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******Motors Chat - Round 6******

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    This I found amusing, I tried getting a quote on a car that is, older, slower, smaller engined than my saab, it's a 91 2 litre, and I can't be quoted on it :rolleyes: could just about get a policy on my one now as it was a "high performance veeehickle" so I wonder what the excuse will be with this one :rolleyes:

    "well it's the same age as yourself, and the oul tax isn't great on it now is it? you'd be better off with a nice oul corsa"

    Welcome to the 20 and over game, it's hard but rewarding.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,140 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    most insurers won't quote for cars in daily use that are over 20 years old
    Yeah - it was difficult getting anyone to quote me when I was planning to daily the carina, and that is 20 next year.
    Those that would quote were really cheap though (liberty)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,140 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    String wrote: »
    thats hilarious
    would like to see what statute gives them the power to seize a car for dangerous driving. I don't think it exists.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,308 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    String wrote: »

    Fúcking bull shít. I don't see anything wrong with doing a few donuts at the top of the road.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,773 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    Fúcking bull shít. I don't see anything wrong with doing a few donuts at the top of the road.

    Well it's not great carryon on a main(ish) road but I don't have a problem with it happening in a carpark or somewhere quiet.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    I was down that road a few weeks back, bought a car down there with a few lads.
    The guys we bought it off text us as we were driving down that road to say they had freshly painted it in the car we just bought. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,308 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    Ded_Zebra wrote: »
    Well it's not great carryon on a main(ish) road but I don't have a problem with it happening in a carpark or somewhere quiet.

    It usually happens at night. And those roads do be dead at night. And you would usually know a car is coming at night and just stop and pull in and when they go start again once they pass.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    It usually happens at night. And those roads do be dead at night. And you would usually know a car is coming at night and just stop and pull in and when they go start again once they pass.

    Yep, on a road like that you see the lights a few minutes before they get there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Totally agree lads no harm once they have a good field of view, ain't annoying houses nearby and know when to stop :)
    In fact I'm all for a bit of harmless fun!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 368 ✭✭MortGoldman


    Wait, so donuts on public roads are cool now? Oh.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Wait, so donuts on public roads are cool now? Oh.

    Yep, they have been since about the 1950s.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,140 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    CianRyan wrote: »
    Yep, they have been since about the 1950s.
    And you know, if all the cool kids are doin' it.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 368 ✭✭MortGoldman


    CianRyan wrote: »
    Yep, they have been since about the 1950s.

    How do you make that out?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    How do you make that out?

    Ever since hotrods became a thing, burning tyres and leaving black marks on the road has become a part of the modified motorists nightlife.
    This hasn't popped up over night, not even in Ireland.

    It's not even that it's "cool", it's just fun.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,140 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,140 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    CianRyan wrote: »
    Ever since hotrods became a thing, burning tyres and leaving black marks on the road has become a part of the modified motorists nightlife.
    This hasn't popped up over night, not even in Ireland.

    It's not even that it's "cool", it's just fun.

    +1
    Even look at the american muscle car scene. From the early '60s if not before, they were doing burnouts and such.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 368 ✭✭MortGoldman


    CianRyan wrote: »
    Ever since hotrods became a thing, burning tyres and leaving black marks on the road has become a part of the modified motorists nightlife.
    This hasn't popped up over night, not even in Ireland.

    It's not even that it's "cool", it's just fun.

    I know it's fun, I used to do it, until I realised that doing it on roads was moronic. I'm all in favour of fun, but not on roads, pretty much regardless of where/when or how quiet you think a road is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,668 ✭✭✭String


    It's idiotic on public roads. People could be walking and I have come across people doing them late at night where I had to stop and wait for them to finish. My gf had a **** attack cause she was afraid one time when someone was sliding all over the place behind her. This forum is starting to look like midnight club or the like.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 368 ✭✭MortGoldman


    +1
    Even look at the american muscle car scene. From the early '60s if not before, they were doing burnouts and such.

    Not quite the same thing as 'diffin' at a crossroads at 3am in a wrecked AE86 though, is it? And then claiming it's safe cos 'sure ya can see whether somethings coming'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,043 ✭✭✭Truckermal


    And you know, if all the cool kids are doin' it.....

    The reason I hate this forum is that its full of kids especially this thread, and ya I know if I don't like it don't read it...:rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Don't see many wrecked AE86's in Ireland to be fair, lads that love their cars (especially ones that cost around €10K) don't tend to wreck them...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Truckermal wrote: »
    The reason I hate this forum is that its full of kids especially this thread, and ya I know if I don't like it don't read it...:rolleyes:

    You hate it?
    You joined less than a year ago and you've been here almost every day since, bit of a sadist?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 368 ✭✭MortGoldman


    CianRyan wrote: »
    Don't see many wrecked AE86's in Ireland to be fair, lads that love their cars (especially ones that cost around €10K) don't tend to wreck them...

    Some amount of wrecked ones around where I am, oddly mostly rear quarter panel area damage, wonder how that happened.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,043 ✭✭✭Truckermal


    CianRyan wrote: »
    You hate it?
    You joined less than a year ago and you've been here almost every day since, bit of a sadist?

    Everyday??? Twice a week on average sometimes less oh and I am around a while.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Some amount of wrecked ones around where I am, oddly mostly rear quarter panel area damage, wonder how that happened.

    I see plenty of cheap cars, 318's, Omegas, C200's with the damage you describe but I call bull**** on tht statement in relation to anything tht cost the owner more than €2000.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Truckermal wrote: »
    Everyday??? Twice a week on average sometimes less oh and I am around a while.

    Yeah? Well that backs up my point really.
    You hate it so much that you decided to rereg?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 368 ✭✭MortGoldman


    CianRyan wrote: »
    I see plenty of cheap cars, 318's, Omegas, C200's with the damage you describe but I call bull**** on tht statement in relation to anything tht cost the owner more than €2000.

    Why? Is it unbelievable that someone who buys an AE86 doesn't buy it for a particular purpose?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,295 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    I love doughnuts tbh.

    Especially those melt in the mouth ones from country markets.

    Mmm doughnuts...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    This is getting insane around here in fairness.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭Kaiser D


    Some of the carry on around here as of late is properly laughable.


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