Just stumbled on this post and I have to laugh. Here's my little "wife" story...
Second day I had the car and I must have had a brain freeze 'cuz I said "hey babe, wanna' try it?". She says sure and jumps in. Now, our other car (a Honda CRV), was parked about 10 feet behind and she had to backup before pulling out. I watched in slow horror as she backed up and boof, she pooched the CRV. She had only driven the G ten feet and had an accident. She was only doing 5 Km/h (Canadian !) when she hit but we have front plates on our cars and the bolt from the CRV went right into the rear bumper. I actually managed to smile and kissed her - but if it had of been anyone else....
I have since given her all the proper instructions (where to park in a lot, how to park it, avoid curbs, stay in the shade, watch the throttle, etc, etc) and she now puts the G in the furthest corner of the lot, angled. No other damage other than a couple of small curb scrapes. Saved our marriage I think... :-)

Haha. I can't believe you resurrected this Thread after almost 2 years! Well, the only story I have was when I just bought my 6MT Coupe, a co-worker of mine said "Can I drive it Please?"...I said sure. Well, she was actually pretty good with the car but I felt like she was going to rattle the fillings out of my teeth b/c she jerked the car so much (Gas, brake, Gas, brake) and then she stalled the car at the light. She said sorry and we headed back and that's about it. Truth be told, I stalled the car once too when I first got it too (I haven't driven a stick for about 1 year).

way to raise the dead... i should throw in my story too.

the day i picked up my car, the GF and i were driving around... putting the miles on. well... later at night I decided to let her have a go at it. so she gets in, and starts driving. well guess what... we see ahead that there's a fire engine making a turn onto our street... going in the opposite direction... but straight for us. she panics and just stops dead in the fire engine's tracks while i'm telling her pull to the right... TO THE RIGHT! well... she does eventually... but after being honked at by the engine 2 times. after that... she's scared to drive the car. she doesn't even ask if she can drive it anymore. she doesn't want the responsibility.

I remember when this was first posted . Can't beleive you went so far back. I was about to give you crap for bringing an old topic back up, but since you contributed, I won't .

But you do realize you could've just start a new thread... right?

any bit*hes taking my G without my permission is getting DTBed

This is a great post!!

It's funny you mentioned this. I actually own a Maxima and I'll be picking up the G coupe next year. To make a long story short, I let my girlfriend at the time drive my Max. She gets in 'Wow, 5 speed, feel that pickup, let's see what this can do..'. Coming from a Carolla this was a treat for her. I could smeel the ticket coming on and sure enough she got caught for doing 135 kilometers in a 100 kilometer zone. As she was pulling over I told her 'Honey, whatever you do DON'T ARGUE with the officer. Sure enough, out came the EGO and then her ticket shortly after. Anyway, it was her ticket and that was that.

I have to admit, I was hesitant about her driving my Maxima but I like to be the one driving almost ALWAYS. This is just me and it doesn't matter who is driving the car, I feel better being the one driving period. There's no gender issue here for me.

However, I thought she followed too close and braked too late (a bad combination in my opinion). Also, I had to warn her on enough occasions that the lane she was entering had a car in it. She even hit someone in another lane(Not im my Maxima THANK GOD)and tried to deny it to the lady she hit and was angry because I didn't want to back up her story(KARMA/INTEGRITY). I stayed neutral, didn't add anything or say anything against her. She said she didn't feel anything. Well to make a long story short, we're not together anymore. There were some trust/accuracy issues involved.

Bottom line, it's all about trust. If you can't trust your partner to drive your car I would hate to see how you feel after you have kids!!! After all 'She' will be driving them around at times right?

I think there are basic rules when loaning/borrowing/using someone else's stuff. If someone want's to use your stuff, they should know how to treat it. If they don't know, let them know and if they agree to that and treat your stuff properly there really shouldn't be an issue. I would recommend with starting out with smaller things first, heheheh.

The other thing to mention is that we all make mistakes. C'mon guys, how many times have we made little errors and done something maybe not so pleasant with our cars? That's why the call it an ACCIDENT. It wasn't planned!!! With high performance cars, I believe EVEYONE should go through advanced training. I've heard in Germany they give you training when you buy an exotic or high performance vehicle. It just makes sense.

My final thoughts on this...Aren't you glad that your partner is driving a safe car if she's driving your G? After all what is more important, the car or the safety of the people in it?

RJG35

Can't believe that I missed this awesome post...

My story. The wife calls me early one morning while I'm at work and tells me that her SUV has a flat tire. I head home from work (45 minute drive) and go to help her out. She immediately asks me if she can drive the G to work because she "an important meeting that (she) just can't miss" so I attempt to quickly replace the flat with a full size spare ignoring her completely. Just my luck, the Toyota people put the tires on with an impact gun and torqued the lugs down to a gazillion foot pounds. Here I am with no breaker bar, a 2" slice in the tire that just won't hold air and the wife going on and on and on and on and on and on and on... about having this "important meeting". What do I do? That's right, I cave in and throw her the keys to the G. I make sure she agrees to ONLY park the G in a specific lot, in the far back, away from curbs, to watch out for pot holes, (the whole 9 yards) and she agrees to all of the rules.

Next day: I head to lunch with a couple of buddies and as I'm approaching the car I notice what appeared to be a snake skin hanging from beneath my front bumper. I hesitantly lean down to pull off the skin and I realized that the wife backed over a curb and peeled off my paint and clear bra from beneath my bumper. I got really pissed because I know she had to feel this when it happened and decided not to tell me about it.

I went home and asked her if there was anything she wanted to tell me about 'the ultimate driving experience' she had enjoyed the day before. I got nothing. Then I mentioned the bumper seemed to be hanging rather low on the passenger side (little lie ) and asked her what she had done. She immediately replied that it was fine because she checked it when she hit the curb. BUSTED!!! Realizing that it was just a car and I was married to this person, we had 'a talk' and all was well.

To this day she is not allowed to drive the G. Just yesterday the SUV battery died. I told her that I'd either get her a new battery that afternoon or she'd have to stay home from work on Monday and I'd take care of things for her then. As we were figuring out how to get a jump, she mentioned that she needed to get to work tomorrow really bad. I just said "well we'd better get a new battery today because..." (long pause)

the wife: "I know, because I'm not driving your car". I smiled and proceeded to the nearest SEARS service center, dropped $135 for a new battery and all is well!

Hey bro... one word
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Hah. It's funny how you guys feel about your wives/gfs driving your cars. I do agree it's all about trust. If a guy doesn't let me drive his car, I simply wouldn't date him, and the built in security device called 6MT doesn't work with me I have to admit, I've never had a problem with a guy letting me drive his car. In most cases they offer me to drive it themselves (way to impress a girl ). But I take great care of my cars so I guess it makes sense.

The main problem with this car is that its low to the ground and its got low profile tires. Not to mention its got a lot of power. Anyone driving this who's not used to this type of car can screw up pretty easily. IE many curbs, parking stops, speed bumps that normal cars would be fine with this car will get damaged. My GF took my car I was on a business trip, and she only drove it a few miles to get something to eat, everything was OK, but I wasn't happy about it. I would say your GF shouldn't be driving the car until its broken in for sure, and then you will need to show her all the things that will screw the car up.

All about trust? What a bunch of krap! It's about ability, driving a car that is 3" off of the ground for the first time, driving a car that has 2x as much hp/tq than they've ever driven, etc... You can trust your spouse implicitly yet that doesn't mean he/she has the ability to drive your car w/o damaging it.

haha ... gots to agree with neff on this one. coming from a place where all the girls i know either drive a civic, focus, or bug, there is no way i could trust them with driving it without giving them the shpiel about the rules of "my road". i swear they laugh, but if they only knew what a cruel world los angeles's roads really are.

That's exactly what I meant by trusting somebody, i.e. trusting their driving abilities. It's a rather awkward situation when you refuse to let them drive your car and have to explain why. It helps if the person realizes how much car they can handle before they ask to drive it. Alas, it seems like women never do from all these posts. I personally wouldn't accept to drive a car that I'm not sure I can handle, and I did that a few months back when someone offered me to drive their Z06. Not only that, but you need to trust someone's ethics too. Someone can be a perfect driver with a 600hp supercar slammed to the ground, but if I can't trust that they'll take care of my car instead of taking it on a donut spree in some parking lot, I wouldn't let them drive it.

lol clinty i did the same thing bro, my girlfriend was like yeah yeah i'll drive and she kept stallin here and there so she started askin is it bad for the car i said of course and she was like nevermind i don't wanna break it, since then she never drove it lol. i keep tellin her she just needs more practice but she was like no its ok she prefers to dirve my 4runner around cause its "a big car and you can see everything, your g35 is a toy. " loll i'm like damn right big boy toy lol