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General => New forum members => Topic started by: Jack4688 on 30 April 2011, 15:12
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Hi, just joined because I'm hoping to get a Mk3 soon. I'm on the S2forum too with the same name as I used to have an Audi S2 coupe - what happened to it is another story.... :sick:
Given up on getting another S2 for a while until I have the money for it :cry:
Right now I have a gutless little polo FSI - very nice and very well equipped but thats just it, it's 'nice'. And going from 220bhp and 228lb/ft to 86bhp and 94lb/ft id definitely the wrong direction! If anyone on here knows someone after that sort of car (steer clear of the word gutless though!) the ad is on pistonheads http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2732265.htm (http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2732265.htm)
So right now I'm trying to get some cash for the polo to help out when I come to getting a flat in July and am after a Mk3 GTI with some of what's left over - the car is by far the most valuable thing I own so I will hopefully be left with more than I need for securing a flat and why not spend some of it on a faster car? :smiley:
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Hello, and welcome to the Forum :cool: :cool:
Thom
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Welcome!
So err...
What did happen to the S2?
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You don't really have to tell.
Do the numbers after your name have any meaning?
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Its my DOB - I'm not good at coming up with names so this one will do on Forums :smiley:
As for my S2's fate..... I was driving home from work on Saddleworth moor - not my usual route home but it was June, it had no air con & it had black leather interior and I was stuck in a 3 mile jam to come off the m62... So coming round a blind-ish corner a sheep appeared on the road and my instinct was to get out its way. As I was doing 50-65 mph already, yanking the steering wheel hard to the right wasn't the best idea... and I got into a tank slapper. Couldn't control it and couldn't move my hands across the wheel fast enough (and didn't have enough driving talent) and so it started to slide off the road with the fence looming..... all the time i was thinking please don't hit the fence please don't hit the fence please don't hit the fence :cry:
But what I didn't know was that there was a trench about three feet in from the side of the road. It dug in. It flipped over. It landed on it's roof. I crawled out of the open driver's side window :cry: :cry: :cry:
Oh and it happened 1 month and 1 day after I bought it :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
But on the bright side if it decided to slide off to the right instead off the left I would have dropped about 20 feet onto a steep hill that I could have slid down... at the end of which there was another sheer drop :sick:
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Oh no!!
Sh¡t luck.
I would've done the same in your situation though mate. :sad:
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The fact that I survived with no injuries helped me get over it and move on really quick. I just thought experiences like this builds character I guess :grin:
Plus I have a cool car crash story to tell people :cool:
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AND you saved a sheep. :wink:
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One of my mates asked about the sheep. Not "are you ok Jack?" No she wanted to know if the sheep was alright :rolleyes:
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The fact that I survived with no injuries helped me get over it and move on really quick. I just thought experiences like this builds character I guess :grin:
Plus I have a cool car crash story to tell people :cool:
I love your attitude about the whole thing, most people would be a trembling wreck after that kind of accident, kudos to you buddy.
Now, as per the other thread that we have spoken in.."Feck off". :grin: :grin:
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The fact that I survived with no injuries helped me get over it and move on really quick. I just thought experiences like this builds character I guess :grin:
Plus I have a cool car crash story to tell people :cool:
I love your attitude about the whole thing, most people would be a trembling wreck after that kind of accident, kudos to you buddy.
Now, as per the other thread that we have spoken in.."Feck off". :grin: :grin:
Well I was a trembling wreck for a short while but when you're out in the middle of nowhere waiting for the police to arrive, you have the gentle hum of the engine and gearbox still spinning, it didn't take long for me to realise how lucky an escape it was!
Now I'm fecking off to a scrap dealer to find a Lancia :grin:
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I imagine it puts it in perspective for you when you see how lucky you are. :afro:
Don't be such a girl, get a MK3 Golf 16v, just look out for the common faults, plenty of resources on here to make sure you know what you're looking for too, plus, you won't find a forum as homely as this one. :wink:
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I imagine it puts it in perspective for you when you see how lucky you are. :afro:
Don't be such a girl, get a MK3 Golf 16v, just look out for the common faults, plenty of resources on here to make sure you know what you're looking for too, plus, you won't find a forum as homely as this one. :wink:
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We are all friends here. (Maybe more. :wink: :kiss:)
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Speak for yourself queerboi. :grin: :kiss:
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:laugh: :laugh:
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I imagine it puts it in perspective for you when you see how lucky you are. :afro:
Don't be such a girl, get a MK3 Golf 16v, just look out for the common faults, plenty of resources on here to make sure you know what you're looking for too, plus, you won't find a forum as homely as this one. :wink:
Well I don't know about that, you chaps have a lot of competition from the S2Forum fellas :tongue:
I will in all probability be getting a mk3 GTI don't you worry about that - anything's better than my Polo FSI and all 6 of it's horsepower :grin: Plus I need to keep my VAG loyalty and I need something a little older to have some cash left over from selling the Polo - as mentioned in my other thread it'll help to justify it to mother when she shouts at me for getting a fourth car in less than two years.
Not that I should care! I'm a grown man, mother I can do what I want!
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I imagine it puts it in perspective for you when you see how lucky you are. :afro:
Don't be such a girl, get a MK3 Golf 16v, just look out for the common faults, plenty of resources on here to make sure you know what you're looking for too, plus, you won't find a forum as homely as this one. :wink:
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We are all friends here. (Maybe more. :wink: :kiss:)
Are you two going to kiss or what?
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No, that's gay! :embarassed:
I mean... unless Shady says it's okay...
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No, that's gay! :embarassed:
I mean... unless Shady says it's okay...
For f**k sake. :grin:
I imagine it puts it in perspective for you when you see how lucky you are. :afro:
Don't be such a girl, get a MK3 Golf 16v, just look out for the common faults, plenty of resources on here to make sure you know what you're looking for too, plus, you won't find a forum as homely as this one. :wink:
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We are all friends here. (Maybe more. :wink: :kiss:)
Are you two going to kiss or what?
Don't get him started, gayness lurks these forums very easily. :grin:
I imagine it puts it in perspective for you when you see how lucky you are. :afro:
Don't be such a girl, get a MK3 Golf 16v, just look out for the common faults, plenty of resources on here to make sure you know what you're looking for too, plus, you won't find a forum as homely as this one. :wink:
Well I don't know about that, you chaps have a lot of competition from the S2Forum fellas :tongue:
I will in all probability be getting a mk3 GTI don't you worry about that - anything's better than my Polo FSI and all 6 of it's horsepower :grin: Plus I need to keep my VAG loyalty and I need something a little older to have some cash left over from selling the Polo - as mentioned in my other thread it'll help to justify it to mother when she shouts at me for getting a fourth car in less than two years.
Not that I should care! I'm a grown man, mother I can do what I want!
As you said, you shouldn't have to justify, is it her money you spend on cars (I hope it's not lol), if it's not, tell her to do one. :wink:
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Well its a mixture of my money, an extortionate amount of loan/bursary/grant I'm getting from student loans co. and my university and some money borrowed from my remaining grandmother (who is a twisted old b*tch so I don't feel all that guilty taking some of my inheritance from her :grin:) which I spent on the Polo. I won't be borrowing any more money and hopefully the sale of the Polo will mean I won't have to when it comes to securing a flat when I go back to work (2:1 pending :smiley:)
Oh and it's me who's extorting the loans people and uni, not the other way round :grin:
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2:1? If you get it then congrats, I got myself a 2:1 last year. :afro:
Make sure you gets a good valver, join the Dub-Tug Squad (MK3 section) and come rock with us. (Get it?) :smug: :grin:
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2:1? If you get it then congrats, I got myself a 2:1 last year. :afro:
Make sure you gets a good valver, join the Dub-Tug Squad (MK3 section) and come rock with us. (Get it?) :smug: :grin:
Cool, what course/uni?
I really don't get it.... I'm slow and a bit thick you may have to spell it out for me :grin:
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I did Graphic Design and Sustainable Packaging at Bournemouth. :)
As for the joke, MK3s are referred to as boats due to their bloated size compared to MK2s and their underpowered engines. You'll here that a lot on here as time goes on. :afro:
Come rock with us (because boats rock back and fourth). That's B - for back, A - for ass, C for cucumber..... :grin: You get the point.
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Ha thanks for explaining it for me :smiley:
What do they call mk4s then? Surely they're more bloated compared it's predecessor than the mk3s are?
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MK4s are overweight turds. :grin:
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Just saw in this week's Autocar mag a diagram of each golf - the mk5 was lighter than the mk4 and now the 6 is heavier than the mk4, 5, 3, 2 and 1 put together :grin: