Josh L

Dear Fat Boy,

Apex Photography reserves the right to disassociate itself from any dodgy photoshoping of its work. And lt's face it, you can't get any worse than your example

You'd never guess you're a 'man of leisure'

Josh

Fat Boy

Sir j

Hee hee. It was my first attempt ever, and I thought it best to make it as obvious as possible (that's my excuse anyway), in order to introduce a further note of levity, but this whole thing has kicked off in a whole new bonkers direction.

I'm out of here

FB

Dave T-S

Meanwhile, back at the original thread.....

Pi$$ing myself laughing..... When will you wake up and realise - if your car is sitting at home in the garage, it can't spin.....

If it spins while *you* are out driving it, it's *your* fault. No ifs, buts, the moon was in Saturn or you had jelly and ice cream for tea, you overstepped the limits

Dave T-S

PS - Josh - it looked to me like one of your better photos

Oh, and don't be misled by the suspension angle on Mr Fat's car - it was after lunch and the car was stationary

melon

LOL Dave,

A total unwillingness to face facts....unless of course your cars name is 'Kit' or 'Herbie'

MarkO

I had fuel surge once in my STI. That's in a total of 6 years of Impreza ownership, and a total of about 90k of driving. When it happened, I was accelerating off a roundabout onto the A31 heading up to the Hog's Back near Guildford.

Just lost a bit of power, and then it came back on. No drama, really, despite the fact that I was doing about 60mph at the time, on a damp road.

Guess it might have been something to do with having an unworn set of S02s on the car.

Fat Boy

As ever completely wrong, it was before lunch. That was my wallet in the side pocket.

Oh and Josh did you notice how we spent some 15 laps leading the recent SIDC karting challenge and had no black flags despite, or was it because of, our team captain, Mr DTS, not being able to get out of bed? As opposed to the previous time, when we were graced with his presence, and he was black flagged twice in the first two laps

Dave T-S

Mr FB sir
I spun due to fuel starvation....


Incidentally, the last time I drove Bedford I left the track after the day closed and filled up......with 56.5 litres in a 60 litre tank

What fuel starvation?.....

V-techland

Lovely car Craig!!!!!

SiPie

What the hell have I been missing

EvilBevil

Belgium I have visited once and didn't like it one bit but this was not a 'nationalsitic' slur on your country nor your own personal character.

Surely you have heard jokes made at the expense of:-

A) The Irish being not too bright
B) The Scots being mean
C) The Americans being late for World War 2
D) And Belgium being an uninteresting place to live

I visited Belgium and did not enjoy it so hopefully I am still allowed to have my opinion on that . Don't take everything so seriously dude. It's all a bit of fun

With regards to your comments re the 'walls have ears' etc why don't you mail me your comments directly if you need any points clarified.

Regards

CraigH

FatBoy,

you really need to learn how to drive - when was the last time you saw a WRC Impreza go round a corner like yours, rather than mine

Can we close this thread now peeerleeeese.

Was 'sposed to be light hearted - didn't realise the person I was poking fun at was so defensive and/or had such big chips on his shoulder(s)

Saxoboy - will end with one last comment - you're unwillingness to listen to sound advice means that you're either gonna be very stupid when you're old or very dead. What's your epitaph gonna read? "It wasn't my fault"?

Fat Boy

When it was being driven by someone good

I agree about ending all this now - I thought my addition was in the spirit of yours ie defusing it all/having a bit of fun, but this thing is like lazarus.

Where is Blowdog when you need him ?

CraigH

Hmmm,

That must be why Makkinnen, Burns, Mcrae, Solberg, Gronholm etc all tend to go sideways - and the namby pamby inexperienced wannabes don't. - saying that - the Subaru WRC cars are all STI's - so they know how to drive and don't use P1s and pretend to know

Fat Boy

On the loose stuff, dear boy, on the loose.

P1 is an Sti prepared by Prodrive in the UK. Whereas the WRC cars are Sti s prepared by Prodrive in the UK. And your point is....

CraigH

The P1 WAS an STI till Prodrive touched it.

STI - is fresh orange juice
P1 - is weak Robinsons Barly water in a frilly beaker.

Wants to be the same but can't

RichardPON

Saxoboy,

Don't know what's been going on for the last few pages, but it seems you've opened up a proper can of worms here.

As far as your fuel surge issue is concerned, it's one of the funniest things I've read in ages.......

Fuel surge............

CraigH

Saxoboy,

A genuine question.

You said that part of the experience was a "bit of a blur" - someone mentioned you panicked and that is a fair "assumption" - what would you put it down to.

Oh - and fvck off my post - this was sposed to be light hearted

LG John

Hell yeah, I paniced big time when the car didn't respond to the usual commands. Its really scary when your trying to correct something but can't. As soon as the 'right things to do' didn't work my human instincts were to panic and try everything and anything else. It was a lost cause by then anyway and I knew that - hence the brown trousers and panicing. There simply wasn't enough power to sort the tail out and I certainly don't know how to cure bad oversteer caused by weight shifting without some power

Leslie

Maybe one day some of you guys might mature enough to realise that obscene or psuedo-obscene language only weakens your argument and shows that something is lacking somewhere!

The use of the kind of personal abuse in some the posts in this thread also does nothing to advance your case.

Les

SiPie

Leslie

In my opinion your post sails close to being personal abuse

Think about it

RichardPON

oh dear

Amanda-Jane

That's what scoobynet seems to be all about these days "personal attacks"

LG John

How did you get on here?? Broadband all fixed up?

Amanda-Jane

not quite but getting there! email is still fecked though

Floyd

iTrader: (9)

I had fuel surge once, it was on the way to a petrol station to re-fuel my fuel tank in my car, which is an Impreza (turbo). It happened when I was going around a roundabout. The car just 'bogged' down, I hit my head on the windscreen and my open packet of smarties went everywhere. You don't want to know what happened to the empty tube

But you're probably not interested as I didn't crash

F

LG John

Eating whilst driving....dangrous driver

I agree that most often with surge I'd expect my car just to bog down but at the higher than roundabout speeds I was doing and with far less grip at the rear than the front in my situation I believe the combination of the factors which were triggered by fuel surge induced a spin.

carl

I'm sorry SB, but you're wrong.

You've had a Scoob for three months. There are many people who have contributed to this thread who have had a Scoob for far longer than that, and many who have subjected it to the higher cornering forces associated with track driving (some on slicks). How do you explain the fact that none of them have had a 'fuel surge induced spin'?

You may think everyone's getting at you. I can't speak for anyone else, but my motivation is this: you've been on this board for a while, running a Saxo and hoping to save up for a Scoob. You've clearly aspired to this for some time, and now you have one. I don't want to come on here and see that:
a) You've severely bent it
b) You've injured yourself
c) You've killed yourself
d) You've injured or killed someone else.

Why can't you see that?

LG John

Maybe thats why!! I honestly would post a picture of my rear tyres - as they were, got 4 new toyos today - but they would potentially be very incriminating (and I can think of several people that will read and record everything I say on SN)! Frankly they were dangerous at normal driving speeds its no wonder I lost it when cornering hard. All it took was something to upset the car mid-corner and it was bound to happen.

Your scenarios are very unlikely I'm affraid, I'm just not that kind of person. You don't know me, so accept it! I think too much about what I'm doing and the consequences to just go daft with my new car. Lots and lots of people have commented how reserved I am considering that I'm still youngish with a fairly quick car.

CraigH

Blatant observation.....

If you are too careful and think too much about the consequences, how did you miss rear tyres that are that worn?

LG John

I was being lazy and looking accross them from the outside as opposed to getting under the car for a proper look. From the outside were on their very last legs but when I got under the car they were very, very bad.

Stupid I know! That's the point of my 'near smash' post to get some people on this site to have a think about these things and maybe get on their hands and knees next time they wash the car.