Scotty Posted August 20, 2013 Report Share Posted August 20, 2013 Old number plates - I see so many nice older (10 years +) cars driving around looking really tidy and hiding their ages well apart from the plastic number plate. It seems mainly Mercs but they have a cracked plate or rust from the screw has discoloured the yellow etc Just spending a tenner on a new plate would make the car look a thousand times better. (or maybe it's just another of my pet hates!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinspark Posted August 20, 2013 Report Share Posted August 20, 2013 I reckon it's partly to do with the hassle of getting new plates these days - unless you use an unofficial source on the 'net, you need to take your documents in to be verified before you can get a plate. Last set I bought were pressed aluminium off the 'net. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patently Posted August 20, 2013 Report Share Posted August 20, 2013 Just spending a tenner on a new plate would make the car look a thousand times better.(or maybe it's just another of my pet hates!) I do agree. Replaced the 911's plates a while back as they were peeling and looked awful. Did it via the original dealer, of course so only Ian_C will be able to tell they're wrong (The originals said Dick Lovett Porsche, by the time I replaced them they were Porsche Centre Swindon...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Posted August 20, 2013 Report Share Posted August 20, 2013 Oh that's another thing I hate (I have quite a list thinking about it) - advertising on plates / cars. Plates - i think it's cheeky and I believe illegal for them to put the writing on advertising their company. I always insist on 100% plain. Last time they had a black plastic strip stuck under the bottom of the plate which was quickly detached. Dealer stickers on cars - who wants a fecking Vindis, Glyn Hopkin sticker actually on the bodywork of their car?!?!?! Fecking insane! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimdiesel Posted August 20, 2013 Report Share Posted August 20, 2013 Car eye lashes :confused: A female friend has just removed a set of these from her Fiat 500. The have damaged her paint. Being a gentleman, I am going round to her house to polish her bonnet for her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldavo69 Posted August 20, 2013 Report Share Posted August 20, 2013 I keep seeing cheap cars (poverty spec Focus, anything small and French) with very low character count expensive number plates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted August 20, 2013 Report Share Posted August 20, 2013 Wouldn't that be the Beetle's bonnet? The dealer stickers winds me up too. First thing I do is remove them from the windows but so many people, my wife included, leave them on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon magnifique Posted August 20, 2013 Report Share Posted August 20, 2013 Being a gentleman, I am going round to her house to polish her bonnet for her. Ding dong! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudiPartner Posted August 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2013 A female friend has just removed a set of these from her Fiat 500. The have damaged her paint.Being a gentleman, I am going round to her house to polish her bonnet for her. I'd try and slip her one if I were you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimdiesel Posted September 2, 2013 Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 I have seen a couple of the following recently, that I just dont get. Current model Polo Bluemotions, but with massive after market wheels and tyres. Must absolutely ruin the main USP of the perfectly wothy Bluemotion Polo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calm Chris Posted September 2, 2013 Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 Audi Chingford = c0cks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick Posted September 2, 2013 Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 Brown cars ........ who on earth specs up their new car and says "oooh we'd like the sh1t brown colour please" - there should be laws to prevent this being an option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted September 2, 2013 Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 I've seen a metallic brown 63 plate 1 series this morning. I must admit I did a double-take but it didn't look that bad. Nor did it look that good either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted September 2, 2013 Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 Brown cars ........ who on earth specs up their new car and says "oooh we'd like the sh1t brown colour please" - there should be laws to prevent this being an option. Same people who go for that baby-vomit yellow/green thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinspark Posted September 2, 2013 Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 VW's dark oak brown metallic looks fantastic on the CC, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian_C Posted September 2, 2013 Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 (edited) Brown cars ........ who on earth specs up their new car and says "oooh we'd like the sh1t brown colour please" - there should be laws to prevent this being an option. Agreed. Passed a Teak Brown R80 V10 Spider the other week. No I won't have Sepang, I won't have Phantom, I won't have Daytona, I'll have brown please Imola on the other hand, well at least its different! http://forum.rs246.com/download/file.php?id=19317 Edited September 2, 2013 by Ian_C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick Posted September 2, 2013 Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 Everytime I see one, I can never get out of my head a scene from "insert name of tv show" with Harry Enfield and Kathy Burke as Wayne and Waynetta Slob .... Waynetta goes outside to view her new car and prompty says "I don't like braaaannnn" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patently Posted September 2, 2013 Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 Brown cars ........ who on earth specs up their new car and says "oooh we'd like the sh1t brown colour please" - there should be laws to prevent this being an option. I once had a six-month long wind-up of my then neighbour, the new car sales manager for the local BMW dealership. I kept asking why he'd specced his new (E39) 530i demonstrator in poo brown. He insisted that is was not poo brown, it was "BMW Individual brass metallic". So I'd ask how much extra BMW charged to supply the car looking like it was covered in poo. He never wanted to answer that. We had two toddlers in nappies at the time. We could have done it for him waaaay cheaper... Same people who go for that baby-vomit yellow/green thing? No no no no that's really nice and totally not the same at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldavo69 Posted September 3, 2013 Report Share Posted September 3, 2013 I might have had this 1.2 beast for a week the other week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booster Posted September 3, 2013 Report Share Posted September 3, 2013 I might have had this 1.2 beast for a week the other week Ford? Yes. Got any cheap Fiestas you can't shift? Got a sh1t brown one. That'll do. That is special. Wheel trims and all. Woman in the Silver car (Suzuki?) is so offended she can't even look at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted September 3, 2013 Report Share Posted September 3, 2013 Woman in the Silver car (Suzuki?) is so offended she can't even look at it. Check out the drivers seat - in full recline?. Maybe she was mid blow-job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldavo69 Posted September 3, 2013 Report Share Posted September 3, 2013 It was complete poverty spec and was frankly dangerous on the motorway. Bizarrely it had a USB link that would charge and play my iPhone and let me control it through the rudimentary "stereo" system which was a bit of a surprise. It also had a particularly ineffective sort of aircon that caused the revs to drop if you turned it on. If you took a right turn with the sort of vigour a non-pensioner might do you needed up driving it from the passenger seat and hanging onto the massive plastic ship's wheel of a steering wheel for dear life. I used it for 3 tip trips and 2 lots of alloy wheel ferrying about though and I may have had all four wheels simultaneously airborne too; oh and the ABS worked. (As I may have discovered upon "landing") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busby Posted September 4, 2013 Report Share Posted September 4, 2013 Check out the drivers seat - in full recline?. Maybe she was mid blow-job. Looks as though she may be having a post-event cigarette. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian_C Posted September 4, 2013 Report Share Posted September 4, 2013 It was complete poverty spec and was frankly dangerous on the motorway. 1.2 you said? Completely and utterly gutless, no matter if you changed down from fifth to fourth to third?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon magnifique Posted September 4, 2013 Report Share Posted September 4, 2013 I don't get this notion that a lower powered car is 'dangerous', certainly not with anything new. I bet that 1.0 or 1.2 Festa had a higher output than a 1980s XR2. It just needs a some adjustment and compensation in driving style, and a carefree ignorance of the queue behind... The parents' Jazz is pretty gutless, but I've never felt in danger because of that. I actually quite like driving it, weirdly enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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