to be paranoid about your car if your wife has been driving it for the last two weeks? In in school in Ok and wanted to take my motorcycle with me so I left my car with the wife and I took her minivan which has towing capabilities, but every night I'm wondering if she took a corner too close and nipped a rim or backed out of a steep driveway and scratched my Greddy. Oh boy I'm going home today

 

Its plenty normal.. I feel the same way about leaving my car in a parking lot, driveway, on the street..Hell I even worry about her in my garage sometimes haha..I'd say if it didnt worry you then that wouldnt be normal. I hope your wife understands how much trust it takes in a person to be able to not only let them drive your car but have total control over it for 2 weeks unsupervised lol.. Thats a big step even for an already married couple lol.

 

if you're a car guy it's normal to worry. if your wife is a bad driver it's normal to be terrified. from my experience, women typically (not all) do not have the same level of due care and attention when it comes to cars as a bonefide car guy does. and that's fine as long as they bash up their own car.

my fiance is pretty good, but even she will do things unconsciously that make me cringe (smacking purse against paint while getting in, etc). all you can do is all you can do, stuff is going to happen no matter what. that's life. it's hard not to be **** as a car guy, but you can only do so much.

chances are your wife will never tell you if something happened because she didn't notice it happening in the first place. you'll find out next time you hand wash your car.

 

I'm totally there. I'm about to turn my car over to my wife for 3 weeks while she drives it to Philly everyday to work on one of her major accounts. The sad part is that I've known for two months and I'm still not mentally prepared. A car is just a car to her but to me it's ... well you guys know. I think we need some kind of forum support group for these occasions.

 

Haha, so true. I worry about my car everytime I leave it in the parking lot at work or at a restaurant. Sometimes I think I'm overprotective of it because I even get mad at myself if I accidentally brush up against it with my leg on my way in from the garage. I've always been like that though. I'll never forget a week after I got my first car back from a fresh respray in high school and some d-bag decided it would be funny to write something in the dust on the hood. Definitely makes you want to punch somebody in the face.

 

The only problem I really worry about is her jewelry scratching the car when she gets into and out of the car, working the radio, etc. She is great at driving the car (and my truck) very well, and enjoys the speed of the G, My previous car (Aurora) was black, and the scratches around the door handle, trunk, etc. were not a good conversation piece. If your girl wears rings, etc. be careful. diamonds and other stones can scratch any car with ease - inside and out. She is very aware of this (now), but (comma) after shopping or going out they do forget to be carefull.

One more thing - women can be the most meticulus cleaners in their house but their cars can tend to be a garbage can. Before all you girls out their flame me, this has been my observation - girls with Audi A6's (my girl), BMW's, any car. To them it is - ehhh, it's a car.

 

I drove my wife's X today and I gotta tell you, it's like driving a garbage truck ... while sitting in the garbage! I know people can't really see in (except the d-bags in fords and dodge trucks) but it's still embarrassing. hg35x, your right on ... to them it's, well, a car.

 

Its just a car, been through that paranoid no one touch or look at my car phase.

+1 to your wife knowing how to drive manual. My gf likes to burn my clutch =(

 

I went through the paranoid "do not touch my car" phase about 25 years ago. What I am talking about is taking reasonable care with your car - not scratching the sh--t out of it with jewery, not making it a garbage can, washing, waxing it. You would not leave trash around your house (I hope), beat up the sheet rock on your house - why would you not reasonably take care of your second most expensive financial purchase - yep - just a car - but take care of it.

 

^ Thank you. For some folks without a house it's their most expensive financial purchase. Well I reunited with my car yesterday and it was dirty as hell outside (inside clean). It's been ****ty weather in TX all week. I don't have a problem with her keeping it clean, just curb rash and other scratches because she's too lazy to walk from a far parking spot at walmart. Well she has her van again and I have my G. back to oklahoma tomorrow