JM_16v
Member
Registered: 17th Oct 05
Location: Essex Drives: GLC63S
User status: Offline
|
just was listening to Radio 1 News
the AA have announced they are concerned with young driver using nitrous oxide and supping up there cars to beyond there limits.....
i always go by the rule . . . if you give the fastest car in the world to someone sensible then its safe yet if you give an idiot a 1 litre fiat punto hell still manage to kill himself. its the drivers that need to be educated not the cars.
|
Brett
Premium Member
Registered: 16th Dec 02
Location: Manchester
User status: Offline
|
I blame F&TF
|
willay
Moderator
Organiser: South East, National Events
Premium Member
Registered: 10th Nov 02
Location: Roydon, Essex
User status: Offline
|
recession
|
_Allan_
Member
Registered: 24th Mar 04
User status: Offline
|
|
Paul_J
Member
Registered: 6th Jun 02
Location: London
User status: Offline
|
how stupid... on bbc news this morning 
'well if a kid puts nitros on his car he may have 200 bhp more, but wont know how to handle it'
what a crock of ... shit.
Just pr for new FATF 4...
|
Matt L
Member
Registered: 17th Apr 06
User status: Offline
|
at the news, just moaning about things for the sake of it now.
|
Paul_J
Member
Registered: 6th Jun 02
Location: London
User status: Offline
|
The thing that winds me up the most about this sort of thing, is that - they basically tarnish joy riders who have stolen a car, as the same as someone who has a modified car.
Today on the news it said...
'Modified cars are causing many accidents... In particular NOS is causing people to have wildly uncontrollable cars with way too much power... For example, last year 2 kids who were only 15 were killed when the car they had stolen crashed at high speed."
Erm, so... kids who are under age, no license, no insurance, nicked a car (not necisarily modified or with nos) and crashed it killing themselves.
Where's the relevance??
|
Ben G
Member
Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
User status: Offline
|
it's because they keep blowing the welds on the intake, god damn teenagers 
|
JM_16v
Member
Registered: 17th Oct 05
Location: Essex Drives: GLC63S
User status: Offline
|
i will admit its very frustrating, id be intrested to know the % of young people in accidents that have NOS
and also note that NOS is illegal to use on UK roads
|
fazza
Member
Registered: 7th Feb 08
Location: Plymouth
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by JM_16v
and also note that NOS is illegal
so is having gay sex under the age of 18 but people still do it
but yeh most young drivers wont be able to afford to keep refilling the nos bottles even if they did have the system installed
|
JM_16v
Member
Registered: 17th Oct 05
Location: Essex Drives: GLC63S
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by fazza
so is having gay sex under the age of 18 but i still do it
|
fazza
Member
Registered: 7th Feb 08
Location: Plymouth
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by JM_16v
quote:
Originally posted by fazza
so is having gay sex under the age of 18 but i still do it
gone are the days of being under 18 
not the same now its legal
|
JM_16v
Member
Registered: 17th Oct 05
Location: Essex Drives: GLC63S
User status: Offline
|
|
Matt L
Member
Registered: 17th Apr 06
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by JM_16v
quote:
Originally posted by fazza
so is having gay sex under the age of 18 but i still do it
iirc gay sex is illegal no matter what age you are all down to some law one of the kings/queens made back in the day that never got abolished or it could be lesbian sex that is illegal.... cant remember which way round it was/if its actually true. [/useless post]
|
fazza
Member
Registered: 7th Feb 08
Location: Plymouth
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Matt L
quote:
Originally posted by JM_16v
quote:
Originally posted by fazza
so is having gay sex under the age of 18 but i still do it
iirc gay sex is illegal no matter what age you are all down to some law one of the kings/queens made back in the day that never got abolished or it could be lesbian sex that is illegal.... cant remember which way round it was/if its actually true. [/useless post]
should be illegal tbh
wasnt adam and steve was it
|
Kurt
Member
Registered: 23rd Oct 05
Location: Hi
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Ben G
it's because they keep blowing the welds on the intake, god damn teenagers
it'll be all the floor pans littering uk roads
|
Planty02
Member
Registered: 5th Mar 05
Location: Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent
User status: Offline
|
|
Matt L
Member
Registered: 17th Apr 06
User status: Offline
|
I was looking for that pic
|
Matt L
Member
Registered: 17th Apr 06
User status: Offline
|
the woman they interviewed on radio 1 regarding this story is annoying me.
her son died in an accident in his modified car...
No mention of it being to do with nitros and more to the point its her sons bloody fault for 1) racing someone on the road and 2) donig 70+ in a 30 
Yes there cars may have nitrous but the accident isnt caused because of it, they just happen to have it
It would be like saying steering wheels cause accidents, all the cars that have ever had accidents have them therefore they must be the cause
[Edited on 08-04-2009 by Matt L]
|
Brett
Premium Member
Registered: 16th Dec 02
Location: Manchester
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Kurt
it'll be all the floor pans littering uk roads
The thing everyone forgets about that is the fact that not once does Vin Diesel mention his feet are scraping on the floor when they're being pursued by police
|
All Torque
Member
Registered: 17th Nov 05
Location: Milton Keynes Drives: Ford Focus TDCi
User status: Offline
|
This thread is good for the lols.
|
Mertin
Member
Registered: 12th Oct 05
Location: Scotland
User status: Offline
|
Heres a link to a video on the radio1 website
LINK
158bhp to 300bhp with just NOS?
|
gazza808
Member
Registered: 30th Jun 08
Location: Peterborough
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by JM_16v
i will admit its very frustrating, id be intrested to know the % of young people in accidents that have NOS
and also note that NOS is illegal to use on UK roads
since when has it been illegal??
always thought aslong as it's insured it's fine,
police have said nothing when i was passenger in a stripped nova with a big bottle in the back. more worried about the cage.
|
gavin18787
Premium Member
Registered: 22nd Feb 05
Location: Basildon, Essex
User status: Offline
|
Ridiculous for many reasons
1) firstly as said a load of the accidents have nothing to do with modifactaions.
2) the genral public are now led to belive that n2o kits give everyone an extra 200bhp even if its a 1.1 saxo
3) If a young person is going to drive like a tool they can have a fatal crash in a standard 1.0 corsa or a lambo
Drives supercharged Tec with torque  
|
Cavey
Member
Registered: 11th Nov 02
Location: Derby
User status: Offline
|
It's the annual news loop for things that are bad, this week it's Nos and Sunbeds (one for blokes, one for women) next week will be fags, or booze, probably booze with it being bank holiday weekend.
|
