Apart from not cancelling an indicator, what small things done by other drivers irritate you?
I'll start off with having the rear window wiper running when there is no rain.
Sitting in the middle Lane for no reason whatsoever.
BMW and Audi drivers
People on an empty duel carriage way who don't pull into the other lane when your coming down the slip road so you have to slow down to a stop before joining.
People who drive down the empty motorway or dual cabbageway, coming the other way, with full beam on because there's no one "in front"
of them.
Worse still, people who turn their lights down on normal roads, then get to **almost** past you, but not quite, and full beam you at point blank range
as they pass, because a nanosecond more of darker road is unbearable.
People who twat your car in a car park then leave a blank piece of paper under your wipers to give witnesses the impression you're leaving
details.
Mobile phone use whilst driving.
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People on an empty duel carriage way who don't pull into the other lane when your coming down the slip road so you have to slow down to a stop before joining.
Arriving at roundabout, to be confronted by car coming from left, driven by young "gentleman" (ahem!), who glares at you, then drives right
across yer front end.
"Always give way to traffic coming from your right.." - I b****y wish!!
People that follow so close when you indicate to turn left (usually looking at phone) 150 yards from the junction then jump on the horn when you slow down to turn, how much more warning do you want? Rear bull bar now added to van that looks like a pair of steps made from 50x25x3mm still fancy your chances??
Drivers who join the By-Pass up the slip road but only getting up to 50 mph
because they are going to turn off again in half a mile
chaos for everyone else !!
People who DONT use indicators. People who overtake in towns only to then turn left shortly after. Those effin Baby on Board swing tickets in the back window. 'Powered by Fairy Dust' and Powered by Bitch Dust' stickers.
All of the above really 
+1 for the baby/little princess on board signs. Why do I need to know this? Do they think that I was about to deliberately crash into them but am now
reconsidering my options because of the sign, or are they trying to prove to me that they are virile - I don't care! The original reason for
them was to say that there was more than one person in the car and therefore that they could use the multiple occupants only lanes.
The other one is people with their rear fog lights on when it's not foggy.
People who drive ar 45 mph - everywhere - built up areas, open roads, dual carriageways, everywhere
Usually a Nissan Micra but of late the Honda Jazz has joined the club.
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Originally posted by Wheels244
People who drive ar 45 mph - everywhere - built up areas, open roads, dual carriageways, everywhere
Usually a Nissan Micra but of late the Honda Jazz has joined the club.
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Originally posted by David Jenkins
Or the car that's right on my tail when I'm doing the 30mph speed limit, as if they're keen for me to go faster, but then stay at 30-ish when I accelerate at the next NSL sign.
People who pull in from side streets late enough to force me to brake to avoid them and then they accelerate painfully slowly and travel at <60% of the speed limit.
In a national speed limit road, the que of cars behind a slower moving vehicle that have no intention of doing an overtake leave no space for anybody else to make safe passes without doing the whole que in one go.
Drivers, especially at night who sit in a traffic queue with their foot on the foot brake instead of using the hand brake.
Boy racers that think the foot pedals are on/off switches and constantly drive like they'er on a rally stage.
Well you grumpy old men have just about covered everything already!!!!!!! 
Agree with everything suggested so far!
Narrow city streets that only allow one car down at a time. You get 3/4 of the way down then another car comes from the other way with nowhere to go.
Every day, multiple times a day Grrrrrr!.
Speed humps, they make you concentrate on the humps and not what is going on elsewhere.
Speed humps, they ruin my kit and any lardy passengers have to get out.
Mini islands.... They are fine, but 50% of motorists are confused
School runs
Headlights angled high
people who think they have the right of way when their lane ends
In fact everything
Hmmm lots if stuff then.
Yeah, drivers who pull onto your side of the road to get past parked cars when they can see that a car is approaching.. ... then get angry when i
dont reverse!!!
Bah humbug!
Tourists driving on the wrong side of the road.
Speedhumps taller than my Cobra's nose clearance.
Speed traps in areas where its safe to do twice the speed limit and the road has been designed for a much higher speed limit.
Strangely enough I like speed over distance speed traps as they never set point traps in those areas and you can speed happily after clearing slower
traffic to keep your average speed up.
[Edited on 6/8/16 by Ivan]
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Originally posted by steve m
BMW and Audi drivers
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Originally posted by Phil.J
Drivers, especially at night who sit in a traffic queue with their foot on the foot brake instead of using the hand brake.
)and every single owners manual stated specifically NOT to apply the hand
brake, and select neutral at junctions/lights, but to leave the car in drive and apply footbrake. Phew, surprised nobody has had a go at me...
For me, people who can't get up to speed on sliproads then floor it once they in the middle lane and everybody else who has no conception of the
keep left unless overtaking rule...
Then there's tailgating.....
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Originally posted by SteveWallace
+1 for the baby/little princess on board signs. Why do I need to know this? Do they think that I was about to deliberately crash into them but am now reconsidering my options because of the sign, or are they trying to prove to me that they are virile - I don't care! The original reason for them was to say that there was more than one person in the car and therefore that they could use the multiple occupants only lanes.
The other one is people with their rear fog lights on when it's not foggy.
Forgot to say high beam as well. Its not just on empty roads, its everywhere, all night!!
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Originally posted by coozer
Forgot to say high beam as well. Its not just on empty roads, its everywhere, all night!!
Have you noticed how many cars these days have absolutely useless rear indicators? VAG cars are amongst the worst (apart from the big autobahn
tourers) but they're not alone - plenty of other manufacturers are just as bad.
It's tricks like putting the indicator lens in the middle of, or alongside, the rear/brake light. Once the driver has put his foot on the brakes
you can't see the indicator. Or the indicator lens is so small that it's insignificant, or carefully shaped so that direct sunshine
completely blanks it out.
Compare this to a big Mercedes, or the biggest BMWs*, where the indicator is designed to be seen on autobahns - massive and bright.
* when the BMW driver has remembered to top up the indicator fluid...
[Edited on 6/8/16 by David Jenkins]
Drivers that don't wave or acknowledge when you have stopped or pulled in to let them continue on. Ignorant twats. Where i live has a lot of single track roads and this really grinds my gears.
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Originally posted by Hodor
Drivers that don't wave or acknowledge when you have stopped or pulled in to let them continue on. Ignorant twats. Where i live has a lot of single track roads and this really grinds my gears.
Rear fog lights on in the rain...
Caravans that do 55 overtake them at 56 bugger me 5miles later they come past and slow down to 55
And twats that wear shorts and a vest on scooters and motorbikes coz they are a tad warm
Garf
People that move from the motorway onto the slip road to 'undertake' the queue on the motorway - crossing solid white lines in the process.
'supposedly professional' drivers as well - HGV's and Taxi's
How about the boy racers in there saxo's and corsa's with subs and amps in built up areas?! I've the unfortunate pleasure of living in the middle of a housing estate and they seem to think it's fine to sit right outside my window at midnight whilst playing their 'music' full volume!
Aggressive tossers who overtake to gain one place in a queue with absolutely no gain.
FARMERS.
Totally agree about the useless rear indicators. Perhaps its partly to do with me being colour blind but not only are they confusing theyre NOT effin CONSISTENT in design. All rear lights should be totally seperate and not combined as though they were a work of modern feckin art!!!! AND RELAXXXXX!!!!!
Just picked the wife up from work...
Taxi drivers
Sitting outside her shop where the rank is 90° corner bib bib... waving me on... 2 fingers!!!
The ranks in front of the shop but the taxi waitings round the corner were as the bit of road where they can see round to the rank is a loading bay
with 7am to 9pm on it and cause I'm waiting to load the wife that think that have the first say!!!
Then they pull on and off the rank without any indication and run the red light in front of the rank..
Not forgetting the one who stopped right in front of me in a supermarket car park as I was hauling 3 bags of shopping to the Car... Tosser...
all above + the car you follow that stops dead at every roundabout when said roundabout it totally clear from all on coming traffic
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Originally posted by Irony
FARMERS.
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Originally posted by joneh
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Originally posted by SteveWallace
+1 for the baby/little princess on board signs. Why do I need to know this? Do they think that I was about to deliberately crash into them but am now reconsidering my options because of the sign, or are they trying to prove to me that they are virile - I don't care! The original reason for them was to say that there was more than one person in the car and therefore that they could use the multiple occupants only lanes.
The other one is people with their rear fog lights on when it's not foggy.
It's not for your benefit, it's to let first responders know so they can check for a thrown baby chair etc.
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Originally posted by SteveWallace
I stand corrected and I substitute over-bright headlights, particularly on SUV's that dazzle oncoming traffic even when they are dipped.
Although I agree with nearly all the whinges listed above, I've developed a relaxed approach to driving that goes back to the time when I first
learned to drive - treat everyone else as a complete idiot until proved otherwise. I'm pretty good at spotting when a car looks like it's
going to pull out or change lanes without indicating, I don't drive the Locost into roundabouts as fast as I'm able as other drivers just
don't expect to see a little car suddenly pop out at them, and I generally expect 4x4 drivers to drive like plonkers (rarely disappointed).
Most HGV drivers are pretty good, but I'm wary of the foreign ones (we get a lot of them as I live fairly close to Felixstowe).
As my viewpoint is low to the road in the Locost, I leave plenty of space, anticipate problems as far as possible, and try to stay away from potential
plonkers. I think this goes back to the times when I rode a motorbike, as the same rules apply. This philosophy also applies when I'm driving
the tin-top... nothing's so urgent that arriving a few minutes later will matter.
There have been times when I've experienced drivers who have totally lost the plot - including one road-rage - but they are the sort of driver
who, thankfully, you don't see too often. Otherwise I just try to avoid getting upset or stressed by other drivers, and my life on the road is
much better for it.
On the subject of farmers,
one was being interviewed on local radio the other day, sort of life story, how he got started, became a farm manager etc etc.
One of the questions the lady interviewer (Lesley Dolphin) asked him was "What do you hate?"
He answered with, "two abreast bicycles, blocking the bloomin' road."
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
The poor old bloke with a Jag can't fit a bonnet mascot, but aggro-culturats can drive huge vehicles with fixed throttles
and spikes poking out everywhere.
Paul G
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Always give way to traffic coming from your right.." - I b****y wish!!
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Originally posted by Smoking Frog
Also drivers that wave when they DO have right of way. Why are you waving at me, I am not your friend! Maybe a bit mean.
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It's not for your benefit, it's to let first responders know so they can check for a thrown baby chair etc.
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Aggressive tossers who overtake to gain one place in a queue with absolutely no gain.
And with that, motorbikes who overtake and swallow all your safe gap to the car in front by jamming themselves in the gap.
And with that, motorbikes who overtake and swallow all your safe gap to the car in front by jamming themselves in the gap.
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Originally posted by coyoteboy
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It's not for your benefit, it's to let first responders know so they can check for a thrown baby chair etc.
Do you think first responders take any notice, I'd be worried if tart changed their methods at all!? The likelihood of the sign staying put (usually suckered) when a strapped in kids seat doesnt is small to zero. And since they leave them in all the time, that just makes their use without a kid in the car irresponsible.
Oh. I nearly forgot.
HORSE BOXES
Scourge of the English countryside and blat ruiner
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Originally posted by coyoteboy
And with that, motorbikes who overtake and swallow all your safe gap to the car in front by jamming themselves in the gap.
Aren't we all a bunch of grumpy old gits
DOOR DINKERS I hate them with all my heart I do...
People that could pull forward a bit to let you turn left but sit with 10 yards between them and the car in front, just pull forward 2 yards and let
the bloody traffic flow.
Idiots that stop in a yellow box when there exit road isn't clear blocking all other lanes.
People who slow right down on the motorway before theyve entered the slipway to exit
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Originally posted by Smoking Frog
Idiots that stop in a yellow box when there exit road isn't clear blocking all other lanes.
Sad as it may be one of my biggest gripes with other drivers is the number of people driving (often pricey) cars with broken rear wiper arms. You can
tell because the wiper arm (when off) should be parallel with the lower edge of the rear screen - broken ones are not parallel. A small thing, but
most drivers are totally unaware of the issue or the cheap quick fix to correct it
The other annoyance is other drivers inability to acknowledge kindness with a "free" thank you hands up
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The other annoyance is other drivers inability to acknowledge kindness with a "free" thank you hands up
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DOOR DINKERS I hate them with all my heart I do...
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Originally posted by coyoteboy
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DOOR DINKERS I hate them with all my heart I do...
Amen to that. I have watched some seriously bad dinkers in the past and left a note on the victims car with details of the dinker in question.
It's unacceptable, un-necessary and just a lack of basic respect. A newish car with damaged doors is worth easily £1K less than one with perfect doors - I'll make damn sure I collect that from anyone leaving a mark on my car. This is also why I've fitted front and rear dash cams with parking features.
Just been reminded of another irritation while out driving today - bikers who insist on hugging the white line while traveling at speed around a
tight, blind right-hand corner. The head of the one I saw this afternoon must have been a good 2 foot over to my side of the road.
I'm not sure who was the most scared, him or me...
Not a driver, but pedestrians and hopefully just a one off, but I was walking down our local high street the other day when an ambulance was coming
through with lights flashing and siren on.
None of that stopped a mother and her young daughter walking out in front of it onto a zebra crossing, forcing it to stop hard. The look on the
ambulance crews faces was of sheer, literally jaw dropping, disbelief as the two pedestrians walked at normal pace across the crossing right in front
of the ambulance whilst it was forced to sit and wait (with sirens and lights still going!).
Tractors, two tractors towing caravans out of Whitby on Sunday...
Should have been this one, at least he might have been going...
There was plenty there to choose from..
Glad it wasnt this fella, wouldnt want to argue with him...
Oh, to be 16 again...
I was sat in my van one day on a street where cars were parked on one side of the street so cars wanting to pass them had to wait for a gap in the
oncoming traffic so this Nissan micra comes along with a blue rinse behind the wheel gets past all the parked cars until the last one she pulls back
in to soon hits the last parked car hers went up on two wheels it crashed back down and she just carried on so I swang into action followed her to her
bungalow noted address make model colour reg number and the damage to her car drove back to the car she had hit and left all the details on the
windscreen
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Oh, to be 16 again...
Sorry to add to an older thread, but there's one more thing that annoys me immensely about other drivers.
Since most people have little knowledge of how a car works or is assembled they drive with little or no "mechanical sympathy".
As an example we live towards the end of a close. Habit is to drive into the close forwards past our drive and then reverse the car into the drive to
park it. Our drive slopes up away from the road so this means that the car doors "fall" open without the risk of them "falling"
shut and trapping a finger etc.
Now SWMBO drives in forwards and slams the car into reverse whilst still rolling forwards. You can hear and feel the car complain about this and
whilst VW have no doubt spent lots of time and money making their gearboxes cope with this the fact (for me) remains that it's bad practice and
puts stress on things like the gearbox and rubber engine mounts.
I've tried politely explaining the issue, but the glazed look kicks in fairly quickly. The longer term view for me will be the time and cost of
dealing with knackered parts that needn't have worn out so fast.
Petty? Yes, maybe, but then I'm like that about some things!
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Originally posted by nick205
Sorry to add to an older thread, but there's one more thing that annoys me immensely about other drivers.
Since most people have little knowledge of how a car works or is assembled they drive with little or no "mechanical sympathy".
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Originally posted by nick205
Sorry to add to an older thread, but there's one more thing that annoys me immensely about other drivers.
Since most people have little knowledge of how a car works or is assembled they drive with little or no "mechanical sympathy".
Agreed there. There's also a problem with the exact opposite - where people think their car will fall to pieces if they take a turn into a street at more than 3mph