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Whilst visiting my daughter, I came across this....it turns out that is driven every day...still trying to work out how it steers:confused:
 

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No speed bumps in the area?

It just looks daft, but no doubt the owner thinks it looks neat.
 
My daughter has just told me that it seems to be permanently at that level as it goes long her street (which has even more speed ramps) and when she is at the nursery, he is there picking up his kids....
 
Doesn't look like it can steer properly to me. Probably has to do a three point turn to get round a corner. If I was a copper I'd pull him/her everytime I saw it until they got that fed up they did something about it.
 
Have to agree with Sarah here.
Whether it drives well or not, fella's still going to look like a womble. :D
 
I've seen that car in the town. About as low as a snake's wedding tackle.
 
My initial reaction is that it surely is bagged, but looking again; those fenders have been modified as well therefore likely to provide space for steering. Not really my thing, I don't like it when our Mercedes GL goes in rest mode on its suspension at it is low low low, or when driven at speed it keeps dropping and dropping and whilst I appreciate the handling and aero dynamics it looks odd.

But there is a big scene of modifying cars like that, often the tyres will be stretched as well. Another look that I don't get but lots love it.
 
If it screws up the handling and is running on stretched tyres, it's going to be more unsafe than a non buggered about with one. There's a little Honda round the corner on hugely stretched tyres and with rear camber that gives it less contact patch than a motorbike. Looks like a total tvatwagen (and is never parked, always abandoned!)
 
Has to be air suspension no other way that is ever going to move
 
LASTOLITE said:
To each his own, beggars belief how others get offended:confused:

Get over it, he likes his motor low. init You all sound like a bunch of old ladies:D
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Absolutely!
After all, there's no laws against looking like a twonk :D
 
My old MX5 had about as much clearance at it's lowest point, couldn't roll a coke can under the bumper, the front mudflaps were about an inch from the ground, this is after I raised it a little, when I first fitted the coilovers it touched the ground!

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It's always amazes me people spend so much just devaluing their car as if depreciation isn't bad enough already. They buy a thousand pound car. Then spend another grand on wheels another grand on body kit, then another grand on stereo. Then the insurance company asks them if they've modified their shed and bump up the insurance.
 
beyond the blue said:
I always thought the idea was that things like this turns you wimmin on, no! ;)
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No, no, no - you're just confusing those smiles of pity / mild amusement with something else ;)

viv1969 said:
Absolutely!
After all, there's no laws against looking like a twonk :D
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(y) Indeed . . . and nothing to stop us laughing at him either :D
 
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And for all we know (or not) that owner is laughing at everyone else in their ordinary boring little cars ;)

I welcome some individuality.
 
rjbell said:
It's always amazes me people spend so much just devaluing their car as if depreciation isn't bad enough already. They buy a thousand pound car. Then spend another grand on wheels another grand on body kit, then another grand on stereo. Then the insurance company asks them if they've modified their shed and bump up the insurance.
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And I'm sure some people find it amazing that others spend so much on camera equipment.

archangel said:
I wonder if he has informed his insurance company? I bet he hasn't
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You what they say about assumptions. For very obvious mods such as the height and wheels it'd be foolish not to. Not like its a £300 corsa that's been ram raided through halfords.
 
neil_g said:
You what they say about assumptions. For very obvious mods such as the height and wheels it'd be foolish not to. Not like its a £300 corsa that's been ram raided through halfords.
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And yet equally as liable to report to the insurers.
They're pretty anal about the most trivial of things.
 
viv1969 said:
And yet equally as liable to report to the insurers.
They're pretty anal about the most trivial of things.
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I know I'm just making the point that an Audi is a reasonable wedge of cash.

To be fair most of the modified car lot I know/used to know always declared their mods down to nuts and bolts because its not worth getting your policy voided over something trivial.
 
neil_g said:
I know I'm just making the point that an Audi is a reasonable wedge of cash.

To be fair most of the modified car lot I know/used to know always declared their mods down to nuts and bolts because its not worth getting your policy voided over something trivial.
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Full heartedly agree. There are a number of specialist insurance brokers that are really good with these kind of modifications and power modifications. Surprisingly little extra as well as long as they know. In fact many can even be cheaper as generally the people really look after their vehicles...
 
neil_g said:
I know I'm just making the point that an Audi is a reasonable wedge of cash.
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The one above isn't though, about £500 at most, I reckon.
As for how he steers, the wheel arches, do looked flared, add to that the insides will be rolled to give more room, he may well gave difficult steering to full lock, but once moving steering input becomes less anyway.

As for stretched tyres, they really ought to be illegal (if they aren't already) a lad at work had them on his Golf, he had a blow out at 70mph on a dual carriageway whilst in the outside lane. He lost control, hit the central reservation barrier with the front offside corner, then the rear offside corner, then pretty much the front end of his car. Needless to say a right off, even though it would have been £6-7k's worth of car. Had he not been on stretched tyres the car would have been a lot easier to control, he'd have probably just hit the barrier once. To add insult to injury it cost him a few hundred quid to get the car transported back home too.
 
nilagin said:
The one above isn't though, about £500 at most, I reckon.
As for how he steers, the wheel arches, do looked flared, add to that the insides will be rolled to give more room, he may well gave difficult steering to full lock, but once moving steering input becomes less anyway.

As for stretched tyres, they really ought to be illegal (if they aren't already) a lad at work had them on his Golf, he had a blow out at 70mph on a dual carriageway whilst in the outside lane. He lost control, hit the central reservation barrier with the front offside corner, then the rear offside corner, then pretty much the front end of his car. Needless to say a right off, even though it would have been £6-7k's worth of car. Had he not been on stretched tyres the car would have been a lot easier to control, he'd have probably just hit the barrier once. To add insult to injury it cost him a few hundred quid to get the car transported back home too.
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A lot of assumptions on both points in my opinion. Stretch isn't as bad as that daft camber fashion, at least stretch tyres still have a full contact patch (or at least should do).
 
neil_g said:
A lot of assumptions on both points in my opinion. Stretch isn't as bad as that daft camber fashion, at least stretch tyres still have a full contact patch (or at least should do).
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Stretch is bad because the side wall of a tyre is constructed to be pretty much vertical not at an angle, also add the locating rim of the tyre can't sit properly in the wheel rim. None of them are ideal for road use and are all as bad as each other. Heavily cambered are only of any real use on a race car and even then not suitable for all instances.
 
im told stretched tyres are going to be a mot fail very very soon
 
As others have pointed out, arches have been rolled to accommodate the wheels and the drop. Air ride fitted and adjustable so you have have differing ride heights. Someone who goes to that extent is unlikely to skimp on insurance. For me, insurance was cheaper once I'd modded my car and used a specialist broker. Saved £300 by doing so. Of the two that I've used, neither were bothered about cosmetic modifications as long as they were declared, but they would add extra premium for any power modifications eg £20 for additional 50bhp.
 
I've been insuring modified cars since I was 20, and with the right insurer they are fine about it and I would say that the vast majority of people that do modify cars do insure them properly as they put a lot of time and money into preparing them. Mine are modified for motorsport use rather than appearance though, so if I reduce the ride height it's to make it handle better, ditto modifications to camber. Since they have all been RWD massive amounts of negative has never been appropriate, and doing the whole "fill the wheelarches" thing with wheels and tyres has never been the idea, instead it's to provide optimum handling and grip no matter what it looks like.

The place I used to insure the Clan asked me the following questions:

What make and model?
What engine?
What capacity?
Naturally aspirated or forced induction?
Estimated value?

And that was it. Didn't even ask me if the engine or any part of the car was modified from factory spec, they just assumed that it all was :D
 
Where instead of most people they like the rubber slightly overhanging the allow wheel to protect it, some people use a tyre that doesn't fully match the ordinary width of the wheel but is narrower such that the edge (often highly polished) of the alloy wheel is very visible.

Personally I think it looks most odd, but it's not down to me to change other people's tastes.
 
archangel said:
Whilst visiting my daughter, I came across this....it turns out that is driven every day...still trying to work out how it steers:confused:
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That certainly does beggar belief... I mean who puts VW centrecaps on the wheels of their Audi :confused:
 
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