Are these Vloggers just a scam? SOL or Shmee etc???????
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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. 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.
Beefmeister said:
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 ). Wish we had that kind of lane discipline in the UK!
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?Did he do that himself?
If so WHY?!
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.
_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?Did he do that himself?
If so WHY?!
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.
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!
I'm impressed.Good fun though!
Thing is, I'm actually more interested in all that prep work etc than the high-speed blat itself!
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!).Beefmeister said:
Wait until you see how much those coloured tyre written Pirellis are
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 priceStreetrod said:
Beefmeister said:
Wait until you see how much those coloured tyre written Pirellis are
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 priceMDL111 said:
Streetrod said:
Beefmeister said:
Wait until you see how much those coloured tyre written Pirellis are
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 priceMDL111 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).
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.Now being pinned at Vmax on the Autobahn for a minute is a nice one to add to the list too!
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).
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).
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