I think he means that he might have some of that all important anti hedge "experience" everyone keeps on banging on about
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I think he means that he might have some of that all important anti hedge "experience" everyone keeps on banging on about
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Well not really, it's a hell of a lot more experience than just jumping in the car never having driven anything of the sort before.
It's also hardly going to be a massive novelty to him so he's probably not going to be as likely to boot it absolutely everywhere.
No its not, its 3 months on and off driving an odd car, which equals no experience.
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Exactly, he's randomly driven more modern cars, ones that have a lot more driver aids etc. than this one, and are also work cars so will be likely be treated (given more respect) a lot better than this one will be. Some people are indeed fine going straight into powerful RWD cars (granted 170bhp in a 523i isn't that powerful), but others, like the OP don't seem to strike me as being the sensible sort of driver, especially when he was looking at spending £5k on a Corsa, says it all really.
[TW]Fox;18106591 said:Not hugely no but it required an insurance claim to get it right. Purely luck it wasn't worse mind. It was less than 2 months after I got it so it was yet to be worthless enough to be written off
Big dent in the rear wing.
If that was to happen now, despite its wonderful condition, it would be written off in an instant.
Such a shame.
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Exactly, my first one (granted it had no traction control etc.) caught me out the day I bought the car and I had been driving very sensibly at that point.
It's more experience than having driven nothing of the sort and having had free access to similar cars is going to make his far less of a novelty than just jumping in it having never driven anything more potent than 1.0l Yaris or something
I'm not saying it makes him god's gift to driving but it's better than nothing IMO
I wasn't going to spend 5k on a corsa, I was going to spend 3k on a nice 2005+ corsa and 2k on insurance.
To me, having driven a selection of company cars from BMW's to Audi's on a daily basis, this gives me a lot more experience than some 18 year old that jumps in a 523i having only driven say, a 1.2l before. I also saved every penny of the insurance myself through working hard and making sacrifices so I am hardly going to act like an utter idiot.. why would I want to lose what I have worked so hard to get?
Some experience is better than none!
I say give the lad a chance, us 'youth' aren't all chavs in baseball caps driving 'Fezzas' about despite the harm JanesyB does to our reputation.
He looks like he may have a pretty good car (all things considered) and I bet most 18 year olds would be fronting or have bought a dodgy DannyW shed so untill he wraps it round a tree entombing 3 small children and the pope people should stop acting like Daily Mail readers.
He looks like he may have a pretty good car (all things considered) and I bet most 18 year olds would be fronting or have bought a dodgy DannyW shed so untill he wraps it round a tree entombing 3 small children and the pope people should stop acting like Daily Mail readers.
The first rwd car I drove on the road was my 330d. And that was coming from a 306 DTurbo. It can be done.
Same - after a Golf TDI 105ps.
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Take it easy and good luck
Me + 200SX + Seeing some complete sheds going round and round a small roundabout + me trying to show them what a 'real' car is with foot to floor in 2nd gear after exiting roundabout = me up a literally 45 degree grass bank after mounting a 30cm high curb (!!!) missing two lamps posts and only breaking a fog light and the exhaust. I learnt a lot of respect for RWD that day, and also realised you simply cannot get away with cheap rear tyres or one's that are rather worn out.
Me + 200SX + Seeing some complete sheds going round and round a small roundabout + me trying to show them what a 'real' car is with foot to floor in 2nd gear after exiting roundabout = me up a literally 45 degree grass bank after mounting a 30cm high curb (!!!) missing two lamps posts and only breaking a fog light and the exhaust. I learnt a lot of respect for RWD that day, and also realised you simply cannot get away with cheap rear tyres or one's that are rather worn out.
Cheeky sod.
Says the person who wheelspun out of the carpark at the southern meet and nearly got us kicked out
