Done right

"deekster_caddy" (deekster_caddy) 04/18/2018 at 08:38 • Filed to: VW, New Car

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When your kids hug your old car goodbye and get mad at you for trading it in, you know you picked a good one. 10 years, many long trips and 155000 trusty miles on our Passat Wagon. VW, you built this car just right.

Arrivederci > deekster_caddy 04/18/2018 at 08:54

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When I was a kid, I remember crying when my dad traded in one of the family cars. It wasn’t a particularly good or exciting car (as I recall), but it was like losing a member of the family.

PartyPooper2012 > deekster_caddy 04/18/2018 at 08:57

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Growing up in old Soviet Union, we didn’t trade in cars. If family was lucky, they had one car. That car rusted to hell. Then somehow a mechanic was able to restore it and you drove it again. And again... and again.

When there was nothing left to drive, you make a horse drawn carriage out of it.

Nowadays, hipsters in Russia are making hot rods out of old horse drawn cars

Needless to say - Kids in Russia have never had to say good bye to a car

MonkeePuzzle > deekster_caddy 04/18/2018 at 09:27

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i did make the mistake of selling a car i didnt realise the kids loved so much. they were legit mad at me

deekster_caddy > Arrivederci 04/18/2018 at 09:29

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It was a family member. Our kids are 13 and 9, and we have had it for 10 years, so it’s the thing they know and have a lot of memories in. The replacement is pretty sweet though, they’ll get over it quickly.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > deekster_caddy 04/18/2018 at 09:30

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When my dad gave back his 2005 Tundra after the lease was up I cried. I loved that truck. Looked like this one.

Funny enough, 5 years later a customer sold my parents his 2005 Sequoia SR% in the same color that looks like this.

It’s almost like we got it back! Still one of my favorite vehicles my parents own. The 2UZ is fantastic. So fantastic I have gotten 2 tickets in 2 different 20 over tickets in Sequoias.

deekster_caddy > PartyPooper2012 04/18/2018 at 09:34

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The cars worth keeping aren’t relying on electronic whizbangs to make it all work.. that’s where today’s cars get crazy expensive to maintain as they age. The other issue is that we are more and more driving parents around and just need more seats, we’ve been taking two cars on many trips for a couple years now and needed to stop doing that....

Future next gen S2000 owner > deekster_caddy 04/18/2018 at 09:37

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When they are 25, they will barely remember it at all I’ll bet.

deekster_caddy > MonkeePuzzle 04/18/2018 at 09:37

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They’ve done this for every car I’ve ever gotten rid of... 8years ago when I sold my 1 ton chevy van with bench seats she left a crayon scribbled note “please don’t take our van” to the new owners... my oldest has attachment issues a bit... she hugged the van too.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > deekster_caddy 04/18/2018 at 10:12

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I’m still mad at my dad for selling his Merkur.

I spent so much time crawling around underneath and inside of it when we were building it. He sold it about 2 months before I got my license and would have been able to start Rallycrossing it myself.

Nothing > deekster_caddy 04/18/2018 at 10:30

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When I almost traded the Tacoma in last week, my son was at first excited, since I took him on the test drive. Then on the way home, he started crying. Not sobbing, just his eyes welled up, tears down his cheek.

deekster_caddy > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 04/18/2018 at 11:35

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I debated keeping it around, but it will be another 4 years before my oldest kid needs her own car.

shop-teacher > deekster_caddy 04/18/2018 at 16:57

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Six-year old Shop-Teacher cried when dad sold his electric blue ‘79 Chevy K-10. I still miss that truck.