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The first, I used a valet at a high end steakhouse.
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However you want to play down what you think the resale value is, a base line car was still a $80k+ car and built on that standard and cost of repair reflects that.
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However you want to play down what you think the resale value is, a base line car was still a $80k+ car and built on that standard and cost of repair reflects that.
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However you want to play down what you think the resale value is, a base line car was still a $80k+ car and built on that standard and cost of repair reflects that.
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...call me paranoid, I let wifey out, put valet in the car w me and go park myself and tip them well. never leave the keys with them or I park else where. if u ever worked for a parking patrol, then u know what happens when peeps park fast cars-
Make it a 2008 accord, and I think you are on to something. While a fantasy for a lot of us to own a 911, I own a 911 because I could have bought a 2008 Honda for the same price. Doesn't mean I could care less about the car, it's just the car is no worth than a fraction from when it came out of the factory. And personally I hope prices continue to fall. Because if mine dies or gets wrecked, I'll get another one that looks just like it.
I think I'm in the same camp on this one. I don't really want the '99 C2s to appreciate. Part of the lore is that they are cheap, dismissed by most, and freakin awesome.
I used to valet back in my college days for a prestigious restaurant and have driven practically all the Bull's player's cars at some point(including a couple Michael Jordan's). As a former valet, I wouldn't have them valet it unless you can see them drive just a few yards to keep it in the front or a parking lot within watching distance. Usually if you give them a tip in advance and request that you want it out front, they're pretty good about that.
I am not sure what price (what ever that is) has to do with keeping your car nice and caring about wheel rash, door dings, etc...?? However you want to play down what you think the resale value is, a base line car was still a $80k+ car and built on that standard and cost of repair reflects that.
I haven't used a valet after 2 situations.
The first, I used a valet at a high end steakhouse. When they brought the car up after dinner I watched as the guy stalled it out twice before I could make it to him. All I could smell was clutch. How you can be valet and not know how to drive a stick is ridiculous.
The second, I was given tickets to a corporate suite at a Diamondbacks game that included valet parking. I only went in for the pre game and watched about 3 innings before I got bored and decided to leave.
At the Valet area, I saw my car was up front. But when the guy handed me my keys he was a little weirded out. I noticed my engine fan was running and the rear end was hot. I asked them about it and they said they had just moved the car up front. When I got in the car, the engine was at temp as well. There was no manager to talk to so I just drove off, telling them don't expect a tip.
Talk to any ex-valet and they will tell you some great stories...
I have a totally unrelated story.
We took the Porsche to a nice restaurant the other night. Pulled up and handed the keys to the valet.
After dinner, we came out and the car was IN THE FRONT SPOT. Next to a 2008 911.
I was a little giddy, actually. I had a 17 year old car that cost less than a new Civic, IN THE FRONT SPOT.
I've never been in the front spot.
That's all.
I have a somewhat similar story from the Buckhead neighborhood in Atlanta. Went to a restaurant for a business function in my 996. Met up with the top executive of my division and we both walked in together. She had a brand new Range Rover and I had my old 996.
Guess which was sitting in front when we got out? Yup, the one that was worth about 1/3 of the cost of the Range Rover.
I generally try to avoid valet but if I can't then I just cross my fingers and hope for the best.
Not that our cars are the best and most expensive thing out there, but I'd just take a different car into DC. I had mine in Georgetown a few weeks ago and man did it take a beating on the DC streets. Mine is lowered so it was taking more bumps but a couple times the pavement on the streets disappeared unexpectedly and then you would run up on manhole covers about 5-6 inches high. Thought I was going to lose my front lip a few times. Hopefully, they've fixed some of the road work but I probably won't be taking mine down there anytime soon. As far as valet parking....I dunno. I'd rather park my own car so if that's the only option, I'd bring my 4Runner downtown.
I never hand the keys to the valet. I worked as one back when I was 18. Anything that was sporty or remotely sporty, I abused
. I worked in San Francisco downtown, servicing a few hotels. Once the car was around the corner and out of sight....VROOOOOOMMMMMM.
When I worked as porter in the Honda and Toyota dealerships it didn't change. My nickname was "Fast and Furious". I loved cars, and it was like being in the candy store for me. If it was RWD, then burnout and drift it. FWD, then e-brake and burn-out it. I can guarantee with 100% certainty that everyone who bought a civic SI, S2000, or Accord V6 with a manual from certain bay area dealership in 06-07 had a well broken in engine and used up drive tires.
Tire marks...are still visible in the car storage lot. We'd slide honda fits around the lot when inventory was low.
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Valet stories;
1) New year dinner, in a tony area of west Denver with heavy snow falling. I'm driving my F350 crew 4X4 and they will valet it. I went out during dinner to get some files, and they were using it to pull cars out of the snow in the lot. Uh - WTF?
2) Went to a nice place in Southlake TX for dinner. Valet my Ferrari. It's not a costly car, but hey - still has the prancing horse, ya know? Summer and it's a convertible so I overheard another diner mention to his 12YO kid; "Wow! That was real nice of them to let you sit in that Ferrari for some pictures!" WTF?
Never - again. The valet can ride with me, park where he wants it, we will go back and the keys stay with me. If it needs to move, they can wait(some places don't have self-park).
@docmirror: I have good friends who I won't let drive my car, based on how they treat their own. Extending this policy to strangers-- I don't know you, so I don't know if you have Mechanical Sympathy, so you can't have my key-- always felt a bit like presumption or, worse, snobbery.
Thanks for completely relieving me of that small burden. What a bunch of glassbowls.
Capitol Hilton, Wash. DC. Twice my trade assn had our annual convention there. Valet mandatory (parking is otherwise impossible). I let them take my 996, but second time they had trouble starting it (bozos, that was the only reason). Hour and a half wait while I watched snow accumulating, and I was headed north on summer Sumi's. Never again.
The thought of riding with the valet never occurred to me, but great idea.
Last week at a restaurant in Buckhead I pulled up in the 996 and the valet came over to give me my ticket, looked in and said, "this is a stick?" I said yes, he then asked me if I could just park it right in front as no one on staff that night could drive a stick.
