srobrien

Ooooft they are nasty! Save your pennies and get some recaros or similar, at least you can sell them if you part with the zed.

R

If we could get a few scottish members interested could we get you up here for a day?

Sucks dude! At least you can get yourself a M3 now

I knew before I even opened the thread that this would be a zedrush number.......yes...without a shadow of a doubt the gayest thing since the dawn of man.

Perfectly legitimite story, have you any idea how frustrating it is when losers in their jap crap make illegal use of my BMW lane, if I had my way there would be snipers on the overpasses to deal with them!

Yeah maybe April would probably be better, give me time to save up for a set of rear tyres

R

Looks good but I forsee a black left palm in the future.

R

Thanks for the info Alex although this name change has put me off slightly I hope it doesn't mean I'll be sharing a track with some dude in a £900 corsa not caring a shite if he runs into the back of me, at least with Hot Marques I would imagine it would be more civilized.

Think I'm home on the 12th of Feb so might book it for then before everyone cottons on that its back to a free for all.

R

cor i go away for 8 hours and come back to mayhem

 

 

i am a bit of a fat boy so that seems to have seal the deal for the M3

 

 

i never started this thread, and wasn't looking for people to tell me what to get, i have pretty much worked out what i want, and spoken to the people whos opinions i hold in high regard; but it is nice to hear peoples thoughts and left field suggestions. as it gives me more things to test drive

 

one question about beemers though; i know indicators were optional on alot of models but were they a standard OEM fit for the M3 ?

No, optional extra they are not usually fitted though as there are BMW lanes on most motorways so we don't need to change that often.

Probably is. No shame in getting overtaken by a clio 197 at knockhill. It's short and twisty. Exactly where the clios excel.

I know, looked like it was coping well with the weather, i'll probably be overtaken by worse when I go down

Spotted this, dunno if its a repost or you know about it, some in car footage from knockhill.

Is that you at about 4:16 Vik? Getting overtaken by a Clio no less

Then at about 5:43 alex blasting through

R

Neither Do Luck FTW!!

R

Rich you seem like a really sound guy.......please don't get an M3 and make me hate you and the rest of your buttreeming, brace wearing bretheren.....and no I don't care how good it is to drive.

 

Just don't....

please don't.....

For the love it all that is green and good in the world don't.....

 

don't worry, husky is giving me the same amount of grief for the same decision

 

I will too

 

whatever level of grief you lot think you are giving him it is in no way comparable to the nightmare he has had with me recently about this

 

 

rich, whatever you buy its going to suck, i know this, your in the mood for a boring car that sucks. If you buy something interesting i will eat my chair while sitting on it.

Lets face it I think alot of folk on here have rose tinted glasses on, don't get me wrong the 350z is a fantastic car and I loved owning it but I hardly think it's exciting, its too heavy, the build quality is questionable, its not THAT fast, styling is different but not ground breaking. Like I said I loved it through all the negative points but would never suggest it's more exciting that any other fast car..because it's just not.

R

I like the rasp from the M3. I also think that the CSL is just awesome. The interior is so special and the noise..... semi inducing!

if i can stretch to a CSL i will

DO IT!! They are awesome!

Don't listen to the negative comments on here about the M, I had my reservations at first with the image of the BM and thought I was jap through and through but in terms of power vs usability you can't beat the big beemers. I absolutly love my m3, sheer joy to drive and there isn't much on the road that can challenge it. The only jap car I would swap my m for is the GTR and I can't afford to remortgage everytime I need a new set of rears.

I would get out there and drive one (after the snow clears), try the SMG and manual, I was amazed at how easy the SMG was to drive but the gear changes can get quite agressive so may not be your cup of tea. The CSL has the SMGII which is a totally different beast, absolutly unbelievable gear changes, it's one of these must try before you die cars.

R

Servicing costs aren't that bad if you use a good trusted indy, same as any other marque.

R

lol @ M3 haters!! Pah!! Do it Rich, be one of the cool kids! I can lend you my oakleys!

R

WTF! Is he just a wierd looking kid or some kind of half child midget?

Might enter my girlfriends corsa

What a load of crap though they need to make it more exciting to keep the enthusiasm for the sport up, they need to remove the restrictions rather than adding more and more.

R

I took out insurance for one track day Ross - it cost £70 for 4hrs insurance and the excess was £1500- and the small print states that you're only covered for 'impact' - so if you bin it of your own accord into the kitty litter or tyre wall you're not covered.

This was with Richard Eger - now Reiss- http://www.reis.co.uk/ - who seems to be the most recommended and used on the forums

TBH - you'd only ever claim on track day insurance if you'd had a total loss- in which case you'd prolly not be in a fit state to drive again anyway

As Alex says - what will be will be

But HM days are pretty tame and everyone gives each other a wide berth and are courteous and 'relatively' well behaved

Sweet, I am really looking forward to it, I only have 3/4mm's left on the PS2's so I will have to drive canny till then

R

According to the Knockhill website the next HM isn't till 5th April so will need to see how that ties in with my time at home. Who do you get your track day insurance with?

 

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I personally do not bother, what will be will be.

 

Vik has done this before so she will advise

 

And no one will insure Neil so no point in asking him

I was thinking that as well, if I have a crash you can all help me push it out onto the road

R

According to the Knockhill website the next HM isn't till 5th April so will need to see how that ties in with my time at home. Who do you get your track day insurance with?

R

Cheers guys, is there any tips you can offer. Alex will hopefully meet up with you on the day and get some pointer off you

R

Hey, I got a hot marques trackday from my g/f as part of my xmas present. Never been to a trackday before so looking forward to it. Hopefully as it's "Hot Marques" the other drivers should be more sensible than the hot hatches. Anyone been to this even before? Any advice? And should I get track day insurance?

Thanks

R

YHPM