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Would You Let Your Mad Mate Drive Your Motor, complete the Poll?

Steve
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Would you let your mad mate drive your motor poll? 11 members have voted

  1. 1. Your best mate needs a car for an hour, he is a bit crazy sometimes, but would you lend your mate your motor?

    • Hell yeah, he is my best mate, blood brother and bossom buddy!
      18%
      2
    • No way dude, I'll just make some excuse why he cannot use it
      72%
      8
    • Maybe, only if he has a good looking sister or he is generous with rounds at the pub!
      9%
      1

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Would you lend your car to your best mate, even if he is a bit of a jack the lad.

complete the poll above and tell us why ;)

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    no chance, my mate has already brought this up about borrowing my car one day and i would never lend it to any mates. it might just seem like another fiesta to some people but to me the amount of money and time i have spent i could never forgive my mate for crashing it.

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    my mate asked and justified it by saying "you can drive my 106", naturally i told him where to go

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    poll looks interesting

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    Yea why not

    He crashed my last one but it was a giggle

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    Yes, because any of my friends will know that if you break it, you pay for it ... :lol:

    My father is more of a "mad mate" than any of my regular mates. In the ST170, he turned into what I describe as "Chav Dad". Pretty sure he took a decent amount of tread off those tyres on that day ... and less than 19mpg from the fuel meant he raped my wallet too!

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