The small annoyances of running multiple cars

[doobietoo]

Having to walk back from the car park ticket machine to the car and back again to the machine because you have no idea what car you arrived in let alone its number plate which you need to input into the machine before it will give you a ticket....

[derskine]

The 18 locks from the passengers door only. I drive it the most but sometimes find myself leaving drivers doors of the other cars unlocked.

[John F]

Forgetting how many cars you own

[BorniteIdentity]

 

 

massive bundles of keys

100% relates.

 

Problem is if I take off one car key I know I'll take that particular car to work, minus the key for the office and the door fob and the alarm fob, and be stranded outside.

 

Like last time.

 

Hence

[jonny69]

Owning two cars as a strategy to work around the fact that, inevitably, one will break down at some point; but one car only ever breaks when the other one is broken or in pieces.

[stripped fred]

At my work there is a car park and they give you a badge to go in your windscreen. I don't have as many cars as you lot but even with a few different choices to drive they will only issue a badge for the one car. I've tried telling them that I have more than one but they just give you a strange look, does not compute. Why would you have more than one???

[stripped fred]

Also, having to move cars round and asking favours from family/friends to beg some of their drive space while trying to not completely piss them off!

[Skizzer]

I've just discovered another annoyance while doing some pre-Shitefest service checks this very morning:  I have lots of blue coolant in the garage but the Renault wants pink. 

[dollywobbler]

I'm getting used to having just one daily driver - the XM. I drive the Nippa occasionally, but generally, it's the XM I'm using for most journeys. It's great. I know where everything is, and it has sunglasses, gloves and music right where I need it.

[320touring]

I'm getting used to having just one daily driver - the XM. I drive the Nippa occasionally, but generally, it's the XM I'm using for most journeys. It's great. I know where everything is, and it has sunglasses, gloves and music right where I need it.

Do we need to stage an intervention at shitefest?

[flat4alfa]

This is quote I always remember from a chod-botherer who is also a rather good journalist: Martin Buckley

 

"Sometimes you can have too many cars.  They end up running you"

[stripped fred]

Slightly off topic but I suppose related how do you inure a second cheap car when it's say a 1990's model and not eligible for classic insurance. I got some quotes on insuring my Astra with no ncb and it was coming back at £350+. I know I can use a multicar policy but I've only just insured my Alfa so would have to wait 12 months to do that.

[Coprolalia]

Work car park requires a permit. Permits only apply to one car at a time. Having to apply for multiple permits to Adolf R Jobswurth, Oberleutnant of the Parking, Clamping and General Bureaucracy Department, and then explain your reasoning.

 

"-Why do you need three permits sir?

-Because only one of those three cars is ever working.

-But why not just one permit sir?

-Because that one car changes on a weekly basis."

etc etc

[BorniteIdentity]

Looking dodgy AF when anyone (garage, parts shop, rozzers, parking attendant etc) asks for your registration number, and you're trying to get a shifty squint at it out the corner of your eye.

[FakeConcern]

Slightly off topic but I suppose related how do you inure a second cheap car when it's say a 1990's model and not eligible for classic insurance. I got some quotes on insuring my Astra with no ncb and it was coming back at £350+. I know I can use a multicar policy but I've only just insured my Alfa so would have to wait 12 months to do that.

I have classic insurance on the 95 XM with Adrian Flux, they said 20 years old was classic, I didn't argue!

[John F]

My 1997 Disco 300 TDi is a classic, according to Footman James.

[brickwall]

Having to move the radio from one car to another.

[flat4alfa]

I got the 1996 XM onto the classic multi.

[mercedade]

Gouging an increasingly large hole in the side of your right knee with the aforementioned huge bundle of keys which now dangles from the ignition.

 

Also, rolling up to a set of lights and frantically stamping on the footrest in an attempt to press the non-existent clutch pedal on the sole auto in your fleet.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Having to move the radio from one car to another.

Having to move the battery from one car to another.

[Manbearpig]

Small annoyances of being a chodmeister;

 

1. The mistaken belief that by the law of averages one car in the fleet will be running well enough to get you to work

 

2. You are so skint that you are quite clearly the only person in the hundreds of houses on your estate that actually mends cars on the drive any more. None of your neighbours knows what a trolley jack is.

 

3. That you are slowly becoming the kind of crusty shit-accumulating eccentric that you used to point at and laugh when you were a kid

[RayMK]

.......the heartbreaking moment when you have to make space in the garage and dispose of the incredibly rare/expensive to replace bits that no one wants even for 99p on ebay, while also trying to suppress the obvious truth - you hav'nt needed them either for 20 years. 

[Noel Tidybeard]

...and having to watch listen to the wipers finish their sweep of a dry screen.

EFA