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Audi A4: scumbag car

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    #32
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    I actually have this little game when I go for walks.

    You hear loud music banging out of some car, but you don't see the car yet. 90% it's going to be VW, 8% it's going to be something from VW family like Audi. The other 1% going to be a lad in white Van and the rest is 1%.


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    #33
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users Posts: 6,177 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    Vicxas wrote: »
    You're forgetting The CB radio antenna too

    But no actual CB


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    #34
    [Deleted User]
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    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    I actually have this little game when I go for walks.

    You hear loud music banging out of some car, but you don't see the car yet. 90% it's going to be VW, 8% it's going to be something from VW family like Audi. The other 1% going to be a lad in white Van and the rest is 1%.




    And almost all will be rough and looking like they're being held together by willpower.


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    #35
    maddness
    Registered Users Posts: 1,774 ✭✭✭maddness


    Midnight_EG wrote: »
    Today's modern day scumbag car is the Golf R[/
    Not yet, give it a while though.


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    #36
    maddness
    Registered Users Posts: 1,774 ✭✭✭maddness


    I always think that BMW and Audi’s get to a certain age when they become affordable and driven by the dodgy types.
    Black A6 S lines with 20’s and all the windows tinted or the 520d’s with similar spec and lots of M badges.


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    #37
    Midnight_EG
    Registered Users Posts: 9,696 ✭✭✭Midnight_EG


    maddness wrote: »
    Midnight_EG wrote: »
    Today's modern day scumbag car is the Golf R[/
    Not yet, give it a while though.

    No it is, walk through any estate in West or North Dublin and spot the Golf R to find out who's peddling what :pac:


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    #38
    kirving
    Registered Users Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭kirving


    Was out for a jog the other day and had a guy in felt spec Volvo S40 1.6d slow down beside me (I was on the path) and attempt to roll coal at me, and yes they actually call it that.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal

    Can't wait for the day the NCT test for this.


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    #39
    [Deleted User]
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    kirving wrote: »
    Was out for a jog the other day and had a guy in felt spec Volvo S40 1.6d slow down beside me (I was on the path) and attempt to roll coal at me, and yes they actually call it that.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal

    Can't wait for the day the NCT test for this.

    Nct? They just change them back, get tested and **** the car up again.


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    #40
    [Deleted User]
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    New generations. Civic was the car if choice when I started driving. When I was about 30 it seemed to be ****ty starlets. Not it's a4.

    The car being cheap at the 10 year mark seems to be a factor.

    The last in his 40s that has put thousands into his **** box but still lives at home are the ones I save my point and laughs for


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    #41
    Bif
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    An honourable mention for the Altezza?


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    #42
    Mjolnir
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    Niner leprauchan wrote: »
    Nct? They just change them back, get tested and **** the car up again.

    Just a case of changing the map, not incredibly time consuming or difficult at all.


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    #43
    Truckermal
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    kirving wrote: »
    Was out for a jog the other day and had a guy in felt spec Volvo S40 1.6d slow down beside me (I was on the path) and attempt to roll coal at me, and yes they actually call it that.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal

    Can't wait for the day the NCT test for this.

    What did the Guards say?


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    #44
    barneygumble99
    Registered Users Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭barneygumble99


    Thing is you can pick up a 2012 M Sport for about 10-11k, in my head a 2012 car is still quite a fresh car. The same year Audi A4 is cheaper still and both cars are quite affordable (and unfortunately modifiable) to a lot of people. Some people see a badge and think €€€ but not really in the case of both the above cars. In my town, there’s a certain profession that are importing and vrt’ing M sports and A6’s and they’re all 2015/16. Same profession, where the troops claim the pay is terrible!!

    I’ve had 3 glanzas in the past, all brought in Japan myself and not a thing done to them engine wise. Was never into the modified scene, never went to a ‘meet’ , never raced them, just a fun car to drive and have always regretted selling the last one I owned.

    For me there’s one modified type that just screams scumbag and that’s the caddy or transit that’s been lowered, bull bar and side steps and a light bar on the bull bar with 20’ alloys and fancy number plates.


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    #45
    maddness
    Registered Users Posts: 1,774 ✭✭✭maddness


    Midnight_EG wrote: »
    No it is, walk through any estate in West or North Dublin and spot the Golf R to find out who's peddling what :pac:

    The unauthorised pharmaceutical sales men...


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    #46
    pockets3d
    Registered Users Posts: 283 ✭✭pockets3d


    Some snobbiness in this thread, young fellas will buy what they can afford and in that 10 year old bracket A4s passats and golfs are nicer places to be for sitting in forecourts than other offerings.

    Same whinging done over young ones all have the same haircut and clothes no ones original!

    It's the is200 that are up to no good in fairness, but they are just this generations twincam.


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    #47
    ofcork
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    kirving wrote: »
    Was out for a jog the other day and had a guy in felt spec Volvo S40 1.6d slow down beside me (I was on the path) and attempt to roll coal at me, and yes they actually call it that.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal

    Can't wait for the day the NCT test for this.

    Seen a passat around doing that all the time twin exhausts covering the place in soot.


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    #48
    Thinkingaboutit
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    Midnight_EG wrote: »
    Today's modern day scumbag car is the Golf R

    One drove through lights and nearly hit my car on the front passenger side as the driver decided to drive through the lights when red for him and green for me.

    I thought all the buses did the 'roll coal' thing. There has long been a moderate case for wearing a mask when cycling where there are a lot of buses.


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    #49
    selectamatic
    Registered Users Posts: 3,888 ✭✭✭selectamatic


    Midnight_EG wrote: »
    No it is, walk through any estate in West or North Dublin and spot the Golf R to find out who's peddling what :pac:

    Very much so.

    The getaway car of choice for many too.

    History checks on lots of ones for sale in the uk are apparently eye opening...

    Scumbag gets a very loose definition on here by many.


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    French Toast
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    Bif wrote: »
    An honourable mention for the Altezza?

    Prices have sky-rocketed. Decent ones were bought for 4-5k not terribly long ago, looking at double that now. They'll go the way the AE86s did, mark my words.

    Lexus is200's are the scumbags go-to cheap RWD these days.


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    #51
    BeginnerRunner
    Registered Users Posts: 295 ✭✭BeginnerRunner


    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy wrote: »
    Go back to 2007 and type this about Glanzas.

    Skip to 2011 and search "IS200".

    EDIT: FFS... did not see the posts above :D:D


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    #52
    PsychoPete
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    It's the one thing I love about my Glanza, as soon as I drive that scumbag boy racer side comes out in me but I also have an A6 so I'm more of a high class scumbag maybe


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    #53
    Mjolnir
    Registered Users Posts: 985 ✭✭✭Mjolnir


    maddness wrote: »
    The unauthorised pharmaceutical sales men...

    Street pharmacists?


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    #54
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users Posts: 9,662 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    I actually have this little game when I go for walks.

    You hear loud music banging out of some car, but you don't see the car yet. 90% it's going to be VW, 8% it's going to be something from VW family like Audi. The other 1% going to be a lad in white Van and the rest is 1%.

    Volkswagen-Polo-1.3-1998-1-6054-768x512.jpg

    I still remember a few years back an African lad driving one of these through Dundalk for a year or two, with the loudest sound system of all time installed. It must have been worth 10 times the value of the car, it was deafening. Absolute legend.


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    #55
    wotzgoingon
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    Voodoomelon wrote: »

    I still remember a few years back an African lad driving one of these through Dundalk for a year or two, with the loudest sound system of all time installed. It must have been worth 10 times the value of the car, it was deafening. Absolute legend.

    18 years ago I had a banging sound system in my Civic. Big amp, 6x9's and a big bass speaker in the boot the back window would be hopping. Back then I was into hardcore and hard house music so go through a city or town I would turn it up but once in a quiet area or countryside I would have it at a normal sound.

    Just to remind people that was 18 or 19 years ago so just a young fella. I also only done that for a year or two and got more sense.


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    #56
    micah537
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    Scumbag or skanger car is a bit of an over reaction. Every college car park will have modified Audi, BMW, VW and JDM cars. Are they are drug dealings, criminals or dole lifers OP? They certainly don't all live in rough estates either.

    I have no interest in these diesel smoke machines but seriously OP, they are hardly going around killing and raping before them are they?


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    #57
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users Posts: 9,662 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    wotzgoingon wrote: »
    18 years ago I had a banging sound system in my Civic. Big amp, 6x9's and a big bass speaker in the boot the back window would be hopping. Back then I was into hardcore and hard house music so go through a city or town I would turn it up but once in a quiet area or countryside I would have it at a normal sound.

    Just to remind people that was 18 or 19 years ago so just a young fella. I also only done that for a year or two and got more sense.

    That was last week, admit it. :D


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    #58
    mondeo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,666 ✭✭✭mondeo


    Premium brands become a few years old and become very affordable. So any idiot can buy a half a decade old a4 or an a6. I find it sad to see this happen with BMW's in particular. To me it damages their premium brand reputation when you see 21 year olds driving them with their aftermarket M sticker and tinted tail lights. It just turns me off them and I have had a few BM's over the years. You have to sort of get one that is inaccessible to chav type young fellas to feel like your driving something special. A relatively new 4 series coupe is a beautiful car to me but they are getting old now and have seen young lads starting to drive them with tinted lights and M series painted grills on them.

    I acquired a Porsche Boxster not too long ago and almost never see another one on my daily routine let alone a young person with stickers all over one. Thank God.


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    #59
    [Deleted User]
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    The OP drives a Skoda.


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    #60
    ht9zni1gs28crp
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    Some snobs galore in this thread, and 95% of them living on PCP and finance. Not everyone wants to tie themselves to car salesman's salaries for the rest of their lives, preferring instead to buy within their means.

    Cop on and look at your own life first before sneering others to try and make you own life seem somehow better than others.


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    #61
    RandomViewer
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    mondeo wrote: »
    Premium brands become a few years old and become very affordable. So any idiot can buy a half a decade old a4 or an a6. I find it sad to see this happen with BMW's in particular. To me it damages their premium brand reputation when you see 21 year olds driving them with their aftermarket M sticker and tinted tail lights. It just turns me off them and I have had a few BM's over the years. You have to sort of get one that is inaccessible to chav type young fellas to feel like your driving something special. A relatively new 4 series coupe is a beautiful car to me but they are getting old now and have seen young lads starting to drive them with tinted lights and M series painted grills on them.

    I acquired a Porsche Boxster not too long ago and almost never see another one on my daily routine let alone a young person with stickers all over one. Thank God.

    Did you buy the pipe and flat cap the same day or did you get them first?


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