please read.not new but new driver due to totaled car.

[james828]

i dont really know where else to post this sorry if it bothers you fellow eaglers, but its a story to tell. my sister called me sunday she said she was stuck some where on i-25. so i got my dad and he got his ram 3500 and we set off. we found her about 45 min later and turns out there is a hole in her engine block "she drives a subaru legacy 1996" so my dad gets out his tow cables and hooks everything up. luckly her boyfriend was there to drive her car while she drove his. she parked at the bottom of the ditch and so it was interesting seeing the power the truck had to get itself and my sisters car out of there fast enough to merge with traffic. we were home and we parked her car, i was smiling because it was funny till i heard these words exit my fathers mouth "well looks like she is driving your car" he ment my beautiful eagle named ellie. so now im nervous as heck everytime she drives my car because she doesnt take the time to get to know her. ellie gets moody sometimes but my sister doesnt listen to her. im very afraid to lose my eagle.

[shanebo]

My wife has all of a sudden started to hint at driving my SX4....and like you I am very usettled by the idea. These cars are too old to handle alot of hard driving. They go forever if you baby them but  old parts are easily broken with hard use.

[DaemonForce]

If that's the case I'd cut the battery cable. No kidding. I've sometimes thought about letting others drive my car but anyone that drives off into the ditch....Yeah-no.

[james828]

ya so now i get to teach her everything about my car. how to unlock it "the lock is broken so you need to line it up, with no rushing" and she is not patient she thinks "its cold out side so i want to get moving fast" so she turns the key starts it and right away puts it in reverse and hit the gas. i heard ellie make the worst noise i ever had in my months of driving her. almost had a heart attack. is everyone as nervous as me to let others drive their eagles?

[vangremlin]

No one else has driven my Eagle since my son piloted it off the UHaul trailer while my friend and I pushed, when we brought it home in May 2008.

[maddog]

i for one don't let nobody drive my eagles for simple fact that most people don't respect them like they should.

[DaemonForce]

i for one don't let nobody drive my eagles for simple fact that most people don't respect them like they should.

I think that's the best way to say it without being mean. Most people treat these cars like they're trying to destroy them. I'm sort of guilty of this whenever mine hard stalls. The real issue is that most people aren't going to respect a car unless it's built right. I have only seen one completely stock Eagle that functions the way it should. The rest usually need a complete overhaul no matter how pretty it is on the outside.

[recomer]

Wow! I thought I was the only one that feels like this about thier Eagle. Fortunately my wife and youngest daughter have no love for the car. But my oldest daughter likes it and tends to look at it like she does the newer cars we have. Thinking she can jsut hop in, start and run the out of it without paying any attention to the guages or anything else.

[Sunny]

If you bought it yourself, I'd tell them no way can she drive it.
If your parents paid for it, you are SOL.

[MudPuppy]

I normally don't let anyone drive any of my vehicles ever. Ever since my first cars. Point is no one will treat them the same as you or know their quirks either (quirks usually just apply to older cars though).
Plus I hate having to re-adjust everything (mirrors, seats, stereo, steering wheel, etc.).

And FYI - I am a girl. And not all of us drive bad 

[83Eagle!]

Let my buddy AJ borrow the eagle for a few weeks while we were waiting on parts for his BMW. Hhit a nissan in his parking lot. Rented the eagle's fender & cost me $2500 or so to fix the nissan. I don't even like my wife driving her car let alone mine. My Dad drove my Saturn twice and her messed it up both times. Dealership fixed the first time for free. Second time cost me $200.

[shanebo]

The majority of us are seasoned "old car opperators"...drivers that have never had the liberty of driving somthing that needs constant maintnance and monitoring of every fluid on a daily basis dont realize how fragile these things are. Thats why we see so many first time eagle or any other old car owners sell their car to the crusher with blown motors, transmissions etc. weeks after buying them. You cant get in an unrestored 25+ year old car and hammer it like its a 2012 Japanese performance tuner car....It takes a gentle touch to keep these things on the road.