***** Motors Chat - Round 5*****

Kaiser D

Spike Witwicky wrote: »

Same here. Had just found sex, drugs n heavy metal. Didnt give a flyin hoot about cars then

When I was 14 I was working at my uncles garage after school and on weekends! I had my first car at 15 too. Not an S14, but a humble Ford Escort.

Who needs a social life at 14 anyway!?

toastedpickles

GvidoR wrote: »

So that can be anywhere from May to August. :P

Exactly

Spike Witwicky wrote: »

Couldnt get to the last one as i was working. Next one i'm definately goin. Some members here have some seriously nice cars.

They really do, the first meet I was at a guy showed up in a mk2 escort, looked lovely

Foxhole Norman

Does anyone think it'd be worth it to pick up a car over in England that's worth ~3K?

Spike Witwicky

Kaiser D wrote: »

When I was 14 I was working at my uncles garage after school and on weekends! I had my first car at 15 too. Not an S14, but a humble Ford Escort.

Who needs a social life at 14 anyway!?

:eek: 14 - 20 was my social life!!! :pac:

Went to London for a year when i was 19 and worked in a tyre yard. I learned to drive there by taking the local car dealers cars and parking them outside for sale. Would have to drive customers cars after doin a wheel alignment to make sure they werent pulling. I drove everything from clapped out Metros to Jags n Mercs

toastedpickles

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Does anyone think it'd be worth it to pick up a car over in England that's worth ~3K?

GvidoR

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Does anyone think it'd be worth it to pick up a car over in England that's worth ~3K?

If it's a Lada Niva, then yes.

Kaiser D

Spike Witwicky wrote: »

:eek: 14 - 20 was my social life!!! :pac:

Went to London for a year when i was 19 and worked in a tyre yard. I learned to drive there by taking the local car dealers cars and parking them outside for sale. Would have to drive customers cars after doin a wheel alignment to make sure they werent pulling. I drove everything from clapped out Metros to Jags n Mercs

My uncle was an old school mechanic who worked from a tiny little garage down a back alley in North Dublin. It was always busy but always with **** heaps generally.

I bloody do miss it though.

Foxhole Norman

GvidoR wrote: »

If it's a Lada Niva, then yes.

It's not :P. It'd be a BMW E39 525i.

Spike Witwicky

I know what you mean. I do too sometimes. You never knew what car you'd be driving next. Was very disappointed with an Escort RS Turbo that came in. The lag was unbelieveable.

Noccy_Mondy

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Does anyone think it'd be worth it to pick up a car over in England that's worth ~3K?

Ahh consuela my biatch :P I know it can be so tempting, looking on the likes of autotrader, their cars look so much more tidier and have more equipment for their age. But for 3k I wouldn't bother.

Foxhole Norman

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Ahh consuela my biatch :P I know it can be so tempting, looking on the likes of autotrader, their cars look so much more tidier and have more equipment for their age. But for 3k I wouldn't bother.

It's purely for the fact that there seems to be no decently specced E39 M-Sports around, especially in the Touring shape.



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2004-04-E39-Bmw-525i-Sport-Auto-Touring-/271453890470?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3f33e9a7a6

Something like that I'd absolutely love.

Noccy_Mondy

Offt...tempting alright! Auto ya lazy lout :pac: Would you buy over flea-bay?

Foxhole Norman

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Offt...tempting alright! Auto ya lazy lout :pac: Would you buy over flea-bay?

I'd prefer the manual myself alright, seem to be very rare on 2.5's though. I wouldn't buy through Ebay but I'd arrange viewings alright.

challengemaster

Kaiser D wrote: »

What if he loses control of it an hits somebody? Kills someone even.
Or just does damage something.

I wonder if its even legal.

Pretty damn hard to hit and kill someone at mondello (or most places these days) tbh. They run everything very well.

Speaking specifically about mondello, there's actually no real place a person that isn't a marshall or media could get on track without being spotted very quickly and hauled off. Marshalls know where they're meant to be, and media spots in mondello have become a lot more restricted as to where you can/can't go when cars are out. For the most part, media are all either on the banks surrounding T1/T2, or behind safety barriers in that area.

The worst drift crashes I've seen weren't involving a second car either, and in those cases safety equipment just does its job.

Same as any other case on the track - essentially there is no insurance. If you crash, tough. Mondello have their own public liability insurance (which they include in the cost of renting the track for days like this) which would cover any incidents though.

CianRyan

OSI wrote: »

While I loved my time doing the track day training, there's no hope I'd do a track day in my every day car again. That one day has probably cost me the guts of a grand in the long term.

To be fair, I know loads of lads that do then in their daily drivers. They just go about 7-8/10ths, by the sounds of it you went 10/10ths which cooked your brakes.
An honourable way to do it if you ask me.

Supergurrier

OSI wrote: »

While I loved my time doing the track day training, there's no hope I'd do a track day in my every day car again. That one day has probably cost me the guts of a grand in the long term.

Old diesel

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

I'd prefer the manual myself alright, seem to be very rare on 2.5's though. I wouldn't buy through Ebay but I'd arrange viewings alright.

As someone else suggested - looks hard to justify at the 3 k end of the market.

But do the sums - if it meant getting the car you wanted - then it might be worth it even if you had to play a small bit more*.

Depends completely on the cars available, their price, VRT over here - and what you can buy over here.

On Ebay - viewing first is the way to go - don't think id ever buy a car on Ebay without viewing it first.

*with vrt included

YbFocus

OSI wrote: »

Here, when you see an M3 in the distance and a closing gap. You go full retard. The noise of tyre squeal for near 30 minutes on the GoPro footage is great

It's easy to say it here but when you go out you always just go nuts
Better to have a track car though, then you can do so worry free

Sobanek

Kaiser D wrote: »

I know his uncle.

I would love to know how he insures that...

He doesn't need to, the track is insured.

YbFocus

Sobanek wrote: »

He doesn't need to, the track is insured.

And with any motorsport..

If you crash yourself it's your own tough.
If someone crashes into you its still your own tough.
Etc.

Sobanek

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

It's purely for the fact that there seems to be no decently specced E39 M-Sports around, especially in the Touring shape.



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2004-04-E39-Bmw-525i-Sport-Auto-Touring-/271453890470?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3f33e9a7a6

Something like that I'd absolutely love.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201311290227149/

Foxhole Norman

Sobanek wrote: »

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201311290227149/

I hate you right now.

GvidoR

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

I hate you right now.

Did you book a ferry yet? :P

joujoujou

Bargain Alerts forum has 20% off ferry booking thread now, so hurry!

toastedpickles

I dunno if it's be raised before but anyways here goes,

What say ye of a car or the month thread? With a template as such

Model

Engine

Modifications

Photos

And the one with the most thanks is, stickied or something I dunno

Anyways, just a thought!

Ded_Zebra

toastedpickles wrote: »

I dunno if it's be raised before but anyways here goes,

What say ye of a car or the month thread? With a template as such

Model

Engine

Modifications

Photos

And the one with the most thanks is, stickied or something I dunno

Anyways, just a thought!

Nice idea. Would it be a specific members car or something like a Skoda Octavia?

toastedpickles

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

Nice idea. Would it be a specific members car or something like a Skoda Octavia?

Anything really, like take yourself for example, you have that lancia, you could throw that in y'know?

MuppetCheck

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

Nice idea. Would it be a specific members car or something like a Skoda Octavia?

What if the member owns a Skoda Octavia?

I can see the ending already:pac:

Kaiser D

I'd like to see that happening..

toastedpickles

MuppetCheck wrote: »

What if the member owns a Skoda Octavia?

I can see the ending already:pac:

Then they get a three month ban to reflect on their purchase :pac::pac: