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Title: Put that sound-proofing material back onto your bonnet...
Post by: illyun on 14 January 2009, 01:57

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1113563/Car-noise-increases-risk-heart-attack-38.html

 :shocked: :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:

Title: Re: Put that sound-proofing material back onto your bonnet...
Post by: bacillus on 14 January 2009, 10:00

Does this mean RedRobin is at risk with his Milltek exhaust??

Title: Re: Put that sound-proofing material back onto your bonnet...
Post by: revo carl on 14 January 2009, 14:40

pfffffttt..........

Title: Re: Put that sound-proofing material back onto your bonnet...
Post by: illyun on 14 January 2009, 15:15

Quote from: bacillus on 14 January 2009, 10:00

Does this mean RedRobin is at risk with his Milltek exhaust??

Probably... everytime we get into the car we probably lose a minute of our life for every 10 miles of driving - and I did about 40k miles last year  :shocked: :shocked:   Its worse than chain-smoking  :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:

Title: Re: Put that sound-proofing material back onto your bonnet...
Post by: synnea on 14 January 2009, 15:18

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Probably... everytime we get into the car we probably lose a minute of our life for every 10 miles of driving

But driving a GTI/ED30/R32 - it's sure worth it  :laugh: :laugh:

Title: Re: Put that sound-proofing material back onto your bonnet...
Post by: AlanD on 14 January 2009, 15:35

What a load of bollocks.

Title: Re: Put that sound-proofing material back onto your bonnet...
Post by: Dec on 14 January 2009, 15:38

My god! I should have died 2 weeks ago with the exhaust/noise I had in my mk2 :laugh:

Title: Re: Put that sound-proofing material back onto your bonnet...
Post by: stealthwolf on 14 January 2009, 16:48

But everytime I floor the car, my heart really gets pumping. Surely that's just exercise?

Title: Re: Put that sound-proofing material back onto your bonnet...
Post by: illyun on 14 January 2009, 17:02

Quote from: Dec MK2 on 14 January 2009, 15:38

My god! I should have died 2 weeks ago with the exhaust/noise I had in my mk2 :laugh:

I was going to type something along those lines but thouht I'd better not tempt fate  :lipsrsealed:

Title: Re: Put that sound-proofing material back onto your bonnet...
Post by: Hurdy on 14 January 2009, 23:10

Did you know that driving a Golf GTI of any variant increases your life expectancy by 1 minute per mile, purely through excitement.......probably :rolleyes:

Title: Re: Put that sound-proofing material back onto your bonnet...
Post by: bobotheclown on 15 January 2009, 09:46

it's the friggin daily mail. Don't believe any of the crud that this scare mongering rag prints.