Do you ever get this?

[Marcus1991]

People questioning you on why you moddify your car. Guy yesterday was lecturing me saying, "why don't you get a decent car in the first place and leave it!"
It's a hobby! I'd be board stiff if I didn't have my Pug to mess about with on weekends.
Sorry for the rant, just does my head in lol

[Toms306]

Yes I get it all the time....you'll realise they're right eventually!

[Dum-Dum]

Yes, my answer is usually "because it annoys people like you"

[Eeyore]

yes i get that and tbh the only come back is that you enjoy it!

Its cheaper (to some extent) to get a cheaper car and modify it. Why would you want to have a boring better car and blend in with all the other normals on the road!

[Just Sean]

I had some old bloke question every little thing I done to mine in asda carpark for over an hour!! He loved it though and I couldn't get away!

[Chris_90]

I get it quite often and cos I mod my car most people atomaticly think I sit in macdonalds car park at night or terrorize other road users, piss's me off some times. When in reality I dont really drive fast just something to do when im bord

[MarkTD]

People questioning you on why you moddify your car. Guy yesterday was lecturing me saying, "why don't you get a decent car in the first place and leave it!"
It's a hobby! I'd be board stiff if I didn't have my Pug to mess about with on weekends.
Sorry for the rant, just does my head in lol

I get this a lot and reply with 'why don't you get a decent car' because the majority of people that lecture us about modifying have shit cars and have no interest in cars. lol

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I get it quite often and cos I mod my car most people atomaticly think I sit in macdonalds car park at night or terrorize other road users, piss's me off some times. When in reality I dont really drive fast just something to do when im bord

Don't tell lies chris I've seen you around town ready and waiting to terrorise other road users lol

[Marcus1991]

People questioning you on why you moddify your car. Guy yesterday was lecturing me saying, "why don't you get a decent car in the first place and leave it!"
It's a hobby! I'd be board stiff if I didn't have my Pug to mess about with on weekends.
Sorry for the rant, just does my head in lol

I get this a lot and reply with 'why don't you get a decent car' because the majority of people that lecture us about modifying have shit cars and have no interest in cars. lol

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I get it quite often and cos I mod my car most people atomaticly think I sit in macdonalds car park at night or terrorize other road users, piss's me off some times. When in reality I dont really drive fast just something to do when im bord

Don't tell lies chris I've seen you around town ready and waiting to terrorise other road users lol

Exactly! The guy who lectured me has a ford focus (not a bad car by any means, just a bit boaring) he just kept going on about the money spent on modifying cars. If its a hobby, you do it cause you want to, not to make money.

[Matty]

Derv owners get the worse punishment.

Veg kills your engine. All that smoke?! - It's broken.

[Toms306]

Yeah, I did have to lol after mapping my car and the rents followed me out......when we got back step dad goes 'you need to tune that up, or fix it, shouldn't be smoking like that....'

[Eeyore]

noticed mine smoked a lot tonight serves you right person tailgating me!

[karl1989]

i get the smoke banter.
your car is f*cked, it needs sorting.
why does it?.
all the black smoke
and your point is
its broke
no its not its boosting and coaling nicely

[Dum-Dum]

If anyone asks the smoke is an auto sensing anti arsehole device.

It has a sensor inside the car that senses if anyone behind is an arsehole and if they are it smokes. The density of smoke is dependant on the density of the arsehole. Its quite a clever system really.



Or if the police pull you over. "Sorry officer my turbo is gone, im changing it at the weekend"

[Matty]

Not to forget the good ol' "Why dafuq are you tuning a diesel anyway?"

O_O

[kentiiboii]

i get the smoke banter.
your car is f*cked, it needs sorting.
why does it?.
all the black smoke
and your point is
its broke
no its not its boosting and coaling nicely

I've started getting the smoke stuff . Also people questioning about me going to run my car on veg .

[puglove]

My answer: because i dont want to drive somthing that is identical to 10,000+ other people who have no interest in cars, i want somthing a bit different that proforms better

[Ricky]

Not to forget the good ol' "Why dafuq are you tuning a diesel anyway?"

O_O

That's the main one for me, "Why are you bothering trying to get power from a diesel?" rubbish.

Most people just say the whole get a better car in the first place line. Although people on my road have recently realised the amount of work i'm prepared to put into the car when they see me out in heavy rain and gale force winds just trying to fix it!

[Pete]

I get this when people asked why I've ruined my van by lowering it too much and adding daft wheels and exhausts ect. My answer tends to be "Because standard cars are boring"

[Mattcheese31]

i'd own a new car, but they don't seem to make gov modded, FMICed, big blowered XUD's to buy off the peg so . . . ya know . . . . . lol

[Jukie88]

Those People just don't get car culture

[procta]

no one really mentions it tbh, you dont get your return in money but you do in pride, owner ship and driving the car. thats all that matters!

[the milkman]

And with this you just go "well I like being a smug twat when this French shitter leaves you behind and you've just spent about 4-5 grand more" the only Reason you need a 205

[Piggy]

i get it...then tell them i dont make monthly payments on it, fuel costs 60p per litre, it does 50mpg....and then I accelerate away from them

soon wipes the smirk off

[Toms306]

Speed really isn't everything though lol. Infact people buying new cars don't seem t care about speed anyway, so aren't overly fussed whether your shit old car with some big chavvy grinning intercooler and a droning exhaust is faster for half an hour until it falls apart again.

You have to realise, older people that only see a car as an a to b to ferret kids about in see any modified car as we see a saxo with Lexus lights and a jap can!! They automatically think you must be a chaff and a boy racer because of it, and they'd rather have thier newer more comfortable better specced car, regardless of how slow it is.....

[ozonehostile]

it never fails to amuse me the classic "why bother spending all that time and money on a 17 year old french diesel" then i take them down the road in it......

[Piggy]

^^^exactly.

I then also overtake them when they are stuck in the snow in their 50k "4×4"....

Or get stuff in my boot that they would never hope to get in there 'estate'!!!

[Matty]

I then also overtake them when they are stuck in the snow in their 50k "4×4"....

Or get stuff in my boot that they would never hope to get in there 'estate'!!!

Yea, you just went too far..

dafuq are you on about rofl?

[procta]

i did before, but no one bothers now.

[Piggy]

People with proper posh cars round here mock me horrifically....until they see what the ol 306 will do....

my employers needed some antique furniture moving...his rs4 was crap...got in me 306 in one go...

a neighbour with his 4.4 X5 sport had to ask me for a lift in the snow as he was stuck at work because his 4x4 got upset with a sprinkling of the white stuff....he never mocked me and the ol 306 again.

owned

[Dicky]

If anyone asks the smoke is an auto sensing anti arsehole device.

It has a sensor inside the car that senses if anyone behind is an arsehole and if they are it smokes. The density of smoke is dependant on the density of the arsehole. Its quite a clever system really.



Or if the police pull you over. "Sorry officer my turbo is gone, im changing it at the weekend"

I've had the police one countless times and replied with that exactly same answer