Just spent £3k on suspension...

Django x2 · 25 Apr 2019 at 06:19

A worth while modification to a £2500 Passat.

Probably someone from here because they clearly think the world owes them for their stupidity.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...nt-3-000-lowering-suspension-speed-bumps.html

Diddums · 25 Apr 2019 at 06:36

What an idiot. The article is full of fantastic quotes and numbers but this really sums it up for us nicely:

'I feel discriminated against because I'm driving a modified car - it's lowered, so it's four inches off the road - and I'm being denied my right to drive on these roads.'

Discriminated against. I don't even know where to begin with idiots like this.

Django x2 · 25 Apr 2019 at 06:38

I mean yeah, pinch of salt for DM content, but we wouldn't have this amazing story of a poor afflicted imbecile if it weren't for the DM seeking them out.

grudas · 25 Apr 2019 at 06:40

His car isn't even low and what suspension did he pay £3k for! Must've been ripped off haha.

Django x2 · 25 Apr 2019 at 06:43

Also "fresh"

Diddums · 25 Apr 2019 at 06:46

Mr Fitzgibbon had already forked out £13,000 to keep his pride and joy on the road in just three years - including £5,000 on just one year's insurance.

Someone's having a great holiday out of this idiot

Django x2 · 25 Apr 2019 at 06:50

Pride and joy?

Pride comes when you drop it off at the council breakers surely?

iamdjdz · 25 Apr 2019 at 06:53

Probs paid £300 and the DM added a 0.

Also, I do feel sorry for him in a way though, and for other residents. If any of them ever wanted a Lamborghini they couldn't get one because of the council.

tom_nieto · 25 Apr 2019 at 07:06

iamdjdz said:
Probs paid £300 and the DM added a 0.

Also, I do feel sorry for him in a way though, and for other residents. If any of them ever wanted a Lamborghini they couldn't get one because of the council.

That’s discrimination right there.

I love that he was so intimidated by being called vexatious. Why would you lower a Passat and then pay £5000 to insure it? Oh wait, to add stability.

EddScott · 25 Apr 2019 at 07:16

"the road engineer called me frivolous and vexatious"

So the road engineer dropped a string of F bombs then suddenly ate a thesaurus?

wolfie138 · 25 Apr 2019 at 07:46

he needs to embrace the bouncy hydraulic culture of the USA, then he could raise the car up for speed bumps and lower it again when rollin' through his crib w/ his homies.

that photo. "can you just point at the wheel, so our readers will know where the suspension is, cheers."

Tee Hee Johnson · 25 Apr 2019 at 08:40

Bought a shagged pissrat, spent over 10k on it somehow, now wants council to pay to refresh the old suspension components he hasn't replaced.

No.

Oh well, at least he learned two new words!

Hades · 25 Apr 2019 at 10:02

Low?? My Corrado is lower than that (lowered by previous owner). Yes speed bumps are (not) fun. But I don't complain about it.

Nasher · 25 Apr 2019 at 10:06

Speed bumps are stupid. There is some along the road where my sister lives and all you can hear in the evening is people slowing down and flooring it in 1st gear between them.

6" seems excessively high for a speed bump though. Some cars are lower than that stock. Either he is talking BS, or the council have actually messed up and made the humps wrong.

Yaayuh! · 25 Apr 2019 at 10:08

Hahaha!

This just made my morning, genuinely, It's started off pretty poor.

Akagi · 25 Apr 2019 at 10:15

It's not even that low... And I don't think it's even possible to spend 3K on suspension on an old passat unless you fit really good air ride, which if he had, he wouldn't have this problem.

He's talking ****.

Uther · 25 Apr 2019 at 10:15

So he can't 'look fresh' on his 80 mph commute through the village any more. Shame.

DomBruv · 25 Apr 2019 at 10:35

I have a 4k Passat with 3k suspension I don't understand the issue? Just air it up

Nasher · 25 Apr 2019 at 11:03

Adjustable coilovers are the way to go.

GhostWKD · 25 Apr 2019 at 11:17

Nasher said:
6" seems excessively high for a speed bump though. Some cars are lower than that stock. Either he is talking BS, or the council have actually messed up and made the humps wrong.

Imagine BS.... iirc the regulations are a max of 4"

edit:

4.—(1) Subject to regulation 7, no road hump shall be constructed or maintained in a highway unless–

.........

(b)it has a minimum length of 900 millimetres measured parallel to an imaginary line along the centre of that carriageway from the point where one face meets the surface of that carriageway to the point where the other face meets the surface of that carriageway;

(c)the highest point on it is not less than 25 millimetres nor more than 100 millimetres higher than an imaginary line parallel to the centre line of that carriageway connecting the surface of that carriageway on one side of the road hump to the surface of that carriageway on the other side of the road hump and passing vertically below that point; and,

Although I'm sure I know of many road humps which are shorter than 900mm (the short sharp ones...) so not sure how that works?