Driving back from Aberdeen to Birmingham.. shatting it..

chicoe

notanewuser wrote: »

Hopefully you'll spend a bit more time deciding on the house!! (Another good reason to wait a few years before buying sporty cars. )

Hahaha, it's my dream to live somewhere nice in Solihull/Shirley!! I'm hoping come 24 - 25 that dream will become a realilty. :A

DUTR wrote: »

He probably didn't ignore it, just chosen not to, or didn't feel the need to, or probably never mentioned it! He did say he had to refuel.
Give the guy a break now, we have all been on his back, he had a hill to climb and reached the peak, (unlike the other poster who keeps trolling , with his unimpressive M3 and a car that he has taken delivery of, yet not even laid down a deposit).
There are lots of things that could have gone wrong but they didn't, but that is the case with many things in life.

I didn't ignore it, it was good advice but I felt comfortable driving it for the 300 miles I wasn't in any pain or anything at all.

Many thanks

PeacefulWaters wrote: »

300 miles without a stop?

Thanks for ignoring one of the key bits of advice this thread gave you.

You wilfully endangered the safety of other road users with such stupidity.

Crikey, bit of an over reation isn't it, just because everyone is not like you who needs to stop every 20 minutes and goes through a checklist like a pilot would do when he's getting ready to descend and land doesn't mean I was witfully endangered the safety of other road users!! I had a good night sleep and a good breakfast.

P.S I'd hate to be your son or daughter, what is it, no sex until 80? In bed before 9? :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

chicoe

mgdavid wrote: »

massive over-reaction. Even my wife can do just over 3 hours without a stop in complete comfort and safety. My limit's about 5 hours, and I'm no superman.

Tell me about it!

JustinR1979 wrote: »

So did you with your advice:

Good advice... If you're nervous, surround yourself with 44 tonne trucks that are annoyed at you poncing along at a slow speed, when you should be making good progress, and driving up to and on the speed limit where appropriate.

Haha when I first started my journey, there was a few instances where Lorries were getting absoloutely mental at me for sticking in the slow lane even though I was keeping at a good pace and distances.

Let's say they were many cases were they were inches from my bumper! Dropping it down into sport mode and leaving them for dust sorted all of that out though.

JustinR1979

chicoe wrote: »

Let's say they were many cases were they were inches from my bumper! Dropping it down into sport mode and leaving them for dust sorted all of that out though.

If you're driving a car and holding up a lorry, or being overtaken by one, just hand your licence back!
You're supposed to put your foot down after they've pulled out to overtake.... :P

topdaddy_2

PeacefulWaters wrote: »

300 miles without a stop?

Thanks for ignoring one of the key bits of advice this thread gave you.

You wilfully endangered the safety of other road users with such stupidity.

What a pillock to say such a thing.

PeacefulWaters

topdaddy wrote: »

What a pillock to say such a thing.

You know what, while I seem to be in a minority on the subject I really don't think the name calling is needed.

A driver, clearly inexperienced in longer distance trips, asks for advice and several posters recommend regular breaks in the journey.

Off he pops to that land north of the north, picks up his high powered car that he's never driven before and proceeds to ignore the one piece of advice that was probably the most consistent and important.

I thing that's an avoidable risk (although granted there was a brief fuel stop which I hadn't taken into account). Maybe some will say I'm over cautious but hey, I don't think that makes me a pillock.

Given that fatigue contributes to around 10% of accidents and advice from motoring organisations is along the lines of "Take regular fifteen minutes breaks in journeys over three hours. Aim to stop every two hours or so. This is more important if you're not used to driving long distances" a driver inexperienced in such trips should be more cautious.

chicoe wrote: »

Crikey, bit of an over reation isn't it, just because everyone is not like you who needs to stop every 20 minutes and goes through a checklist like a pilot would do when he's getting ready to descend and land doesn't mean I was witfully endangered the safety of other road users!! I had a good night sleep and a good breakfast.

Well done. Oddly, I don't follow a checklist but I did think you were asking for advice so I thought I'd try and help you. Sorry for making the effort.

P.S I'd hate to be your son or daughter, what is it, no sex until 80? In bed before 9? :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

When you start equating driving habits to sex it's fairly clear you've not quite understood the difference.

I assume you wore a condom for the drive.

DUTR

PeacefulWaters wrote: »

You know what, while I seem to be in a minority on the subject I really don't think the name calling is needed.

A driver, clearly inexperienced in longer distance trips, asks for advice and several posters recommend regular breaks in the journey.

Off he pops to that land north of the north, picks up his high powered car that he's never driven before and proceeds to ignore the one piece of advice that was probably the most consistent and important.

I thing that's an avoidable risk (although granted there was a brief fuel stop which I hadn't taken into account). Maybe I'm over cautious but hey, I don't think that makes me a pillock.

You are not such.
Although some may argue a car is a car, when it comes to long runs, different marques can come into their own, some cars will just lap up the miles and larger engines often lead to a relaxed untiring drive. And it will be longer before fatigue sets in.

topdaddy_2

PeacefulWaters wrote: »

You know what, while I seem to be in a minority on the subject I really don't think the name calling is needed.

A driver, clearly inexperienced in longer distance trips, asks for advice and several posters recommend regular breaks in the journey.

Off he pops to that land north of the north, picks up his high powered car that he's never driven before and proceeds to ignore the one piece of advice that was probably the most consistent and important.

I thing that's an avoidable risk (although granted there was a brief fuel stop which I hadn't taken into account). Maybe some will say I'm over cautious but hey, I don't think that makes me a pillock.
no that doesnt make you a pillock. That makes you cautious. This is to be comended. Stating someone "wilfully" risked everyones lives on the motor way, thats where the justicifcation for the word pillock comes from
Given that fatigue contributes to around 10% of accidents and advice from motoring organisations is along the lines of "Take regular fifteen minutes breaks in journeys over three hours. Aim to stop every two hours or so. This is more important if you're not used to driving long distances" a driver inexperienced in such trips should be more cautious.

Well done. Oddly, I don't follow a checklist but I did think you were asking for advice so I thought I'd try and help you. Sorry for making the effort.

When you start equating driving habits to sex it's fairly clear you've not quite understood the difference.

I assume you wore a condom for the drive.

fully justified name calling.

Herzlos

If you were comfortable enough driving 5 hours in a sitting that's not an issue - some people can, and it's easier when you're younger (when I was 20 I had no issues with 4/5 hour drives).

chicoe wrote: »

I wanted to keep this for many years to come but financially, it doesn't make sense, I will keep it for a year, until my renewal comes and part with it, whilst I can still recoup everything I've paid for it, plus more as I've got a private plate and other mod parts that can be sold with the car.

I'm curious about this too; did you get such a good deal that you think you can sell it on for a profit when it's a year older, even after the interest you've paid on it? Are you planning on taking off the mods* and replacing them with standard parts**?

If you can do that and get a years free driving then good on you, but I'd have thought that since you went to that much hassle to get it you'd be best keeping it as you've done the expensive part already and insurance will start to drop pretty quickly. Obviously a house is more important, but there should be no reason you can't do both if you are careful.

* Does the insurance company know about the mods?
** Did the previous owner give you a boot full of the stock parts to put back on or are you going to have to re-buy them?

chicoe

Just a quick update, car is going up for sale, had some good and some bad times with it, it is just too expensive to run, 400 a month I am spending on it, could be lower but I have a heavy foot!

I paid 12,200 all together with it, I am taking the recaro sports out of it and putting standard ones and I will have £1300 cash on top of the swap, plus a few other mods on it, taken off will net me another £1500

Hoping to sell it for £12,000, plus my private numberplate for 3k that is specific to the car. £15,000 hopefully.

I am going to use the money to invest in some online ventures. This was just draining my money non stop.

tykesi

Did you buy it with all that carp on or add it yourself?

If it had it on when you bought it, what makes you think some mug is going to pay just £200 less than you did but with £1500 less [STRIKE]boy racer sh1te[/STRIKE] mods on it?