Boy racers

Insurance

Anything over a one litre carton of milk in this country is considered fast

Gota love the vag 1.9
Tractor noise,straight pipe,remap and a cloud of carbon in the boat race

Oh and 55/60 mpg

Still too many in Wicklow.

' Oh have you heard me 'Dump Valve No? OK ill rally up this 30 KPH road 10 times and make it go off for the 100th time tonight!
Burn out anyone? Here's 5 for ya!.. How about I turn up tha Bass to the point you cant hear the music only tha Bass? CB antenna on da roof? Yea man, I mean it's not connected to anything as I don't really know what it was used for but it looks DOPE right? ...
Oh and while my Ma and Da are out we can rally there cars too! '

I work in an industrial estate near Blanch, the junction outside is prime for donuts. The odd street race up and down the 500m stretch of road. The rest of the business park has some 1-2km straights that are popular along with the N3. Could be a Monday or a Friday, anytime after 7pm really.

Also I live in Lucan, plenty of cars taking forever to redline in 2nd/3rd gear being driven from Ninth Lock and down towards Grange Castle from Clondalkin.

I think the majority have moved on from Fast and Furious to clapped out 10 year old Passat or A4. Nothing like thinking your hot stuff in a 1.6 TDI with cut coils and a black bonnet.

Plenty of them driving around aggressively, in bus lanes and tailgating etc.

EPAndlee wrote: »

Most people are driving them on third party extension and most pre 98 will have classic insurance. The days of having a modified car that stands out is well and truly gone, now its all about A4s with fake replica wheels,sounding like a tractor and absolutely rubbish suspension

Are fake replicas real?

tuxy wrote:

If insurance wasn't so ****ed you would probably see it make a bit of a come back. One plus side to the insurance cartel?

Yep, if insurers are keeping arseholes off the road, fair play to them

Hard to believe
Praising an insurance company for hiking premiums for no reason other than profit,some people obviously have more money than sence

Was nobody here young once,I don't see the harm in doing up a car and looking after it,it's a hobby for most

What I don't agree with is racing them on public roads or really over aggressive driving
Sure they don't have to be a boy racer to witness that each day driving

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Higher rates reflect higher risks presumably?

Do you really believe that honestly?
Higher risks of what?

Yes we're all young once but most of us don't think it's cool to cut coils, slowly redline every gear in traffic going to the shop or bounce off the rev limiter for way to long. I don't need to hear WAAAAAAAAAP at 2am while a car screams doing 0-60 in 12 seconds while I'm trying to sleep.

The majority of these are ricers. I'm sure there's some tasteful, well looked after examples out there but I'd rather my 1 litre econobox over most. None of these cars are particularly interesting and usually driven by some chap who thinks deadly because he's with some bird who's with him for his car. I knew a girl in school who was with a lad in his late 20s with a debadged Altezza going around pretending he drove a Lexus. Probably couldn't get a girl his own age.

Saw a VA WRX STI the other day for the first time in Ireland, that got me excited. Casual thumbs up to the driver and he held back to give it the beans with a nice choo choo from the blow off valve. I'm a fan of JDM cars, but there's a lot of poor examples of them here.

Nothing against anyone who wants to mod their car if it's their hobby, but 9 times out of 10 it's some riced up Civic going down the bus lane.

DaveyDave wrote: »

I don't need to hear WAAAAAAAAAP at 2am while a car screams doing 0-60 in 12 seconds while I'm trying to sleep.

That made me laugh out so hard....