Does your SO drive your CRD on occasion?

bbo · **Joined:** Fri Sep 30, 2005 5:17 pm **Posts:** 382

mine is tomorrow ... I'll show her this thread after I get done posting

mrkake · **Posted:** Mon Feb 18, 2008 11:06 pm

Mine was afraid to drive it when I first bought it. Then she had to make a 200 mile trip through the desert and her car was in the shop. She had no alternative than to take the Liberty. When she got back she couldn't quit talking about what a cool car it was :cry:

She takes it all of the time now! She is due for a new vehicle herself, so we might be a two Liberty family soon.

dog_party · **Posted:** Mon Feb 18, 2008 11:09 pm

My wife takes the KJ when she needs to haul people or stuff. It's not very often, but she loves the truck. She does, however, call it the "big truck," when she takes it. Cracks me up. I have pointed out to her that the KJ is not much bigger than her DD Miata, and it has almost the same turning radius. But she still calls it "big."

kjfishman · **Posted:** Tue Feb 19, 2008 12:25 am

Yes she does. If the weather is bad she likes to drive it otherwise no. She doesn't like the sport seats. I guess not the same asher heated leather Infinity seats.

Sir Sam · **Posted:** Tue Feb 19, 2008 1:04 am

bbo wrote:

mine is tomorrow ... I'll show her this thread after I get done posting

brave man.

Both on letting her drive and letting her see.

CATCRD · **Posted:** Tue Feb 19, 2008 1:13 am

Yep, and she liked it enough she bought her own!

UFO · **Posted:** Tue Feb 19, 2008 1:17 am

Actually my wife lets me drive it sometimes...as soon as I buy her a VW Beetle Tdi I get the CRD.

mrkake · **Posted:** Tue Feb 19, 2008 1:42 am

I'm trying to find a TDI Beetle for mine too. I'm just gathering the parts to get an Appleseed processor set up. She likes how tall the Libby is but, (her words) "but seriously, what could be cuter than a Beetle"? :roll:

05infernoCRDL · **Posted:** Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:02 am

mrkake wrote:

I(her words) "but seriously, what could be cuter than a Beetle"? :roll:

was your response, "one that clatters"?

no SO for me but my ex has on too

Uffe · **Posted:** Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:53 am

What is SO an abbreviation for?

I gather it has something to do with a girlfriend or wife?

Mine doesn't like driving at all. She has her own Suzuki to get to/from work/the horse. She is scared of the KJ because we nearly ended up in a ditch when I drove it first time it rained. I was just trying to have some fun out of a roundabout, I guess fishtailing is what you guys call it

Since that day she has been scared of it because it has so much power. Well, that's what I tell her

tonycrd · **Posted:** Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:29 am

SO stands for Significant Other, so your girlfriend or wife or husband or boyfriend. Depends on what your flavor is

Mine has never driven any of my cars, don't know why. She always has an excuse, the Alfa was to fast, the Voyager to big, the KJ....she says I'll get a hart attack if she gets a dent or a scratch on it.

chrispitude · **Posted:** Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:37 am

Hi Uffe,

SO is an abbreviation for Significant Other, a catch-all term for your wife/girlfriend/etc.

In my house, my wife occasionally lets me drive her CRD.

I get her to sign-off on any modifications I want to make. She has her eye on the upcoming V6 TDI Touareg, and I agree it looks like a pretty slick vehicle. At that point, the CRD may become my playtoy.

Other cars cluttering up my garage/driveway are:

a 2005 Toyota Tundra V8 4WD (barely 12k miles, 16mpg city/highway, nicknamed "Gaspig")
a 1995 BMW M3 with about 175k miles, gets 27mpg!
a 1986 Shelby Omni GLHS, currently undergoing a frame-up restoration in New Mexico

- Chris

bbo · **Joined:** Fri Sep 30, 2005 5:17 pm **Posts:** 382

yep .. the wife takes it whenever she has to drive to Shawano (Sha - no )
anf the weather is bad. normally her commute is 5-10 minutes .. but twice a week she makes the drive.

note the extension cord in the drivers side handle. The temperature was supposed to be below zero F last night so I plugged it in ... didn't want her to drive off without umplugging ... although I would be more likely to do that anyway.

danoid · **Posted:** Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:48 am

chrispitude wrote:

a 1986 Shelby Omni GLHS, currently undergoing a frame-up restoration in New Mexico

- Chris

I hate to be picky (actually I love it) but where is the frame on an Omni?

My wife will only drive it if she's afraid the van won't make it out of the sub.

dgeist · **Posted:** Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:34 am

and it's not that I don't trust her. She's actually quite a good driver. She just knows that I like driving it so much that she asks me to drop her off at the rail station if her car is in the shop (metro area with subways). 'Course she seldom lets me drive her A4 avant quattro either

cntrline36 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:52 am

The KJ is the wife's work truck. She's a rural mail carrier and runs 92 miles a day. A very large portion of that 92 miles is washboarded country roads. After being her chief mechanic since she started all I can say about the Libby is "AWESOME". This has to be the world's best kept secret. No other vehicle she has used can even get in the ballpark with the Jeep when it comes to endurance. She absolutely loves it. And since it's a CRD I can spend my spare time making fuel for it instead of putting it back together every day. B100 in the summer. B70/30K1 in the winter. Life is good.

Clint

Uffe · **Posted:** Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:21 am

Thanks to the guys explaining to me what SO means. It's a good way to talk about your spouse I believe.

cntrline36 wrote:

The KJ is the wife's work truck. She's a rural mail carrier and runs 92 miles a day. A very large portion of that 92 miles is washboarded country roads. After being her chief mechanic since she started all I can say about the Libby is "AWESOME". This has to be the world's best kept secret. No other vehicle she has used can even get in the ballpark with the Jeep when it comes to endurance. She absolutely loves it. And since it's a CRD I can spend my spare time making fuel for it instead of putting it back together every day. B100 in the summer. B70/30K1 in the winter. Life is good.

Clint

That is very interesting, what vehicles have you tried, for comparison?

bugnout · **Posted:** Tue Feb 19, 2008 1:28 pm

She stays away, doesn't like the smell of diesel, I'm not arguing

nursecosmo · **Posted:** Tue Feb 19, 2008 1:46 pm

It's getting harder and harder to come up with excuses for why I "need" to drive the tractor. Lately I get; "You told me that we were buying it so I could have something safe to drive". Dang it, I did say that.

Sir Sam · **Posted:** Tue Feb 19, 2008 3:12 pm

chrispitude wrote:

Hi Uffe,

SO is an abbreviation for Significant Other, a catch-all term for your wife/girlfriend/etc.

In my house, my wife occasionally lets me drive her CRD.

I get her to sign-off on any modifications I want to make. She has her eye on the upcoming V6 TDI Touareg, and I agree it looks like a pretty slick vehicle. At that point, the CRD may become my playtoy.

Other cars cluttering up my garage/driveway are:

a 2005 Toyota Tundra V8 4WD (barely 12k miles, 16mpg city/highway, nicknamed "Gaspig")
a 1995 BMW M3 with about 175k miles, gets 27mpg!
a 1986 Shelby Omni GLHS, currently undergoing a frame-up restoration in New Mexico

- Chris

I prefer WD - Wife Department, though often thought of as WD - War Department.

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