how do the parentals react towards your car?

niko · 20-05-2006, 06:52 PM

always get comments on exhaust, "to noisy", especially when i 1st got it put on my ea.

when i got my 5speed ea happening, dad said, im not buying you tyres, (he never has !!!) ehhe

recently though, my favourite comment was when mum took my car to work as her's did a water pump. well she "loved the noise, the power and the smoothness"

and received congratulations on the new toy

this is just after i got it converted to manaul she wasnt to happy but then she changed her tone after i told her its 2k for an auto rebuild :P

MotherNatureVer2 · 20-05-2006, 06:57 PM

Im often told mines not loud enough .......... Dad is a hoon still at the age of 65 ........ Keeps on telling me his zorst is better than mine ..... which it is :(

Cant wait till the EA is done ...... then mine will be better ...... or even better whe nI get my next Sprint ...... Damn he loved that car ........... THEN I will have a better one than him

JUZXR8 · 20-05-2006, 06:58 PM

yeah samer here with the exhaust from mum....dad loves it tho, tells me it should be a crapload louder and so low to the ground ur takin out ants on the road...lol

Grechie · 20-05-2006, 07:00 PM

my dad loves the growl of my exhuast, n calls it a mean b11tch lol, mum doesnt seem to see the logic in a exhuast , n just asks, why do you want your car loud its annoying on the highway isnt it, ...

Falcon Freak · 20-05-2006, 07:01 PM

What is 'parentals'???

FF

XRated · 20-05-2006, 07:03 PM

My family always tells me to leave it alone because I end up breaking things. They still don't understand why I converted to manual and still laugh about it.

Although my brothers have commented on how nice my wheels are

niko · 20-05-2006, 07:03 PM

most eseries owners are at the age, were theres a high percentage living at home still

niko · 20-05-2006, 07:05 PM

on another note, dad didnt give a stuff when me and my brother converted to manual, he has a factory xe 5speed himself, he taught us manual at an early age, and let us drive manuals all the time

needfordspeed · 20-05-2006, 07:14 PM

My mum doesn't want me spending any money on my car, my dad just thinks i'm a hoon, anything I've/do to it I get bagged out for it by my dad :P Funny stuff though.....He drove it once and just goes, "it's crap, make it stock again it'll be so much better" :gren:

Worst thing about the exhaust is that they always know what time I get home whenever I go out, I can never drive into my driveway without waking them up, I even turn the car off at the start of the driveway and let it roll, but it never works!

Sprint347 · 20-05-2006, 07:18 PM

they gave up a long long long time ago lol.

dad used you spew every time my sprint set off their EL GT's factory alarm every time i started it lol

Sprint347 · 20-05-2006, 07:20 PM

oh and mum *hates* my cars.. she's dreading the day the XD starts for the first time

dad loves my cars especially the sprint... but HATES the locked diff and the stupid loud exaust

two things i plan to fix in the near future

LUXO_8 · 20-05-2006, 07:28 PM

my folks used to be quite anal about me not modding my car but got over it cos i do stuff anyway.......

now they dont mind... (or perhaps dont realise just what "347 stroker" means...:P)

Sweet_EL_ · 20-05-2006, 07:31 PM

Well... my dad keeps telling that if it wasn't there from the factory it shouldn't there...
LOL

My parents hate the sound of my exhaust when I got it put on... Oh and when I got my car it was already lowered, my dad was asking my how much it would cost to put it back up to stock... LOL as if...

EB Pete · 20-05-2006, 07:56 PM

well 1st off me old man thinks i should lower it even more (super at the moment) cause he says i haven't stuffed up his drive way enough yet.

mum just keeps to herself cause there is 3 sons that do it and we will gang up on her.

then when me car blew up dad blamed it on the ride height! i started working on it in january and i'm still mucking around with the motor and gear box, so he just helps and dosen't say anything anymore, but keeps telling me his ZH 302 Fairlane is going to beat me.

Tiga_EL · 20-05-2006, 08:06 PM

Both my parents think im just wasting my money on my car.. Which i really know but dont want to think about lol. The exhaust is too loud.. The stereo has to be on no bass at all, coz apparently they feel sick with doof. And its too bumpy. I gave up listening to what they say when theyre in the car like a year ago

Gubas · 20-05-2006, 08:10 PM

"Dont spend your money on that BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH..............."

Blue Ice · 20-05-2006, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Gubas

"Dont spend your money on that BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH..............."

Now where have I heard that before... :rolleyes:

*rayman* · 20-05-2006, 08:20 PM

my dad said 'Thats the biggest motor i've ever seen' about the chev. And he's a truck driver, hahahaha.

My mum said 'i can't believe you wont go to the doctor and spend $20 on antibiotics, but you're happy to put $20 of fuel in the v8 every time it leaves the garage'

They should be used to it by now, i have had over 20 cars in the last 10 years, none of them stock.

HSVETAR · 21-05-2006, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Gubas

"Dont spend your money on that BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH..............."

Mmmmm... sounds familiar.... Mum hates anything to do with car modifying. In her eyes, the more stock a car is the better it is. Dad is a rev head so he loves it, but is ****ed i have a quicker car than him LOL :hihi: :hihi:

bad_mk1_escort · 20-05-2006, 08:17 PM

dad dont really car a bout my cars as he has as many and he thinks that my cars will never be faster thanks his but yeh he like both of my cars and help me work on them so yeh he dont care at all

Poetic Justice · 20-05-2006, 08:20 PM

parents love my car.

after all, their car is a typhoon so i dont think them calling me a hoon or anything would really be overly justifyable

70caprigt3k · 20-05-2006, 08:29 PM

Both my parents loved the capri but they werent to happy when i came home at 3 in the morning with that thing rumbling past their bedroom window so when i said that i wanted the sprint my mum didnt really mind as long as it was what i wanted and my dad had very low expectations (holden man *cringes*) but when i got it and dad drove it he fell in love with it and as a bonus i no longer wake them up if i come home late.

**Polyal** · 20-05-2006, 08:39 PM

Well my dad is a car guy so he said "good pickup"....mum said "not another one"...lol

Both have given up on telling me not to spend money on it...and if they knew the half of it they would freak, well mum anyway.

I tell ya guys, the best thing I did was move out of home, I had to cos uni was in Geelong, but I look back now and its been one of the best things Ive done. nothing wrong with home (hmm mums cooked meals), just CBF driving 2 hours everyday.

Only problem now is that rent, food etc etc eats into mod money!! ah!

volcom20 · 20-05-2006, 08:50 PM

Not much really, I've dragged my father and won (He's a veteran revhead, but gave up the fast cars years ago. He's a luxury man now, but still apreciates quarter mile times)

Mum keeps telling me to buy a 4 cyl for petty reasons, but I've told her 'In a little while, mine'll chew as much petrol as a standard 5liter".

Hrm, noone really cares wat I do :P I just cruise up whenever I want and leave whenever I want...

I need a job...................... :/

Dezza · 20-05-2006, 09:47 PM

Well, my parents aren't too worried at the moment because it's stock (besides the stereo). If I did spend some money on mods though, they wouldn't be happy though. They know I don't have much money so if I drove back to Gippsland with a nice set of 18"s and superlows all round, they would be majorly angry. After my big crash years ago, I think they are happy I am in such a safe car though.

Dezza · 12-01-2009, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Dezza!

Well, my parents aren't too worried at the moment because it's stock (besides the stereo). If I did spend some money on mods though, they wouldn't be happy though. They know I don't have much money so if I drove back to Gippsland with a nice set of 18"s and superlows all round, they would be majorly angry. After my big crash years ago, I think they are happy I am in such a safe car though.

Bahahaha. I love looking at my posts from 2.5 years ago. My parents hate it every time I spend money on the thing. Even though I don't have 18s or superlows, I've still gone a bit nuts with the car. To my parents, it's all about getting from A to B, pretty ironic since Dad's first car was an XA GT coupe.

ILLaViTaR · 13-01-2009, 03:08 AM

I'm surprised some hasn't said:

HOLY CRAP ITS A THREAD MINE STOP THE PRESSES.
OMG I CANT GET OVER THE FACT THAT PEOPLE RESURRECT THREADS I THINK I COULD JUST GO ON ABOUT IT ALL DAY.

On a more serious note my parents don't mind the mods themselves they just think you can stuff a car or it'll blow up if I keep modding it.

Then again my redback has 2 mufflers, they hated my mates thrashed single muffler NA haha.

donno · 20-05-2006, 10:44 PM

The olds love it because I don't spend all my money on beer instead. Mum nearly talks about it more then I do to the rellies and family friends. I've got extractors and 1 muffler and the old man reckons its not loud enough. He used to have a heavily worked mini (cam, head, bored out 200cc), with the exhaust being only a set of extractors, single 6" hotdog and a 3" 45deg dump. Possibly why he is half deaf nowdays.

**TUF_302** · 05-02-2009, 07:22 PM

My dads always saying, why does it need to be so fast, or why does it need to be that loud, which is hiperciritical of him since he owns a harley with aftermarket pipes and a race tuner lol!, i think he just likes to stir!

Damo · 20-05-2006, 11:30 PM

my parents are sik, my mum drives a fully sik/hektic VS and her mums Vl runs 10's. True story!

But nah they don't give a craP, i have an EB and a couple of dead motors in the garage and a heap of other junk and they are all good about it.

Damo