Y helo thar. I love to vent on the internets.
I just want to try and get this across to a lot of people, as I'm certainly not the only driver in this frame of mind.
I can't put into words how much I hate people constantly saying "SLAM IT ON ITS ARSE!" "You should lower it" "Get rid of that arch gap!" etc, etc. There are so many reasons that not everybody has a lowered car. These for me are, in no particular order:
1) I'm damn poor. I'd love to sit wider and lower than an obese sausage dog, but I can't afford it declared or otherwise.
2) My Clio is a fcking workhorse. I'm studying joinery, so I use my car as a van. I've carried a sofa, a huge bass guitar amp, a fridge, and half my mate's life when he moved house. Also my girlfriend is on the larger side (out of choice and not desperation). So as much as I'd love to join the Air Society, I'd have no space for the stuff and it'd constantly be high anyway.
3) Speed bumps. I live on a cul de sac, and there's one right next to my house towards the bottom of the road. The roads up to my girlfriend's house have asphalt mountains every ten yards, and a lot of other places have those evil red b*****ds. Considering that my engine tray is about to drop off in two pieces when I'm at standard height, it's a big put off.
Thanks for reading, share the love and rant with me
Lex, Nottingham
I just want to try and get this across to a lot of people, as I'm certainly not the only driver in this frame of mind.
I can't put into words how much I hate people constantly saying "SLAM IT ON ITS ARSE!" "You should lower it" "Get rid of that arch gap!" etc, etc. There are so many reasons that not everybody has a lowered car. These for me are, in no particular order:
1) I'm damn poor. I'd love to sit wider and lower than an obese sausage dog, but I can't afford it declared or otherwise.
2) My Clio is a fcking workhorse. I'm studying joinery, so I use my car as a van. I've carried a sofa, a huge bass guitar amp, a fridge, and half my mate's life when he moved house. Also my girlfriend is on the larger side (out of choice and not desperation). So as much as I'd love to join the Air Society, I'd have no space for the stuff and it'd constantly be high anyway.
3) Speed bumps. I live on a cul de sac, and there's one right next to my house towards the bottom of the road. The roads up to my girlfriend's house have asphalt mountains every ten yards, and a lot of other places have those evil red b*****ds. Considering that my engine tray is about to drop off in two pieces when I'm at standard height, it's a big put off.
Thanks for reading, share the love and rant with me
Lex, Nottingham
