Cant seem to get insured on my chav mobile

[TW]Fox · 9 Jan 2011 at 11:08

Relentless81 said:
Everyones insurance has gone up

Not mine - just got a speculative new quote and it's £2 less than last year

Relentless81 · 9 Jan 2011 at 11:11

"Everyone" was clearly the wrong choice of word but you know what I mean

peterattheboro · 9 Jan 2011 at 11:19

Stormster said:
Yeah, it has GSi skirts, a Steinmetz front valance smoothed in and decent aftermarket wheels. It's lowered a bit...

That.

[TW]Fox · 9 Jan 2011 at 11:21

peterattheboro said:
That.

Are we really looking at pictures of a 'smoothed in' 13 year old Corsa and asking why people might think it's chav? :confused:

mattyprice4004 · 9 Jan 2011 at 11:26

[TW]Fox;18169675 said:
No, he has a Megane 225 iirc.

As you and probably everyone else is aware, I despise French cars. However the 225s are fantastic cars.

Joshy · 9 Jan 2011 at 11:27

[TW]Fox;18181676 said:
Are we really looking at pictures of a 'smoothed in' 13 year old Corsa and asking why people might think it's chav?

Because given what 19 year olds have done to their Corsas in the past, the OP's one is actually quite tasteful.

I think people don't like it because it is a Corsa and is modfied, not because it is a Corsa that has been modified badly.

peterattheboro · 9 Jan 2011 at 12:02

Joshy said:
Because given what 19 year olds have done to their Corsas in the past, the OP's one is actually quite tasteful.

It's not the worst modified Corsa i've seen but still chav.

Aleksandrs · 9 Jan 2011 at 13:30

Peoples definition of what a Chav is, is way off. Someone who spends money on their car doing it up how they like it, isn't really my definition of Chav.

If your car is chavved, then its probably covered in fibreglass, different colour body panels and white bodykits and still have standard wheels tucked away inside the wide arch kit. Probably coupled with Argos seat covers and ripspeed 6x9s in the parcel shelf. But having ALL those things are for the luxury Chav who has a middle class upbringing.

Just seems a bit silly, mocking OPs car when you drive some dreary runabout, where you see the splitting image of your car every 5 minutes driving along the road. Or silly also if you drive a 'nice' car, as not everyone can afford what you have, or might not even want to.

Also thinking people are modifying a certain way just to fit in is a bit stupid. Might surprise you that people actually modify their cars based on their own tastes!

[TW]Fox · 9 Jan 2011 at 13:36

The OP himself calls it a chav mobile!

DM · 9 Jan 2011 at 13:41

Aleksandrs said:
Peoples definition of what a Chav is, is way off. Someone who spends money on their car doing it up how they like it, isn't really my definition of Chav.

If your car is chavved, then its probably covered in fibreglass, different colour body panels and white bodykits and still have standard wheels tucked away inside the wide arch kit. Probably coupled with Argos seat covers and ripspeed 6x9s in the parcel shelf. But having ALL those things are for the luxury Chav who has a middle class upbringing.

Just seems a bit silly, mocking OPs car when you drive some dreary runabout, where you see the splitting image of your car every 5 minutes driving along the road. Or silly also if you drive a 'nice' car, as not everyone can afford what you have, or might not even want to.

Also thinking people are modifying a certain way just to fit in is a bit stupid. Might surprise you that people actually modify their cars based on their own tastes!

Now dont start letting the Kent mahoosive down, in Kent we call it as we see it, chavs are chavs!

****** now, thats a different thing

Aleksandrs · 9 Jan 2011 at 13:47

DiamondMark said:
Now dont start letting the Kent mahoosive down, in Kent we call it as we see it, chavs are chavs!

****** now, thats a different thing

Haha. Well I do enjoy modified cars, and kinda sick of the "everyone with a modified car is a chav" mentality that some people have.

As for the OP, he's b& for some reason anyway now.. lol

MOOGLEYS · 9 Jan 2011 at 13:57

Everyones insurance has gone up

Mine went down by £4 still a Ripoff £195 a year..

Aleksandrs · 9 Jan 2011 at 13:59

MOOGLEYS said:
Mine went down by £4 still a Ripoff £195 a year..

I'd probably do many unthinkable things to only pay £195 a year car insurance.

Janesy B · 9 Jan 2011 at 14:00

Stormster said:
It's not crap at all Janesey, I'd pick that over your Fiesta ANY DAY of the week.

I'd drive neither given the choice but I'd be ever so slightly more embarrassed turning up to a job interview in that Corsa, I still think it's crap.

I was also sort of defending the car in a backwards way

MOOGLEYS · 9 Jan 2011 at 14:02

Aleksandrs said:
I'd probably do many unthinkable things to only pay £195 a year car insurance.

You just need to get old and not claim in 15 years....

DM · 9 Jan 2011 at 14:05

Im telling you being old has only got 1 benefit, cheap insurance, make the most of it.

Joshy · 9 Jan 2011 at 14:08

[TW]Fox;18182705 said:
The OP himself calls it a chav mobile!

Doesn't mean anything other than the fact that he doesn't take his car too 'seriously', which I think it is a refreshing attitude.

He knows people are going to call it Chavvy/crap/rubbish anyway, might as well shrug it off and make a bit of fun out of it rather than blowing a gasket and going into full on defence mode.

Janesy B · 9 Jan 2011 at 14:09

Joshy said:
Doesn't mean anything other than the fact that he doesn't take his car too 'seriously', which I think it is a refreshing attitude.

He knows people are going to call it Chavvy/crap/rubbish anyway, might as well shrug it off and make a bit of fun out of it rather than blowing a gasket and going into full on defence mode.

Better than 200 pages of rubbish and a thread in GD about what a bunch of ******* motors are.

Joshy · 9 Jan 2011 at 14:15

Janesy B said:
Better than 200 pages of rubbish and a thread in GD about what a bunch of ******* motors are.

In my mind it is a similar sort of thing. Most of the time people are going to be ignorant no matter what you say to try and defend yourself/car/chosen sub-forum. Better to shrug it off then give these people a bit of a scene.

Janesy B · 9 Jan 2011 at 14:17

Joshy said:
In my mind it is a similar sort of thing. Most of the time people are going to be ignorant no matter what you say to try and defend yourself/car/chosen sub-forum. Better to shrug it off then give these people a bit of a scene.

What's your stance on this? Seeing as you said in the ST170 replica thread that you couldn't see the reason why someone would bother and just spend the extra money on the better model/car?