never lend your mate your turbo.

[diamond geezer]

a young mate of mine, phoned me today, and asked to borrow my car to go pulling birds. no problem i said, he came round collected it after i turned the boost down. get a phone call an hour later, he d blown the effing clutch to bits and is stuck in a car park, can i go get him. muppet!.

 

[McBunny]

he needs a car to pull girls !!! is he really that ugly ??

 

[McBunny]

oh and sorry to hear about the car

 

[CocoPops]

Not being funny, but I certainly wouldnt lend a car to a mate "to pull birds" Id tell him to stick it!!

If he wanted it for a sensible reason, then no worries, but for pulling? feck that!

 

[Clart]

yeah have a word mate!

 

[McBunny]

coco any news on your 7 yet ??

 

[diamond geezer]

hes only young, he has plenty of time to save up to fix it, seeing as i now have his valver until mine s fixed.

 

[McBunny]

oh yeah was he even insured to drive the car ??/

 

[CocoPops]

Quote: Originally posted by McBunny on 26 June 2005
coco any news on your 7 yet ??


Being collected tomorrow by Westfield to go for its final estimate.

Hopefully, once that is done, it will be rebuilt.

Should have it back for Mid August (current estimate).

 

[diamond geezer]

yeh hes insured, anyway its only a car, thats what i kept telling myself while i had my hands round his throat.

 

[Ali]

whys he insured on ur car....Seems odd to me.

 

[clio007]

third party probably, he might have been a policy holder on another car

 

[m4rk]

must be fully comp on his own so maybe tp only on diamond geezers car.

 

[Lloyd v]

Quote: Originally posted by CocoPops on 26 June 2005

Not being funny, but I certainly wouldnt lend a car to a mate "to pull birds" Id tell him to stick it!!

If he wanted it for a sensible reason, then no worries, but for pulling? feck that!


^ Seconded.

 

[Hector]

ur a calmer man than me...

 

[patty]

lol me too

 

[_Tom]

I let any of my mates borrow my car. I trust them with it

 

[David]

ur crazy to let him borrow it to pull birds to start with! hes lucky to have a friend like you!

 

[diamond geezer]

well ive got his valver, till mine fixed, as long as its done for the rtoc bash at the pod i dont really care, p.s. forgot what valvers are like, may be its just his one, but no brakes, and slower than my nan.

 

[_Tom]

But what i would say is id never let that mate borrow your car again!

he must have been driving it like a right tool!

 

[diamond geezer]

bit that gets me is he stuffed a triple plate kevlar race clutch inside 20 miles! how? i mean how did he do it? these things are supposed to be indestuctable. any way, id lend it any of my mates, as posted above, as long as they are insured on it, i trust them, as i know i could borrow theres if i needed a bigger car etc. just a bit unfortunate.

 

[jimmy_mac]

i was worried that you were gonna say he put it round a lampost or something?

i thought you were selling up?

 

[Matt16v]

You cant account for a breakdown. My clutch just fell appart in my valver. Wasnt doing anything daft.

If hed have crashed it then thats a different story.

 

[Sami]

Maybe you should take the clutch back to whoever fitted it and tell them they ballsed it up, see if you can get it free

 

[rory182]

i know a 182 aint the fastest car out there but NO WAY Id let most of my mates touch it, they drive fecking slow ass 1.2s and would wrap it in minutes.

No offence to 1.2 owners but theres a big difference!

 

[_Tom]

Quote: Originally posted by rory182 on 27 June 2005


i know a 182 aint the fastest car out there but NO WAY Id let most of my mates touch it, they drive fecking slow ass 1.2s and would wrap it in minutes.

No offence to 1.2 owners but theres a big difference!

Because people drive 1.2s doesnt mean they would crash a 2.0l!

Thats like saying because you drive a 2.0l with 182bhp youd probably smash up a 300bhp car!

 

[Sami]

I think he means they are used to the power and dont appreciate how quickly they can accelerate to dangerous speeds and lose control of the car...

 

[_Tom]

Youd have to be a seriously bad driver thats all ill say

 

[JJ!]

Quote: Originally posted by diamond geezer on 27 June 2005

<SCRIPT language=javascript> well ive got his valver, till mine fixed, as long as its done for the rtoc bash at the pod i dont really care, p.s. forgot what valvers are like, may be its just his one, but no brakes, and slower than my nan.

yeah its just his

 

[JJ!]

and what kind of girls was he hoping to pull in a clio??!!

 

[_Tom]

Quote: Originally posted by Justy on 27 June 2005

and what kind of girls was he hoping to pull in a clio??!!

Its not ure average! Its the crazy one with the naples kinda colour marble paint ect

 

[JJ!]

Quote: Originally posted by Tom20v on 27 June 2005

Quote: Originally posted by Justy on 27 June 2005

and what kind of girls was he hoping to pull in a clio??!!

Its not ure average! Its the crazy one with the naples kinda colour marble paint ect

asks the question of what kind of girls he was trying to pull even more

 

[rory182]

Quote: Originally posted by Sami on 27 June 2005

I think he means they are used to the power and dont appreciate how quickly they can accelerate to dangerous speeds and lose control of the car...

yeah i did mean this, I mean a 182 will be doing 100 in the time a 1.2 is just past 60 so I really think my mates that are used to 60/70bhp would struggle to keep control of the car, takes a bit of getting used to!

Acceleration can get you into trouble pretty quickly, plus with the torque steer thrown in for good measure and the lack of traction in 1st id have no tyres left and a nice lampost shape in my door no doubt.

 

[rory182]

I wouldnt have let them drive my 205gti either cause theyre used to power steering! lol

 

[_Tom]

Quote: Originally posted by rory182 on 27 June 2005

Quote: Originally posted by Sami on 27 June 2005

I think he means they are used to the power and dont appreciate how quickly they can accelerate to dangerous speeds and lose control of the car...

yeah i did mean this, I mean a 182 will be doing 100 in the time a 1.2 is just past 60 so I really think my mates that are used to 60/70bhp would struggle to keep control of the car, takes a bit of getting used to!

Acceleration can get you into trouble pretty quickly, plus with the torque steer thrown in for good measure and the lack of traction in 1st id have no tyres left and a nice lampost shape in my door no doubt.

Fair enough i dont know your mates! lol

All ill say is at 19 i could drive a 300bhp STi no probs when most would say someone that young couldnt and would crash. It depends on the person i spose though

 

[rory182]

not talking age, talking what people are used to driving. My mates are 23 / 24 - I have mates 20 / 21 whore more used to power from 1.9 gtis, Celica GT4s etc

[Edited by rory182 on 27 June 2005 at 4:50pm]

 

[_Tom]

I had been driving a mildly tuned valver though. Well i drive the slowest of slow GTis and can handle big power. But yeah it is a bit different

 

[Nafoff]

wouldnt let any of my mates drive mine on the road, maybe on a track.....dunno really til it happens

 

[Leeshez]

That is bad news

 

[diamond geezer]

just a quick update, since it was stuffed, ive had i back 4 days, went to southend in it, came home on a transporter, with a blown clutch again. so much for cheap clutch. so im with out transport again. p.s. when i say cheap clutch is the one bb tuning sell, as thats where i bought it, just thought it would last longer than 4 days!, crap....