"Chav yer car up" tape

Richard Bates said:

There has been talk on here of excellent reflective tape available
from the "Chav yer car up" section of Halfords.

... in terms of reflective properties - it is simply excellent.

I've been using it for years and it's very good. Halfords doesn't
seem to stock it in the obvious (I thought!) trailers/caravans/towing
section of the shop, so I was quite surprised when I found it recently
amongst the window tint films and the like. It sticks superbly to
painted or plain metal surfaces and most plastics.

One tip: removing the tape once it's been on for months or years is
Very Difficult. If you think you might want to remove it in the
future, for example if it's been badly chipped or is coming apart, is
to put cut-to-shape insulating tape on the surface first and stick the
tape to that.

Becky

Arellcat said:

One tip: removing the tape once it's been on for months or
years is Very Difficult. If you think you might want to
remove it in the future, for example if it's been badly
chipped or is coming apart, is to put cut-to-shape insulating
tape on the surface first and stick the tape to that.

Becky

Good tip, I've had some tape for a while, I've been wanting to stick it on
my cycles for a while now, this weekend if I get time.
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Mark

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There has been talk on here of excellent reflective tape available
from the "Chav yer car up" section of Halfords.

Snip warnings 🙂

For us foreigners what is the translation for "Chav yer car up"?

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada

JRKRideau said:

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There has been talk on here of excellent reflective tape available
from the "Chav yer car up" section of Halfords.

Snip warnings 🙂

For us foreigners what is the translation for "Chav yer car up"?

Elementary Chav Identification Techniques my be gleaned at or near:

<URL: http://www.chavscum.co.uk>

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There has been talk on here of excellent reflective tape available
from the "Chav yer car up" section of Halfords.

Snip warnings 🙂

For us foreigners what is the translation for "Chav yer car up"?

If you'll forgive the somewhat discriminatory etymology, I believe you
may recognize the terms "ricer" or "rice boy". These characters "chav
up" their Far-Eastern vehicles with ridiculous spoilers, lights,
graphics, wheels and ICE to give the appearance of a much more expensive
and high-performance vehicle. The CYCU section of Halfords supplies
products to enable said chavving to occur.

Having said all that, this thread is the first time I've seen the verb
"to chav".

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On 18 Nov 2004 08:02:55 -0800, [email hidden] (JRKRideau)

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For us foreigners what is the translation for "Chav yer car up"?

http://www.ivenus.com/ubb/Forum23/HTML/000111.html helps to explain...
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JRKRideau said:

For us foreigners what is the translation for "Chav yer car up"?

Take an ordinary automobile and cover it in things which have no effect
on the performance at all, but allow you to make a Personal Statement[1]
about your high performance aspirations. Beyond boring old go-faster
stripes there are alloy wheels, low profile tyres, spoilers (the best
ones wouldn't look out of place on a fighter aircraft), exhaust systems
which have wide pipes and somewhat partially successful
silencers/mufflers, paint jobs with sparkly finishes and/or that change
colour according to viewing angle, LEDs on the windscreen washer nipples
and/or the underside of the car beneath the doors, deep tinted windows
and sound systems that have bmchkka bmchkka noises reverberating around
the neighbourhood while the driver cruises around it in circles.

The cars don't generally /go/ any better than a typical family
hatchback, because the owners are the sort of age that couldn't afford
to insure a genuinely hot car even if they could afford to buy it.
Faced with lack of go, they try and substitute show.

Pete.

[1] in the same way that jeans show how you're a real nonconformist
individual and hate to be the same as everyone else

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Peter Clinch said:

in the same way that jeans show how you're a real nonconformist
individual and hate to be the same as everyone else

It's not a uniform, I just dress this way coz all my mates do...

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Peter Clinch said:

LEDs
on the windscreen washer nipples and/or the underside of the car
beneath the doors,

When I was in the USA a lot of kids had cars with flouresent tube lamps
mounted under the car, so it would light up the road under the car - but no
other mods. "Ground effect lights" I think they were called.

I actually thought it looked quite nice. Maybe I'm just sad. :P

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Quoted message said:

The cars don't generally /go/ any better than a typical family
hatchback, because the owners are the sort of age that couldn't afford
to insure a genuinely hot car even if they could afford to buy it.
Faced with lack of go, they try and substitute show.

The true chav car is a 1.0 Nova, Metro, Fiesta, Polo, chavved up, to give the
driver (usually young male, with acne and retarded amoeba for a brain) an
illusion of driving a Ferrari. Of course, the illusion works on no-one but said
spotty youth.

Cheers, helen s

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Peter Clinch said:

LEDs
on the windscreen washer nipples and/or the underside of the car
beneath the doors,

When I was in the USA a lot of kids had cars with flouresent tube lamps
mounted under the car, so it would light up the road under the car - but no
other mods. "Ground effect lights" I think they were called.

I actually thought it looked quite nice. Maybe I'm just sad. :P

A style allegedly started by drug dealers using UV lights to help
spot forged banknotes....

David Glover said:

Peter Clinch said:

LEDs
on the windscreen washer nipples and/or the underside of the car
beneath the doors,

When I was in the USA a lot of kids had cars with flouresent tube lamps
mounted under the car, so it would light up the road under the car - but
no other mods. "Ground effect lights" I think they were called.

I've seen quite a lot of those round north London.

Quoted message said:

I actually thought it looked quite nice. Maybe I'm just sad. :P

I couldn't possibly comment.

:-)

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Chris

Mark Tranchant said:

Having said all that, this thread is the first time I've seen the verb
"to chav".

Film, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall,where he runs a
Vauxhall Nova 1.0 disguised as a fishing boat transporting people
wanted by the authorities. The key moment comes when he has to choose
whether to fit a bloody great spoiler and Burberry wheel cover or run
off with Bacall.

"To Chav and Chav not"

Tim

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Peter Clinch said:

The cars don't generally /go/ any better than a typical family
hatchback, because the owners are the sort of age that couldn't afford
to insure a genuinely hot car even if they could afford to buy it.
Faced with lack of go, they try and substitute show.

Pete.

[1] in the same way that jeans show how you're a real nonconformist
individual and hate to be the same as everyone else

So what would it say if I fitted Kellogs "Simpsons" spokey dokeys to my
bike?

That you're an okelly dokelly sort of a guy?

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Peter Clinch said:

The cars don't generally /go/ any better than a typical family
hatchback, because the owners are the sort of age that couldn't afford
to insure a genuinely hot car even if they could afford to buy it.
Faced with lack of go, they try and substitute show.

Pete.

[1] in the same way that jeans show how you're a real nonconformist
individual and hate to be the same as everyone else

So what would it say if I fitted Kellogs "Simpsons" spokey dokeys to my
bike?

;-)

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Arellcat [email hidden] opined the following...

Quoted message said:

One tip: removing the tape once it's been on for months or years is
Very Difficult. If you think you might want to remove it in the
future, for example if it's been badly chipped or is coming apart, is
to put cut-to-shape insulating tape on the surface first and stick the
tape to that.

Or get your hands on some label remover. Remove the worst of the tape.
Spray label remover. Leave to stand then scrape off with a plastic
scraper. Repeat as necessary. It may be worth testing against the frame
to ensure it doesn't do anything nasty to the paint job!

Jon

Brian said:

So what would it say if I fitted Kellogs "Simpsons" spokey dokeys to my
bike?

That you like the Simpsons and eat cornflakes, I suppose... Chavving up
is meant (AFAICT) to give the impression that the machine in question is
a super hot piece of engineering with an engine that wouldn't be out of
place at Le Mans and would surely take off without its aerofoil. Spokey
Dokeys aren't really quite the same!

Pete (with Bart Bell on 8 Freight).
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Tim Hall said:

"To Chav and Chav not"

Is there not a reference in Chaucer to "chavves and novaboyes there
cartes hung arounde wyth candels blue, and the arses of theyre beastes
gyrded wyth straynge horn-lyke thyngs that theyre fartes be herd from
myles around"?

Guy
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Peter Clinch said:

The cars don't generally /go/ any better than a typical family
hatchback, because the owners are the sort of age that couldn't afford
to insure a genuinely hot car even if they could afford to buy it.
Faced with lack of go, they try and substitute show.

Pete.

[1] in the same way that jeans show how you're a real nonconformist
individual and hate to be the same as everyone else

So what would it say if I fitted Kellogs "Simpsons" spokey dokeys to my
bike?

Quoted message said:

That you're an okelly dokelly sort of a guy?

"Spokey dokey" even sounds like something that Ned would come out
with! Wonder if the original poster's bike is actually a Flanders? ;-)

David E. Belcher