do you let your wife or girlfriend drive your baby

[simple]

Well?

[71GMC_3/4T]

My wife doesn't want to since it gets such "horrible" gas mileage... Okay by me.

 

Actually, she drove it the first 20 miles or so, with me following in my old truck on the day we bought it. Little did I know she was the one at the most risk since I had put the front plate off my old truck onto the back of the new truck. That's "improper display of license plate" which carries a much stiffer penalty than running with no plate at all. I didn't know, and luckily she didn't get caught!

 

She can drive it any time she wants to, but I have both keys and the only remote that works, heheh.

[Shawn T]

I kind of have no choice. We just relocated last May for my new job. Both of us just graduated college so we are just starting out. We have a 5 year old and a new born so the safety factor of the HD makes me feel at ease with her having it at home(she is a stay at home mom right now). I drive her car to work(98 Honda Accord). I have a 70 mile round trip commute so the 35 mpg is a plus. Also she may put at most 5 miles per day on my truck, and the other time it is setting in a garage. It works out for the best because I don't put miles on my truck, the fuel mileage is better, and the guy I ride to work with doesn't track the usual grime in everyday. I am due for a raise now so our next purchase will probably be an 03 or 04 used Tahoe/Yukon. That way my truck will just set nice and clean in the garage all of the time and she will still have a nice vehicle to "soccer mom" around in. In addition I can just run that Accord until it quits(those Hondas seem to run forever). But yeah, I had seperation anxiety at first. I have always driven a truck, so it was hard to start driving a car everyday.

[hcvone]

She can drive any of our cars, lucky for me she does not want to.

[asilverblazer]

What a selection she has.

 

In answer no.

[facn8me]

Who do you think wanted ours lifted and lookin mean. The same one who drives it all the time.

 

HER

 

Me

[REDZ-71]

That's why I lifted it...she hates geting in and especialy having to park the dam thing

[99silveradoz71]

That's "improper display of license plate" which carries a much stiffer penalty than running with no plate at all.  I didn't know, and luckily she didn't get caught!

 

 

 

 

 

I don't know where you're at, but in Ohio you can use your old plates for 30 days on a newly purchased vehicle as long as you've applied for a title transfer and both vehicles are going to be in your name.

 

"soccer mom"

 

 

 

 

 

I was thinking it, but you said it. At least she's safe and comfortable in the truck. Friend of my mother had her husband pass away recently and he had bought my Grandma's husband/boyfriend's Corolla that had low mileage. Well apparently she's going to sell it...if I had some extra $, somewhere to park another vehicle, and a newer truck, I'd be all over that for a work commuter.

[hvac1000]

I get to drive my Silverado when she lets me. LOL

[71GMC_3/4T]

That's "improper display of license plate" which carries a much stiffer penalty than running with no plate at all.  I didn't know, and luckily she didn't get caught!

 

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I don't know where you're at, but in Ohio you can use your old plates for 30 days on a newly purchased vehicle as long as you've applied for a title transfer and both vehicles are going to be in your name.

 

 

 

It don't work that way here in Colorady. I thought the same as you, but when I called the Sheriff's Office, they said . I was kind of pist since I bought my truck on New Years Eve and had to wait on the title for a couple weeks (bank lien). I had a bill of sale, had all the right words on it (another CO thing), and had it notarized, so I could at least get a temporary permit for it. It still had to sit in the driveway for a few days due to the New Years Eve holiday and the weekend.

[RyanbabZ71]

Funny story that happened recently

 

Moved down to Indy. I drive my impala to work. My gf had a job interview. Well she has her escort. My truck and the escort are in the garage. I get a phone call at work and she tells me I had to drive your truck (I almost had a heart attack). I was like why did you drive my truck. She said the escort wouldnt go into reverse (than I am thinking oh man the trans went out in the car). I get home and its a nice day (feb in the 40s) just filled the truck up the day before and I look at the gas gauge HALF EMPTY!!! Scratch my head and politely ask where did you go today. HMMM Lowes, walgreens, panera bread, 2 hospitals (interview and one for a drug test for work) and she mentioned she got lost a few times Then she starts telling me how she was driving through puddles I was like ok stop thats enough I would rather not hear what happened. Truck is still alive. We are still together I am not mad at her. At least she got the job!!! Oh yea the escort is fine to I had to use some force on the shifter Darn Fords

[Elwood 2000]

Red Z71, that is one SHARP ride!!

 

My wife rarely drives the truck. It is "a noisy redneck truck" in her words and prefers something else. When she does drive the Suburban though, I cringe. I am waiting for her to put the first door ding on it.

 

I will park in Mexico, away from everyone, taking as many parking spaces as I can and walk to where we are going. She will always end up with a spot two or three from the front door, slide in and get out, unaware of the 1976 two door Monte Carlo with more rust than paint and doors long enough to door ding BOTH sides of the Suburban while never moving!!

 

Frustrating at times, but it is hers as well, so she does get to drive once in a while!

[Wingnut]

....... just filled the truck up the day before and I look at the gas gauge HALF EMPTY!!!

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Pessimist

 

And the rest of your story...That's why we don't like for them to drive them. They get carried away with the puddles.

 

No way, no how does my g/f drive either of my trucks. She hits parked Suburbans (Hard to miss, right? Not for her.) in her Altima going 2 mph.

 

My last g/f had a full size ex-cab Silverado, but I still wouldn't let her drive mine.

 

I have trust issues.

[budhayes3]

Nope, not a chance. I let my wife drive it once just so she would leave me alone about it, but that's it. She still asks all of the time just to bust my chops, and says things like "well what if you were bleeding to death and had to go to the hospital and my car wouldn't start". I tell her "Dial 911...I don't want to get blood all over my seats...and you're not driving my truck!"

 

(I was originally gonna answer "I don't let my wife drive it, but my girlfriend does" )

[JimG]

The only person allowed to drive my truck (other than service techs) is my dad. There's no one else in my family who's allowed to touch it. I'm single right now - but the last girl I was with was smart and didn't even ask.

 

I'm actually just afraid they won't be able to handle the power, or the fact that the truck does NOT stop on a time. Heck, the GMC tech proved me right when they couldn't stop the truck fast enough and smashed my front bumper and air dam. So if the guys who work with them all day can't do it right ... I'm sure as heck not letting my family or next g/f near it.