I was on the M25 tonight, heading back to Essex from my Christmas break, sticking to 70mph on Cruise. Suddenly all of these "tastefully modified" (my ar$e) Astras/Corsas come flying past, with one sitting on my bumper (I was in the middle lane and couldn't go anywhere).

Needless to say, I found this more than a little annoying, so I moved into the outside lane as soon as I could, dropped it into 5th and booted it. The clouds of soot ensured he stayed way behind after that! The car really does go when it's sub-zero temperatures .

Edited 3 January, 200917 yr by ocrx8

sub-zero is good for turns of speed, bad for traction. :( Didn't help me this morning when a white van man decided my SDI was ripe for having a play with

Sounds like the corsa sport forum folks were having a meet.

I have a similar tale to tell.

Today I was driving the G/F's Suzuki Jimny back from Manchester to South Wales, with my G/F, her sister and the sister's B/F in the back.

Now, the Jimny is not a quick car, we know this. Anyway, I was cruising down the inside lane at 65mph (Trying to conserve petrol, bless it), and we've got somebody doing 60 in the middle lane. So, i've put the foot down and got up to 75 and crossed two lines to get round.

Once I passed the Bora (I think it was), there was a Ford Focus with slight chavication came beaming up my inside and he gave me a stinking look as if to say "wtf are you doing in the 3rd lane". Not 100 yards later, the silly **** nearly misses his junction and jumps two lanes.

What an arsehole - he should have been thinking about his move off the motorway long before trying to overtake anyone else.

75 in a Jimney :eek:

Good job there were no sudden changes of direction!

The car really does go when it's sub-zero temperatures .

Yep agree there TDi,s certainly are good in this weather

I get this in and around Bathgate a lot. There are loads of Chaved up Corsas and Clios

I thought one guy was going to throw his mates out to see if he could catch up to the VRS. Some people seem to think that sticking a tribe sticker on the back window, and having a drainpipe for an exhaust makes the car go faster.

I found a great way to get B road tailgaters to drop back. Quick 3rd gear squirt away, then drop back to speed limit. Once they emerge from the black cloud they seem happy to keep a safe distance.

I had a very similar experience the other day whilst tailgating on the M25. This silly ChAved up Fabia (you now the sort of car, tribal Briskoda sticker, cupra splitter etc) got in the way as I suddenly changed lane without any indication. I was doing about 60 and in what seemed like seconds I was doing 63, leaving a ball of flame for Chavfab to drive through. Learned him not to mess with a real vRS. To be honest I think there was something seriously wrong with his engine as it had a rattling noise coming from it.

Why people choose to modify their cars I will never understand. Good job we are all arrogantly above all of that on this forum and always look down our noses at scum like that. :orb_trump

Edited 4 January, 200917 yr by delcac

the corsach@vs (1.2l) do make me laugh, botched bumpers probably twice the weight added to the car, one wiper blade missing while the other is adjusted to sit in the middle, the silver wing mirror covers from halfords, the loudest exhaust they can find and a sound system thats worth 10 times the amount of the car and then they think they have the fastest car on the road the best one is they sit at traffic lights revving their engines, you leave the lights and they still there smoking the tyres and once you get up to the speed limit on the dual carriage way they come by screaming the engine and think they faster than you cos you are being law abiding (keeping to the limit) and they have exceeded the limit to catch up

Yeah but they'll grow out of it and move on to more mature passtimes in due course , I'm sure quite a few of us on here had some boy racerish mods to our cars when we were teenagers , I know I did.

The only 2 things I have done to my fabia is fitting aero wipers and a jvc head unit and thats all I will do. None of these go-slower stripes, etc

A fair proportion of chavved up corsas have modified C20XE or C20LETs in them in. Nothing you can do to a VRS will keep up!

A fair proportion of chavved up corsas have modified C20XE or C20LETs in them in. Nothing you can do to a VRS will keep up!

But the vast majority don't.

I think most people will agree there is no problem in modding a car, the problem becomes when you then drive like an idiot.

the problem becomes when you then drive like an idiot.

Not that any of our Fabia peeps on here would drive like that.

But the vast majority don't.

I think most people will agree there is no problem in modding a car, the problem becomes when you then drive like an idiot.

And also their modding, there is modding and there is ch@vving a car

I knew a lad a while back who just passed his test & bought himself a Corsa GSI. TBH it was tastefully modded, without the big bodykit. He was just like most 17yr old chavvy hot headed lads who have just passed his test, but in a too powerful car on his dads insurance. He always thought he could drive & bragged about it, Anyway he went down this back road at over 100mph hit the curb on the N/S, which sent him over across the other side narrowly missing an oncoming ambulance into a hedge rolling about 6 times into a farmers field. Luckily for him the ambulance he just missed stopped & gave him life saving treatment to a serious head wound. Very lucky indeed. I spotted him quite a few months later with a scar from his left ear over to the other.

I asked him if he had learn't from it & had slowed him down, he just told me it had taught him to slow down only at that corner with a big grin across his face. I just called him a ****** & walked away.

a friend of mine was like that had his mk1 fiesta less than a week and lost it on a bend on a country road, claimed a huge rabbit ran out in front of him, but when we went to the scene you could see the tyre marks on the road and the grit that was on the road and could easily come to our own conclussions when we could see in the field where the car ended up (and the roll marks). funnily his mum beleived him... we didnt as we knew what his driving was like, dont think he's changed either, but does have a regular supply of second hand cars.

And also their modding, there is modding and there is ch@vving a car

Absolutely - my car was ch@vved up in the factory :rofl:

Chris

I think we all have our opinions of whats 'chav' and whats tastefully modded, and to be fair there are a few Skoda's that could fall into either category so its not exclusive to the Corsa/Nova crew.

When i had my last car (SEAT Leon) it had the Cupra R body kit (fitted from factory) but wasn't badged as a Cupra as it was a TDI. I was following a Nova that was in pretty good condition and had a recent respray (tastefully modded i would say) that was full of young lads and girls. I noticed the driver spot me in his mirror and the passengers swing their heads in my direction, so i knew what was coming next....

Nova boy drops a gear and plants his foot.... in a 40 zone..... his car pulls left and sideswipes a parked car, while i carry on past at 40 having a little chuckle to myself. I was never going to humour him so he wasted his time anyway.

what's wrong with fat exhausts?

what's wrong with fat exhausts?

Depends on the car and how stupidly big the exhaust is.

When i had my focus st170 i had a nova up my chuff on the a40 on the way back from oxford, so i decided to get away from him only for him to come screaming past me like i was in reverse, needles to say i later found out it was a guy in carterton that had dropped a calibra engine into his nova:mad:

i was slightly embarrassed

A 1.1 Litre Rover 100 with a huge exhaust fitted with red LEDs around the outside of it is super ch4vvy. There is one that drives round here alot.

You do need to be careful when baiting Nova boy, there are some quick motors out there but thankfully they are few and far between

If all else fails, there is always Ply.............

Dont remind me lol lesson learnt

plus i have finished my phase of all that when i had the scoobie and evo,

only because i crashed the scoobie and the evo was stolen and written off

plus the wife was pregnant so family saloon it was

A 1.1 Litre Rover 100 with a huge exhaust fitted with red LEDs around the outside of it is super ch4vvy. There is one that drives round here alot.

You do need to be careful when baiting Nova boy, there are some quick motors out there but thankfully they are few and far between

Aye, but Late metros/100's self lower without need of new coils and springs

The Calibra engine in a Nova is a very common mod, certainly round here there are quite a few with the calibra turbo's under the hood - one looks like some old granny's bog standard 1.2 merit from the outside, with a few rust spots.

It's anything but slow!