Stupid question amnesty - reprise

[pompei]

Why is it when you see chavved up, "modified" (usually Corsa/Saxo/106) cars, the drivers always seem to be stunted? They look as though they are peering over the wheel and could easily fit a top hat on? Is there some Halfords accessory that lowers them in the seat when they lower the suspension? ( Apologies to any PORGs, I do not mean to offend)

[Alexg]

Usually the seat hight is at its lowest setting and the back rest is leant right back. Its a fine way to travel

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I usually sit like that in the Accord. Makes the ride quality feel a wee bit less miserable.

[KruJoe]

They generally ARE stunted.

That's what you get for starting your 20-a-day career at eight years old. Don't do it kids.

[RedSparrow]

Some of the nobbers do it to be cool like GANGSTAS.

Hiding behind the B-pillar provides more protection from being shot by disgruntled 'homies'.

 

YO BITCHES!

[RoadworkUK]

I took a photo of one such cretin, can't find it anywhere. He was rocking a Saxo with the full compedium of Argos modifications, punching well above his weight if the bird in his passenger seat was actually real. He had his arm stretched before him and his hand on the wheel in such a way as to completely obscure his instruments, and his head cocked in a Senna lean. He looked a nob. My car full of people all pointed and laughed. He didn't see us.

[TimothyClaypole]

I had two new front springs fitted to my scabby Astra estate for it's mot and since then it's making a right racket on the motorway.

 

My dad's verdict is the young scamps at the garage have overtightened the hub nuts and they need slackening off a bit (the nuts not the scamps)?

 

 

(the same scamps who snapped the handbrake cable while testing it too thinking it would be knackered when I'd adjusted it the day before...).

[catsinthewelder]

I'd usually add to the piss taking but a mate likes to ride like that and so put the passenger seat of the GF's Golf GTI into that position. Saved the life of the lass that was in it next when the car flipped over and crushed the A pillar after the brakes failed

[forddeliveryboy]

Lowers the CoG in a crap car with an 'orrid upright inline engine. Summut with a boxer under the lid or a car heavy enough where the cargo weight is a small proportion of the overall mass and you can sit as high as you like.

[Rod/b]

I used to see loads of the above-mentioned twats on my journeys around the south east of the uk. For some reason they all seem to drive with their head leant against the window, with the one handed cripple-hook steering method all too apparent.

[Formula Autos]

Possible stupid question:

 

I've recently had the coil springs replaced on the back of my Mondeo (after one broke and gave the car a 1/4 OMG rat-look effect), and the back of the car seems to sit very high. There's maybe an extra inch and a half now showing betwixt tyre and the top of the wheelarch opening. It isn't just perception either, I compared it to my Father-in-law's Mondeo of similar vintage.

 

Is this normal?

 

It seems to be settling down a bit (i.e. it's now slightly lower, about a fortnight after the work was done), but still noticeably high. The front springs seem OK too, and don't seem to be lowering that end of the car. The car drives fine too.

 

Other than the springs being the wrong ones, the only other possible explanation I can think of is that a few months ago I had the rear subframe bushes replaced with Polyflex polyurethane ones, and they seem to protrude more (maybe a centimetre) than the Ford ones ever did - though, again, the car felt normal after this was done.

 

It's not a big thing, but I've noticed it, and it strikes me as odd.

 

Any ideas?

[nigel bickle]

Reasonably common with new springs- and the need to 'settle'.

 

A large bag of concrete -or something similar, in the boot for a couple of weeks should sort it.

[Rod/b]

Reasonably common with new springs- and the need to 'settle'.

 

A dead prostitute -or something similar, in the boot for a couple of weeks should sort it.

 

EFA

[504GL]

Some of the nobbers do it to be cool like GANGSTAS.

Hiding behind the B-pillar provides more protection from being shot by disgruntled 'homies'.

 

YO BITCHES!

 

AAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!

[Des]

Ya na be dissin dyem home boys ya get me blud?

My theory of the 'cha ta rass' gyangsta lean, trousers hanging off the arse, missing shoelaces and so forth is that a number of our population are actually quite retarded, and have dragged copying the big boys in the playground into adulthood.