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"Priceless" BMW 318i

jarborra

jarborra

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I just saw this car parked on my street in London and I had to put together one of those MasterCard "Priceless" things...

1. Buying a crappy F-reg BMW 318i...?595

http://img4.imageshack.**/img4/159/bmw318a3nz.jpg

2. Painting the front brake calipers "racing car" yellow...?19

http://img4.imageshack.**/img4/3120/bmw318b3wo.jpg

3. Painting the rear DRUM BRAKES "racing car" yellow...priceless!

http://img4.imageshack.**/img4/9251/bmw318c2kb.jpg

:thumbsup:


This thing belongs on TG's "Carbage" site...
 
we have a cabage thread here in the general automotive ;)
you just always have to search for it cos its not a sticky :)

nice find though :lol:
 
I have to say I was expecting more...

btw what does F plated means in England? here it's for company cars (fleets)
 
Yeah, sorry if the punchline was less than...punchy. I've just never seen anybody show off his lack of disc brakes that way before. I could've mentioned the shitty spoiler or the lack of side trim, but the yellow drum brakes really made me laugh!

On your question, prior to the current license plate system, the UK license plates worked like this:

Y### ABC

where Y was the year of registration (a letter), ###s numbers and ABC letters. As the letter identified the year of registration (and hence age), people tend to refer to their cars being on an M-plate or an F-plate or whatever. This is how the classified ads always start and you'll hear the guys on Top Gear doing it too.

Anyway, an F-reg cars means it was registered between 1 August 1988 and 31 July 1989 meaning this particular PoS was potentially 17 years old!

For more exciting reading about UK license plates check out UK Car.
 
you see alot of that shit in here and gatineau
 
funny :lol:
 
Leppy said:
And to think that if drum brakes cooled as good as disc brakes they would be superior than discs
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Are you serious? :|
 
Leppy said:
And to think that if drum brakes cooled as good as disc brakes they would be superior than discs
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agreed... drum brakes actually brake better than disc brakes, its just because of the cooling problem because everything happens internally
 
Ameture question here: Are drum brakes the ones they used in like the 70's? The ones which you would have to pump up during heavy braking??
 
They were used in the 70s, but they are used today also on trucks.
The ones you pump are any non-ABS brakes like my cars have. Anti Brake-lock System or Anti Braking System, whatever people call them, the car pumps for you at an ideal rate so you just slam the brakes and they never lock up. (if wheels lock up, you lose traction and keep going forward into whatever you're going to hit)
 
drum brakes might bring you to a stop quicker, but they lock up faster as well.

you can't control them as well as disc brakes, and on a car, that's pretty critical
 
Redliner said:
Leppy said:
And to think that if drum brakes cooled as good as disc brakes they would be superior than discs
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Are you serious? :|
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Dam straight I am serious...

And Bone they do stop you faster (which is a sign of a better brake) and the lock ups are because they grip harder than discs do.
 
^agreed... drum brakes lock up quicker cuz they grip harder... and disc brakes don't lock up because they have ABS systems, if they don't have ABS, they lock up as well... but I'm not very sure about the control bit, I know both run on Hydraulics so they should be equally controllable
 
With drum brakes, just like any other, you got to find the optimum braking power. I never once locked up the wheels on our 88 GMC Safari with the drum brakes in the back and no ABS.
 
...but there's got to be a reason (other than ABS) that all supercar manufacturers use disc brakes instead of drum brakes...
 
Hey, go easy on the beemer guy. He's making his brakes stand out a bit, which makes the car look better. A bit sportier. Sure it's cheap and a bit backyard, but not all of us can afford E38 730i's. He's doing what he can on a budget to have a bit of fun with his car, after all, that's what it should be all about. Having fun. After all, that's why we are all Top Gear fans is it not? Admittedly, the drums don't really look all that good in yellow, maybe he should have stopped with the discs.

Rather than criticise, I commend. Good on you for having a go mate!! :thumbsup:
 
yeah, and while he's on it, add a yellow exhausttip, whiper-spoilers and a big ass sticker on the rear window

if you can't afford sth decent, don't do anything

jarborra said:
...but there's got to be a reason (other than ABS) that all supercar manufacturers use disc brakes instead of drum brakes...
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as mentioned: heat

in a drumbrake, everything is enclosed, with no way to cool down, a disc is open and reachable with redirected airflows
 
bone said:
yeah, and while he's on it, add a yellow exhausttip, whiper-spoilers and a big ass sticker on the rear window

if you can't afford sth decent, don't do anything
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Yea, but he didn't do all that, now did he? He just threw some paint on his brakes, jeez. Thats not carbage, thats just having some fun. Its not like its a Honda or a Nissan either, its an old BMW and old BMWs are cool cars.
 
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