Has anything you'd want in an interior in fairness. Youl never see a VW that isn't zzzzz inside anyway.
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Has anything you'd want in an interior in fairness. Youl never see a VW that isn't zzzzz inside anyway.
Looks ok to me.
The black was even more boring.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
They didn't have the moonlight blue which is a shame because that was by far the best colour. I was going to go for red but it wasn't metallic.
I wasn't going :sick: because it was boring. It's the inside of a car, it doesn't need to be exciting. That colour is just horrible. Black is fine, you can't go wrong with black.
Also, your kid will have that stained to fuck.
And the amount of stains magic would have left on black...
:D
Good point.
Black is safe and boring, far rather mix it up.
No she won't she's four and she doesn't get to eat in the cars. Also I've come from the dreadful Focus interior so fancied mixing it up.
Got stopped by the police tonight (me doing 90 on a motorway, them in an unmarked car) and having spent 15 minutes in the back of their car while they checked my license, breathalised and told me off they then let me go, citing it was my lucky day due to the thing that clocked me doing 90 not being calibrated.
What the hell's all that about?
Took my 46 minutes to get to a meeting this morning. 5.7 miles.
7 odd miles per hour in 30 degree, hot, stuffy, exhaust fumed misery.
That seems extremely lucky. Are we know at the stage where there has to be evidence, rather than the word of the police officer (not that I would disagree with that).Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
If so, what if you are doing 130mph?
I don't really know how it works, as it's the first time it's happened to me, but they did mention something about still being able to prosecute if they wanted to (without the machine), but it wasn't overly clear to me why they weren't going to. Not that I was going to argue the toss at that point.Quote:
Originally Posted by John Arne
It probably wasn't my lucky day anyway as there's a fair chance the average speed cameras on the M1 will have got me anyway. In fact that might have been why they didn't bother if they already knew that. No idea how that works either mind.
Just booked my first driving lesson for almost 9 years, after failing four tests in 2007-8. Let the fun commence.
Someody tell me this because the DVLA makes no sense. Is your driving licence and the physical photo card one and the same thing? Because currently my online status claims I have a licence valid from 2016 to 2026, but the photo card thing has yet to materialise, can I legally drive in an instructor's car this week before it appears?
New car isn't being delivered until Feb. :moop:
I had to send my card off to change the address and could legally drive in the meantime, so as long as you're listed as having a valid licence in case of a check I think you should be fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Great thanks. I did check with the instructor and he seemed to think it would be OK.
Maybe they considered it was just under the threshold for bothering with, was it a quiet road? I've heard the police down south are more lenient with letting folk off with a telling off compared to up here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
Those average speed cameras must be a myth (or the roadworks sections balance it out) because I drive like a twat on the M1.
Got my first lesson tonight, first time I'll have sat in the driver's seat for almost 10 years. Raoul, give me an ETA on driverless cars, this stuff is a nightmare.
RIP pedestrians.
How did it go?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
I drove around some council estate and found that cars are much better than they were ten years ago. I remembered most things, just need to stop mollycoddling the clutch and I'll be out on the proper roads.
Here's some absolute porn for you guys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8By2AEsGAhU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1_u3-eyXmU
White socks. :cool:
I know. Is there anything greater than Ayrton Senna donning the shit out of an NSX whilst wearing leather loafers and white socks?
Top videos. :thbup:
My father would don it when it came to left foot braking. Nowadays I wouldn't even bother trying.
Well there's panning across a driver briefing and seeing suave hispanics and mediterraneans in their polo shirts sat next to this bristling example of midlands manliness.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magic
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Indeed. I was reading comments about how Jonny Rea in the last race for WSBK (dunno if you saw it) but some sensor broke so he had to manually blip the throttle on the downshifts to match the clutch otherwise he'd be thrown off, also he was using just brakes and no engine braking, and he still managed to nail lap times. What a hero.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pepe
There's also a technique Vale uses, it's something like rolling the throttle with one of his fingers whilst he's braking, in fact I can't even remember. Colin Edwards was on about it, and when he got a whiff of it he tried it himself. Almost highsided. :D
Think I got caught speeding today on the M6. Fucking mustard yellow van turned out to be a mobile speed camera on an overpass. Sneaky cunts. Trust me to get done on a road where the average speed is over a hundred. I was doing 85mph.
Just done my theory for the second time, the first time being in 2006. Back in the day, the hazard perception was just old fuzzy clips from the 90s taken from the front of a car going around various market towns, so all you had to look out for was Mr Bean pulling out in his Robin Reliant. Now, it's all fucking CGI so I had such unlikely events as a CGI dog chasing an entire herd of CGI deer across a three lane carriageway, and a CGI middle-aged man in a CGI tweed suit kicking a brown, 1950s style CGI football into the road and running after it like a child.
Passed, though, because I'm a vaguely sentient being.
So one of my dipped headlamps went out a week or so ago. I couldn't give a toss because the car is going back next week. Anyway it came back to me a couple of days ago, and then last night they both just fucked up. So I have no headlights. Great! Side lights + fogs for a week then!
Not too much of a problem except for Wednesday where I've got a 3 hour night drive and then Thursday I've got a 2 hour night drive on deathly dark roads through the Cairngorms until Friday when I get my new car.
Put the fucking bulbs in the car.
Bollocks, how could it be the bulbs if one of the failed ones magically came back to life? It's the same electrical issue that's causing the improper central locking issues as well. Bottom line: Ford are shite.
My mistake, I thought you meant the car came back, not the light.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magic
Nah. Also I've replaced the fuses. The actual bulbs themselves look spot on.
I remember shit like that used to happen in older VW's when you got the passenger floor wet as the unit for all that stuff was under there. And a design fault under the bonnet meant it nearly always did get wet. I wonder if there's some similar problem with the Fords.
Just wear a head torch you fucking pussy.
You must have one from all that time you've spent creeping in the night trying to find your wife's smelt.
Tracker removed this afternoon, got to 110mph on the way home. :drool:
Well I've had it a month now and done 3.5k miles. I can't believe it's only 2 grand more than the Focus I had (though that was 3 years ago so it's probably equal in price now). It's fucking 10 times the car that was. Everything about it oozes class. It's so comfy, had loads of great features, pretty nippy too for the 1.0l engine and it's more economical.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magic
I wouldn't hesitate to own a Volkswagen for my own personal car, having only really owned French before I total lol back to the days of that. Fukk me. To be fair the Nissan is alright but man the class is amazing.
Class? It's a VW :D
Should be reliable enough at least being a TSI though. But that interior. Has hardly changed since the MK5.
Hi mate are you fucking blind can you not see I've only ever owned shite cars?
:D
Passed my test this afternoon, at the 5th attempt, 10 years and a month after the 4th attempt.
How do you buy a car? Rock up to a dealer and say 'excuse me, good sir, have you any motor cars for sale?'
:clap:
There's only 1 rule for buying a car: knock 'em down for anything and everything.
Car dealers. :sick:
Rather buy a used one even if it can go wrong in many ways. Better than having to deal with the dealership cunts.
Get in touch with your working class man and get yourself a copy of auto trader to read on the bus.
It really depends on how you want to do it: do you really want to research a particular type of model? Go on the car forums, there will be shit on there from long term owners you'd never even dream about.
Or do you just want a runaround? Could be ok, could be expensive.
Owning a car is shit, generally. The best way to do it is to get a company car and pay for it through tax, then you can get a brand new one and rag the fuck out of it and everything is covered (unless you reverse it in to a skip lololo)