Car is dead, so back to cycling!

[GrasB]

It isnt, trust me.

No I won't trust you, I'll base it on the fact I've rallied, autotested, hill climbed & sprint raced in 'centos for years. The handbrake is useless for proper handbrake turns, long term you will bend the actuation elbows. Okay so you might get away with it on bottom of the barrel ditch finders at low speed but that's about it. Try doing a handbrake 180 at 35mph with Conti sports contacts! Using Punto GT rear callipers you can do 180s at about 120mph (turbo requires along with a HUGE airfield for practice)...

 

[GrasB]

[QUOTE 3183637, member: 45"]Matt is talking about the Home Bargains car park, not the Kalihari Desert.

You said it was nigh on impossible. He rightly said that this isn't the case. Now you're talking about damaging the car instead. And something about the Wombles I think.[/QUOTE]
Yet again you prove your inability to read a post properly.

Okay so you might get away with it on bottom of the barrel ditch finders at low speed but that's about it.

Crap tyres & low speeds are an requirement of a handbrake turn in a cento. Put 185 wide conti sports contacts on the back and you're scuppered unless you get it to aquaplane, in which case you never needed the handbrake in the first place.

One way people think they do handbrake turns in a cento is provoke trail brake oversteer - brake very hard, turn in then grab the handbrake. The car then starts to oversteer, the thing is you get exactly the same effect with a oh so delicate touch of the brake pedal, about 5-10mm of pedal travel is enough, but the master cylinder is such that the first 15-20mm of brake travel does not activate the rear brakes! Actually once you've got the chassis twisted like that, the hardest turn is to feed in power smoothly without making the inside front spin up, you can pull the car round about 270 degrees without touching the brakes after turn in.

 

[Saluki]

Welcome back Matthew

It was primarily to go to college on bad days through winter (I got the car in November). But then my friends wanted to go places and do things. So we just want around in the car for a bit.
But now I require a plan to be conjured up so that I am not just wasting fuel and we actually plan somewhere to go.

I assume that your friends do chip in for the fuel when you go places and do things, or are you just a freebie taxi service for them?
If the latter, tell them to either cough up or poke off.

 

[fossyant]

Hooligans the lot of you !

 

[Ganymede]

Welcome back Matthew

I assume that your friends do chip in for the fuel when you go places and do things, or are you just a freebie taxi service for them?
If the latter, tell them to either cough up or poke off.

I was going to say that! I do think it's very easy for the one with the car to get a bit exploited, even if perhaps nobody really means to do it. You end up driving everywhere, paying for most of the petrol and going to events you didn't really want to go to because everyone else has decided by majority even though it's YOUR CAR.

 

[Matthew_T]

I was going to say that! I do think it's very easy for the one with the car to get a bit exploited, even if perhaps nobody really means to do it. You end up driving everywhere, paying for most of the petrol and going to events you didn't really want to go to because everyone else has decided by majority even though it's YOUR CAR.

Well I would rather be doing things with my friends than just driving about on my own.

I do get them to cough up now (although I didnt at first). However, the fuel leak wasnt doing anything for my pocket. The next car I get will be much more reliable, and I will look after it more. I wont be doing skids or racing people in it.

 

[Saluki]

Well I would rather be doing things with my friends than just driving about on my own.

I do get them to cough up now (although I didnt at first). However, the fuel leak wasnt doing anything for my pocket. The next car I get will be much more reliable, and I will look after it more. I wont be doing skids or racing people in it.

Crikey. Keep on doing skids and racing people you will not have a licence for long!!

 

[RWright]

The next car I get will be much more reliable, and I will look after it more. I wont be doing skids or racing people in it.

At least you survived, even if your car didn't.

 

[GrasB]

[QUOTE 3183709, member: 45"]You said it was nigh on impossible. Matthew rightly called you on it.

It's very easy to do a hand brake turn in a standard miniFiat on Homebase car park. No Clarkson rambling necessary.[/QUOTE]
No, he's not called me on it. He simply has shown he doesn't know what he's actually doing to the car. Your claim it's easy means you have no idea about the car's chassis either.

 

[Mugshot]

I can do a skid on my Defy, does that count?

 

[Dave Davenport]

I wont be doing skids or racing people in it.

Do you mean you have been doing skids and racing people? If so, where have you been doing this?

 

[Ganymede]

I wont be doing skids or racing people in it.

I'm glad to hear it. You probably know perfectly well that racing cars on the public road is illegal! OK I sound schoolmarm-ish but really? When you know from being a cyclist how much of a pain dangerous drivers are? I'm glad you're going to develop a bit more pride and ditch the silliness.

 

[Matthew_T]

No, he's not called me on it. He simply has shown he doesn't know what he's actually doing to the car. Your claim it's easy means you have no idea about the car's chassis either.

Look at this video:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgWcidVYrls

I do a perfect 180 in both the wet and the dry.

 

[Matthew_T]

Do you mean you have been doing skids and racing people? If so, where have you been doing this?

I didnt say I actually had did I?

 

[Globalti]

Go on Youtube and watch the other videos that Matthew has posted, rather indiscretely. It's like watching Wacky Races; there's racing, breakdowns, Police stops, a skid on a wet corner and of course the broken engine mount and then the exploding clutch. Having seen the effect on my local community of an economy hatch packed with five young men crashing at speed, killing one and seriously injuring the other four; I've got a horrible sense of foreboding for Matthew and his buddies and their families.

Here: http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/1347856.horror_crash_police_name_victims/

The front seat passenger was found with the windscreen around his neck, the other four were packed into the back seat with multiple major fractures. The Police later estimated the speed of the Honda at well over 80 mph.

God forbid that my own son has such a disregard for the safety of others when he begins driving.