Here are a few things friends have done that I am not too thrilled about:

- Yesterday we went to play ball and friend put his gym back on the
hood. The bag has plastic feet and today I found some streaks/
scratches on the hood.

- When I helped this gal move, she told me she didn't want a certain
item in her $15,000 car (Malibu) cuz it might damage the seats.
He insisted that I put it in my car

- When I first got the car I let a friend drive it and he revved it
to about 5,500 rpm and I told him 'Hey this is a standard, you have
to shift!'

- Sometimes you see people pulling up to a locale and guys/gals will
jump on the hood of the car. I am glad they haven't jumped on
mine cuz I know the imports have softer hoods, unlike the American
cars.

- People who don't shut the passenger door properly would do a hip
check to re-close the door. A no-no in my world.

- Some people have bad coordination. I see mud and dirt on the glove
box, door speaker panel, etc because when they get out of the car
they will accidentally kick these areas.

- The Max's trunk seems to be tight, and people tend to slam it.
OTOH, people often have to shut the doors twice.


That is just a short list.

 

yeah what's up will people slamming the trunk??
i had this buddy i would pick up to go golfing and i would pull up pop the trunk an d he puts his clubs in and slams the trunk lid.
he will see me shut it when i get my clubs out at the course and i just shut it easy. and this works. i think he also scratched the lid by the license plate with his clubs.

bottom line: people just don't respect OPP (other peoples property)

 

If they're gonna rev to see how powerful may max is, they're gonna have to get the okay from me... most of them are pretty good about.

As for placing stuff or sitting on my hood i'll definitely give them something to hear about...

I put more care into other people's car than mine.
The general rule of thumb should be that people should respect other people's car as much they respect their own just like a house. Why is it so hard to apply the "Golden Rule"...??

The only time I would care less about treating a car nicely is when I rent a car. Its sole purpose is to be used by none other than strangers.

 

Well its nice to know that I am not the only **** one about my car...

Heres one for ya:
I was at the drags a couple weeks ago, luckily I didnt bring my new max. I had my 88 T-bird turbo coupe with a g-GT-40 5.0 in it. Granted the paint isnt mint like the Max, but I try to take care of it so it stays nice. Anyway, I am sitting there in the car in line just chillin smoking a but, and I see a bunch of kids standing around the car behind me talking. Well I glance over in the rear view and see 2 of them leaning against the rear 1/4. So I am like ok a-holes... So I wait about 5 min to see if one of there other buddies says get off that car.. Nope... Now I start playing. I slowly press the clutch slightly enough to roll down the hill backward. Both kids jump really quick ans say WTF... They couldnt see if I was in the car cuz of the tint... 2mins later they are leaning again.. So this time I fire up my obnoxious car and scare the **** out of them, then stick my head out the window and ask if the mind... Needless to say they were all teenagers, and started apologizing all scared telling me my car was awesome,etc.. I reply with It would look better if young punk didnt lean against it.... You had to see there faces, funny as hell..

STEVE

 

 

Ya, it ****es me off when people do dumb stuff. I don't have the nicest car in the world, but I still take care of it.

I was helping my friend move a few weeks ago and he set a box on the roof and slide it off. The box had dirt or something on the bottom and scratched the clear coat. Then earlier his brother was puttin some clothes in my car that were on hangers. The hanger cought on the rubber door seal so he pushed it in the car harder and ripped the seal.

I've had someone sit on my hood which left a crease in it. I don't usually care if people eat in my car, but it ****es me off if they leave a mess. Empty cups under the seats, wrappers on the floor, and worst of all crumbs or pieces of food on the seats. Its gross.

What bugs me the most is when people start touching my car right after I finished washing or waxing it. I spend all this time cleaning it then I get people touching the windows and being dumb and putting their face against it. AAAHHHH.......

 

Yesterday i was driving with my girlfriend. I stopped at a gas station to fill and she wanted a snakc and drink. So after I bought it, I got in the car and was placing the drink in the cup holder when she decides to get something from the center console and knoucks the drink out of my hands. It spilled all over the shifter, the center console, and down the sides. I was so f***in mad.

 

a) I went to visit a friend of mine to show my Max. One of her friends had a portfolio (leather) and calmly placed it on my car.

Me: Almost had a conniption until he moved it. Friend thought I was being overly **** and I explained that I am that way because of all the work I put into keeping my car clean.


b) While my pastor and associate ministers were praying over my car, I noticed my pastor had her car keys in hand and they were pretty close to my hood.

Me: Praying she did not leave a scratch or dent on my hood. No scratch or dent: Prayer Answered.


c) I let one of my friends drive my 2k2 Max the day after I got it with me in the car. When he tried to park my car, I heard the sound of rim meeting curb. When I got out, I saw that the SOB curb-rashed my rim.

Me: Suppressed basic desire to open can of whoopass and mentioned that he owes me $200 (replacement rim).


d) I was exiting I-294 on my way to work one day when a Mustang GT (circa 1998) kicked up rocks on my car.

Me: He hogged 2 lanes but left me enough room to get past him. I shot past him to the point he had a expression on his face. When he tried to accelerate to catch me, he wound up hemming himself in a bunch of traffic and I my **** off.

 

All my friends including my girlfriend have complete respect for my Max. They have no choice, I talk about her all the time.

I do have this one friend though that can't seem to get it through his head that the trunk only needs a small amount of force to close. I took him to the mall and when we got home he walks to the trunk to get his stuff. Now he's done it before and I've already yelled at him about it but I think he has short term memory. I see the trunk raise up nice and easy then..BAM! the whole car shook and I was like "WTF is wrong with you man!?!" He has respect for my car because he sweats what I've done to her so far. Like I said he just has short term memory or is absent minded or something

 

Short term memory = smoking the wacky tobacky on the way to the mall..

 

 

 

if you think Max's trunk is hard to close (very easy in my opinion).. try the new camry... on my parent's car... I HAVE to slam it to shut it.. dunno why

 

a few friends and I were just drivin around and I decided to pull into a gas station because one of my friend needed the bathroom...I'm just parked there all by myself and than my friend tries to pull up next to me and hits the corner of my bumper scratching it....after he hit the side of my bumper he just kept going thats how it got scratched...

 

i HATE it when people dont have respect for my car. leaning on the car ****es me off. a have this one friend who slams my trunk so damn hard and the doors too. i tell him everytime to chill but he doesnt get it. another thing that people do alot is when they get in they scrape their shoe across the door sill and that plastic. i have the AE door sills and my passenger side one is the only one with scratches. grrr... i think i have one friend who actually knows hot to treat a vehicle. lol everyone else just doesnt get it.

 

No doubt. I get my car detailed at this place up the street from me and they have big glass windows to watch what's going on. Without fail, EVERY TIME the guy has to double close my doors. He never gets them to close all the way the first try. He closes doors all damn day on all kinds of cars, so ours must be tighter than the average car.

 

People just don't know how to close trunks.. everyone thinks the trunks are made like '79 Nova's or something... just set it down lightly and put a little bit of weight on it... didn't their mom's come into their rooms after slamming the door and say "We don't slam doors in this house!" Speaking of doors.. why is it so hard to understand that the door will close with minimal force? My drivers side door has no problems with a light shove, I wonder if the other doors do? I think not. The golden rule or fact of life is that no one will respect your property more than you will. I think its time to implement the automatic doors like on the new BMW 7-series.. just close it up to a certain point and the doors close themselves... although this might be unreasonable until the maxima starts costing 3 times what it does now. I'm glad someone started a thread to vent on this issue

 

yup,
1. everybody would SLAMMED the trunk after I told them not to do that for about million times
2. get dirt & other shiat on the door sill when enter/exit
3. put finger prints on windows (this one really ticks me off )

 

This is exactly why...

1. I don't let ANYBODY eat/drink in the car (my kids included!)
2. I drive at luchtime ONLY and ONLY IF necessary
3. If it is raining outside, THERE IS NO FRIGGIN' WAY I'M DRIVING at lunchtime
4. I don't help anybody move anymore unless he/she has rented a truck
5. NOBODY is allowed to mess with my car unless necessary (my wife included!)

I know, it is just a car but it is MY CAR! This is probably the only place on Earth where I rule and I do thing MY WAY!

 

ya my friends are all on cutoff, they dont' respect my car, well some of them. they want to drive it, tthey can't drive. they touch the paint and leave fingerprints after i just clenaed them and think it's funny. its not, just cus you drive a taurus don't hate me. esp now that my tranny is f-ed up no one is driving my car but a select few i KNOW can drive. girls are on cut off now, unless she's really hot

i eat in my car though and i let people if they are careful, no one smokes in my car, ever. and everyone slams the trunk.

 

the only sitation i have had was when a friend of mine smoked in my car and i hate smoking i told him to put it out he said whats wrong wit me he was lucky i had learned how to control my anger if not i would have parked my car then and there taken his cigarette and thrown it out of the window

 

FUGHET THE DUMBNESS....there's no eating in my max. Had to take someone's milkshake from them after we left the drive thru cuz they were tryin to sneak some sips. i don't play that. folks know they don't bring food in the ride unless it's wrapped up for real, noboby puts anything on it, and sure as hades doesn't touch my radio. Nobody even sits in the driver's seat.

 

Man I thought I was rough, can't even sneak sips?

 

You can never expect anyone to treat your car like you would like. You have to park way out and put yourself between objects and your car. If you care you will win the battle.

Having said that I just dropped a rake on the hood of the Vette and it was a $600 mistake.
At least I know the bastard!

 

Our trunk closes when you drop it like 2 cm from the damn hinges.... (Maybe it's the spoiler), but it closes EASSY... Unlike the Taurus which needs a good hard slam to close...

 

Doesn't really matter what car you drive, or how much it cost, or anything. If you love your car and want to keep it clean, peeps need to respect that. If not, they're walkin'...

 

Yeah, I don't stop people from eating in the car, nor drinking and so far no incidents. Smoking is a no no. Muddy shoes are annoying. I normally park away from other cars unless it's parallel parking, or if I have ladies with me. That's the price to pay I guess, to be kind to the gals :-)

 

I would say "sorry we have to leave them behind, cause my car costs almost 2x more than yours. And I too love my car."

 

you know this....no sips. let my friend drink gatorade in my ride 2 yesterday cuz she wasn't feeling too good and what happened? SHE SPILLED IT. It was all on her shirt, but it's still the same....she spilled it in my ride. Muddy shoes suck. Any of y'all know how to get those black scuff marks/blemishes from around the door from where folks kick the vinyl when they get in? That, my friends, is quite hideous.

 

i dont know about u guys but i hate when people are always rollin up and down the windows and touching the a/c and heat. they always ***** about how its too hot or too cold and think they can just turn on the ac and mess with the windows whenever they feel like it.

 

yo sick here's what you do....next time they try that okeydoke stuff...touchin the radio, adjustin the a/c slap that hand. Slap the **** out of it. bet they won't do it again. i've caught a few hands in my day. when folks get in my ride, they know that it's MY ride.

 

Umm...yes and no.

1. One time my college class had a field trip and a couple kids piled in my car. When we got there, the one dude put his books and notebook on my trunk. Instead of lifting them off.....he dragged them...I could see the clear coat scratches forming.

2. 3rd gens don't have folding rear seats, but we do have an armrest that folds down. It looks like someone put there elbow really hard into the place where the armrest goes when up, because the cardboard backing behind the seats mysteriously is all pushed in.

3. I've had stuff thrown at my car(by friends), one thing broken off, and a Land Crusier(friend) who's 5th spare underbody wheel decided to rub some nice paint off my front bumper(no offer to pay for it of course).

4. EVERYONE slams the trunk.....from the dorks at the airport checkpoint to friends.

5. EVERYONE slams the doors. I say "Its japanese....just a light push and they shut"

I can think of more, but I'll stop.

Mike S.

 

the one thing that pis*es me off more than anything, makes me want to just strangle someone is when some jerk says this:

"what are you gettin so **** about man, its just a car!

 

yeah i definitely feel the jumpin on the hood thing...a friend of mine who weighs probably about 270 jumped on mine and theres a couple of dents that I can do nothing about oh well...

 

I know exactly how you feel... my girlfriend says that to me all the time. She says "you care me about your car than you do me." It's not even that. I see it as an investment that I want to keep for a long while. It's going to be mine for a long time, so naturally I want to keep it in as good of a condition I can. She even got mad at me when we were cleaning her black 00 Prelude. She doesn't take care of that thing. Paint scratches and swirls everywhere, easily seen on a black car. While we were washing it, I kept saying "Look at this... Oh my gosh... Look here..." She got annoyed and took it the wrong way. She thinks that I think my car is better(it is though), but I'm not the type of person to brag. Bottom line: It's MY car!!

 

Things not allowed in my MAX :
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..always allowed !

 

Yo...get this. So my friend that i let drink red gatorade in my max and spilled it on herself....found red spots on my seat. Ain't that a blip?

Again, any of y'all know how to the the marks from off the door from where folks scrape their feet gettin in? they're quite ugly.

 

My friends respects my ride, but it's thoughs neighbors, you know the ones who like to put dents in your car, that's what makes me upset!!!

 

After my *****ing about slamming the trunk they have stopped slamming the doors and trunklid