Are these Vloggers just a scam? SOL or Shmee etc???????

Are these Vloggers just a scam? SOL or Shmee etc???????

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pincher

8,497 posts

216 months

Monday 25th September 2017
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Quickmoose said:
A great piece of work, one that lets hope puts an end to the "why don't you use the car properly" comments.
The fact that you got there straight after leaving the services...then again...then again...then again...


I even watched right up to the "che-e-e-ers" at the end. Great content.
Agree with all of that. Great vid. Don’t think I’d have the cojones to do it myself, if I’m honest.

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 25th September 2017
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Quickmoose said:
A great piece of work, one that lets hope puts an end to the "why don't you use the car properly" comments.
You can´t really take those comments serious. Shmee has done over 15000km in his LT. I guess that´s double or even triple the average.

AyBee

10,522 posts

201 months

Monday 25th September 2017
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Beefmeister said:
For those who haven't seen Archie's wrap... rofl

With silver wheels, no white writing on the wheels and clear glass, that would look alright IMO - completely chav as it is though :ill:

Shmee - loved the autobahn run (and how clearly excited you were laugh). Wish we had that kind of lane discipline in the UK!

Horsey McHorseface

2,519 posts

183 months

Monday 25th September 2017
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Lose the tyre writing +silver calipers. Still wouldn't come close to the original blue.

Edited by Horsey McHorseface on Monday 25th September 13:59

p1stonhead

25,489 posts

166 months

Monday 25th September 2017
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Am I missing something with the brand of the tyre being written on them?

Did he do that himself?

If so WHY?!

rich12

3,461 posts

153 months

Monday 25th September 2017
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p1stonhead said:
Am I missing something with the brand of the tyre being written on them?

Did he do that himself?

If so WHY?!
I just really, really hope they're Continentals.

thewanted

47 posts

91 months

Monday 25th September 2017
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p1stonhead said:
Am I missing something with the brand of the tyre being written on them?

Did he do that himself?

If so WHY?!
Because race car.

rolleyes

_dobbo_

14,321 posts

247 months

Monday 25th September 2017
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p1stonhead said:
Am I missing something with the brand of the tyre being written on them?

Did he do that himself?

If so WHY?!
It's the latest thing don't you know?

Pirelli even sell a special "colour edition" so you can accessorise your tyres to your car paint scheme



If you don't want to buy them then you too can have the same thing with a pot of tipex and a steady hand.


e30m3Mark

16,205 posts

172 months

Monday 25th September 2017
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_dobbo_ said:
p1stonhead said:
Am I missing something with the brand of the tyre being written on them?

Did he do that himself?

If so WHY?!
It's the latest thing don't you know?

Pirelli even sell a special "colour edition" so you can accessorise your tyres to your car paint scheme



If you don't want to buy them then you too can have the same thing with a pot of tipex and a steady hand.
We used to do it on jacked up Cortina's back in the late 70's and early 80's, using white tyre pens from Halfords or wherever. It looked ste then but we were only 17 or 18.

Beefmeister

16,482 posts

229 months

Monday 25th September 2017
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Wait until you see how much those coloured tyre written Pirellis are rofl

MDL111

6,893 posts

176 months

Monday 25th September 2017
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InitialDave said:
Shmee said:
It took a lot of preparation; location scouting, prepared the car with dealer, new tyres over inflated, all the camera side, and then up at 6am on a Sunday to do it!



Good fun though! smile
I'm impressed.

Thing is, I'm actually more interested in all that prep work etc than the high-speed blat itself!
you don't really need to do any prep work assuming you take normal/diligent care of your car. hitting 300+ is a reasonably normal occurence on 3+ lane Autobahns if you have a fast car and it is not holiday season/commuter traffic time.

InitialDave

11,854 posts

118 months

Monday 25th September 2017
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MDL111 said:
you don't really need to do any prep work assuming you take normal/diligent care of your car. hitting 300+ is a reasonably normal occurence on 3+ lane Autobahns if you have a fast car and it is not holiday season/commuter traffic time.
I meant scoping out the best times and roads for it, it's not something I know anything about (I own at least one vehicle I can vmax legally in the UK anyway!).

Streetrod

6,468 posts

205 months

Monday 25th September 2017
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Beefmeister said:
Wait until you see how much those coloured tyre written Pirellis are rofl
Its frankly ridiculous isn't it? I don't get where they get the guts to ask so much for those. Plus surely its a bad business model as they could sell a great deal more if they marketed them a more reasonable price

MDL111

6,893 posts

176 months

Monday 25th September 2017
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Streetrod said:
Beefmeister said:
Wait until you see how much those coloured tyre written Pirellis are rofl
Its frankly ridiculous isn't it? I don't get where they get the guts to ask so much for those. Plus surely its a bad business model as they could sell a great deal more if they marketed them a more reasonable price
the pricing is indeed hilarious - clearly for the more money than sense crowd ... also adds a whole new stress factor when parking at a curb/entering a parking garage - tyre curbing smile

RobDown

3,803 posts

127 months

Monday 25th September 2017
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On the right car, I think the tyre- wall writing would work well (eg say a GT40 or something that looked like a race car). But not sure I'd pay more than £20 to have it and I'm guessing from the comments above its considerably more?

Streetrod

6,468 posts

205 months

Monday 25th September 2017
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MDL111 said:
Streetrod said:
Beefmeister said:
Wait until you see how much those coloured tyre written Pirellis are rofl
Its frankly ridiculous isn't it? I don't get where they get the guts to ask so much for those. Plus surely its a bad business model as they could sell a great deal more if they marketed them a more reasonable price
the pricing is indeed hilarious - clearly for the more money than sense crowd ... also adds a whole new stress factor when parking at a curb/entering a parking garage - tyre curbing smile
And I do resent them promoting this as some kind of new thing. I had white letter tyres on my hotrods dating back to the the early 80's and they were around a long time before that. In fact, my first car still has its original BF Goodrich white letter tyres on it today and I bought those in 1982

Shmee

7,565 posts

212 months

Monday 25th September 2017
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MDL111 said:
you don't really need to do any prep work assuming you take normal/diligent care of your car. hitting 300+ is a reasonably normal occurence on 3+ lane Autobahns if you have a fast car and it is not holiday season/commuter traffic time.
Fully agree that a 300km/h+ run is a normal occurrence in a car like this, even my Focus RS is routinely doing 260+ on any journey I drive it more or less, assuming conditions allow.

However, to hold a speed like 324km/h you travel 5.5km in just 60 seconds and I knew that I wanted to have properly thought about a few things:
- where I was doing this for the safest straight stretch
- time of day with light but minimal traffic
- weather conditions falling on side
- car in the best shape possible via dealer check (they actually found a loose ball joint beforehand so worth doing)
- new tyres for maximum grip

Ultimately not only is it a very expensive car that I didn't want to damage, but also the safety implications are there for myself and other road users so I was not going to do this without being absolutely sure things were in the best position they could. Not only that but I also am very aware that by producing such content it will also be seen by a very impressionable audience and I think setting a responsible example is important in that case (relatively for the nature of the activity).

Shmee

7,565 posts

212 months

Monday 25th September 2017
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Bernie Sanders said:
Quickmoose said:
A great piece of work, one that lets hope puts an end to the "why don't you use the car properly" comments.
You can´t really take those comments serious. Shmee has done over 15000km in his LT. I guess that´s double or even triple the average.
We like to joke about those comments; mine has been as far as the Bay of Kotor in Montenegro in one direction and to the Spanish Basque Country the other way, with everything in between. It's done laps of the Ring, multiple days at Spa, when the run in completed at 1,000km, by 1,001km it was already over 300km/h, and the number of events it has participated in across the continent would be impossible to count.

Now being pinned at Vmax on the Autobahn for a minute is a nice one to add to the list too!

MDL111

6,893 posts

176 months

Monday 25th September 2017
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Shmee said:
MDL111 said:
you don't really need to do any prep work assuming you take normal/diligent care of your car. hitting 300+ is a reasonably normal occurence on 3+ lane Autobahns if you have a fast car and it is not holiday season/commuter traffic time.
Fully agree that a 300km/h+ run is a normal occurrence in a car like this, even my Focus RS is routinely doing 260+ on any journey I drive it more or less, assuming conditions allow.

However, to hold a speed like 324km/h you travel 5.5km in just 60 seconds and I knew that I wanted to have properly thought about a few things:
- where I was doing this for the safest straight stretch
- time of day with light but minimal traffic
- weather conditions falling on side
- car in the best shape possible via dealer check (they actually found a loose ball joint beforehand so worth doing)
- new tyres for maximum grip

Ultimately not only is it a very expensive car that I didn't want to damage, but also the safety implications are there for myself and other road users so I was not going to do this without being absolutely sure things were in the best position they could. Not only that but I also am very aware that by producing such content it will also be seen by a very impressionable audience and I think setting a responsible example is important in that case (relatively for the nature of the activity).
I agree, all very fair and reasonable points that more people should think about when driving, so was not at all meant in any negative fashion - just pointed out that it is not all that unusual in Germany(maybe not 324, but 300+).

Just on the way from Frankfurt to Munich I can think of various stretches where one hits (very) high speeds regularly (past the airport towards Aschaffenburg, before Nürnberg, then again past Nürnberg direction Munich and then again probably the last 50 odd km going into Munich).

InitialDave

11,854 posts

118 months

Monday 25th September 2017
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Shmee said:
Not only that but I also am very aware that by producing such content it will also be seen by a very impressionable audience and I think setting a responsible example is important in that case (relatively for the nature of the activity).
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