How to Keep your kids from borrowing your car

[pghvolvo]

When I was in High School I had a 70 1/2 Z/28 with an automatic transmission. I lived close enough to school that I walked most days. I can't tell how many times I came home from school to see the garage door open and see my car gone. My mom would take my car instead of her Buick Electra 225.
My buddy had a 1969 bright orange Dodge Charger with a 440 6 pack and an automatic transmission. He had the same problem with his mom also borrowing his car.

Boy was my mom mad when I got my 1965 GTO Convertable and it had a 4 speed. She asked why I didn't get the car with an automatic transmission.

 

[Zee09]

When I was in High School I had a 70 1/2 Z/28 with an automatic transmission. I lived close enough to school that I walked most days. I can't tell how many times I came home from school to see the garage door open and see my car gone. My mom would take my car instead of her Buick Electra 225.
My buddy had a 1969 bright orange Dodge Charger with a 440 6 pack and an automatic transmission. He had the same problem with his mom also borrowing his car.

Same here as I always had new cars even as a teenager- I was working everywhere for the $$$.
My mom was so cool. She would come home and tell me how great my cars were and how others liked them too.
Always a kind word. And she took great care of them too.

 

[pghvolvo]

Same here as I always had new cars even as a teenager- I was working everywhere for the $$$.
My mom was so cool. She would come home and tell me how great my cars were and how others liked them too.
Always a kind word. And she took great care of them too.

 

[pghvolvo]

My cars were all used during HS and College.

 

[Astro14]

Third pedal. Also serves as anti-theft device.

 

[ecotourist]

Make them pay for the gas.

We made our daughter pay for half the gas. She was going to university and living at home - rent free. She had a small inheritance from her great grandparents and her only costs were tuition, books and spending money.

I was at university at the time too (graduate studies) and as soon as I got home with the car she took it and drove her friends all over, pretty much every evening. We used to say that car never cooled off. So we told her she could continue to use the car as much as she wanted but she had to pay for half the gas.

That was pretty much the end of it. The next thing was her "friends", who never contributed to her gas money, were called out for wanting her to drive everywhere and all the time. The "real friends" in that group are still her friends years later.

 

[Zee09]

We made our daughter pay for half the gas. She was going to university and living at home - rent free. She had a small inheritance from her great grandparents and her only costs were tuition, books and spending money.

I was at university at the time too (graduate studies) and as soon as I got home with the car she took it and drove her friends all over, pretty much every evening. We used to say that car never cooled off. So we told her she could continue to use the car as much as she wanted but she had to pay for half the gas.

That was pretty much the end of it. The next thing was her "friends", who never contributed to her gas money, were called out for wanting her to drive everywhere and all the time. The "real friends" in that group are still her friends years later.

A familiar tale indeed....

 

[ecotourist]

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Do they make covers for the back seat too? Those seat covers might add a bit of class to our Tesla.

 

[raaizin]

A manual would usually work

 

[Fabulous50s]

A manual would me want to take it even more! Oh to drive the parents cars again, no worries in the world back then....

 

[Jim K]

Use this to keep the kids from borrowing your car .

 

[tblt44]

Tell them NO