Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 11:25 pm
Gee Wr1 wrote:If i'm ever down your way i'll accept your offer
You're on !
PS: how often are you over this way
Gee Wr1 wrote:If i'm ever down your way i'll accept your offer
Gee Wr1 wrote:Not very often i'm a home boy Usually the furthest south i go is to my brothers in Warrington.
The Swede wrote:Gee Wr1 wrote:Not very often i'm a home boy Usually the furthest south i go is to my brothers in Warrington.
You prefer me to stick your and your lady's arse, plus doggie on a plane or train down or want have me taking my girlfriend for a weekend in Scotland ?
bbigman2000 wrote:Wholehearted agreement from me there Stu, Scotland rocks I still rather be in southern spain though
bbigman2000 wrote:Swede you are one stubborn lad, evo's are crap man! Cheaply built for boy racers!
The Swede wrote:bbigman2000 wrote:Swede you are one stubborn lad, evo's are crap man! Cheaply built for boy racers!
1. Send me your address and clean up the guest room.
2. I don't know which Evo you had, but one of the things that irritated the hell out of me on my 2003 STi was the cheap materials they used, especially the cloth on the seats. After 3 years and 25K miles, all plastics had a different colour, the cloth on the seats had worn badly,... I find the IX built with much more attention to build quality.
Maybe there are some bigger tolerances with the Jap cars than with the German ones though.
WR1 Bro wrote:I can't believe you are discussing interior build quality of a Scooby v Evo...
The Swede wrote:WR1 Bro wrote:I can't believe you are discussing interior build quality of a Scooby v Evo...
I think you are illustrating well the point I made to Gee here yesterday: you give your car qualities it doesn't have.
Now unless Subaru radically changed the materials for MY2004, or you hardly use your car (how many miles has yours done on 5 years? ), the materials used in the STI were really below standard.
Start with the upholstery. At the front, you have this kind of alcantara but then they put this cheap black cloth next to it that tears very easily. Why not put leather straight away?
Then move to the back and just wonder why they had to skimp on a bit of alcantara there for the centre of the seats. Why was it so necessary to put that cheap kind of velvet lookalike there that changes colour at a different rate making the car look really tatty after few years.
Of course, you have owned scoob and Evo and combined with your self righteousness, that makes your statement the 11-th commandment...
I'm gonna start calling you Mozes soon !
bbigman2000 wrote:I will have you know swede geography was my best subject
Theres not a lot I don't know about plate techtonics.
Hmmmmmm, Yep that is certainly a classic !! Love it.
The Swede wrote: Next he gave the keys to me. First thing: Electronic nanny OFF. First roundabout a little flick to the left to unsettle the car and the thing drifted around with the easy of an 1985 BMW.
Too easy though as you don't have the feeling it's gonna kill you anymore.
(Still had the salesman screaming )
bbigman2000 wrote::lol: Not so good swede, that just leaves the M3 old boy, and I have just the car for you in white
www.marchmotors.co.uk
Click Main showroom.
presa900 wrote:The Swede wrote: Next he gave the keys to me. First thing: Electronic nanny OFF. First roundabout a little flick to the left to unsettle the car and the thing drifted around with the easy of an 1985 BMW.
Too easy though as you don't have the feeling it's gonna kill you anymore.
(Still had the salesman screaming )
FPMSL would have paid to see that, did he make you drive straight back to the dealership.
The Swede wrote:presa900 wrote:The Swede wrote: Next he gave the keys to me. First thing: Electronic nanny OFF. First roundabout a little flick to the left to unsettle the car and the thing drifted around with the easy of an 1985 BMW.
Too easy though as you don't have the feeling it's gonna kill you anymore.
(Still had the salesman screaming )
FPMSL would have paid to see that, did he make you drive straight back to the dealership.
Well, TBH, it was kinda unexpected. I had switched the nanny off and as the car did not accelerate in an impressive way, I thought I was pretty slow so I floored it all the way to the roundabout where I then thought I had to help the car a bit because, sure, this thing was gonna be lazy.
It wasn't and I was pretty surprised myself as it went sideways straight away. Since we carried some speed, and it was a big roundabout, I just layered it on a bit and the guy sat next to me, nailed into the chair screaming "How is this possible ? It shouldn't have done that ! What did you do? You probably upset the electronics !"
I never told him I switched grandma off, just went "I dunno, simply throw it around. You should try harder yourself next time".
He did take me back straight to the dealership via the dual carraige way though
WR1 Bro wrote:Typical Swede at his best... Mind, it isn't hard to terrify a car salesman.
I had a BMW salesman tell me I couldn't turn the traction control off as it "invalidated their insurance"... Needless to say I turned it off and was egged on by the wife to scare him... So I pulled my pants down and squeezed his knee.
POESY wrote:Ive driven the X FQ300 SST and tbh came to the same conclusion as swede - much nicer ride and pleasant place to be - but no longer an evo.
I did try the new scoob hatch 330S thing back at the start of the year and that was actually much better than I expected. There is potential in that new car, just needs to be unlocked.