Ppl in beemers
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From: Bluewater
Originally Posted by billy_i_vtec,Jul 30 2007, 01:29 PM
don't mess about with the tyres on the S. when they're getting close to the limit get them changed. easiest way to find yourself doing a waltz in the S is to have worn tyres. i speak from experience 
The worst time was when one of the back tyres went over a drain of some sort in the rain in a carpark and completely lost grip. Thought i was gonna curb it but luckily wasn't going that fast to begin with so was ok. If that was on a road at about 30-40mph...
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I'm quite easy on tyres and my rears lasted 15k including 2 track days - not sure why !! Scoob looks like it's going the same way although no track days.
Stupid to buy a car just because bmw's overtake you though !!!! Unless you have a Veyron or similar someone can always overtake you just by virtue of breaking the speed limit more than you, or driving like a twat !
Stupid to buy a car just because bmw's overtake you though !!!! Unless you have a Veyron or similar someone can always overtake you just by virtue of breaking the speed limit more than you, or driving like a twat !
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From: Stanmore
The best thing to do is to learn to take the corner before the straight much faster than them. This is usually easy, especially with some track/airfield training. Going 20mph faster than them into the straight means that you are rarely likely to get overtaken. If they still want to get past, move over, lift off and let them and don't let you ego get in the way of your safety and that of others.
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What gets to me is not being overtaken on corners, i mean i hardly get overtaken on corners, its being overtaken on straights where you can't do much about when the car doing the overtaking has a 3.0l engine. Its like building up a lead and losing it on a straight, be it a very long straight on an A road. I mean the more i think about it now i should have just moved aside... I admit it was ego doing the driving not my brain... 
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Originally Posted by BleachS2k,Aug 1 2007, 12:05 PM
car is kinda stock at the mo, when i change more stuff on it i will be sure to have a go
Seriously though, stock is perfectly ok for a track day, and certainly to begin with...
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Originally Posted by BleachS2k,Jul 5 2007, 01:51 PM
I was on my way home on the A2 and was tail gated by an old "E"something beemer having passed a speed camera i shifted into 3rd, vtec and revved off leaving him to eat dust and was fast approaching... another beemer this time a 53 reg convertible. I was doing 80-90 ish in 4th in vtec and the bugger didn't move off till i undertook him( three lanes on the A2 had to move into the 1st). Having undertook him he decided to then speed up but i passed him at about 100...
If anything was approaching anyone from behind with some speed wouldn't they move off? But no it doesn't seem to apply to them!!!
If anything was approaching anyone from behind with some speed wouldn't they move off? But no it doesn't seem to apply to them!!!
Whenever people post things like this, it reads as a whinge. I see nothing in this post other than an arrogance and the fact that you appear to be influenced by motoring cliches. You should accept the fact that you are actually not superior in any way to anyone else on the road, and are in fact inferior in many ways in that you do similar things to the person(s) you speak of. "Oh he was so bad he forced me to undertake" Well whoopydoo!
I'd love to have heard the beemer driver's account of things.