Mike
Organiser: North West and North Wales
Premium Member
Registered: 20th May 06
Location: nr. Skipton, North Yorkshire
User status: Offline
|
I used to have a customer keep asking me when I'm getting m exhaust fixed. I knew she wouldn't understand why I'd paid to make it sound like that so I just told her I couldn't afford a new one  
|
vx-scottw
Premium Member
Registered: 8th Feb 11
Location: sheffield
User status: Offline
|
i dont get called owt apart from your going to wash it away lol
only thing that my dad think is good if the price of things ar drop dead cheap
|
JamesMc
Member
Registered: 15th Aug 10
Location: Rainham, Kent
User status: Offline
|
Dad hates it but if i buy anything he insists on helping, mum just hates how low my car is and complains if i even drive over a small rock in the road, sister loves it says it reminds her of a go kart
...but they all sit there and constantly nag me to buy something better and faster the most recent car is Mk.2 Golf gti this is mainly my dad though tbh.
[Edited on 03-12-2011 by JamesMc]
|
Mike
Organiser: North West and North Wales
Premium Member
Registered: 20th May 06
Location: nr. Skipton, North Yorkshire
User status: Offline
|
Everyone used to say mine was like a tank, yeah it was loud and I opted out of the EPS, but it had nice, comfier than most, Bilstein suspension and my bucket seats where comfy. Only last week (over a year since the car died) I was getting told how it was the worst vehicle a mate had ever driven, the list of which included some shonkey old vans Still, I loved it 
|
CORSA NUT
Member
Registered: 3rd Aug 01
Location: Wirral
User status: Offline
|
Mum tells me to slow down and be careful everytime im even near a car....
Dad just says a car is to use from A to B and should be cheap etc etc....
Wife just rolls her eyes at me constantly I don't blame her though I'm always either looking at/talking about cars in one way or another
[Edited on 03-12-2011 by CORSA NUT]
|
Kieran
Premium Member
Registered: 12th Sep 08
Location: Kent
User status: Offline
|
I get that A - B lark all the bloody time lol
|
micra_pete
Premium Member
Registered: 23rd Apr 03
Location: West Yorkshire
User status: Offline
|
family (parents / siblings) love it, wife loves in, son loves it, people i work with love it (all car mad).
Costs me too much to keep up................
|
Darryl H
Organiser: South Central
Premium Member
Registered: 19th Nov 09
Location: Camberley Drives: Porsche 944
User status: Offline
|
Mum doesn't care as long as I'm having fun
Dad doesn't see the point but is happy to help out
Step dads a car nut and understands why but wishes I'd done it to a car that wasn't "just a corsa"
Girlfriend doesn't care as it's my money 
Some mate's love it, some don't and rest of the family just think I'm mad
|My Corsa|SC|My Instagram|
|
Daveskater
Premium Member
Registered: 29th Apr 08
Location: Oxford, UK Drives: Jap wagon
User status: Offline
|
I get stick at work for having a Corsa, one of the guys says it's a "bad man Corsa" Whenever we go out anywhere and see a Corsa it's always "look Dave! A Corsa!"
I wanted to engine convert my B but mum and dad went mental at that  won't work, unsafe blah blah. They don't mind it being noisey and lowered though. Well, they would rather it wasn't quite so loud but know my pay is rubbish and I've been trying to save for ages to get a new exhaust so put up with it how it is now.
Numberwang!
Originally posted by AlunJ
I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
|
Steve
Premium Member
Registered: 30th Mar 02
Location: Worcestershire Drives: Defender
User status: Offline
|
My missus likes it and helps me do stuff eg rip the carpets out, held a lower arm once while I hammered out a bush. My mum calls it a tin can, my dad only comments to say washing it again
|
nick_sri
Member
Registered: 5th May 09
Location: Crewe , Cheshire
User status: Offline
|
when i used live with rents they wernt to fussed as long as bits of engines etc wernt everywhere.
took mum out day i got my let telling her it was a 1.4 and she shit herself haha
|
Ellis
Member
Registered: 11th Sep 07
Location: Aberdeenshire
User status: Offline
|
I just get shite MPG patter from parents and work colleagues.
|
Matt L
Member
Registered: 17th Apr 06
User status: Offline
|
parents moan if i say im spending anything on the car, used to hate my corsa and hated it even more once i got buckets/stripped the rear only had it a few months like that and started putting it back to standard to sell.
ibiza - they didnt approve of the spacers mainly as when giving them lifts to places the rear archs used to rub the tyres (spacers were far too wide tbh).
hated the fact i spent so much on a weekend car only to sell it 6 months later...
currently getting annoyed as i want to spend money on the leon
|
Tomnova16
Premium Member
Registered: 21st Jan 06
Location: Gerrards Cross Drives: Porsche 911
User status: Offline
|
They encourage it.
But it is my job
http://www.lemass.co.uk/ for all your automotive/bodyshop needs
Located in Chalfont st Peter
|
Graeme
Premium Member
Registered: 26th Jul 04
Location: Northampton
User status: Offline
|
My mum is all good with it, after all she has a lot of stuff on her drive and her garage.
Missus doesn't mind aslong as it doesn't affect the house saving first.
|
JordyCarter
Member
Registered: 14th Mar 10
User status: Offline
|
Girlfriend doesnt mind it, hates how i love the car more than her though (In her own words lols)
Parents arnt to sure about it, dad helps me when he can but hates a car being low and says im wasting money. Mam isnt as bad she buys me some bits for it
Rest of family and everyone else dont seem to like it either tbh no idea why lol i think it might be due to certain people struggling with bills and whatnot and im throwing 300 - 400 quid away in 1 day on bits lol
|
mattk
Member
Registered: 27th Feb 06
Location: St. Helens
User status: Offline
|
I dont spend alot on mine, so they arnt arsed about that, my enjoyment of cars comes from the driving, I will go out most saturdays or sundays in summer and not come home till Ive done 300 miles. mum and dad dont really like that because its half dangerous, girlfriend loves it because on the occasions I take her with me she gets to have a nice dinner in a country pub and gets to look at some nice scenery
|
kz
Member
Registered: 9th Aug 02
Location: Southend, Essex Drives: Mini Cooper S
User status: Offline
|
Mum facepalm'd yesterday when I told her I shall once again, be lowering my new car. She doesn't understand why I'd want to make my car 'worse'
|
Graham88
Member
Registered: 16th Apr 07
Location: South East Kent Drives: E46 M3
User status: Offline
|
Mum & Dad don't really care, they have no idea about cars apart from the fact that's it's the same colour as my old one. I put a new set of wheels that were white instead of black and it took them about a month to notice
Girlfriend is into cars she has a Cooper S so doesn't care either, she just wants me to spend some money modding hers too
People at work are the worse, always getting digs cause of uploading pics to Facebook etc, I've given up on them
|
philip2
Member
Registered: 1st Oct 06
Location: n.wales/chester
User status: Offline
|
have own place and a big workshop so rents cant say anything.....even though i think the fact ive got new pistons, rods and crank for evo now in my kitchen cupboards my mum has seen arse...after saying i wouldnt mess with the evo haha
|
Steve
Premium Member
Registered: 30th Mar 02
Location: Worcestershire Drives: Defender
User status: Offline
|
People at work are just fucking weirdos tbh
|
Jamie-C
Member
Registered: 3rd Jun 08
Location: Ballycastle
User status: Offline
|
My Dad doesn't mind, he helps me doing a lot of things on it and tells me what I should do next. And my mum thinks its cool
|
harrisp
Member
Registered: 15th Dec 07
Location: Derbyshire
User status: Offline
|
Mum has no interest, just comments on the colour of new cars I've been looking at.
Dad shows a bit of interest more so when I had a 4x4 and went offroading as thats more his thing than modified cars.
Missus likes all my cars and enjoys just being a passenger if we go out (similar sort of thing to mattk) but also enjoys driving her own car/posing with the roof down
[Edited on 04-12-2011 by harrisp]
|
RCoughtrie
Member
Registered: 31st Oct 04
Location: East Ayrshire Scotland
User status: Offline
|
Mum gets it my hobby
Dad just doesnt get it at all on every car with every mod its always the same reply "You wont get your money back when you come to sell it so its pointless" or just a sarcastic remark for e.g when i changed the Comp MO's on C5RSA to white said "now everyone will think the circus is in town because it looks like a clown car" needless to say it annoys the fuck clean out me hence why i put his window wipers up everytime im down at their house and hate all ford mondeo's just becasue he owns one 
Misses is cool, just hates car parts sitting every where lol
[Edited on 04-12-2011 by RCoughtrie]
|
Joey 1.6 sport
Member
Registered: 23rd Oct 11
Location: Kent
User status: Offline
|
My dad loves it too
|
