Welsh Togue Run What: Driving around in Wales I guess. Glancing fearfully over our shoulders in case Devil Will shows up. Where: To be decided When: June/July
Ultimate Street Car (USC) What: A car show where loads of chavs show up and show off their Limited Edition Corsas and financed Golfs on airbags. Also drag-racing, live music, and poledancing. Where: Santa Pod Raceway (Northamptonshire) When: 4th-6th August 2017
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Recent Happenings:
Drag Meet III happened, with a fairly healthy turnout of cars and autists (around 16/17 people in all; there were GIRLS too!). Fastest time of the meet was a nice guy in his M135i, which was also the fastest time ever at Shakespeare for Brit/o/, with an ET of 12.88, terminal speed of 108mph.
The guys also went out and about, with a meal at a Wagamamas, where one uncultured chav enjoyed his noodles in dishwater. Apparently there was also bullying of a french girl, and Shun got to drive a car for maybe the last time for a few years, RIP. We'll all be in autopilot Teslas and google cars by the time you see light again.
Pictorial and moving imagery will hopefully be posted in the thread soon.
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Threads are a rarity as we mostly hang out in our own dedicated Slack chat. If you want in, just post up your email (it can be a throwaway), and you'll be invited in. We do actually discuss things of an automotive nature, don't fear. It's not all degeneracy.
Ryder Carter
Julian
Christian Torres
how much did the triump engine build cost
Logan Hughes
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Ayden Long
Top lads
Nathan Nguyen
FPBP
Lincoln Hughes
Time slips for the bim. It was a good weekend lads, looking forward to USC.
Gabriel James
Your all faggots
But your nice faggots. Thank you.
Brody Perez
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Angel Garcia
>12.88 That's pretty impressive for a 135i.
Owen Cox
new car soon lads
very hyped
Levi Sanchez
I am on my first car
'08 Ford fiesta zetec 1.25 ~55,000 miles
I don't know shit about cars but want to learn. What can I do to learn more? What can I fuck with or do myself?
So far, I've:
Topped up oil, brake fluid Changed a pair of wipers Jacked up and changed a wheel
Just bought an armrest/centre console to install today.
Literally babby's first car, help me learn more please. What else could I / should I do?
Jonathan Murphy
My dad owns one of these same engine but a couple years newer. He's had it for 5 years with no issues yet. In the future you could always change disk and pads yourself, along with servicing
Andrew Taylor
Find a workshop/Haynes manual, it has a lot of information and pictures. Only thing after that is actually doing it, that's where most the learning will stick
Henry Garcia
As above, get the haynes manual.
Invest in one of the big 100/200 peice toolkit from halfords. They are good quality and free replacement if you break anything. Other bits you can pickup as you go.
The first thing I ever did was change wishbones on an e36. You will soon realise that a lot of things are just a few nuts and bolts, and as long as you take your time and are methodical it'll come easily. For example an oil change would be a very basic procedure to start with.
I started because I couldn't trust garages and now I only take something in for a mot, and by appearing to know what you are talking about then you will get a better rapport with a garage.
Pic is my main tools
Brandon Parker
that is tool box goals right there, plenty of stuff but you can still see everything. one decent size tool box like that is more than enough for most jobs on a car
Cooper Gomez
Cheers, yea just from halfords, if I had a garage I'd like a roller chest. But this is good for carrying out to the driveway. I have another box for less common bits.
Another thing is get a good jack and axle stands, you want to feel safe working underneath! And a torque wrench for peace of mind for some jobs
James Wilson
Yeah I torque wrench is quite important for some jobs and it's worth having around, I like having ramps as well for jobs that don't require wheels being removed e.g an oil change
Ayden Young
Yes, ramps are very helpful. Also for getting the whole car up and level, I drive onto the ramps then jack and stand the rear. A long breaker bar also is essential. A lot of jobs, especially underneath, the most time consuming is removing rusty old seized bolts which require plenty of penetrating oil and lots of leverage
Levi Ramirez
I'm glad you guys found a Lexus driver to lower the average IQ a couple of points
Nice that drag strips accept benefits payments though, that's generous of them