazzer said:
Finally had a go in Jazzer's M5 today. A bit nervous with him breathing down my neck, but it's only a car FFS. He has an inferiority complex about women who are better drivers than he is, sometimes it is as if he thinks I "freeze"...FFS, I've not crashed his car have I?
He is so boring too...I shift down, or hang onto a gear a bit longer than necessary to hear that glorious engine note and all he does is moan about his MPG!
He is so boring too...I shift down, or hang onto a gear a bit longer than necessary to hear that glorious engine note and all he does is moan about his MPG!
UpTheIron said:
MrsJazzer said:
Finally had a go in Jazzer's M5 today. A bit nervous with him breathing down my neck, but it's only a car FFS. He has an inferiority complex about women who are better drivers than he is, sometimes it is as if he thinks I "freeze"...FFS, I've not crashed his car have I?
He is so boring too...I shift down, or hang onto a gear a bit longer than necessary to hear that glorious engine note and all he does is moan about his MPG!
He is so boring too...I shift down, or hang onto a gear a bit longer than necessary to hear that glorious engine note and all he does is moan about his MPG!
in all fairness to the OP, i probably wouldn't let the mrs drive it...why can't she just use her own car? a lot of women don't understand all this "caring for a car" stuff, like letting engine heat up etc etc. it's a £65k+ car when new with options so if she thinks you're being silly....it's a lot of bloody money!!!!
leave the M5 for the man of the house i say
I used to let my sister drive my e39 M5 when she was on the insurance for it with out any trouble at all.
The funny bit was me showing her which button did what then her showing me what didn't work in her car which was pretty much everything.
I only got the keys back by telling her how much it cost to fill up.
The funny bit was me showing her which button did what then her showing me what didn't work in her car which was pretty much everything.
I only got the keys back by telling her how much it cost to fill up.
Right Mrs Jazzer here! Firstly Mr Jazzer has always stated that I am a good driver (by anybody's standards!) He got annoyed today because I changed up from 5th to 6th at 60mph (speed limit on this road - not that he knows anything about limits as he has 9 points!) as I thought I should cruise at this speed as cars in front of me (you know try to increase the mpg from 16mpg to something a little higher...
Next on approaching a traffic jam, he suggested I pull into the restaurant car park and he'll do the rest...fine! so I did and I pulled into a space rather than going all round the car park as he expected me to do - ESP is not my strong point...driving is! He went on about this incident for the next 3 hours and got me into such a state that anyone would think I had crashed the car. Yet the quote of the day is "I wont shout if you cash it!" I have taken an "excellence driving course" in my old type R and did "extremely well." Even when I was stopped for speeding on a motorway, the very nice policeman let me off AND complimented me on my driving! So......I should drive his car....
Next on approaching a traffic jam, he suggested I pull into the restaurant car park and he'll do the rest...fine! so I did and I pulled into a space rather than going all round the car park as he expected me to do - ESP is not my strong point...driving is! He went on about this incident for the next 3 hours and got me into such a state that anyone would think I had crashed the car. Yet the quote of the day is "I wont shout if you cash it!" I have taken an "excellence driving course" in my old type R and did "extremely well." Even when I was stopped for speeding on a motorway, the very nice policeman let me off AND complimented me on my driving! So......I should drive his car....
Forgot to say....she was clocked at 101 mph on the M6 in her shiny, red CTR and what was the outcome????......"you took the apex of the bend beautifully"....."mind how you go!".....makes me pig sick.....here's me, a great driver, on 9 points, for driving a little fast on STRAIGHT, EMPTY SECTIONS OF ROAD IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE......good policing IMHO.....and the b
h is really quite a good driver!!
h is really quite a good driver!!Jazzer said:
Well, would you?
I let her drive mine today and it almost came to blows.....she says she gets nervous with me there, but I can't help being anxious.....she's a decent driver (by female standards), but I just don't trust her.....she seems to freeze and lose the ability think when the pressure is on.....very worrying. And what annoys me more than anything is her random gear changes.....you know.....cruising along at constant speed, then for no apparent reason, a shift up or down.....or accelerating in third, but hanging on and not changing up...as if she cannot understand the relationship between the engine sound/feel and the need for a gear change.....she just cannot understand this....aaaaaaaaagh!!
She has a CTR (FN2), with 19" rage alloys.....she kerbs them, but denies all knowledge of what happened and when it happened.....makes my blood boil....£50 a pop for a good job to fix them, although being diamond cut, the best work is less than perfect.
So.....should I calm down and let her go for a drive on her own or just politely request that she drives only her own car (unless of course I get hammered and need a driver!!)
Jazzer
I let her drive mine today and it almost came to blows.....she says she gets nervous with me there, but I can't help being anxious.....she's a decent driver (by female standards), but I just don't trust her.....she seems to freeze and lose the ability think when the pressure is on.....very worrying. And what annoys me more than anything is her random gear changes.....you know.....cruising along at constant speed, then for no apparent reason, a shift up or down.....or accelerating in third, but hanging on and not changing up...as if she cannot understand the relationship between the engine sound/feel and the need for a gear change.....she just cannot understand this....aaaaaaaaagh!!
She has a CTR (FN2), with 19" rage alloys.....she kerbs them, but denies all knowledge of what happened and when it happened.....makes my blood boil....£50 a pop for a good job to fix them, although being diamond cut, the best work is less than perfect.
So.....should I calm down and let her go for a drive on her own or just politely request that she drives only her own car (unless of course I get hammered and need a driver!!)
Jazzer
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