The Car thread - The Bear and Badger

[Deleted User]

Make sure he teaches you clutch rebate and the RPM formula.

afgavinstan

HawBawJaws

Me and @afgavinstan's whip for the day:

Someone has to do that paint job on forza.

g.man

Hahaha

poprock

So, how about private plate dickheads, eh?

There’s one next door to me. Numberplate with only four characters. Really over the top Chelsea tractor – a Land Rover tarted up by the Special Vehicles department. Quilted leather seats, that sort of thing. He had a blue wrap applied to it. The thing has never seen any mud, ever. He parks it on the corner, on double yellows, every night so that it can be as close to his front door as possible.

He’s changed his private plate to LO17 DON. He’s had vinyls applied to both sides of the car saying ‘PRIVATE PLATE FOR SALE £350,000’.

We’re in Glasgow and his car only ever drives as far as the shops and back.

[Deleted User]

My Brother, Sister in Law, parents all have them.
Nothing fancy, just the usual letter and number arrangement but with initials etc that they like. They are quite considerate but then they aren't the top level personalised plate knobs.

Personally I don't get it and think they are a waste of money at best.

I just followed a Dodge Charger with something like R117 XXX, couldn't drive for shit, Max 45 in a 60, left his main beam on despite on coming cars, all over the road. Probably pissed. I regularly follow drunk drivers on that road, they always pull into the posh village.

There is a Range Rover with R1 that I see near my parent's place sometimes. Must be worth a fortune.

poprock

I have a personal plate on my car, but only because it was my Stepdad’s. I inherited the car and taking the plate off it would feel disrespectful to his memory.

yourfavouriteuncle

I’ve little interest in them but if you got in early enough I’m guessing they were a good investment. Worked for a client once who had J4. Said he’d paid around £220k for it and this was around 8 - 9 years ago.

[Deleted User]

My dad's is the only non-standard arrangement.
Letter, number, three letters.
It's worth about a grand. It actually came with my first car, a 1 litre Seat Ibiza that cost £1500.
My dad kept it when we scrapped my car (head gasket) to see if it will ever be worth anything.

GooberTheHat

There is a pair of cars parked up that I pass every time I come into London with private plates. 2 BE is one, and NOT 2 BE is the other. I smile ery tim.

Nina

Personal license plates are all kind of ridiculous here. The worst one I might have caught was "tpoopz", black kia sportage. I just hope it was a 16 year old driving that one.

HawBawJaws

There's a mini kicks about round here, reg w33 cow or something like that. Drives it like a wee cow anyway. Have i asked on here about black plates with silver lettering, or was that another forum? Seen them on a couple of range rovers and a bmw before.

GooberTheHat

You have. I saw one last week. Its strange.

Roujin

There's a little runabout round near my folks that's got BU51 BEE I fucking love it when I see it out and about.

afgavinstan

Newest, weirdest car search kink: left armrests for the driver. Need dat comfort yo.

Unlikely

Oooh, you're still alive. How did you get on yesterday?

afgavinstan

You'll need to ask Scott! I think I did okay, bit nervy, but enjoyed it, that's the main thing.

Unlikely

Was going to say you'll smash it then realised that, er...

poprock

afgavinstan wrote:

Newest, weirdest car search kink: left armrests for the driver. Need dat comfort yo.

Exact placement is key. Don‘t want that left armrest blocking your elbow when changing gear.

afgavinstan

Definitely. Much prefer the "part of a full centre console" type than a "storage cubby" variant. But then there's size, and budget innit.

ZMM

Verecocha wrote:

That’s a mess. I’d seriously consider some action. An Audi garage once threatened not to fix a DSG gearbox under warranty, so I took a week off and parked up in front of the dealership on the Monday and let them know I’d be putting people off all week, they said I wouldn’t dare, an hour later they agreed to do the work.

Haha, brilliant!

afgavinstan

Hypothetical: if I end up with an Audi A1, that'll make me a dick/hairdresser, yeah?

(obvious insurance stupidity as a new driver aside)

GooberTheHat

Nah, A1s are fine.

afgavinstan

Hmmm. Good to know. They tick every box apart from budget. Just didn't know if I'll be judged as harshly as Direct Line would do.

Webbins

My first year's insurance was £1200 on a 96 plate Fiat Punto 1.2, aged 23. I think I'd paid £3000 for the car. It was with Direct Line who were the cheapest for me at that time. Some of the other quotes were cray cray.

poprock

Top five worst drivers on UK roads (ignorant clichés edition):

Renault Espace (esp. in silver)
Audis (esp. when on motorways)
Supermarket delivery vans (all brands)
Anything in white with blacked-out windows
Taxis (esp. Uber)

GooberTheHat

I remember pay around £100 per month 3rd party, fire and theft for an E Reg Peugeot 309 when I was 18. Insurance is a bastard when you're new.

afgavinstan

I done a quick hypothetical quote on money supermarket and it was 650ish for the year. May be wildly inaccurate. I'm 31 though tbf.

HawBawJaws

poprock wrote:

Top five worst drivers on UK roads (ignorant clichés edition):

Renault Espace (esp. in silver)

Audis (esp. when on motorways)

Supermarket delivery vans (all brands)

Anything in white with blacked-out windows

Taxis (esp. Uber)

Honda jazz
Daewoo/chevrolet matiz

poprock

Let’s expand.

Renault Espace and/or Citroen Xsara Picasso
Driven by people who have simply given up; on life, on joy, on everything. Dangerous nihilists.

Audis
Inexplicably appealing to utter bellends with massive egos and short tempers, thus dangerous. Forever driving right up your back end and mentally willing you to move over and let them pass.

Supermarket delivery vans
Responsible for huge amounts of minor damage to parked cars around them in built-up areas. Incapable of parking without hitting something first.

Anything in white with blacked-out windows
Uninsured. Even if they think they’re insured, because they didn’t bother declaring any of the pointless modifications to their ‘whip’.

Taxis
Most people hate their place of work. Taxi drivers work on the roads. They hate the roads. Really, really, hate them. Permanently angry. Dangerous.

Honda Jazz
Exclusively owned by pensioners. Dangerously slow reactions.

Daewoo/Chevy Matiz
Dangerous nihilists. See Espace above.

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