Chav cars

[Bobupndown]

I'm as big a petrol (or diesel) head as most but some things I don't understand.
My total pet hate, its normally but not limited to mk4 Vw Golf's and Boras, Seat Leon's etc, expertly piloted by local bell ends with their seats so reclined they are almost horizontal, but they have to be to see out below the 2 foot deep sticker at the top of their windscreens. Bouncing along the road in their 'slammed innit' scuzmobile, bodywork being ripped to shreds by their 20" rims everytime they drive over anything bigger than a piece of gravel or a speed ramp, or have to go round one of those 'corners'. With their whistling dump valves announcing another deluge of unburnt diesel smoke obscuring their car and about 2 lanes of traffic behind them, adding to the carefully unwashed back end covered in soot. (The rest of the car probably gleaming) Naturally for a hatchback, the thoughtfully designed and provided useful rear wiper will have been removed preventing the much admired sheet of coal dust being inadvertently removed.
WTF is this about?

 

[Edward Teach]

 

[jerrytug]

The larger diameter the exhaust pipe, the smaller the 'gentleman-sausage'?
I remember asking daughter and a bunch of her little mates, when they were teenagers, if noisy exhaust pipes etc would make a young man more attractive, and they fell about laughing, the consensus was a big fat no, they look like morons even to their 'target audience'

 

[Jim Davey]

No poke without smoke, is the diesel motto.

 

[roofman]

I'm as big a petrol (or diesel) head as most but some things I don't understand.
My total pet hate, its normally but not limited to mk4 Vw Golf's and Boras, Seat Leon's etc, expertly piloted by local bell ends with their seats so reclined they are almost horizontal, but they have to be to see out below the 2 foot deep sticker at the top of their windscreens. Bouncing along the road in their 'slammed innit' scuzmobile, bodywork being ripped to shreds by their 20" rims everytime they drive over anything bigger than a piece of gravel or a speed ramp, or have to go round one of those 'corners'. With their whistling dump valves announcing another deluge of unburnt diesel smoke obscuring their car and about 2 lanes of traffic behind them, adding to the carefully unwashed back end covered in soot. (The rest of the car probably gleaming) Naturally for a hatchback, the thoughtfully designed and provided useful rear wiper will have been removed preventing the much admired sheet of coal dust being inadvertently removed.
WTF is this about?

Let them be young and enjoy...plenty of time ahead to be grumpy and miserable, wait till they want to buy a house then the real hardship begins.

 

[keithski122]

I don't understand chav cars but also don't understand people that have old/classic cars and want them completely original or stanadard.Why would you not want to improve all the things the manufacturers got wrong?

 

[stuvy]

So I’m really in to cars and love the max power era of cars

What I hate nowadays is air ride(on finance),
wheels(on finance)
detailing a car(washing it)
Awful stickers saying things like dope, broke boys etc

This does not make it a show car it’s mildly modified and even then looks rubbish

 

[MattF]

I don't understand chav cars but also don't understand people that have old/classic cars and want them completely original or stanadard.Why would you not want to improve all the things the manufacturers got wrong?

As I've said before, each to their own. We all have our 'thing'. As long as it impacts no-one else, let them be.

 

[Wozzaaah]

You forgot the tow strap hanging out of the bumper.

 

[keithski122]

As I've said before, each to their own. We all have our 'thing'. As long as impacts no-one else, let them be.

Totally agree.People wouldn't understand me in my youth, travelling hundreds of miles in a weekend on an italian shopping bike(vespa) just so I could drink beer with my mates at a dying seaside town.

 

[redlig]

I'm as big a petrol (or diesel) head as most but some things I don't understand.
My total pet hate, its normally but not limited to mk4 Vw Golf's and Boras, Seat Leon's etc, expertly piloted by local bell ends with their seats so reclined they are almost horizontal, but they have to be to see out below the 2 foot deep sticker at the top of their windscreens. Bouncing along the road in their 'slammed innit' scuzmobile, bodywork being ripped to shreds by their 20" rims everytime they drive over anything bigger than a piece of gravel or a speed ramp, or have to go round one of those 'corners'. With their whistling dump valves announcing another deluge of unburnt diesel smoke obscuring their car and about 2 lanes of traffic behind them, adding to the carefully unwashed back end covered in soot. (The rest of the car probably gleaming) Naturally for a hatchback, the thoughtfully designed and provided useful rear wiper will have been removed preventing the much admired sheet of coal dust being inadvertently removed.
WTF is this about?

Yoof!

 

[MetalMonkey]

I didn't think there were much in the way of chavmobiles thesedays? something to do with modern cars being too difficult to easily modify with some tacky stick on tat?
At one time you couldn't move for a chavalanche of barry boys, but now all I ever see is an endless sea of euroboxes and the odd drug dealer in a tatty german saloon with comedy window tints and eastern european plates.

Almost miss the novelty of them in a way...

 

[roofman]

Totally agree.People wouldn't understand me in my youth, travelling hundreds of miles in a weekend on an italian shopping bike(vespa) just so I could drink beer with my mates at a dying seaside town.

If this was in the 70,s did any of my ball pein hammers ever hit you launched from bikers going in the opposite direction Scooter boys around here used to throw darts at us riding past back in the day

 

[brightspark]

a lad i know had a capri with a massively jacked up rear end. i said to him you have heard the saying have you . the lower the back end the higher the mentality the higher the back end the lower the mentality

 

[redlig]

I don't understand chav cars but also don't understand people that have old/classic cars and want them completely original or stanadard.Why would you not want to improve all the things the manufacturers got wrong?

A form of self flagellants. Having said that there is a certain something about driving a car that does't require a computer to fix a light on the dash .

 

[optima21]

aww bless

 

[Maker]

I saw one the other day, think it was a Golf, with purple anodised rims too wide for the low profile tyres, huge negative camber and lowered of course, it looked like the whole car was squatting down for a poo.

I was really surprised when a woman got out of it, I thought only boys ruined their cars like that.

 

[keithski122]

If this was in the 70,s did any of my ball pein hammers ever hit you launched from bikers going in the opposite direction Scooter boys around here used to throw darts at us riding past back in the day

No.Late eighties , early nineties was my time.Never had any hassle from anyone, infact I went to a few bike rallies on my scooter with a mate who was a scooterist and also a biker.Owned a couple of rd350's in my time which I rode to a couple of scooter do's.

 

[redlig]

As I've said before, each to their own. We all have our 'thing'. As long as it impacts no-one else, let them be.

Agreed . In the 60's we just had to have a Genuine BSA Gold Star silencer (silencer in name only) as it just had to have the " twitter" on the overrun. Pattern ones would not do.

 

[Paul.]

Is this chavvy enough, a still from my dashcam this morning