Made the mistake of letting my gf drive....

[method]

And now i have a bent rear bumper!!!

Its a nice chrome bumper, chrome in good condition but now it has a bend in it and a little ding. It's not real bad but any defects are pretty obvious in chrome. Im not quite sure if it can be fully bent out again.

Anyone know any good places to get this straightened out and looking new again? I tried eden electroplaters but they dont do repairs anymore.

Thanks guys.

[Sideros]

Mine drove my car into a fence and dented the front quater panel!

[3T-Rona]

ha come on who lets there g/f drive a car with semi hard to get/repair panels lol were u drinking in the passenger seat?

[Akane]

Last night the missus wanted to drive my car, so I let her, as soon as she stalled it I ripped up the handbrake and told her to get the F out of the driver's seat.

[Dell'Orto]

And now i have a bent rear bumper!!!

Its a nice chrome bumper, chrome in good condition but now it has a bend in it and a little ding. It's not real bad but any defects are pretty obvious in chrome. Im not quite sure if it can be fully bent out again.

Anyone know any good places to get this straightened out and looking new again? I tried eden electroplaters but they dont do repairs anymore.

Thanks guys.

Ask a panelshop that specialises in restoration, they'll be able to do it. Tends to be $&#$% spendy though, as you have to strip the chrome, then straighten it, then rechrome it As a rough idea, I was quoted $250 by a local electroplater to strip and redip a KE70 bumper, which are shorter than KE30 ones.

[RS13]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39qdhbkT ... re=related

[KinLoud]

I encourage guys to let their G/F, partner, wife to drive all the vehicles they own. Start off in controlled situations (car park, open road, etc.). This means that the first time they "have to" drive it because of emergency, situation, sober driver, etc. they won't make a mess of it!

Had a mate who loved his new 4wd twincab Hilux... went to a wedding with his wife, he gets horribly drunk, she stayed sober because she was pregnant.
She has to drive it for the first time... at night, raining, unfamiliar roads, with a carful of drunken mates yelling and screaming. then He gets mad at her when she would only drive at 60kph because she wasn't happy going faster!
We picked her up after she stopped and got out and told her husband to drive! He did and drove off! Next morning he said he "forgot she was with him"!

Also this article! She couldn't drive the boat as her husband always did it... nearly cost him his life!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=10549726
His wife was aboard and spotted him, and they yelled to each other, but she could not get the 4m aluminium craft to her husband before the currents separated them and she lost sight of him in the swell - then about 1.5m.

After searching unsuccessfully, Mrs Foden raised the alarm and asked the coastguard to help get the boat to shore, as her husband usually took the helm and she was inexperienced in sailing longer distances.

[snwtoy]

Mine completely $&#$% a mag on the kerb. Don't let your wives/gfs drive. End of story.

[Jazza]

Mine drives fine, yesterday i let her drive my civic which ive just finished as she needs more practise in a manual (her feet struggle to reach the peddles though) and she drives my curren comfortably... Shes never hit anything, and she even slows down for possoms to avoid ruining my bodykit

[Bling]

Kinloud, that boating story doesn't surprise me in the slightest

My parents used to have a boat and mum never used to drive it. Was silly really, seeing as if anything did go wrong they would be stuck. However in saying that, they always had a backup driver, be it me if I was there, or a friend that could operate the boat.

Not having the backup driver is madness. But proper madness is watching all the uneducated folk trying to get their boats onto their trailors at the ramp. Can often sit there with a beer and be greatly entertained as none of them have done any training at all on how to operate a boat. Scary! I've had to rush down and save many a helpless boaty Complete strangers (usually the wives) have given me the keys to their cars after seeing my back down a boat. I do feel sorry for them though, as the only time they do it is peak time, so the pressure is certainly on them to do it right the first time. Nothing like having 10 other impatient boaties trying to back down a 3 lane ramp.... you think road rage is bad.... you haven't encountered ramp rage

/offtopic

Back on to the girlfriends driving cars though, mine hasn't driven my car. Her car is basically the same thing though so there is no need to train her how to drive it. I do prefer my kit in one piece though, so she drivers hers I drive mine. Works fine

[Zeb]

Ex kerbed this

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/8348/dscf22612222.jpg

wasn't really bothered tbh


[oversized image turned into a link... BJ]

[frost]

And now i have a bent rear bumper!!!

Its a nice chrome bumper, chrome in good condition but now it has a bend in it and a little ding. It's not real bad but any defects are pretty obvious in chrome. Im not quite sure if it can be fully bent out again.

Anyone know any good places to get this straightened out and looking new again? I tried eden electroplaters but they dont do repairs anymore.

Thanks guys.

pics of it didnt happen sorry i just want to see some carnage.

[method]

Ok ill throw up some pics soon. She thinks she will pay for it but she still goes to uni so doubt she doesn't have any money

So no one have any places they would recommend??

[Jazza]

Onehunga Panel and Paint have a chroming place a few doors down from them, might pay to see if they have access to it? Theyve done some repair work + colour matching for me in the past and it was amazing. Price was good too, 1/2 of what 2-3 places in howick were charging

[Prymal]

seconded to the above - theres a mob in onehunga that specialises in chrome bumpers - they are in princess street just down from my repco ..

I can get a number tomorrow if you like on the way past

[Bling]

Ex kerbed this

IMAGE

wasn't really bothered tbh

Would be hard to notice get out the autosol

[Zeb]

Ex kerbed this

IMAGE

wasn't really bothered tbh

Would be hard to notice get out the autosol

Hey they still passed the 3 metre rule!

[~SlideWays~]

I encourage guys to let their G/F, partner, wife to drive all the vehicles they own. Start off in controlled situations (car park, open road, etc.). This means that the first time they "have to" drive it because of emergency, situation, sober driver, etc. they won't make a mess of it!

Had a mate who loved his new 4wd twincab Hilux... went to a wedding with his wife, he gets horribly drunk, she stayed sober because she was pregnant.
She has to drive it for the first time... at night, raining, unfamiliar roads, with a carful of drunken mates yelling and screaming. then He gets mad at her when she would only drive at 60kph because she wasn't happy going faster!
We picked her up after she stopped and got out and told her husband to drive! He did and drove off! Next morning he said he "forgot she was with him"!

Also this article! She couldn't drive the boat as her husband always did it... nearly cost him his life!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=10549726
His wife was aboard and spotted him, and they yelled to each other, but she could not get the 4m aluminium craft to her husband before the currents separated them and she lost sight of him in the swell - then about 1.5m.

After searching unsuccessfully, Mrs Foden raised the alarm and asked the coastguard to help get the boat to shore, as her husband usually took the helm and she was inexperienced in sailing longer distances.

I agree.

My gf has always said she's not a confident driver, so I taught her to drive my old super charged AE86, then my 200kw AE92, then the V6-tall-2.5tonne tank of a landcruiser offroad!

She enjoyed each one, but drove at her own pace. I'm sure it's helped with her confidence.


Just think about it guys, if you don't give them a chance how will they ever learn to be a good driver?

Next is to get her to do a grasskhana to learn what to do during a skid/slide/if she has to hand brake around cones in some road works.

[Miss_S]

I encourage guys to let their G/F, partner, wife to drive all the vehicles they own. Start off in controlled situations (car park, open road, etc.). This means that the first time they "have to" drive it because of emergency, situation, sober driver, etc. they won't make a mess of it!

Had a mate who loved his new 4wd twincab Hilux... went to a wedding with his wife, he gets horribly drunk, she stayed sober because she was pregnant.
She has to drive it for the first time... at night, raining, unfamiliar roads, with a carful of drunken mates yelling and screaming. then He gets mad at her when she would only drive at 60kph because she wasn't happy going faster!
We picked her up after she stopped and got out and told her husband to drive! He did and drove off! Next morning he said he "forgot she was with him"!

Also this article! She couldn't drive the boat as her husband always did it... nearly cost him his life!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=10549726
His wife was aboard and spotted him, and they yelled to each other, but she could not get the 4m aluminium craft to her husband before the currents separated them and she lost sight of him in the swell - then about 1.5m.

After searching unsuccessfully, Mrs Foden raised the alarm and asked the coastguard to help get the boat to shore, as her husband usually took the helm and she was inexperienced in sailing longer distances.

This!
I've always driven as many cars as I've been allowed, from my dad's big ass patrol to my brother's WRX etc. It's good to have experience in a range of sizes, and knowing how to drive a car (4x4, rwd or frontwd) is good too! If you drive it with her then you can "give her lessons" so that she doesn't hurt your baby.
I got "lessons" on how to drive my lowered S15 until my bf munched the front bumper in a carpark on one of the li'l cement barrier things. lol.

[cogent]

hows about this then, the girlfriend daily drives my RX7 and I get to sit stuck in traffic to/from town each day in a auto 318 BMW!