buy new sporty car I'm in love with

> buy new sporty car I'm in love with
> constantly worrying someone is touching it, scratching it, trying to break in
> parking lots raise my blood pressure

When does it end? Also would a dash cam be worth it? Radar detector?

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Always park far away, lad.
And eventually, some mongoloid fuck is going to open their door with all their might (as people do), and ding it.

Now you understand why Veeky Forums love shitboxes so much.

What car?

Hyundai Genesis?

Hopefully some guy backs into your bumper with a trailer ball hitch and then books it, like what happened to my one friend.

Even if you had a dashcam what would you do with the footage of some random faggot smashing your car?

3k civic

not even memeing

OP here

2017 Mustang

But you said sporty car

Hasn't gone away for me yet.
Definitely yes on the detector if you speed. Don't cheap out on it either, it'll pay for itself. Make sure it has GPS based false alert recording and in this day and age, look for one that filters false positives from manufacturer's BLIS/lane assist systems or you're going to beep every time you get behind or pass an Audi, Merc, or anything new.
Escort is my preferred maker.

if you ever wonder why you only have one friend, this is why.

Dashcams are always worth it, regardless of what car you have, user.

No it's because they are poor teenagers and early 20 college faggots who think they know everything.

post in on here and rage together

best peace of mind is probably full coverage

I'm everything you described PLUS I'm using mine as a daily driver. Seeing new rock chips always breaks my heart a little bit more but it is what it is user. Life will go on.

> meticulously maintain my car's paint to the point of obsession
> always either park far, park next to nice cars, or look into cars I park near for tells that it's a family car (avoid)
> still find rock chips from shit on the freeway when I detail, just found a light dent by my front wheel well
had the car for two years and I'm still fighting to protect it

Whats a radar detector?

Yes I always avoid family cars like vans and SUV with obvious family.

Truck guys won't slam their door into yours. They'll kill someone if they get a scratch.

Just don't park next to family cars and old cars and you're fine DESU.

Even old rich guys in Mercedes sometimes don't give a fuck and slam their door to other cars.

You have insurance so chill

>be me last week
>drop nearly 8k on a new whip without a scratch on a single panel
>park up at a supermarket with nothing next to me
>van parks up next to me, opens his door and hits my passenger side

>"sorry mate the hinge is broke on my door"

i'm pretty chill when it comes to anything driving related but fucking degenerates like that need to be culled

your best bet is to take a hammer and put a giant dent into one of the passenger doors.
then replace the back right mudflap with an aftermarket grey one.
if you really want to make sure no one touches it, either paint one of the doors or the bonnet black or replace them with a black one. if the car is already black, use grey instead. this will not only make sure no one steals your car, but no one will fuck with you on the road as well.

A device that detects radars

>not owning a mk4 fiesta with everything but the driver seat stripped that only paid £350 for that came with £1500 worth of upkeep on

Feels good.

>sporty car

It's shit.

Because you were a beta he got away with it.

Sent from my iShitbox

I have the same feeling that you do
>own a Craigslist '99 Integra LS
>only $2k
>still protect it like a $200k Ferrari
>clean it once a week, replace oil every 3k miles, detail all the fucking time
>get nervous when people eat in it
>park in the far far back of everywhere

Unfortunately, my car was not very lucky one day.
>park car in front of Publix
>only paint lines for parking spaces, none of those concrete blockers
>get my shit and come back out
>big fucking dent in front of car like someone smashed into the front
>actually tear up and get a little emotional, irritable for the rest of the week

Don't have enough money to pay for a body shop to replace the front end since I have no job at the moment. Still makes me a little mad when I see the front of it.

Fuck minivans/SUV's

Iktf br/o/, I found a dent in the drivers side behind the passengers door, went into an existential crisis.

I actually prefer the false alerts. I speed a lot, and with the false alerts it just keeps me checking my surroundings more often and keeps me in check.

If you daily a nice car prepared for people to ding your doors, scratch your paint, trucks kicking up rocks and pelting your car, dirt swarming you after someone changes lanes in front of you, etc etc.

Doesn't matter how careful you are it's gonna get fucked up. People just don't have respect. Your best bet is to get it in a bland silver color or in white so scratches and dents don't show up very well.

Or you daily a shitbox you don't care about and use the nice car for cruising.

I make twice the national average and I paid $1800 for my car and spent $400 fixing it. Shitboxes are the smarter choice because all you need is a seat, an engine, and wheels. All these "features" nowadays are worthless. I don't need Wi-Fi in my car.

bingo. and every major "feature" they sell you for thousands of dollars extra can be duplicated with 20 dollars OBD II electronics.

it will end when it finally gets dinged

honestly if this sort of stuff upsets you, you need to have 2 cars

one to get banged up to shit, and one that is never parked anywhere but your own private garage

were you trying to make a joke?
if so I don't get it

Pretty much this. I want to get a cheap coupe and make it into a tank for dd'ing

>I don't use something therefore it's worthless
>babby reductionist utilitarianism
I take it you only eat soylent, live in a tiny flat and never indulge in anything, right?

That's just like your opinion man.
Some people spend their money on fancy dinners, some people spend their money on fancy cars. I'm sure you've got hobbies you pour money into, which you otherwise could invest.

Yes, spend all your money on unnecessarily expensive frivolities. That's a good little consumerist goy. A big house, an expensive car, designer clothes, fine restaurants, these are the keys to happiness. Don't save or invest money, that's lame! Live paycheck to paycheck and stay in unending debt surrounded by worthless shit you don't need instead!

what about safety? automotive safety has made strides in the past decade or so

No points for richest man in the graveyard

I need that shit if it makes me giggle, and torque is fun

Nice digits
Just don't get hit

>you can either be a frugal hermit or an over-the-top consumer
>the world is black and white
How do you make that much money when you're 14 years old, fampai? Tell me your secrets.

>tfw you make good money but still have a poorfag mentality

this is me
i'm not ashamed

If your life is so empty that you can't find joy in anything that doesn't cost money, that's just depressing. I could live happily in a studio apartment eating spaghetti every night and riding a bike. Having a small house, a cheap shitbox, a stocked kitchen, and enough in savings to retire when I'm 40 makes it that much sweeter.
But at least you have your expensive sports car. I'm sure it'll make your commute to work fun when you're 68.

I'm a pretty frugal person, but now that the economy is starting to pick up, used car prices are through the floor.
Everybody is starting to trade in their old cars and buying a new one, so used cars, even 2015s and 16s are dirt cheap.

I drive a lot so I want something comfortable and powerful enough to cruise on the freeway with no problem.
If I get a house closer to work, though, it wouldn't be that big of a deal.

Smiles per gallon user

And not everyone wants to live the way you do. There is no one correct way to live.

Guess what, that's how wealthy people stay wealthy. It's retards who spend money because they can that end up poor

I try to park next to someone with a nicer car than mine.

But I do eat spaghetti almost every night, I love spaghetti. I also happen to love horsepower, I just buy a decent hp car in a shitbox state and fix it until it is fine, then I run it until something too expensive breaks. I'm not stupid to buy a new turbo every time my car eats one.

I envy you in a way. I used to be like you; denying myself pleasures, saving/investing every penny I earned. Then people died, young people close to me. They died out of nowhere and didn't have it coming. Made me realize that life could be over in an instant, at any time. It is actually okay to spend money on the things you enjoy, even if it might not be the most rational allocation of your money.

>doubles down on retarded black and white imagery
You can enjoy both the profound and the superficial materialistic things in life. Stop being an angry autistic babby.

wew these revelations. did you tell anyone else yet? keep it a secret for now, kiddo.

>I could
You could,as in you don't live as you describe you could because you spend too much making your point a lie or you live at home because poor, also making your point a lie.

Driving sports cars until I'm 68? Fuck yeah, sign me up!

Enjoy wasting the best part of your life. Hope you don't get hit by a bus tomorrow morning. (If you do, come back and tell us so we can laugh incessantly.)

even driving my car my blood pressure is through the roof

>potholes and traffic everywhere
>terrible speeding pakis everywhere
>oh
>GOD
>cant BREATHE

fuck idk op i'm paranoid as fuck too when i leave my car park especially with my neighbors all driving shitboxes and don't give a fuck
>mfw i see a teenager try to parallel park and he repeatedly bumps the car 4 times while parking
>bitch in her lifted ford explorer with those heavy chrome bumpers backs up and breaks some other car grills
>shithead little kids playing and riding bikes,scooters manages to scratch a car with the handlebars

>Got a 2006 Lexus LS430 from neighbor who is moving to Florida.
>It has about 30K miles on it
>Pristine condition. Always babied.
>Sold it to me for $4000 dollars (worth a hell of a lot more).
>Always careful of this car
>Park far away from others
>Come back from grocery shopping and someone had hit the rear side of my car
>Trunk now won't close
>Light on left rear side is smashed
>Tire marks leaving the scene
>I actually threw up.
>Started crying like my dog died. Had to take deep breaths
>Took me about 15 minutes to calm down so I could have a conversation. I was shaking.
>I had no idea that someone hitting and running and damaging my car would impact me that way.
>Car is in shop right now and even typing this out my hands are shaking.

What the fuck was that person doing? Texting a driving? Jealous that someone had a nice car and decided they had to smack into it? I hope they drive into a pot hole and a gas truck explodes right over them.

I now see why people drive shitboxes.

>drive a C6
>OCD worrying over my car if I can't see it
>go to movies
>park far away from everybody
>movie ends
>go back to my vette
>three other corvettes are now parked next to me
Things like this always bring a smile to my face.

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I'm planning on DD'ing a C5 with 90k miles on it for around $11k. How fucked am I assuming I do normal maintenance and replace the oil sending unit, headlight gears and don't be a retard?

>stupid college bitches put their hands on paint
>teenager kids literately hugging the car
>old people park next to you and don't watch it when opening door
>nowhere to park safely in the city
>can't follow cars on highway to avoid stone chips
>blood pressure rises when watching shop washes your car and hope the newbie used clean clothes

It feels like my gf, whom I always worry no BBC is cucking me in the back

I dd my c5z. You take care of those issues and desu you shouldn't be in that bad of shape. They aren't really that much more costly over your average shitbox except for tires, gas, and mods.
When/if you do the oil pressure sensor, relocate it. You will thank yourself later as they can randomly give out. Get brass headlight gears too, ensures the teeth won't wear down. The only maintenance I've done in the past year has been intake manifold gaskets, and while that was out the oil pressure sensor. And my fans, one of them gave up the ghost so I bought some nice spal fans.

>Make the mistake of buying a used sports car
>Repairs almost every week for the first two months of ownership
>Thousands of dollars in repairs and replacements (all relatively minor)
>Think it finally ends
>Have a little fun on a dark empty highway and get a speeding ticket
>6 points, $500 for a lawyer and another $500 if he loses the case
>Realize I think I was happier before I ever started driving

Ugh

Do you live in ormond b? By the regal?

Thanks user. I lived in a bubble where I just assumed that it would be difficult to DD a corvette but after looking into the issues it's almost nothing. Every issue with these cars under the sun has been covered in a forum post somewhere. I saw a C5 on the road today and I'm getting some kind of weird hunger to drive one now that they're a real possibility.

Why not get a clear wrap?

DELET

>ride the bus
>junkie sits next to you
>homeless woman who shit her pants sits next to you
>drunk guy vomits on you
>get stabbed by junkie

Don't crash or don't be a pussy when you do

>park car at gfs house
>quiet neughbourhood
>wake up
>drivers side keyed
>front pop up light keyed

:/ cunts

>Be me
>Drive my beautiful Mitsubishi mirage
>Park it at the shopping center
>Some shitlord backs into my far surperior hatchback with his truck
>Get out and take a samurai sword out
>Walk up to the driver side window
>Say "Nothing Personal kid"
>Slash his tires as I scream REEEEEEEEE
>Drive off fast.

All of that shit is your fault

>buys shitbox
>only uses sporty car for important events

Phoenix.

If well maintained, corvettes can go for a really long time. Of course the same can be said about most cars. C5s have the ls1 which is a very very reliable engine.

> tfw it's illegal to shoot people who purposely damage high value property

Hmmm

>Not buying a slow reliable light weight rwd Jap car
>Speeding

I fucking feel you, OP, my old car got backed into and I witnessed another fuckhead backing into another car on the same street ffs.

I'm so nervous about parking my shitbox, I'm honestly thinking of just carrying 2 tires with me and leaving them in the front and back just in case someone does back into me.

Nah, he'll never get out of that van again. I broke the door hinge on his head

not him, but why would you spend extra on shit you don't use? The less I spend on my boring DD, the more money I have to spend on things that I actually want to indulge in. I only need the bare minimum for a DD (4 wheels, 5 seats, a shitty sound system to blast Eurobeat on).

>tfw you whip out the stocked Stechkin after you catch a pigdog keying your UAZ

Czech'd

I own a a 1994, toyota pickup. I don't car what happens to it. Feels good mayne.

The ride never ends my man. But I work away so most of the time I keep it locked away safely. It's also white and I park next to other nice cars away from the peasants and family cars.

Dashcam is worth it, radar detector isn't unless you live in the third world as every first world country is laser now.

Bought an ND miata, have had it for a year and still in mint condition. Get tons of compliments, lot of people dont even know its a miata


I park it far from everyone else, if its a shitty parking lot I do my best to angle it so the doors of a car wont reach it. I also double check area for any hazards, shopping carts, dumb kids that would want to scratch it.

Good luck user, nothing nicer than a pristine car.

Had a shitbox Ford for years, no problems.

Bought a newer low mile Mazda, in ten years of ownership I ave averaged an accident of every 2-3 years of assholes backing up into me. Passenger fender has already been replaced twice.

I can see why people drive beaters. As long as its mechanically sound, its much less stressful to care about this hunk pf metal.