What's your partners driving like?
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I've been enjoying the "what's your 'friend' been up to" thread and it got me thinking that my wife's exploits in our cars are just as ridiculous, and wondered if other people have partners who struggle a bit behind the wheel or do they treat your cars like their own pride and joy?
I'll start....
My wife still insists that she was only doing 20mph when she had a front tyre 'blow' which pulled her into one of those little kerbed islands. This ripped the front bump off, smashed an alloy, and ripped a hole in the chassis. Personally I think she just hit it and the 'blowout' was a result of her smashing the wheel.
Parked on the pavement to go to the chippy and when reversing off failed to see a lamp post. She then got wedged unable to move forward or backwards as it was stuck between a bent door and the front wing. So did she call for help, ask anybody for advice, no she just gave it some more welly and ripped herself free! I had to tie the door closed with a piece of rope that night.
For a period of 2 years sharing a car, I spent half of that in a courtesy Corsa!
She also reversed her car into the bay on the front of our old house and most recently she tried to cross a busy road, and pulled straight in front of a van. At least this time it was her own car she wrote off!
I'll start....
My wife still insists that she was only doing 20mph when she had a front tyre 'blow' which pulled her into one of those little kerbed islands. This ripped the front bump off, smashed an alloy, and ripped a hole in the chassis. Personally I think she just hit it and the 'blowout' was a result of her smashing the wheel.
Parked on the pavement to go to the chippy and when reversing off failed to see a lamp post. She then got wedged unable to move forward or backwards as it was stuck between a bent door and the front wing. So did she call for help, ask anybody for advice, no she just gave it some more welly and ripped herself free! I had to tie the door closed with a piece of rope that night.
For a period of 2 years sharing a car, I spent half of that in a courtesy Corsa!
She also reversed her car into the bay on the front of our old house and most recently she tried to cross a busy road, and pulled straight in front of a van. At least this time it was her own car she wrote off!
My wife likes holding the car on hills with the clutch, and its a heavy mpv. As I had it replaced not long ago due to wear, and then the thing broke leaving it stranded in Cornwall 300 miles from home you would have thought she would treat it with kid gloves. She came home in the car the other day complaining that my car smelt of something. That something was burnt clutch. Its funny, I explained, this never happens to me. Her retort was that there must be a problem with the car.
She also likes driving in 4th in my tdi at 3,000rmp for long distances which on a crappy old diesel sounds like you are revving the nuts off it.
She was advised by the Fiat dealer that she should leave her recirc button pressed, and when her car steams up she wonders why.
She also likes driving in 4th in my tdi at 3,000rmp for long distances which on a crappy old diesel sounds like you are revving the nuts off it.
She was advised by the Fiat dealer that she should leave her recirc button pressed, and when her car steams up she wonders why.
The missus managed to wedge her car (prev mine which I gave her) on a supermarket's trolley bay a few years ago, really upset her as her driving record was impeccable until then. She came home in absolute floods of tears and distraught - I honestly thought someone had died! Turned out she was just shocked and also worried that I'd be mad with her, nothing could be further from the truth! Bless her. Overall her driving is decent, but I find it slow and slightly hesitant, then again I am an impatient speedy so and so most of the time.
Truly awful. The other day she received an urgent call from her dad, a family issue. She jumped into her car, and reversed straight into the back of a stationary Golf GTi. Her excuse when I asked her what happened? "I didn't check my mirrors as I was panicking and in a rush." I chose not to pursue the matter any further. She also managed to bump my 147 twice in the three times she got behind the wheel, one of them into mum's car. 
antspants said:
I've been enjoying the "what's your 'friend' been up to" thread and it got me thinking that my wife's exploits in our cars are just as ridiculous, and wondered if other people have partners who struggle a bit behind the wheel or do they treat your cars like their own pride and joy?
I'll start....
My wife still insists that she was only doing 20mph when she had a front tyre 'blow' which pulled her into one of those little kerbed islands. This ripped the front bump off, smashed an alloy, and ripped a hole in the chassis. Personally I think she just hit it and the 'blowout' was a result of her smashing the wheel.
Parked on the pavement to go to the chippy and when reversing off failed to see a lamp post. She then got wedged unable to move forward or backwards as it was stuck between a bent door and the front wing. So did she call for help, ask anybody for advice, no she just gave it some more welly and ripped herself free! I had to tie the door closed with a piece of rope that night.
For a period of 2 years sharing a car, I spent half of that in a courtesy Corsa!
She also reversed her car into the bay on the front of our old house and most recently she tried to cross a busy road, and pulled straight in front of a van. At least this time it was her own car she wrote off!
fI'll start....
My wife still insists that she was only doing 20mph when she had a front tyre 'blow' which pulled her into one of those little kerbed islands. This ripped the front bump off, smashed an alloy, and ripped a hole in the chassis. Personally I think she just hit it and the 'blowout' was a result of her smashing the wheel.
Parked on the pavement to go to the chippy and when reversing off failed to see a lamp post. She then got wedged unable to move forward or backwards as it was stuck between a bent door and the front wing. So did she call for help, ask anybody for advice, no she just gave it some more welly and ripped herself free! I had to tie the door closed with a piece of rope that night.
For a period of 2 years sharing a car, I spent half of that in a courtesy Corsa!
She also reversed her car into the bay on the front of our old house and most recently she tried to cross a busy road, and pulled straight in front of a van. At least this time it was her own car she wrote off!
k me! What is your insurance premium like?Has no mechanical sympathy whatsoever. Has at least refrained from throwing the 'at least ive never hit anyone else' argument in after a low speed rear ender a couple of years back.
Although the incident that sticks in the mind was the night i was called out because, i quote 'the tyres gone flat, theres a bulge". Pressed a little further for clarification, none forthcoming, very tight-lipped, so jumped in my car and trundled off to find her. Luckily, she at least had the thought to pull into a side road from the busy one she was in at the time.
Found her, to be confronted by a front alloy wheel with the biggest buckle i have ever seen. The bloody thing looked like a half-moon. Anyway, things happen, so i asked her what she hit. "Nothing" came the inevitable reply. Taking a breath, i asked what happened. "It just went flat" she said, in a demenour that i believe the police refer to as 'a bit shifty'
Told her that i wasn't upset or angry ( i think she thought i'd be pissed off about it, she knows what im like about the cars but things happen ) i just was interested in what she hit, and that i wanted to go an check whatever she hit wasn't either now debris in the road or going to do the same to someone else.
"I didn't hit anything."
I dropped it at this point, more wanting to get it sorted and get home.
So, two years later, during a conversation comes the phrase "its like that kerb i hit that buckled the wheel".
Although the incident that sticks in the mind was the night i was called out because, i quote 'the tyres gone flat, theres a bulge". Pressed a little further for clarification, none forthcoming, very tight-lipped, so jumped in my car and trundled off to find her. Luckily, she at least had the thought to pull into a side road from the busy one she was in at the time.
Found her, to be confronted by a front alloy wheel with the biggest buckle i have ever seen. The bloody thing looked like a half-moon. Anyway, things happen, so i asked her what she hit. "Nothing" came the inevitable reply. Taking a breath, i asked what happened. "It just went flat" she said, in a demenour that i believe the police refer to as 'a bit shifty'
Told her that i wasn't upset or angry ( i think she thought i'd be pissed off about it, she knows what im like about the cars but things happen ) i just was interested in what she hit, and that i wanted to go an check whatever she hit wasn't either now debris in the road or going to do the same to someone else.
"I didn't hit anything."
I dropped it at this point, more wanting to get it sorted and get home.
So, two years later, during a conversation comes the phrase "its like that kerb i hit that buckled the wheel".
y2blade said:
it is very good
my other half is a better driver than most men I know
Same here. I trust mrs k implicitly when she's driving (honestly, she's really very good).my other half is a better driver than most men I know
A few years ago, on the way back from Italy, we stopped overnight in Verdun. She insisted she did the last leg to Calais as I said it wasn't that far. I misjudged the distance, and she (bless her) did a good Jackie Ickx Mulsanne Straight impression all the way to the port. At one point, having dozed off in the passenger seat, I briefly opened my eyes, glanced at the speedo (1.15 leptons), then fell asleep again.
We still missed the f
king ferry though.
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