advice regarding a friend and his skyline

[Kaido_RR]

hey,

One of my mate is getting a skyline in the next week (he has already bought it but something is getting done to it, not sure i think it might be nonturbo getting a turbo install on it or something alone those lines)

Now he spent about 15k on the car, he isnt going to get insurance and just going to spend like 1k on an alarm.

I am heaps worry becuase, he is only 18 and really doesnt have the best attitude to be driving a skyline or any car with alittle bit of power. He uses to own a magna and he did exhuast etc (all those ricers type mods) i went out driving with him and all he does it speed and try to drag everything on the road. He is also talking to me now about drift and all that type of stuff.

is there anything that i can do to knock some sence into him, like i have been tring to tell him to get insurance (as with his last car he hit someone and was sued by the person insurance company cuz he wont pay and now he has to pay like $30 a week) but he is like its $4000 and i go yes i know that maybe u should get 3rd party just incase you hit a $100,000 car but he isnt listening :S

now atop of that, my real worry is he is going to crash the car (its got fmic, exhuast, air filte and i think bleed value which mean its should be running in the 210+ mark area) i dont want to see him hurt, but the way he drives and always tring to drag people and now the talk about drift it doesnt look good

is there really anything i can do or should i just let it go...?

thanks michael

[bully]

Good luck with the insurance it will cost him buckets, but he is stupid not to insure it. You will find most companys dont do 3rd party insurance on anything valued over about 5k anyway. Tell him to hook up with this forum.

[Kaido_RR]

hey bully, cheers for the reply.

Just car does 3rd party + firer and thief (up to a given value) that is what i have at the moment costing me $600 a year which isnt too bad. full cover is like $4100 a year (and i know only just car would do me when i was 17 and he is only 18)

[G0DF4Th3R]

I am heaps worry becuase, he is only 18 and really doesnt have the best attitude to be driving a skyline or any car with alittle bit of power. He uses to own a magna and he did exhuast etc (all those ricers type mods) i went out driving with him and all he does it speed and try to drag everything on the road. He is also talking to me now about drift and all that type of stuf.

thats u Mikey.. ure the same type of guy.. he's 18, ure 17.. he talks abt drifting and you brag abt it in Whoretown :bonk:

[Kaido_RR]

bam, i am not the same type of guy, one u dont know me in real life, so u cant make that judgment i might talk myself up on the forums, msn , mirc etc but be a really chicken shit when driving (who knows could be ture but u dont know). i didnt brag in whoretown just said i like to do abit and again thats another story (for one i know my limit and dont push it) he doesnt, when i went cruise with him and his friend all they did was drag at every traffic light and i couldnt keep up (i was doing speed limit and i lost them nearly everytime they would have been doing 110+)

im looking for some advice bam with my friend not me. i think i can handle my car 180rwhp, 1year now and no accidents (not even come close) i learnt from mistakes of speeding fine etc.

I am tring to help my friend in the best way i can, i dont want to see him hurt or worst hurt someone else

[ReVN211]

you live and learn from life experiences, maybe a bad experience might knock some sense into him, if not a crow bar may help

[Duncan]

sounds like you can't talk sense into him if he has already had a smash in an uninsured car and now he's going to do it again.

nice one

perhaps find a new friend

[DVS33T]

You did what a friend can do.... If he still doesnt listen then let him learn the hard way.

[33Spec2]

dis-own him as a friend he sounds like an ass who is gonna end up wrapped around a pole if he doesnt learn from his mistakes

[tigeryas]

if you've advised him on what you think he should do and he aint gonna do it then there aint much else u can do i'm afraid...

he's pretty ignorant to not take ur advice anyway, he doesnt seem to think much of u then (sorry if it sounds a bit harsh but it's true)

[Kaido_RR]

thanks for the reply guys , its funny if he takes my advised, he always ask me to do it for him.

Like i said atlest get 3rd party insurance, and then he goes "whats 3rd party?" "got any website for insurance places?"

stuff like that it worries me as, he didnt even know wat 3rd party was untill i told him hmmm, then again its going to be funny to see how the car turns out he wants a sub 10second car as he say but also using it for drift, the funny thing he said to me was he wanted a "r34 gtr 6spd box, with trust top-mount intercooler and fmic"

ahahha

[Tigger]

Dude, unless you're filthy rich and can afford to pay for his insurance yourself, you did everything you can do.

Personally i'd slap him in the back of the head, HARD, then tell him to ****ing wake up.

He is going to end up either:

1) Getting his car stolen or;

2) Writing the car off without a 3rd party or with a 3rd party (and being in debt) and

(i) a paraplegic

(ii) in the morgue

(iii) being ok but killing his mates.

His choices arent so good.

On an brighter note, i get first dibs for parts when this guys stacks it

[tomj]

send him my way ill give him what for.

[Kel]

my advice to you- don't get in a car with him driving!

[Kaido_RR]

Kel, i dont plan 2

he get the car this friday (well he keeps telling me that) and he wants to go for a cruise. one of the 1st things he said about the cruise is lets drag

[drifta]

let him THRASH the #uck out of it that is what they do best

[DirtyDezza]

all i have got to say is than (add here whomever-you-believe-in) that he is getting it in the summer months, if it was winter i would give mine 4 weeks till he smashed it.... now i give him 7.

[MLCrisis]

Hi. I have seen a couple of things work when a good friend is acting like a dickhead. From what you say it seems his knowledge of what is required legally, the types of insurance or anything else is pretty poor. Not surprising if nobody has told him - we aren't born with this knowledge! Try this:

Get two or three other mates - sit him down and all of you tell him what's what.

If that doesn't work, if your parents know his parents, tell your folks you are really concerned and let the message get passed on by that route.

The guy sounds like he is still pretty immature, so some parental guidance may be what he needs! The alternative seems to be to let him kill himself, maybe some of his mates and possibly take some passers-by with him as well. If he doesn't kill himself, he will ruin his life with, at best, having to pay off a huge compensation payout to whoever he hits and, at worst, paraplegia. Tell him that. The other stupid thing about his position, is that every time he gets another notch on his driving record, he makes it harder and harder for himself to afford insurance (or get any at all!). So tell him that too!

Hope you have some success with him. We will all be better off if you get the message through!

Cheers.

[MLCrisis]

P.S. Don't expect him to be grateful. You might lose him as a friend, at least for a while. In a few years he will appreciate your actions.

[Nizmo]

Let your friend live his own life ...... when i got my first turbo car it went around amoungst my friends i was going to kill myself too but im still here ..... having only had one recent accident that was my fault.

Do you just not want him to get a Skyline cos you have one?

Its his business leave the poor guy alone and let him have some fun in his life ....... there are P platers dying in Lancers ...... if he drives like a dickhead no matter what he drives he'll end up with the same result.

My 2 cents.