MOT Centre - West London Area - Suggestions?

mgdavid

JustinR1979 wrote: »

I know, he looked after my M cars.....
I had an M3!

...and then you saw the light? :T :rotfl:

JustinR1979

mgdavid wrote: »

...and then you saw the light? :T :rotfl:

Nah then the ex sodded off and I had to pay her off and pay a grand a month mortgage lol.
So sold the 400bhp car, and bought a P plate A4 tdi with 180k miles that went into limp mode every time you hit 68mph.
Helped me brush up on my forward planning for overtaking...

BeenThroughItAll

JustinR1979 wrote: »

Nah then the ex sodded off and I had to pay her off and pay a grand a month mortgage lol.
So sold the 400bhp car, and bought a P plate A4 tdi with 180k miles that went into limp mode every time you hit 68mph.
Helped me brush up on my forward planning for overtaking...

Come on, as a former M3 owner, you should know that overtaking in anything with less than eleventy-million and three BHP is reckless, stupid and should be illegal. Naughty boy.

JustinR1979

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

Come on, as a former M3 owner, you should know that overtaking in anything with less than eleventy-million and three BHP is reckless, stupid and should be illegal. Naughty boy.

That and limp mode often kicking in if you gave it too much throttle halfway through the manoeuvre. Was an experience that's for sure.
It was less than 2 litres, so also illegal.

darkmatter101

mgdavid wrote: »

...and then you saw the light? :T :rotfl:

It's not so much of "seeing the light", that insinuates that owning any performance car is wrong.

It mainly depends on whether, firstly you have the disposable income to spend on the car. And secondly (albeit not as important as the first) whether you care enough about driving to have a car with the characteristics that you want.

BeenThroughItAll

darkmatter101 wrote: »

It's not so much of "seeing the light", that insinuates that owning any performance car is wrong.

It mainly depends on whether, firstly you have the disposable income to spend on the car. And secondly (albeit not as important as the first) whether you care enough about driving to have a car with the characteristics that you want.

So are you suggesting that if someone doesn't want the characteristics of a performance car, they don't care about driving?


For a few minutes earlier I really thought you'd grown up.

JustinR1979

I could afford to run one again now. but doubling my fuel costs to achieve the same thing, not to mention tyres insurance etc, just doesn't appeal so much now.
Also, when an E46 330d that's just been remapped has your 5.0 litre V8 needing to go near the redline to pull away from it, you wonder what the point is.

darkmatter101

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

So are you suggesting that if someone doesn't want the characteristics of a performance car, they don't care about driving?


For a few minutes earlier I really thought you'd grown up.

No, I meant that there are well off people who have the disposable income to spend on a performance car but probably don't have it on their list of priorities as they probably have a passion for something else. They just want to get from A to B in comfort so most likely they just get a Prius or a Merc

darkmatter101

JustinR1979 wrote: »

I could afford to run one again now. but doubling my fuel costs to achieve the same thing, not to mention tyres insurance etc, just doesn't appeal so much now.
Also, when an E46 330d that's just been remapped has your 5.0 litre V8 needing to go near the redline to pull away from it, you wonder what the point is.

I'd doubt I would be needing to go near the red line to keep up with a remapped E46 330d, especially off the line, where diesels normally are terrible in first gear.

If it were a 335d auto, that's a different story....

JustinR1979

This was on the motorway.
I expect the power to weight is similar to a 335d anyway.
It spins through the first 3 gears easily enough in the dry, so first gear isn't too bad...
You may pull ahead until your car gets too far away and loses radio signal with the controller.