HELP with Insurance... about Mod's

[lhennessy]

This is why i hate the L & P plate system. (although it does have many advantages) everyone simply judges and thinks that any P or L plater is a Hoon or in-experienced inpatient and incompetent driver.
The GT is ''Application Required.'' not banned.
I am going to do a Defensive driving course in the near future.

At 16 you may go for your L's (as i did)I have to do 120 hours of driving to go for my p's. i have had my L's since April 2011... in that time i have done just over 200hours in a V8 Calais and a family friends twin turbo BMW. so i dont think a MK5 TDI is to powerfullfor me to control even with mod's compared to those 2 cars that i have been taught in so the modifications will not make a difference to my driving ability's (not saying that im some superstar...)

This has gone completely off topic. if you don't have anything to add that is helpful please don't reply. And it really has nothing to do with you what i do to my car, the car is in show room condition as confirmed by 2 different mechanics.
I am a long way away from the next service and i have money aside for it already.

gareth_oau - Thank's for the defense haha

[brad]

Every day I see Red P-Platers that have done their mandatory hours of driving failing to follow basic road rules (eg: keep left unless overtaking & WTF are you doing in the fast lane of a 110kph zone anyway?). All these drivers have passed the test & think they are good drivers.

Good luck to you if you can hold it all together, not succumb to peer pressure, not succumb to an excess of teenage testosterone and don't have the typical teenage attitude that you know everything.

[THE_EGG]

Agreed it has gone way off topic. You can't judge a person on their P's just because a small number of P-platers cause accidents. I am a red-P-plater myself. I have had two defensive driving courses, taken my car to two happy laps events (to learn and understand how my specific car handles etc). I must had admit, I had a few close calls almost crashing when I had my Polo but that wasn't my fault (faulty gearbox). I don't see why people are so against P-platers wanting to upgrade their car. The salesman who sold me my citroen ds3 said, "Be happy, have fun with the car. Add little bits here and there." IMO there is no point driving a car you're not happy with, at least I don't think there is. Be happy with the car, so that way you can enjoy driving without pushing the cr*p out of it.

I just really hate the typical stereotype of P-platers most people see. Which is just hoons wanting to race everywhere. This IS NOT THE CASE.

I say have fun with your car but sensibly. If you want to go fast, take it to a race-track.

[gareth_oau]

Brad, I do love Escorts. Here's a 1980 RS2000 I owned and built up from a 70kW baby to a 260kw turbo monster

[brad]

very nice. I'm partial to orange & yellow cars. The Torana was orange.

I also had a bright yellow capri 1600 (hiding behind the slugbox Holden Kingswood). Unfortunately the Capri was slow when I bought it & slow when i sold it, despite me spending a fortune trying to make it faster. The rust in that thing put me off Pommie Fords forever. I endured the Capri for a couple of years. The Kingswood lasted 4 weeks until I moved it on.