370Z: Daily Driver or Weekend Car?

Forumite

See was just the opposite for me. Every day I would take it out dreading the commute because of the miles and dings it was sure to get.

SiXK

That was my reasoning at first too, so I left my fun Z at home and drove other vehicles that I did not give a crap about. Its not a bad plan at all. Keeps the car pristine and makes driving it a recreational activity.

but the downside was, I was spending way more time driving those other cars than my Z. I tried a car, a truck and an SUV, but I had been driving a Z since 1988. My daily ride without a Z was zero fun.

I finally just figured its a car, it may get a ding or some miles but a ding can be fixed and a car can be maintained and do very well as it takes on some miles.

I love my ride home from work, got a couple of spots as I approach my house where I can open it up and I always get home in a great mood.

Of the 5 Zs I have had the 370 is definitely up there with the Z32TT as my favorites. I plan to drive it a few years and retire her to the garage and pick up something else, but I learned my lesson a while ago, whenever I get that new DD it will be a Z or a sportscar for sure.

I just wish I had the money to buy and keep some cars and have a couple of daily drivers too. but don't we all?

__________________
Magnetic Black 2009 370Z / Pearl Yellow 1991 300ZXTT

tvfreakazoid

I know how you feel and i'm the same way. But then what's the point of getting a car like this one? No matter what it's going to happen. hell a car accident may happen. Thats why when I get mine I will have to tell my self these things are going to happen and I can't do anything about it to prevent it.

__________________
Mudders milk

SiXK

I mean just a day or two after I posted how I use it as a daily driver one of the most aggravating things happened.

I work at a 2 story office building with its own large parking lot thats landscaped and private. I have no problem parking all to myself, and I mean no one ever parks anywhere near me. Its a small corp office - about 100 people - and everyone mostly knows everyone. plus, no one wants to walk to where I park. lol.

I am walking out to my car today at lunch and the landscape guys are using blowers. one of them is blowing stuff right under my car, and hes close. He walks around and is blowing stuff under from the other side (exactly WHAT is he trying to accomplish??)

I figure its not worth it to say anything and I approach and get in the car, as I am pulling my sunshade down I hear a crazy noise, and the guy is now blowing the actual car. hes blowing off the hood and top and starts to move around to the doors.

I lost it. I got out of the car and yelled "what the #### are you doing? don't blow the ####ing car. what the #### are you doing??" etc etc etc

so his boss comes over and points to another area and sends him off. I tell the boss its cool but he had no business blowing off the actual car. The boss was very nice and apologetic. I complain to my company person who handles the landscape contracts and she says we get complaints from alot of employees and even if we change landscape companies we still have problems, but she will tell them do NOT do anything to the cars. shes a great lady.

Being a daily driver is tough enough, black is hard to keep clean as it is, but a guy using a blower on the actual car is one of those unexpected things that would never happen to a weekend car. Not enough to make me change to another DD, but was enough to almost give me a heart attack I was so mad.

__________________
Magnetic Black 2009 370Z / Pearl Yellow 1991 300ZXTT

ChrisSlicks

It actually works well for blowing the pollen off your car in the spring as long as you're sucking in clean air

But blowing sand and leaves up against your paint is not cool.

Forrest

At work they did this to my brothers car, he actualy took a photo while he was seething mad

Now due to the type of place where we work, there is ALOT of camera's for every angle being recorded and saved for later playback.

BUt if there was no camera's that dude would be on the ground with his leaf blower dented where it met his skull.

And this is not a really nice paved lot, its a super grainy rocks, peddles, pot hole ridden cheap pavement that has more debri/glass than i care to think.