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Boy Racers dress code and lack of brains.

  • 19-12-2010 10:25am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭


    Do boy racers remove the heaters and aircon from their cars to improve performance? In the summer I saw one eejit driving with the door open as he had no aircon and his windows wouldn't open,I knew that because he was roaring at his friends while doing more laps of the town than a taxi.Now we have cold weather they seem oblidged by some bizzare dress code to constantly have a baseball cap and hoody with the hood up on at the same time while driving.Even last night it was -9c here and they were still tearing around while most sensible people stayed off the roads. "I am invincible in my Saxo as I wear a cap and hoody combo-much better protection when I crash":confused:


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    Most are geeks and nerds hiding behind loud exhaust's and tinted windows


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,757 ✭✭✭bohsboy


    In other news, man lands on the Moon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    bohsboy wrote: »
    In other news, man lands on the Moon.

    And gets hit by a civic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    Boy racers = wannabe knackers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,239 ✭✭✭Lurching


    Still beats staying home getting wasted or out knocking the sh1t out of someone.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,822 ✭✭✭iPlop


    zerks wrote: »
    Do boy racers remove the heaters and aircon from their cars to improve performance? In the summer I saw one eejit driving with the door open as he had no aircon and his windows wouldn't open,I knew that because he was roaring at his friends while doing more laps of the town than a taxi.Now we have cold weather they seem oblidged by some bizzare dress code to constantly have a baseball cap and hoody with the hood up on at the same time while driving.Even last night it was -9c here and they were still tearing around while most sensible people stayed off the roads. "I am invincible in my Saxo as I wear a cap and hoody combo-much better protection when I crash":confused:

    -9 here last night as well and the roads covered in ice ,yet as I was on my way back from dunnes at about 5pm ,diving at 10mph (the roads started to get bad then)Some lunatic went whizzing by at about 50mph in a kitted out punto ,I thought he was going to slide across the road and hit me and you could see the car trying to stay gripped to the road ,people like that deserve a kick in the bollocks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    feck your honda civic...






    yeah it was inevitable!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    Lurching wrote: »
    Still beats staying home getting wasted or out knocking the sh1t out of someone.

    Above Is a typical comment from a low IQ boyracer type person


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Doom wrote: »
    Most are geeks and nerds hiding behind loud exhaust's and tinted windows

    You forgot the skanger bit


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭Knasher


    I wonder if you built large versions of skateboard parks would they use them instead.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    If you wear a suit and drive a civic / subaru etc you are not a boy racer or wannabe knacker or a geek.

    Is the problem here the car or the clothes ?

    what about girl racers ?

    Not all drivers of these cars are boy racers or knackers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    I always wonder how do the skanger types, who don't seem to do any work and whose only source of income seems to be the dole, can afford to pay for such upgrades on their cars?

    Like I've considered upgrading my car but everything about it is so bloody expensive! Every part is expensive and then you need to pay more to get it fitted properly. Alloys are bloody expensive as well. So is an upgraded stereo.

    And then you'll have to declare these to your insurance company and they'll rip your bollocks right off for insuring a modified car!

    Now I don't think these boy racers insure their cars properly cuz obviously if they did, no one would give them a quote for a modified car and if they did get a quote it'ld be something stratospherically ridiculous and they wouldn't be able to afford it.

    SO how they hell do they get away with all of this?!?!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    I always wonder how do the skanger types, who don't seem to do any work and whose only source of income seems to be the dole, can afford to pay for such upgrades on their cars?
    ?!!


    Pce of sh1t car €200
    Cheap paint job €300
    Money saved each year not having to buy underpants due to lack of a dick €100


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Knasher wrote: »
    I wonder if you built large versions of skateboard parks would they use them instead.

    They could always go to a track day or another organised event.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭highgiant1985


    bohsboy wrote: »
    In other news, man lands on the Moon.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f_DPrSEOEo

    I can't seem to inbed this but suits your post perfectly :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 844 ✭✭✭Elevator


    to answer your orig q op

    yes they do remove the heater and air con to give a 5/10 horsepower boost

    they are quite thick most of them

    and I too seen a dangerous nob jockey tear away from a set of lights yesterday eve in baaaaaad conditions,

    all I could hope for is he gets what's coming and not take any innocent lives with him

    if you caught the guy such a hammering youd have to give him!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    snyper wrote: »
    Pce of sh1t car €200
    Cheap paint job €300
    Money saved each year not having to buy underpants due to lack of a dick €100

    And the inability to drive properly - Priceless!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭strokemyclover


    And the inability to drive properly - Priceless!

    Quite expensive for whatever they inevitably smash into


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag


    I take comfort in the fact that those lethal roads out there right now will take care of a few skangermobiles. Hopefully it will be ditches they will crash into, and not other normal roadusers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    I wonder how idiotic you have to be to get a kick out of driving round in circles in a town centre for a couple of hours, revving an engine and generally making a nuisance of yourself.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,396 ✭✭✭Tefral


    Hmm.. I would be what you call a "Boyracer" only because your misinformed but that has been done to death already..

    - Im a co-founder of one of Irelands largest modified car forum
    - I drive a White Japanese imported Integra Type R.
    - The Aircon is removed (I dont need it and it saves weight)
    - Yes i do trackdays
    - I have an Honours Degree.
    - Ive been driving 8 years without a crash.
    - I have no Penalty Points.
    - I wear hoodies because they are comfortable.
    - I wear a suit to work.

    Do you care to put away the big brush of tar yet?


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    cronin_j wrote: »
    Hmm.. I would be what you call a "Boyracer" only because your misinformed but that has been done to death already..

    - Im a co-founder of one of Irelands largest modified car forum
    - I drive a White Japanese imported Integra Type R.
    - The Aircon is removed (I dont need it and it saves weight)
    - Yes i do trackdays
    - I have an Honours Degree.
    - Ive been driving 8 years without a crash.
    - I have no Penalty Points.
    - I wear hoodies because they are comfortable.
    - I wear a suit to work.

    Do you care to put away the big brush of tar yet?

    Well, unless you're a girl, then you're surely a boy racer?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32 acer_2010


    Quite a biased and stereotypical post! Usually I would never bother my arse to reply to a post about a silly topic such as this but since the weather is bad and roads are dangerous I will reply! First off, I currently drive a 1999 GTR-R34 Nissan Skyline - 2.5L Turbo which stands me in and around €9500.. Now I personally wouldn't dare even start it in the shed as I'd be afraid I'd blow a valve or something due to freezing conditions let alone bring it outside, to be honest I don't even think it has seen a wet day in Ireland since I bought it 2 and a half years ago! To correct the OP now, I might be classed as a Boy Racer stereotypically beacuse of aftermarket wheels and the exhaust etc not to mention up to 100 other aftermarket parts, but, I am not such.. And I can clarify that I am insured 100% correctly with AXA insurers.
    What I class as Boy/Girl Racer is them eejits who drive their Novas, Fiestas, 106's and Saxos, them sort of cars with huge exhausts and oversized wheels.. Their the saps who give everyone the name just because they have no respect for other road users or themselves.. And plus, may I add that they are the ones who drive the price of insurance through the roof for younger lads and lassies trying desperatly to get some insurance to start out...

    Over & Out!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    And the inability to drive properly - Priceless!

    One of the funniest things ive ever had the pleasure of witnessing involved a boy racer.

    I was standing on the path about to cross the road in a small town called Moate. Its a haven for culchies with ****boxes.

    There is a spped ramp that also acts as a pedestrian crossing. This boy racer approaches the speed ramp too fast, and of course the car is no more than an inch off the ground, and when the sppedramp is about 5 inches off the ground it doesnt take a math whizz to do the sums..

    Anyhow, tunes bangin out, pointless revs of the engine as he drives his sh1tbox to the ramp and BANG - SMASH, he crunches the whole front underside of the car off the ramp - that however wasnt the funny bit - the funny bt was his face scrunched up like he got a kick in the nuts as his 2 hands came off the wheel up to his head to console himself.

    Fortunatley, the ambulance that came to scrape me off the path from laughing didnt have the same problem with the ramp


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Ok we need to make a distinction between Boy Racer and Car Enthusiast. Anyone who pays 10k for a car which spends most of its time in a shed isnt a boy racer. To me those are lads who drive small hatchbacks, often with unmodified small hp engines, who then pimp them out with big exhausts and other devices that make them as conspicuous as possible. They bollox around the middle of town, only stopping to get out and throw shapes in the carpark!


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    cronin_j wrote: »
    Do you care to put away the big brush of tar yet?

    I think to OP is talking generally about people who drive "sporty-ish" cars and upgrade them in a manor they are not designed to be, or in bad road conditions that they appear to be oblivious to...

    Are you saying you do that?

    Just because you have an imported TypeR, doesn't mean you are bumped in with that lot.

    I even saw 2 different cases of this myself down the road from me, 1 person driving a 323F at ridiculas speeds and cutting his braking distance very short, while thier friend was behind them in a Civic TypeR, driving cautiously.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Bah! Cage drivers!

    If you want a real thrill get yourself a motorbike, absolutely brilliant craic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 908 ✭✭✭Overature


    boy racers are normal people like you an me except they are trying to compansate for lack of male genetaillia


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭HavingCrack


    All they do is drive up the cost of insurance for people like myself. 4 Years, no accidents and I'm still ranked as a greater risk to other road users than a female on a learners permit thanks to these ****ing idiots.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 908 ✭✭✭Overature


    cronin_j wrote: »
    Hmm.. I would be what you call a "Boyracer" only because your misinformed but that has been done to death already..

    - Im a co-founder of one of Irelands largest modified car forum
    - I drive a White Japanese imported Integra Type R.
    - The Aircon is removed (I dont need it and it saves weight)
    - Yes i do trackdays
    - I have an Honours Degree.
    - Ive been driving 8 years without a crash.
    - I have no Penalty Points.
    - I wear hoodies because they are comfortable.
    - I wear a suit to work.

    Do you care to put away the big brush of tar yet?

    yeah but do you drive around all day with nothing better to do than pull handbrakers? and what have you done to your integra? is the engine modified to get more horse power or have you just got a body kit that does nothing for performance?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,183 ✭✭✭UnknownSpecies




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭skyhighflyer


    I always wonder how do the skanger types, who don't seem to do any work and whose only source of income seems to be the dole, can afford to pay for such upgrades on their cars?

    Perhaps because, despite your complete generalisation, they do in fact have jobs and spend money on their cars rather than pissing it away in the pub like many other people?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,801 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


    I drive a tuned Japanese car, it has a loud exhaust and a spoiler, I kept the aircon though cos I like it. Am I considered a boy racer?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    I am differentiating here between boy racers and car enthusiasts,I have no problem with someone who pays a good wedge for a car such as a Skyline etc. It's the morons in the Saxo's,Punto's etc. that are the problem.

    Even so nobody has answered the question-Why do they drive around with hoods up? Is it so they can ignore other traffic by having no peripheral vision.?
    During the snow we had they were still pricking around in their sh1tboxes.With regard to their employment situation I feel that many of them don't have jobs as they seem to spend 24/7 doing laps of the town.I work flexible hours and witness this pointless exercise constantly so if they were all in jobs surely they wouldn't be driving around all day and night.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Onkle wrote: »
    I drive a tuned Japanese car, it has a loud exhaust and a spoiler, I kept the aircon though cos I like it. Am I considered a boy racer?

    There is a difference between car enthusiasts and boy racers.

    Car enthusiasts have more expensive cars which are properly tuned and modified for performance. They don't usually race around the city or country roads or do donuts on empty streets close to housing estates at 3am. They prefer going fast on good roads safely or unleashing the car's potential on a track.
    An example of such a car: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igame8A-fzU

    Boy racers drive cheap cars which cheap tatty modifications which do very little towards enhancing power and performance of the vehicle and instead make them more dangerous. They fit body kits, large exhausts, alloys, lowered suspension and such which do little to make the car faster and handle better. They don't insure their cars properly as firstly no one would insure them on such a car and even if they get proper insurance, it'ld be a ridiculous sum which they wouldn't pay.
    They don't drive to trackdays or to the nurburgring as their cars are pretty **** to drive fast on a track. They spend their time doing handbrake turns and donuts in empty car parks or empty streets at 3am. And they drive stupidly fast on roads in their death machines. They're just mainly tools to show off to their mates which only their mates can appreciate.

    You can find a number of examples of these cars over here:
    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055281815


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,801 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


    zerks wrote: »
    I am differentiating here between boy racers and car enthusiasts,I have no problem with someone who pays a good wedge for a car such as a Skyline etc. It's the morons in the Saxo's,Punto's etc. that are the problem.

    So if you can afford an expensive car you're an enthusiast and if you start out with something cheap you're a boy racer? Fortunately I have a job and very little responsibility so I have a decent car and have spent a good bit on mods but if I was unfortunate enough to be on the dole I can guarantee that I'd be tuning/modifying a car of some sort. I have petrol in my blood, I can't help it
    zerks wrote: »
    Even so nobody has answered the question-Why do they drive around with hoods up? Is it so they can ignore other traffic by having no peripheral vision.?

    That's a trend I haven't seen in a very long time where I live
    zerks wrote: »
    During the snow we had they were still pricking around in their sh1tboxes.With regard to their employment situation I feel that many of them don't have jobs as they seem to spend 24/7 doing laps of the town.I work flexible hours and witness this pointless exercise constantly so if they were all in jobs surely they wouldn't be driving around all day and night.

    Can't say I witnessed much messing on the roads during the snow, I drove to and from work every day during it too. As for the employment situation, it's none of your business what anybody else spends their money on. Driving around a town may be pointless to you but these kids could be doing worse things like spending their money on drink/drugs etc.

    Now I don't condone messing, speeding, diffing in public areas etc, I'm just asking you to look at the bigger picture


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    im 19, i bought a black 04 astra two months ago, swapped the standard 15" alloys for a nicer pair of 15's. then i bought coilovers, to suit the small alloys and also got a tidy boot and roof spoiler. i also bought an induction kit merely because i like the small purr it gives off at about 3k revs.i rarely ever go above 3k unless im trying to get onto a busy roundabout in between a gap in cars or on the dual carriageway.i drive my car to and from ucc and work and do not drive endlessly around cork city or county. i wear a hoody and tracky pants as they are very comfy and warm. are you telling me im a brainless boy racer because i want to make my car, that i paid for, nice for me to look at. i never ever see these boyracers flying around the roads as ye always seem to. i seem to have more problems with 'brainy' non boyracer's driving than those you see fit to tarnish. if i see a crappy done up corsa, i laugh at it and move on. until such a day that i am harmed by one of these dopes as you say, i will treat them as any other road user. this is a tired subject that is discussed endlessly. what is complaining about it on boards gonna do?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    I love the ever present proclamations that "they could be doing worse such as drinking/taking drugs".Fact is that around here a good few of these upstanding folk have been arrested for posession,if you're gona be carrying drugs surely a piece of crap car that stands out like a beacon isn't the place to be.
    I don't agree with the argument that they could be at worse as it's far worse to be tearing around the public roads like a tool than getting locked on a night out.Even so I recently witnessed a couple of these idiots blocking 2 lanes of traffic while they decided to punch it out on the middle of the road.
    I'm sure the proper car enthusiasts regard a lot of these guys as idiots acting like knobs on the public roads.

    The "I have money" argument doesn't stand up either,a tool on the road is still a tool no matter what car they drive,it just seems that the eejits in the rubbish cars seem to be the ones who cause the hassle.They overestimate their driving skills and regard the roads as a playground.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 838 ✭✭✭Gregsor


    Overature wrote: »
    yeah but do you drive around all day with nothing better to do than pull handbrakers? and what have you done to your integra? is the engine modified to get more horse power or have you just got a body kit that does nothing for performance?

    :rolleyes: Silly remarks really,how old are you?

    I am an Integra owner also and an enthusiast of Japanese performance cars for over a decade and yes my car has a bit of a kit on it for appearance aesthetics and to stand out from the other ones on the roads,and it does the job well.

    Handbrakers?do people still perform this act?


    Back to the OP's question i think the young people doing such acts are silly wasters myself and it is just an attention seeking stint and showing off (or trying to) where their mentality has left them behind.

    The hoodies and the beanie hats are new to me and i have even seen a few with both on in the summer time :pac:,some trend that.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    ^what i don't like about it is the insurance companies dont see things as such.
    If you buy a car such as a civic as opposed to something as a yaris and you're around 18-20yrs old and you're a guy, yo're gonna end up paying almost twice as much for insurance for buying a car that performs better than a boring tin can on wheels.
    And i havent even gone near fitting induction kits and coilovers for which you'll end up paying another huge sum of money towards the insurance.

    All because people who drive small performance cars are instantly classified as "boy racers" by the insurance companies.

    I've paid 2500eur for insurance, third party, on my first car just cuz i decided not to get something boring like a micra or a yaris. Thats more that what i bought my car for!
    And i also dropped the plans of modifying it after hearing the insurace quotes for it... Infact the insurance person i was talking to barely had a clue what i was on about...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,137 ✭✭✭Balfie


    Knasher wrote: »
    I wonder if you built large versions of skateboard parks would they use them instead.

    Thought that would be called a race track myself? I could be wrong, but I doubt it..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,766 ✭✭✭farna_boy


    To be honest I have only seen one car which could even potentially considered a "boy racer car" driving around since it started snowing. I have seen at least 50 idiots though driving mercedes, jeeps, astras, passats, a4s all speeding (relative to the conditions) and driving as if it was dry day. In fact before I got home a while ago, I saw someone using a mobile phone while driving on an icy street. You don't have to be a boy racer to not know how to drive in bad conditions, the only common theme I see is that they are Irish.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 183 ✭✭Paracore


    They aren't hard to spot in fairness. You will usually find them ejaculating (attempting in their case) over twin cams, Starletts, alloys etc in back car parks. Think they're all hard men too of course.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 949 ✭✭✭maxxie


    zerks wrote: »
    Do boy racers remove the heaters and aircon from their cars to improve performance? In the summer I saw one eejit driving with the door open as he had no aircon and his windows wouldn't open,I knew that because he was roaring at his friends while doing more laps of the town than a taxi.Now we have cold weather they seem oblidged by some bizzare dress code to constantly have a baseball cap and hoody with the hood up on at the same time while driving.Even last night it was -9c here and they were still tearing around while most sensible people stayed off the roads. "I am invincible in my Saxo as I wear a cap and hoody combo-much better protection when I crash":confused:

    sound like rednecks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,396 ✭✭✭Tefral


    Paracore wrote: »
    They aren't hard to spot in fairness. You will usually find them ejaculating (attempting in their case) over twin cams, Starletts, alloys etc in back car parks. Think they're all hard men too of course.

    This image sprung to mind


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,740 ✭✭✭✭MD1990


    very ignorant person who started this thread


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭JimmyCrackCorn


    I own a modified car.

    I DO:
    I have a Degree (soon a masters).
    Have been employed since the age of 18.(about 10 years)
    career stuff two
    I do wear hoodies and have also suites, ties, jumpers.
    Get on great with all my neighbours
    Respect other road users (iv had complaints im too nice)


    I dont:

    Race on public roads
    Hang out in car parks or supermarkets
    Eat Mcdonalds
    Want to be a skanger
    Aspire to be vinny jones/karl marx/Wayne rooney
    Watch xfactor or reality tv
    Have any convictions,points,endorsements, accidents (5+years ncb)
    Comment on my man member on the internet

    Yes there are some epic tits on the road. Iv met a quite a few on the road. If you drive a modified car they tend to find you more often. :(

    Iv also met some great people who are true enthusiasts, from all walks of life. I have Witnessed some true community spirit in both charity and helping people who have truly been misfortune.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,366 ✭✭✭Star Bingo


    does anyone else think the term 'boy racer' is flattering, conjures images of some hot shot speed demon but all i ever see is some aloof chav sat in a desolate Mc D's carpark in an industrial zone wolfing down 4 McMuffins at 4 in the morning. with eminin eminating from


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,706 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    Better that they spend their money on performance accessories for their cars than on that damn crack cocaine.


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