is a 1.6 bmw driftable?

i know its late to say but you can get a volvo 360 2.0 litre and the insurance is cheaper then corsa's and all that lot haha just thought id mention that :)
 
dude, 4k to insure a bmw 316 for your first year, then maybe 2k the next year is 6k....

id drive the polo for 2 years then use that 6k to buy something awesome, rather than spunk 6k and then have to drive a shit 316 for the rest of your youth!

and btw.....kids these days obviously have too much money!
 
ive just bought a volvo 340 1.7 for my first car as its the cheapest thing to insure that ive found at the moment yet its still 2,450 -_- i hate insurance lol and that with me on someone elses insurance that has 10 years no claims its sucks
 
Got to be out of your fucking mind to pay even 1500quid unless its a properly awesome car. 4k for a shit 1.6 BM is the stupidest idea ever.
 
It abolutely amazes me how much these whipper snappers are prepared to pay for insurance these days, pisses me of that I've gotta pay £400 odd for my Jumbuck.
 
Thats 4k that can pay for a fuckload of nights out having a real life and smashing birds in, fuck cars, do that once you got loads of money and fuck all else to do
 
my ex daily car was a 316 compact e36.
Full stock, with rain is driftable, with snow is awesome!!!
I've some videos but only on the snow...


The car was full stock, with open diff and Nexen N2000 205/60 r15 :thumbs:
 
regardless of actual capacity, all non M BMW 4 cylinder engines are totally shite. Except 318is but only then in an e30
 
wst said:
Right. The whole point of insurance is for when shit hits the fan. If you tell them about the mods, they might insure you. It'll be rape but they'll insure you. You don't tell them about the mods, then if you cause a single penny of damage then you're fucked, and you will lose your license (6 points at least for no insurance, and you're still within your first 2 years after passing the L-test, so that'd be your license gone) etc etc. Not declaring mods to your insurers is only a good idea if you live in the perfect world with empty roads, no surprises, and you're a perfect driver (protip: Not ever happening in this lifetime with any of those 3 points.)

So basically, not declaring mods is the same as driving uninsured (though that sounds fucking stupid, now I think about it, the system is a bit broken there...), only the cops won't spot you until after you need the insurance, but it's a bit late by then! And then you'll lose your license, need to retake the test, explain to the insurers that you lost your license (which will raise your insurance for future years...) and so on. Not to mention the wallet rape you'll be getting if you somehow find the only ferrari in the county to smash up and cause £100k of damage to. You get the idea by now?

Insurance sucks but just... live with it. Get a shitbox and trailer the decent car if you have to. Get a Volvo 340 maybe, they're not ridiculous to insure and the thousands of threads here about them say that the 1.7 isn't totally shit for what it is. Do some advanced driving courses while you're still young enough to learn quickly, learn to actually drive, not the L-test crap, and maybe you'll stave off having to call the insurers going "Trees are really solid aren't they?" for a few more years, saving a load of wallet rape in the long term.

tl;dr: Insurance fraud looks like a good idea until you crash, and then you have no car and no license, which is even worse than paying for insurance...
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The bits in bold are wrong, everything else is spot on (as well as the overall message)

Insurers cannot get out of their 3rd party liabilities, so you will be insured from a legal standpoint, meaning no 6 points etc

They can (and will) however pursue their losses, due to that 3rd party claim, from you.

So yeah, don't not declare mods, you'll just fuck up the next 5+ years of your life having to use lube every time you call an insurer. There was a story last year I think where someone crashed a corsa in london with a load of mods, and the insurers sued them for all the damages and won.
 
mshepphard said:
ive just bought a volvo 340 1.7 for my first car as its the cheapest thing to insure that ive found at the moment yet its still 2,450 -_- i hate insurance lol and that with me on someone elses insurance that has 10 years no claims its sucks
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this is illegal. search 'fronting'
 
Robb F said:
The bits in bold are wrong, everything else is spot on (as well as the overall message)
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Incorrect. I lost my licence at 18 for doing exactly that (in 2004 - all slates cleaned now thankfully) - 6 points, hand your licence to the magistrate and fuck off.

Couldn't afford a car for at least the next four years due to an IN10 apparently making you a worse driver than someone who was caught over the limit in the eyes of the insurance company - it was prohibitively expensive.
 
i brought a alpine white 316 this morning i slammed it on cut front springs and corsa/nova rear springs. stripped it out completely
welded the diff. just bin out playing it is better than i was expting. uv just gotta hit it fast. will be for sale soon if any1s intrested
 
Cheapest thing you can do to help you drift an underpowered car is tyre pressures. Bung a fuckload of pressure in the rears (50psi +) and it'll be a hell of a lot more skidable :)
 
supra_sideways said:
i brought a alpine white 316 this morning i slammed it on cut front springs and corsa/nova rear springs. stripped it out completely
welded the diff. just bin out playing it is better than i was expting. uv just gotta hit it fast. will be for sale soon if any1s intrested
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You just bought it, bodged it, raped it and now you want to flog it.

Fuck off.
 
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