Ever felt guilty?

[lambo182]

Main mistake I make is occaisionally messing up my 2nd to 3rd change (the gear sometimes doesnt want to go in) but thats rare.

I have the exact same issue - though it only seems to happen when ive got a chav or a TT or something behind to make me look like an idiot.

The bouncing off the rev limiter thing is when ur not concentrating propertly and it reaches the limiter so easily in the low gears... ie merging onto a motorway ive bounced it off the limiter a couple of times cos your spotting your space and before you know it u need to change!

 

[Neil G]

Don't feel guilty but sometimes regret going on a mad dash.

 

[jayxx83]

Ive thought that people may think "chav boy racer" when I go past in my 182, but realistically, I dont think the car has that image. Every one who sees it loves it and pays compliments (although you do get those jealous types that flash their lights as you go past).

I generally drive 30 mph everywhere during the day as there is usually too much traffice to give it full beans, and save 7250 rpm for the night time missions!

 

[tidyclio]

like said why feel guilty,would you feel guilty if you drove your car under 4k everywhere and never got the full experience of it?
mine has been bounced of the limiter well over 3000 times never had a failure engine or transmission wise and i've just passed 100000 miles.
yes you don't need to do it but in the lowly powered 1.2s going into 2nd and 3rd the higher up the limiter you take it the better the next gear begins.more done for the noise with a noisy exhaust the limiter sounds good hehe

 

[Ben j]

Yeah mee too, thrased the valver really hard, and in the end the brakes started to fade. I really felt guilty

i take it u dont have a manifold heat shield?

 

[Ben j]

oh and no never feel guilty! i abuse it! it breaks... i fix it.... lovely circle of life!

 

[Scott]

They're supposed to be used and abused:evil:

 

[tr1pp1n]

The bouncing off the rev limiter thing is when ur not concentrating propertly and it reaches the limiter so easily in the low gears... ie merging onto a motorway ive bounced it off the limiter a couple of times cos your spotting your space and before you know it u need to change!

happens to me often when not concentrating

 

[Nez]

Don't feel guilty, they are built for it, but try not to do it all the time. Not hit the limiter yet.. Also I don't piss it past slow moving cars, no need.

 

[Benners]

Nope, I don't feel guilty, if I'm paying £190 a year road tax I'm damn sure gonna use both sides of it , I'm sure on my driving license it says tear along the dotted line.

What pisses me off are the people on the other side of the road when you over take, the flashers, those who are at least a 1/2 mile up the road and think how rude 'cos you're overtaking somebody whom is trying to send you morse code with the brake lights and pedal, my philosophy is if they have time to flash they have time to break :rasp:

 

[Nez]

my philosophy is if they have time to flash they have time to break :rasp:

LOL tooo right!

 

[clio__chris]

sod flashing.

if someone does a stupid overtaking move....... head down.... maintain speed....... coming through!

 

[mrpink]

Nope, never, thrash her, let her cool down a bit, switch off, lock up, pat her on the hatch and say "well done "

 

[lambo182]

This thread gave me the inspiration to go out and rag her silly. So much fun. Plus I filled up with optimax on friday (i am normally cheap) and whooooaaaaaaaaaat a difference. Strangely I noticed the idle was a bit lumpy tonight :O oh well.......

 

[RobertCL]

sod flashing.

if someone does a stupid overtaking move....... head down.... maintain speed....... coming through!

lol :race:

I think I'd only flash someone for overtaking if I had to brake to avoid a headon with them, or if it was getting close.

 

[Norris_309]

I've hit the limiter in 2nd a couple of times, i actually felt a bit bad about that.. poor car.. poor car, i'm sorry.. :-(

I really should learn to drive properly, then i wouldn't need to meet with the rev limiter!

 

[patty]

never

 

[Simon172]

I miss the Renault warranty.... It certainly had it's use when i owned the clio...

 

[Loopz]

I feel guilty not trashing my car.

 

[Gweebs]

I do all of the above.

Talk to it...
Stroke it....(only where a driver should stroke it)...
Say sorry every now and again...:dapprove:
Clean it, to make up for it...:approve:
Even put some Optimax in to say sorry...:evil:

And I know the car repects me for it, because on the occassions it doesn't, it lets me know. Used the warrenty agreement a couple of times already. :dapprove:

 

[Thomss]

The 182's love a good thrashing it times... I think under the bonnet it is smiling and laughing and sometimes even I think I can hear it asking for more!

Once she's warmed up that is!

 

[Phill1978]

think how guilty the Rsport-ecu`d 172/182 owners feel ! lol 8000rpm and you just know the engine cant take it for long period but you do it anyway muhaha

 

[makavelli]

as long as the oil is up to temp, the car just begs to be thrashed

 

[Batman]

i rarely hit the limiter i think the last occasion was racing a 2.0 turbo cavalier thinking he was mint we agreed to start from stand still but when we got onto the str8 i started slowing down he took off so i put my foot down and started catching back up to busy looking at his rear end i hit the limiter but managed to catch him

 

[Nafoff]

feel ver guilty right now....just got back in from a nice drive.......but as has been said before all after the oil has warmed..otherwise you are asking for trouble

 

[Keydogg]

i sometimes regret if i think ive pushed it too far (i.e. i nailed it on a bumpyish road in mine upto 120 cos a dickhead in a bmw was having a go) and afterwards i just thought "why the f**k did i push it that far? if id have hit a bad bump i could have been doing 1740971 rolls through some fields".

experiences like that might be a little over the top but in turn make me wiser and a better driver.

as for thrashing the engine, its there to be thrashed as long as the engine is warmed up nicely! and with a 7400rpm limit i love it!

 

[MarkCup]

Guilt? For what? Letting the engine stretch its legs a little, as RenaultSport intended it to be driven?

In my opinion, you should only feel guilt if you DON'T thrash a 172/182...a normally aspirated engine, that only makes its proper power between 5-7k rpm...should be spending most of its time there. Mine has covered 60k miles being driven like that...is probably due to go bang any day now...but until it does it will continue to spend its time hunting down the 8k rpm limiter

If it's not driven like that...why on earth would you buy one? Looks alone...?

 

[artic blue]

Use And Abuse ,never Red Lined,but I Use All Those Lovely Horses Getting My Moneys Worth!

 

[Stev]

yeah me to, i will never understand why young one's in there corsa's an nova's ect always want to race i let them pull away 1st them just make them look silly infront of all there mate :approve: