coyoteboy
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| posted on 7/8/16 at 02:19 PM |
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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.
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Aggressive tossers who overtake to gain one place in a queue with absolutely no gain.
I sometimes overtake to gain one space because it puts me in a more likely place to be able to overtake again. But usually only when people in front
show no signs or intent of overtaking but stop everyone else by boxing up tight to the car in front. Overtaking really shouldn't be seen as a
bad thing. Around here you can overtake the only car on the road for a mile and get a mouthful of abuse and flashing lights - many people just
don't like being overtaken.
[Edited on 7/8/16 by coyoteboy]
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coyoteboy
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| posted on 7/8/16 at 02:25 PM |
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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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coyoteboy
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| posted on 7/8/16 at 02:25 PM |
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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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SteveWalker
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| posted on 7/8/16 at 03:09 PM |
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quote:
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.
Some are not that easy to detach and remove and often will fail to stick after doing so a few times. It doesn't really matter anyway, as they
are not signalling that there is definitely a baby in there, just that one is frequently transported and therefore there is a reasonable possibility,
so make a bit of extra effort looking to be sure.
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Andi
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| posted on 7/8/16 at 03:34 PM |
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Oh. I nearly forgot.
HORSE BOXES
Scourge of the English countryside and blat ruiner
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Slimy38
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| posted on 7/8/16 at 03:37 PM |
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quote:
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.
A a biker, I can honestly say that... I agree with you entirely!! When I'm on two wheels, and I have a ton of metal in front of me, and a ton of
metal behind me, the last thing I want to do is reduce/eliminate their braking distance. So I don't put myself in that situation.
I just overtake both cars instead!! 
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sdh2903
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| posted on 7/8/16 at 03:55 PM |
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Aren't we all a bunch of grumpy old gits
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Fcck2000
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| posted on 7/8/16 at 06:38 PM |
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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.
Tiger SSC
220bhp on standard MZR Duratec engine with throttle bodies and mild camshaft upgrade.
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Smoking Frog
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| posted on 7/8/16 at 06:54 PM |
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Idiots that stop in a yellow box when there exit road isn't clear blocking all other lanes.
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christim
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| posted on 7/8/16 at 07:39 PM |
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People who slow right down on the motorway before theyve entered the slipway to exit 
My Build Thread
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SteveWalker
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| posted on 7/8/16 at 08:33 PM |
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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.
Around here we have a problem with a particular roundabout which sports lights and yellow boxes.
From one entry, if you are taking the first exit (90° left), there is a yellow box covering the whole distance, however there is a pelican across the
exit and to prevent false starts from people seeing the wrong lights, the lights are heavily shielded - so during daylight, you can't see
whether your exit light is red or green as you are entering the box! Which idiot puts a pedestrian crossing across the bottom of a motorway sliproad
anyway? When all traffic on the approach roads and on the roundabout has to stop at various phases of the lights and simply putting the footpath on
the central roundabout instead of around the outer edge would prevent the need for the extra pedestrian lights, the yellow box and the extra hold-ups
at a very busy roundabout.
On the other side of the roundabout, when leaving the motorway at busy times and wanting to go right, the lights are phased so that when it is busy
you are stuck at a red light while the road ahead is clear and by the time the green light comes on, the road ahead is full of vehicles stopped at the
next lights around and you cannot go anywhere because of the yellow box. I have certainly driven into the box and stopped there - having first waited
as the front vehicle at the lights through three full sequences, watching an empty road in front of me during every red phase and a full one during
every green phase
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nick205
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| posted on 8/8/16 at 10:46 AM |
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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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SteveWalker
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| posted on 8/8/16 at 04:27 PM |
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Originally posted by nick205
The other annoyance is other drivers inability to acknowledge kindness with a "free" thank you hands up
That's one of the reasons I wish they'd left our local zebra crossing, instead of replacing it with a pelican. The zebra (as well as
meaning that neither drivers nor pedestrians needed to wait unnecessarily) encouraged interaction. Pedestrians usually thanked the driver for stopping
and the driver usually thanked them back. Now pedestrians wait ages and then usually rush across in a gap just before the lights change, leaving an
irritated driver to wait at an empty crossing. Everyone leaves that bit annoyed instead of that bit cheered up.
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coyoteboy
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| posted on 8/8/16 at 05:20 PM |
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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.
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nick205
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| posted on 9/8/16 at 03:34 PM |
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quote:
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.
Yup - car dinkers are a grade A PITA. One of the reasons I choose to park away from others at the supermarket and other locations.
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 9/8/16 at 04:09 PM |
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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... 
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SteveWallace
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| posted on 9/8/16 at 04:11 PM |
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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!).
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coozer
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| posted on 9/8/16 at 10:29 PM |
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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...
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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chris
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| posted on 9/8/16 at 10:35 PM |
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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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Fcck2000
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| posted on 9/8/16 at 10:42 PM |
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Oh, to be 16 again...
17 years old. Swapped my rough but fast AP 50 with my mate for his lovely looking none running Fizzy. Worked out the disc valve has disintegrated,
swapped for a new one. Bingo, blasted up the road outside my mums house straight into a car that pulled out on me.. I was speeding but still not a
great experience :-( I now have arthritis 2 new hips and a new knee which doctors think was due to my leg being a bit out of level from when it was
pinned.
Still love them though....
Tiger SSC
220bhp on standard MZR Duratec engine with throttle bodies and mild camshaft upgrade.
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nick205
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| posted on 27/9/16 at 03:18 PM |
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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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Benzine
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| posted on 27/9/16 at 03:26 PM |
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quote:
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
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nick205
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| posted on 27/9/16 at 04:05 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Benzine
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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
I've seen the same people and cursed loudly to myself about them
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