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[captain_to_fire]

1 minute ago, iDeFecZx said:

I managed to set a car alarm off twice today just by driving past it

Somethings defo wrong with said car

The car alarm is "triggered" and "oversensitive" 

 

It happened to me once back in high school, me and my friends are playing Badminton in doubles and the shuttle cock hit the car and it triggered the alarm and the service didn't even came from a smash.

[iDeFecZx]

4 minutes ago, hey_yo_ said:

The car alarm is "triggered" and "oversensitive" 

 

It happened to me once back in high school, me and my friends are playing Badminton in doubles and the shuttle cock hit the car and it triggered the alarm and the service didn't even came from a smash.

I was about a cars width away from it and it went off lol

[bcredeur97]

13 minutes ago, iDeFecZx said:

I was about a cars width away from it and it went off lol

if you have a loud enough car, you can set all the alarms off everywhere you go

[Mr.Meerkat]

You know those news articles you read about mechanics speeding, joy riding and just generally doing stupid things with customer cars? Well if you follow me/have read my status updates, you probably already seen my statuses regarding this. 

 

So I have telematics insurance (come on, it is £700/year cheaper plus Google already tracks me so...) and two or three days ago, my insurance's feedback app told me to stop speeding. I thought nothing of it as it gets triggered very easily. However, my insurance company called me earlier sternly telling me to stop speeding or I risk my policy being cancelled (which I re-informed them that I didn't actually have the car, which their tone immediately changed) and got sent a follow up email. 

In the email, it gave me 3 examples of speeding:

Spoiler

Ummmm mate, you're going over the bloody limit by almost 50% .

Unfortunately, its in under warranty so I can't really use it to my advantage? (without destroying their business as I don't have the heart to). Regardless, looks like I'll never be touching them with a barge pole again, even if its warranty related... 

 

[Real_PhillBert]

5 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

You know those news articles you read about mechanics speeding, joy riding and just generally doing stupid things with customer cars? Well if you follow me/have read my status updates, you probably already seen my statuses regarding this. 

 

So I have telematics insurance (come on, it is £700/year cheaper plus Google already tracks me so...) and two or three days ago, my insurance's feedback app told me to stop speeding. I thought nothing of it as it gets triggered very easily. However, my insurance company called me earlier sternly telling me to stop speeding or I risk my policy being cancelled (which I re-informed them that I didn't actually have the car, which their tone immediately changed) and got sent a follow up email. 

In the email, it gave me 3 examples of speeding:

  Hide contents

Ummmm mate, you're going over the bloody limit by almost 50% .

Unfortunately, its in under warranty so I can't really use it to my advantage? (without destroying their business as I don't have the heart to). Regardless, looks like I'll never be touching them with a barge pole again, even if its warranty related... 

 

Could be worse, Subaru dealers are notorious for wrecking customers WRXs. Done it on numerous occasions.

 

https://jalopnik.com/dealership-employee-borrows-then-wrecks-customers-brand-1683126379

[bcredeur97]

9 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

You know those news articles you read about mechanics speeding, joy riding and just generally doing stupid things with customer cars? Well if you follow me/have read my status updates, you probably already seen my statuses regarding this. 

 

So I have telematics insurance (come on, it is £700/year cheaper plus Google already tracks me so...) and two or three days ago, my insurance's feedback app told me to stop speeding. I thought nothing of it as it gets triggered very easily. However, my insurance company called me earlier sternly telling me to stop speeding or I risk my policy being cancelled (which I re-informed them that I didn't actually have the car, which their tone immediately changed) and got sent a follow up email. 

In the email, it gave me 3 examples of speeding:

  Reveal hidden contents

Ummmm mate, you're going over the bloody limit by almost 50% .

Unfortunately, its in under warranty so I can't really use it to my advantage? (without destroying their business as I don't have the heart to). Regardless, looks like I'll never be touching them with a barge pole again, even if its warranty related... 

 

interesting... I hit the speed limiter a few times in the miata(JDM ecu though so im not sure if they could even see anythign through their OBD2 reader... I have to use my phone to access it properly and read codes and such) and even once in the A6 (lol) when I forgot about the ins thing my dad made us all get....

WE STILL GOT DISCOUNTED RATES AFTER 3 MONTHS

 

But US ins company vs euro ins company I guess..

[JoaoPRSousa]

1 hour ago, iDeFecZx said:

I managed to set a car alarm off twice today just by driving past it

Somethings defo wrong with said car

 

You installed a rice pipe and didn't say shit to us, stop lying.

[Mr.Meerkat]

14 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

interesting... I hit the speed limiter a few times in the miata(JDM ecu though so im not sure if they could even see anythign through their OBD2 reader... I have to use my phone to access it properly and read codes and such) and even once in the A6 (lol) when I forgot about the ins thing my dad made us all get....

WE STILL GOT DISCOUNTED RATES AFTER 3 MONTHS

 

But US ins company vs euro ins company I guess..

Well in the UK, insurance companies are known to be notorious at charging a lot for under-25, male drivers. 

Average yearly price for a 17-20 female in Scotland: £1500 

Average yearly price for a 17-20 male in Scotland: £2200

Ummm...what happened to our anti-discrimination laws? Legislators have once cracked down on insurance companies for the pricing imbalance (they were <£1000 for females) but instead of having our pricing lowered, their's got increased considerably instead. Backfired? Yep . 

 

Anyway, thankfully I moved to a slightly nicer area (last year) meaning my insurance dropped by a solid £1K/year compared to where I used to live (*cough cough* more price discrimination) but still, due to the obnoxious cost for insurance, I was unable to get a FTO, GTO, 3000GT or a 350z . 

[Bananasplit_00]

I should really start working on my A2 lisence so I can ride a real bike this summer... So damn expensive though

[chaozbandit]

 

[bcredeur97]

19 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Well in the UK, insurance companies are known to be notorious at charging a lot for under-25, male drivers. 

Average yearly price for a 17-20 female in Scotland: £1500 

Average yearly price for a 17-20 male in Scotland: £2200

Ummm...what happened to our anti-discrimination laws? Legislators have once cracked down on insurance companies for the pricing imbalance (they were <£1000 for females) but instead of having our pricing lowered, their's got increased considerably instead. Backfired? Yep . 

 

Anyway, thankfully I moved to a slightly nicer area (last year) meaning my insurance dropped by a solid £1K/year compared to where I used to live (*cough cough* more price discrimination) but still, due to the obnoxious cost for insurance, I was unable to get a FTO, GTO, 3000GT or a 350z . 

miata cost me around $1800/yr. not too far off here.

full coverage though. If I had liability only it'd probably be 2/3rds of that.

 

 

If i had full coverage on my corolla it would of been like $2000-2200ish per year. Lousiana is one of the more expensive states though, because of our crap drivers and poor population areas with a larger amount of uninsured or even unlicensed drivers... awful roads probably play a part in that as well.

[Real_PhillBert]

29 minutes ago, chaozbandit said:

 

I love how a cop actually stops behind the car at ~0:38 then decides he has better things to do and just leaves it. LOL I hope he got a scolding for that one.

[Canada EH]

I got my motorbike in the downstairs living room, wrenching away at the moment. Need metric bolts for the brake caliper and adapter, then gotta work on the wiring for the motor, hopefully should be out riding today. Its not hard to do, just tedious. Its going to be a great wonderful day.

 

@Real_PhillBert - Must have been shift change or donut break time

[JoaoPRSousa]

1 hour ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

I should really start working on my A2 lisence so I can ride a real bike this summer... So damn expensive though

 

I'm getting B + A2 in hopefully a few weeks hehe

Too bad my parents won't let me buy a bike, but still, at least I have the license for when the opportunity comes up

[Bananasplit_00]

46 minutes ago, JoaoPRSousa said:

 

I'm getting B + A2 in hopefully a few weeks hehe

Too bad my parents won't let me buy a bike, but still, at least I have the license for when the opportunity comes up

i got my B lisence like a week after i turned 18  mom really dosent want me to ride a bike, which i guess is understandable but i still really like it

[MadyTehWolfie]

6 hours ago, JoaoPRSousa said:

 

It looks like it's disgusted to see you.

The headlight eye brows make it look like it's wearing eye shadow.

[JoaoPRSousa]

1 hour ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

i got my B lisence like a week after i turned 18  mom really dosent want me to ride a bike, which i guess is understandable but i still really like it

 

Yeah, I'm on the process of getting my license, still  Was supposed to get my license right after I turned 18, but summer music festivals, going camping and shit made it impossible for me.

Same here

[JoaoPRSousa]

8 minutes ago, MadyTehWolfie said:

The headlight eye brows make it look like it's wearing eye shadow.

 

Now the owner just needs to be the stereotypical rich girl, and the plate to be "MOOD", then it would be perfect.

Stereotypical rich girls wouldn't even know what a Stagea is but wtv just imagine

[Bananasplit_00]

7 minutes ago, JoaoPRSousa said:

Was supposed to get my license right after I turned 18, but summer music festivals, going camping and shit made it impossible for me.

born in the winter and have no life really so that was never a problem for me

[iDeFecZx]

5 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

if you have a loud enough car, you can set all the alarms off everywhere you go

Its really not loud lol

the clio however ?

[iDeFecZx]

4 hours ago, JoaoPRSousa said:

 

You installed a rice pipe and didn't say shit to us, stop lying.

Its about the size of a grain of rice

[MadyTehWolfie]

1 hour ago, JoaoPRSousa said:

 

Now the owner just needs to be the stereotypical rich girl, and the plate to be "MOOD", then it would be perfect.

Stereotypical rich girls wouldn't even know what a Stagea is but wtv just imagine

Depends some rich girls love their cars, tho if they are rich probably would look down on it while they drive their super car.

[PandaCopyRight]

2 hours ago, JoaoPRSousa said:

 

Now the owner just needs to be the stereotypical rich girl, and the plate to be "MOOD", then it would be perfect.

Stereotypical rich girls wouldn't even know what a Stagea is but wtv just imagine

a rich girl would never drive a stagea (even when it was new) ... most likely a brand new Mercedes or something else expensive, overly complicated and quite crap  

and eventually crash it cause she mixed up the gas and brake pedals

NOTE (so people dont get offended ) : not saying that all rich girls are like that ... 

[AlwaysFSX]

2 minutes ago, PandaCopyRight said:

a rich girl would never drive a stagea (even when it was new) ... most likely a brand new Mercedes or something else expensive, overly complicated and quite crap  

and eventually crash it cause she mixed up the gas and brake pedals

NOTE (so people dont get offended ) : not saying that all rich girls are like that ... 

You're just mad you're not a rich girl.

[Mr.Meerkat]

1 minute ago, AlwaysFSX said:

You're just mad you're not a rich girl.

Who isn't tho? Who doesn't want to be a rich girl? I mean if I was a rich girl, I would have already either bought an Evo, FTO and/or RX7...