MolaKule
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How to Keep your kids from borrowing your car
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Build in a old radio that is tuned to a radio station that sends Music your kids really hate 24/7.
Turn the volume to "Loud". Secure the buttons and knobs of the radio with superglue.
Build in a old radio that is tuned to a radio station that sends Music your kids really hate 24/7.
Turn the volume to "Loud". Secure the buttons and knobs of the radio with superglue.
I'm not so sure. Judging by some girls I've seen, based on their hair color and tattoos, they would go for something like that. The more outrageous, the better.
That may be a great theft deterrent as well. Although the perpetrator may vomit down the side of the vehicle once they've approached it.
And you may even qulify for an extra 10% discount on insurance by making the vehicle unapproachable. It would be like Kryptonite to Superman.
And you may even qulify for an extra 10% discount on insurance by making the vehicle unapproachable. It would be like Kryptonite to Superman.
I used to put a small pebble on the top of each tire, on the rare occasion leave our teens alone for a day or two. When we'd get home, I'd inspect to see if each piece was still there..... Yup, the convertible was definitely being used, strangely the Sequoia never was. I resorted to popping the hood and pulling the fuel pump relay out of the convertible before we'd leave, they could use the Toyota if they really needed to. Never thought of gaudy seat covers. Probably wouldn't have deterred them anyway.
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^^BEST answer right there haha!
A coworker was bothered by her boys taking her car randomly.
She put Tinker Bell Letroset cutouts on the D pillar and they left it alone.
I like the seat covers.....Move over camo!
She put Tinker Bell Letroset cutouts on the D pillar and they left it alone.
I like the seat covers.....Move over camo!
Like pulling a relay, there are a 1001 ways to disable a car that takes seconds to do and undo. One of which is taking the keys with you.
My daughters all I had to do was pull a battery cable...and I had to literally do that with one of them. With my son I will have to get more inventive if the need arises in a couple years.
My daughters all I had to do was pull a battery cable...and I had to literally do that with one of them. With my son I will have to get more inventive if the need arises in a couple years.
I told my kids I banged their Mom in the front seat.
Same thing I do when I leave my car at the airport or at a hotel on the road. Fuel pump & starter fuse / relay go in my bag.
In case the kids followed you to the airport (in the trunk perhaps)?
My parents loved letting me borrow their cars when I was 16.
Usually it meant:
1. I could pick up my younger siblings from school/sports
2. I could go grocery shopping/run errands for them
3. I could fill their cars with gas for them
4. They wouldn't have to bring me to work
I'm also a careful driver though. My sister, not so much.
According to legend, Ron Howard named his kids after where they were conceived. Most have names of cities, save Reed. He didn't think Volvo made for a good name.
Bill Crosby was telling the story of a boy that showed up to pick up his daughter for a date on Johnny Carson's show. The boy showed up in custom van and Bill knew what was going to happen on the date. Bill insisted the boy to take his Mercedes SL and leave the van at the house. He explained to Johnny that he and the wife tried to have sex in that car and was pretty much impossible because to was so small. There has to be a YouTube video of this exchange.
A friend of mine had three sons and when they were all of driving age they had a very specific "pecking order" about which one could borrow Dad's car, which one could borrow Mom's car and which one had to ride their bike. Mom's car was a VW New Beetle; yellow with the fake plastic "eyelashes" on the headlights and large flower decals on the hood... None of the kids EVER wanted to drive it!
