Who here does not drive your car as often as you want because you don't want to put the miles on it?

I catch my self doing this and it seens like a good Idea at the time and then your sitting at a redlight and a sports car pulls up to your daily driver and you wish you were in your FD.

What are some of the reasons you don't take your FD out ?

My biggest one is rain or hint of rain while I would be out driving.

 

I drive my car every day, rain or shine.

I love driving it.

I bought it to drive it.

It's all I drive.

 

Me too, djb. I see no reason not to drive the car when fact is I bought the car so I can drive it. Shame to all you garage queens!

 

I bought mine so I could drive the hell out of it! Screw the 'Cuda I had to sell to get it! That car was fun, but the gas mileage and driveability of that car was awful! I drive the FD as often as I can.

 

Well unfortunately my car is a garage queen, it is painful not to drive it all the time but I have gotten used to it. The main reason being that I drive around Los Angeles area to work etc. and the traffic here is nothing short of torture most of the time. I just can't bring myself to drive around my FD every day and sit in that sh*t traffic.. plus my Integra gets much better gas mileage and I can dump 87 in it without a problem. If my situation was different I would be driving it much more... I live for weekends.

Matt
93 SSM

 

...so do I..work, school, Houston, College Station...wherever I need to go. I mean it is a car...right??

 

i only drive mine on the weekends too.....i just don't like leaving it in any parking lots or where people might breathe on it.....

 

I also never drive my car to work. I work 12 hour days and my car must sit in the parking lot all day. I am afraid someone will see my car sitting there a few times and come by late at night and steal it or **** with it. When I used to drive it to work all the time, a couple of times I went outside and saw some people looking at it. This didn't bother me because we sit and talked about cars for awhile, but it reminded me that there are people out there that notice it and not everyone just wants to talk about cars.

 

I'm with you RX7FAN, but it's not that I don't drive it to keep the miles low. I drive my girlfriends car when I can because as much as I love my FD, I'm kind of paranoid that something will go wrong . It's kind of an annoying feeling because, like everyone else, I bought the car to drive it. Once I start my career I know I'll drive it every chance I get. But until I have that higher income I'll continue to take it easy.

 

I'm not so concerned about the miles, I guess I just like the car so much that I want to keep it around for a while, maybe so I can make my kid which I don't have yet do all kind of work for me and get good grades just in case he would want to ask to borrow it. I really think stop and go traffic is bad for a car but sometimes I have a ball sitting in my car at lights looking around at the other cars. When I'm driving the car I'm loving it. Don't want to take that feeling for granted and when I go straight from my p-up to the FD it's like culture shock, with less forward visibility.

 

Mine sits in my garage only because I don't want to commute in it, that just wastes the car when you can't really enjoy it going 20 mph. Since I have been in school she mainly just hangs out in her room at home. But come this summer, she will be driven alot.

 

Johnsrx7 - I agree with you. I don't like to subject my FD to the daily grind of a commute. (I use my GSL and Jeep Cherokee for that). I prefer to drive the FD when I can truly enjoy it without the stress and the aggravation of having to be somewhere. I still put on about 5-6k a year on it. I'll put on about 11-12k on my GSL and about 10k on the Cherokee yearly.

 

I also have a garage queen. And lately I haven't driven my car for ****, cause it's torn apart for a little upgrading. Anyway, there is some dumb *** in my town that is racing everyone, and saying the he can take anyone in the town, so I figure that when mine comes out....then he'll know. The funiest part is that the kid is rolling a Prelude.

 

 

i hate to say it, but mine is a garage queen, too she has probably seen less than 5k miles in the last 4-yrs. a few years back, i used to not drive her too much to try to keep the miles down, but now i just have a hard time trying to find time to drive her (new baby -- any married with children guys out there probably know what i mean ) now i drive her any chance i get (which isn't much ).

anytime i want to do something to the car (upgrade or maintenance), it'll take me no less than a couple of weeks of weekends & nights to get it done. i just went thru an install (amp, sub, power fc, push-start button) which took me almost 2 months!! i just got her running again, and now i need to change the plugs & wires, but if i'm gonna be pulling the throttle body off, then i might as well pull off the UIM and replace the rest of the rats nest. but she runs so well right now -- perfect boost pattern and oh so strong , that i'm probably just going to enjoy her thru the summer, and do all that in the fall when it gets cooler don't want to fix something that's not broke