The driving machine i drove today at work 6spd

[DTM190]

I think the OP is in there somewhere

[Sean]

I work at a hotel as valet parking, everytime i get the chance i do my little test drives and compare cars haha... this thing hauled ass on 2nd gear..

Where did you do this "2nd gear pull" that you don't consider "being abusive" to the car? In between the point where the owner handed you his keys and the parking spot? Doubtful - you probably took it around the block. That right there is the equivalent of stealing/reckless use of your job. That's like a tow truck driver deciding to take your car around the block before putting it on the flatbed. Wrong? OF COURSE! I don't care if you COASTED around the block - you can, IN NO WAY, justify your action.

I think your best bet is to say - "Alright guys - I was stupid and immature. Thanks for making me realize this is nothing to brag about and I should take my job seriously."

I'm just being honest here, don't worry. :)

[Knoepfler]

Where did you do this "2nd gear pull" that you don't consider "being abusive" to the car? In between the point where the owner handed you his keys and the parking spot? Doubtful - you probably took it around the block. That right there is the equivalent of stealing/reckless use of your job. That's like a tow truck driver deciding to take your car around the block before putting it on the flatbed. Wrong? OF COURSE! I don't care if you COASTED around the block - you can, IN NO WAY, justify your action.

I think your best bet is to say - "Alright guys - I was stupid and immature. Thanks for making me realize this is nothing to brag about and I should take my job seriously."

I'm just being honest here, don't worry. :)

a lot of valets drive the cars on public roads to the parking garage - at least where I worked

should people drive other peoples cars like that without their permission? no. but it IS going to happen considering the type of people that make up some of the valets.

I don't really see the point in making a thread like this though

[Edev]

I don't really see the point in making a thread like this though

Possibly because the OP wanted to "brag" about driving an E63..which isn't much to brag about.

[LuckyHenriksen]

I never have and never will valet a car, ever. I will pay twice as much and park 10 blocks away before I let some stranger go park my car.

Sad to know you think it's cool. Congrats.

I agree with you. I pulled into a garage, realized it was valet, and got the fuck out. The guys all came out and asked why I was leaving. I was also driving my slammed MKV, so I was worried about all sorts of stuff

[bmw325csi]

after having worked as a valet... i will never valet my car

[kid325e]

OP thinks a 650i with a 6spd is something special. It's not even an M6, GTFO.

[matias88e30]

dont thinks its something special... just never drove one of those before. CLPPDP

[r3d e30]

What hotel is this?

[browntown]

When I was 19, I valet'd in college. I'll admit that when the main lot was full and we had to drive cars to the auxiliary lot 1/2 mile away ---- occasionally the tires would chirp.

Then again, I remember when a guy pulled up in a 911 turbo, and refused to let us park it telling us "I was a valet when I was your age, and there's no f**n chance you'll park this"

Then he gave me a 5'r for giving him the code to the valet lot so he could park his own car.

Mainly the thing I remember most about being a valet / bell boy was the old ladies who would tip you 50 cents to park their bentleys and the guys who would give you a $5 or a beer to park their corrolla. Every other prick in between who gave me a dollar and told me to keep his buick "close by", or be careful with his grand am got a lot of shit talked about them.

My mother was a waitress and taught me early on that to hedge the chances of spit in my food, dirty linens in the hotel, or having your tires peeled out in a valet lot --tip well. These jobs suck and pay shit, the nice, more empathetic and more generous you can be -- the better your service.

[matias88e30]

REDe30.. Its on Miami Beach.
Browntown: agree with u..thanks... BTW: how much for the ETa AFM? a friend its looking for one.. i let him know

[browntown]

$30 shipped, follow the link in my sig.

[matias88e30]

im followin that ass man! lol.. when he answers me i let u kno bro. thanks

[Car Addict]

Alright am I the only one that doesn't see what the OP did so wrong.

Yes he took pictures of a customer car and license plate.

No where have we learned where he is parking these vehicles it very well might be 1/2 a mile away, or in a very large parking lot with a garage at the end.

As for everyone saying he was BEATING the shit out of the car. I don't see it, all he said was the car pulled hard in 2nd, I don't know about the rest of you but i do not usually drive around in 1st gear even in a parking lot. If the OP had a back up of cars he very well may have had to park quickly, and I don't know about you guys but I can tell a car can pull hard just from the get go, he also never said anything about being near redline.

Don't get me wrong there are dickhole valet's out there that burn rubber, slide around corners, pin the tachometer in every gear. The OP has just not said anything that backs those types of actions.

So all in all maybe I am being naive but from what the OP has written he didn't seem to do anything wrong.

[matias88e30]

^^ FInally! thanks! SOMEONE THAT UNDERSTOOD WHAT I WAS TRYING TO SHOW U GUYS..... I didnt beat the shit of the car! not even get it to redline, parking lot its maybe half the lenght of a football field, just took picture cause like i said before it was the first 650 i drove stick, didnt knew they made manuals 650 too, i would love to see or drive a new 750 stickshift, same thing, will take some pics and share with yall! but this thread went the wrong way...