How to protect your car from your kids?
 

Does anyone have any creative ways to protect there car from kids while in the garage? My kids are 2 and 5 and are in and out of the garage all day with big wheels, bikes, baseball bats etc. I have a cover but it still makes me nervous when they are in there….

1. Dashboard Jesus.

2. Daily prayer.

3. Regular attendance at religious services.

4. No Tiger Woods activities.

5. Soft indoor cover with dense upholstery foam hot glued to sides, trunk lids, fenders and sides with heavy outdoor car cover on top.

6. Or one of those bubble covers that inflates.

7. Get a shed for the kids. :rolleyes: Or for their stuff.

Short of covering it and placing foam against the sides......no. My kid's bikes go to the shed during winter months, during the summer the Boxster goes into the single bay side of a three car and I park my daily driver outside. That leaves room for them / their crap in the two car bay with the wife's minivan. Also, get to know your local dent doctor, not kidding. I make the kids pay for the repairs they cause (they are older than yours), that way they quickly learn.

I sold my kids when I got the Porsche.

Teach your young children to respect others personal property. This can be learned at a very young age. Set them up to succeed, not to fail.

Two words...invisible fence

This is a great idea but might not pass with the wife. :D

My 5 year old is very careful and has great respect for my and his stuff. I really don't worry about him. Even his matchbox cars are perfect.

My 2 year old however is a walking wrecking ball. He like to throw and bang on stuff. MAybe I'll clean the shed for there toys....


I did see a padded curtain that hangs from the celing. Almost like a shower curtain. I thought that was a good idea.

My wife and I operate on the principle that a parents job is to make sure that the child has plenty of things to talk about with their analyst later in life. We even identify the event for easy recollection as it is happening.

My son was cutting corners on watering our horses so I told him he had to eat his dinner without anything to drink. It worked like a charm. He was not even thirsty until I told him he could not have a drink with his meal.

In your case it will be like this..."My dad made me wear a dog collar that shocked me when I got too close to the Porsche, that is why I have an irrational fear of all things German".

Who said parenting was hard?

What great parenting tips! I don't have kids but am taking notes for when that time comes. :D

The best way to protect your boxster or any car for that matter against children is to follow the practice stated in this video. Yes, it is used for ADHD, however it works extrodinarily well for vehicular respect. Enjoy.

Training Video

"Get the kids in one room, and shoot one of them in the head in front of the others. Then, while the survivors are ****************ting in their pants; explain to them that the individual lying on the floor did not do an adequate job of protecting the Porsche; and that the survivor(s) are now totally responsible for protecting the car, and any damage to it, no matter hopw slight, and the same thing will happen to them. You get a defensive protection plan; and have one less mouth to feed and college education to fund………….a win/win all around."


WOW, if only the government worked that way. Talk about efficiency.

You sound quite a bit like my father..........Dad?

See pic (not my car, btw)

My mother bought an invisible fence system for her dog. Somehow the dog slipped past the "fence" the first day. When she caught him outside she didn't want him to get shocked when he went home as he should. She took off the collar and sent the dog home. She chatted with the neighbor for awhile and then headed home with the collar in her hand. When she got up off the ground she determined that the fence worked quite well.

Unless you seriously do the invisible fence, or have a third car garage to lock the Boxster away from little people - you just have to accept that *something* might happen to it.

I was in the garage one day when I saw my 2 year old put his matchbox car up onto the side of the Boxster and proceed to make "vroom vroom vroom" sounds as he rolled the car all down the car... by the time i got to him, I had some nice little scratches....

if the car was brand new and flawless I would have probably crapped..but it's a 10+ year old car, and already has lots of OTHER little scratches... so I just figured, oh well.... it wasn' tTHAT bad of a scratch.... eventually I'll get a hardcore detail buffer job done and they will all be gone....

along the same lines as the invisible fence....we have a bark collar for our little maltese...I felt it only fair to at least "try it" to know what I was subjecting my little dog to. After trying it out on myself, I don't make her wear it anymore... OUCH!

Invest in an electric dog collar or an electric fence.

But really I would just explain to your kids to be respectful and aware, but be prepared for the worst. Accidents happen, I am always extremely careful around my Boxster, but it hasn't stopped me from accidentally scratching it in a few places. Life happens. :cheers:

When was a kid I climbed onto my father's stereo sytem and destroyed his turntable and reel to reel tape deck. I don't remember what happened but I stayed away from that stereo for a very long time!

Are there no work houses left?

When I was three I pulled all of the knobs off of the interior of my fathers Mercedes 190 SL. It took them quite a while to figure out where they went and put them back on. I mark that moment as the first wrenching of my career.

I'd start with condoms...... always stop problems at the source.

Check out the new child tasers ... "don't tase me Dad!" :eek:

Check it out: http://www.gizmo-central.com/household-gizmos/garage/protect-your-exotic-cars-even-when-garaged/



:D Kinda OCD, but hey - cheaper than dealing with child services...

LOL..seriously if someone puts their car in a shower curtain or a inflatable bubble they have major OCD and control issues.

Next: giant hamster ball!

Get a little garage (shed) for their stuff and keep them out of daddy's garage.

Other solutions:

1) Rewire your battery tender for 240 volt
2) Surroud the car with bathtubs or beds. Many children hate bathtime and bedtime.
3) Hide lots of candy in the garage far away from the car
4) It's a little late now, but have you thought of a vasectomy?

Kids
 

Send them off until they can drive...

if ever a situation screamed for Duct Tape this is it.

if you shave the kids first, it's easier to remove later.

I need a brain - where do I find one? LOL

If you feed your children, they will be forever hungry. But, if you teach them to fish, they will feed themselves for a lifetime.

That is the only correct answer.

New thought
 

Divorce the wife...they always get the kids. Take the cars and live the life... :cheers:

tether the child safe distance from car.

I actually have a 100,000 volt fence around my house so I can offer some advise. When you buy the fence they are set to "pulse" on and off every 0.5 seconds or so. So if an intruder touches the fence it will not actually kill them since when the electricity pulses off they jump back. If the electricity was constant then there is a chance of them gripping the wire which might harm them. There is very low amperage as well so there really is little risk of death. Another nice thing about the fence is when the system detects a ground/short it sounds an alarm so you would know when someone got too close to the Porsche, and then could inflict secondary discipline measures. My system also sends an email to my BlackBerry when the alarm sounds which includes a photo of the area. This would allow you to make sure the proper intruder received the secondary punishment.

Cats can smell electricity (I am told) so they tend to avoid it which can help reduce paw prints. The installers told me that a dog might touch it "once". So, depending on how smart the children are, I image they would not touch it more than once either. However, considering that the children are not following verbal instructions a few shocks might be required in order to acquire proper respect for German products. The fence also makes a nice little snapping sound at times which tends to remind people not to touch it although my gardener has been shocked a couple of times.