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General Category => The Chill Out Room => Topic started by: silverspeed on January 07, 2008, 07:41:44 pm

Title: mobile rollin roads..
Post by: silverspeed on January 07, 2008, 07:41:44 pm

are their such things a 4x4 mobile rollin roads.. and are they any good.?

Title: Re: mobile rollin roads..
Post by: peterp1per on January 07, 2008, 07:48:55 pm

their are such rolling roads, couldn't tell you how good they are though.

you can buy one off of your local snap on van for about £160K iirc :o

Title: Re: mobile rollin roads..
Post by: Jeff on January 07, 2008, 08:33:58 pm

Top gear got one when they did the 70's supercars... bet it cost a bomb tho'!

Title: Re: mobile rollin roads..
Post by: peterp1per on January 07, 2008, 10:58:55 pm

my old snap on dealer had one in the montly specials leaflet aboput 2 years ago and to be honest i thought it was probably a worthwhile investment. that was until he told me the price  :o

if you had the balls to to persuade your bank manager to invest i think you could make some dosh, if it took off you could make the money back in 2-4 years....probs is knowing how to map confidently/safely :(  of which i don't have the first clue !

if i ever win the lottery i will buy one..lol

Title: Re: mobile rollin roads..
Post by: paul_gt4 on January 07, 2008, 11:30:30 pm

yeah they can be got, alot of motorsport teams use them, but as mentioned they are very expensive, i've seen a few over here being used by top motorsport teams setting up WRC cars, its alot easier than a laptop bouncing all over a dash diong it on the open road

Title: Re: mobile rollin roads..
Post by: ChrisW on January 08, 2008, 11:35:14 am

Found these in Hull, plenty of upgrade options available, lol:

http://www.dreamscience.eu/dynos/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/

Title: Re: mobile rollin roads..
Post by: Redbeast on January 08, 2008, 12:36:06 pm

group buy?!!!

Title: Re: mobile rollin roads..
Post by: ChrisW on January 08, 2008, 03:29:04 pm

Club discount ;D ;D

Title: Re: mobile rollin roads..
Post by: paul_gt4 on January 08, 2008, 03:34:27 pm

yeah get them on board may saves us about 20k for the top of the range model

Title: Re: mobile rollin roads..
Post by: silverspeed on January 08, 2008, 05:30:42 pm

any rental prices..? ;D

Title: Re: mobile rollin roads..
Post by: Jeff on January 08, 2008, 06:03:37 pm

lets look at rental prices???
Anyone know who does them?

Title: Re: mobile rollin roads..
Post by: ChrisW on January 09, 2008, 10:41:02 pm

The companies who do rental/hire are mainly ones who attend shows and as such it's larger venues for passing trade.

Cheers

Title: Re: mobile rollin roads..
Post by: paul_gt4 on January 10, 2008, 03:05:21 am

yeah and they don't half know how to bog there arm in on the prices side but suppose cost of buying and transporting the thing must be huge

Title: Re: mobile rollin roads..
Post by: nick280 on January 13, 2008, 09:50:57 pm

They had a mobile 4wd rolling road at TOTB last year.

Didn't like the idea as the rest of the kit was slightly on the feable side I guess due to making it easier to transport.

Was fun watching the cars go on and get the sh*t rev'd out of them with very little cooling.