Letting others drive your P and J

Letting others drive your P and J

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theironduke

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6,995 posts

187 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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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?

HustleRussell

24,602 posts

159 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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I let a mate I'd met two years previous drive my Caterham on a trackday. All went well and he has bought his own now! He was only 20 at the time so it took a little trust!

Jimbo.

3,942 posts

188 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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"If they bend it, they buy it" at best, else never. Just too much potential for problems...

Froomee

1,418 posts

168 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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Jimbo. said:
"If they bend it, they buy it" at best, else never. Just too much potential for problems...
+1

LCR265

1,222 posts

160 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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I've let my Mum and siblings drive my car, and can think of one friend that I would let drive it.

Vladimir

6,917 posts

157 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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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.

Ray Luxury-Yacht

8,910 posts

215 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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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 yikes

His neighbour reversed off her drive straight into the side of my car! yikes

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 biggrin

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.


Mastodon2

13,818 posts

164 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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I have a friend or two that I would trust to drive my car, generally too young to get the clause on their insurance to let them. Then again, I think it would be hard to envisage a scenario which would require one to drive my car even if insurance was permitting.

MrOrange

2,031 posts

252 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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I'm pretty cool letting my mates drive my cars and ride my bikes, I even lent my Elise to a mate for nearly a year when I was short of garage space. Like most, I suspect, there is always one that you'd not let near anything I own.

Pay it forward, that's my motto.

bga

8,134 posts

250 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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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).

Ray Luxury-Yacht

8,910 posts

215 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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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).
biggrin 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!

Fair enough I guess - I think your instrument becomes your baby and almost a part of you?!


Fire99

9,844 posts

228 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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Nope! biggrin

Jimmy No Hands

5,008 posts

155 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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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.

TOENHEEL

4,501 posts

226 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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More than happy to let my close mates. Drove my best pals CSL for the first time on track lol! Can't see the problem unless your friends with someone who's massively ham fisted and sticks cars in hedges reguarly!

CAPP0

19,533 posts

202 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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Big Boys' Rules generally.

However in the past I've lent cars out twice and been shafted twice.

I would only lend now to mates who I'm confident are good for the full market value - which is not very many! hehe

Ray Luxury-Yacht

8,910 posts

215 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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CAPP0 said:
However in the past I've lent cars out twice and been shafted twice.

Go on, please do tell!


whoami

13,151 posts

239 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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No.

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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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 nono

CAPP0

19,533 posts

202 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
CAPP0 said:
However in the past I've lent cars out twice and been shafted twice.

Go on, please do tell!
Pleading the 5th, sorry!

theironduke

Original Poster:

6,995 posts

187 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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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 nono
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!