Rant time.........
Its a tad foggy visibility 500yds + motorway is busy averaging maybe 30-40mph in all three lanes, you can clearly see in your mirror the vehicle
behind knows your there as he's following at a safe distance maintaining the same speed as you so why o why do you need your rear fogs on ? He
hasn't got his main beam headlights on blinding you ?
Rant two........
Do cars have handbrakes fitted these days ? If I wanted laser eye surgery I would find a specialist not get it free from your high level brake light
that you keep illuminated for minutes at a time stood a traffic lights etc............
aaaaaaaaa, that's better.
The new new mini high level brake light is so bright I think it slightly melted my bumper!!
...and when did "mirror,signal, manouver" become just "manouver,signal"?
adrian
Oh dear Jon,
You have to realise that these people don't want you forgetting they are in front
My rant is front fog lights, It's not foggy, why have them on,
oh and "sound systems", they wouldn't need such f****** big speakers, if they kept their windows shut!
I don't inflict Slipknot on them why on earth would I want to listen to all that easy listening cr&p they pound out at 300db.
I just hope one day they don't hear the sirens of the fire engine on its' way to their mothers house fire, wiping out a complete gene pool
in big accident!"
my rant over
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Originally posted by Jon Ison
Rant two........
Do cars have handbrakes fitted these days ? If I wanted laser eye surgery I would find a specialist not get it free from your high level brake light that you keep illuminated for minutes at a time stood a traffic lights etc............
The downside is you hold the foot brake at traffic lights and blind the guy behind. That's his problem though
Then again, some brake lights are quite good when you're sat behind them in a traffic jam in a Locost and it's a bit nippy. One car I sat behind was giving off that much infra red I got quite toast warm off their brake lights!!!
The winner has to go to those folk who flash and honk and swear at people for overtaking - likes its a crime!? For god's sake, if you weren't driving a steady 12mph under the limit, then I wouldn't fieel the need to overtake!
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Originally posted by twybrow
The winner has to go to those folk who flash and honk and swear at people for overtaking - likes its a crime!? For god's sake, if you weren't driving a steady 12mph under the limit, then I wouldn't fieel the need to overtake!
They are the ones who do 40mph everywhere. You leave them standing in the 60 limit then when you are doing 30 they are on your bumper drumming their
fingers on the steering wheel. I do dead on 30 just to annoy them
One reason brake lights on new cars are over bright is that the light output from LEDs drops by 50% in the first 6 months use.
Real reason for using head lights and rear fogs on motorways is you can hit a dense patch of fog in the twinkling of an eye.
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Originally posted by Peteff
They are the ones who do 40mph everywhere. You leave them standing in the 60 limit then when you are doing 30 they are on your bumper drumming their fingers on the steering wheel. I do dead on 30 just to annoy them
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Originally posted by britishtrident
Real reason for using head lights and rear fogs on motorways is you can hit a dense patch of fog in the twinkling of an eye.
Or the ones who approach my village on the 60mph main road (quite wide) at 30mph, then speed up to 40mph through the twisty road in the village. I
usually see this happen at least once every weekend... usually some old person in a trilby, who seems to be scared by hedges... 
My other gripe, also to do with fog lights, is about those people who have one dipped headlight blown - do they change the bulb? NO! They drive with
their front fogs on to compensate!
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Originally posted by Peteff
They are the ones who do 40mph everywhere. You leave them standing in the 60 limit then when you are doing 30 they are on your bumper drumming their fingers on the steering wheel. I do dead on 30 just to annoy them
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Originally posted by macdave69
, It's not foggy, why have them on,
oh and "sound systems", they wouldn't need such f****** big speakers, if they kept their windows shut!
I don't inflict Slipknot on them why on earth would I want to listen to all that easy listening cr&p they pound out at 300db.
I just hope one day they don't hear the sirens of the fire engine on its' way to their mothers house fire, wiping out a complete gene pool in big accident!"
my rant over
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Originally posted by adithorp
...and when did "mirror,signal, manouver" become just "manouver,signal"?
adrian
I know its been said before but my biggest beef is with the damn lorry drivers. I don't mean to tar all with the same brush but the number of
times I have to swerve or break heavily to avoid the lorry I am currently in the process of passing from taking me out of this world is just
rediculous. I mean passing that lorry in front of you whos doing 58MPH when you are doing 59MPH must take a full 5 minutes off your journey max. Give
me and the rest of the commuting world who can travel faster than 59 a break and stay on the inside lane where in my option you shouldn't be
allowed out of except to avoid an obstruction.
Also while I am on the subject, and again not meaning to tar with the same brush but you idiots who travel like 3 feet behind the next lorry are
crazy. I have seen like 10 accident where I know the lorry driver was brown bread and all because he didn't leave a decent gap.
P.S.
Hope I didnt offend anyone, I love you lorry drivers really and thanks for bringing my dinner to Asda.
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Originally posted by Keith Weiland
I know its been said before but my biggest beef is with the damn lorry drivers. I don't mean to tar all with the same brush but the number of times I have to swerve or break heavily to avoid the lorry I am currently in the process of passing from taking me out of this world is just rediculous. I mean passing that lorry in front of you whos doing 58MPH when you are doing 59MPH must take a full 5 minutes off your journey max. Give me and the rest of the commuting world who can travel faster than 59 a break and stay on the inside lane where in my option you shouldn't be allowed out of except to avoid an obstruction.
Also while I am on the subject, and again not meaning to tar with the same brush but you idiots who travel like 3 feet behind the next lorry are crazy. I have seen like 10 accident where I know the lorry driver was brown bread and all because he didn't leave a decent gap.
P.S.
Hope I didnt offend anyone, I love you lorry drivers really and thanks for bringing my dinner to Asda.
yep mine is front fog lights too, it used to be boy racers but as the lower spec cars nowadays have them fitted as standard there are far more cars
one the road with them fitted. But what gets me are the ones that only have their sidelights on and fog lights, if they switched on their headlights
they wouldnt need the fogs on to see!!!!
over the last few weeks ive got more and more twitchy about this and now act like them, selfishly illminated the road so 'I' can see better
at the cost of blinding the on comming cars. When i see a car with its fogs on i dont flash, i just switch to main beam until they have past.
Considering i have 3 pairs of 55w spots on my rangerover i can actually see them 'notice me'. thats 440 watts of power to remind them its a
dog eat dog world out there.
A small note to Range Rover drivers with HID lights.. If a small car rolls or pulls forward and possibly over the white lines at traffic lights it is
to avoid your bloody headlights blinding them NOT because they want to race!
Not sure about anybody else or if its just where my mirrors are but there a menace!
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Originally posted by MkIndy7
A small note to Range Rover drivers with HID lights.. If a small car rolls or pulls forward and possibly over the white lines at traffic lights it is to avoid your bloody headlights blinding them NOT because they want to race!
Not sure about anybody else or if its just where my mirrors are but there a menace!
I got a bit annoyed with some Tesco lorries on sunday.
Was coming down from Inverness on the wonderful A9 to find a que of about 30 cars in front doing about 40mph behind a Tesco lorrie. Did about 10 - 15
miles like this until we got to the next strip of dual carriage way by which point there must have been 60+ cars & lorries behind me.
Looking in the mirror i could see it snaking back round the next few bends loads of other Arctics etc. I just got past by the end of the dual
carriageway.
I think there should be a law brought in for this as to make drivers pull over if any more than 5 vehicles behind. Some idiots were making pretty
stupid lunges down the wrong side of the road and there were four or five near misses from what i could see, all because people were getting
frustrated with the delay.
What i couldn't understand is why we were doing 40. If it was uphill 40, downhill 40, flat 40. Do Eddie stobart only do 40 on single carriage
ways?
To make things worse i got about 5 miles further on before getting stuck behind the next tesco lorry doing 40.
Took nearly 3 hrs to do the journey of Inverness to Perth (about 110 miles)
Also it wasnt foggy (i think 1 patch over a burn) but there seemed to be loads of people with fog lights on.
[Edited on 22/11/07 by jono_misfit]
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Originally posted by andyharding
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Originally posted by MkIndy7
A small note to Range Rover drivers with HID lights.. If a small car rolls or pulls forward and possibly over the white lines at traffic lights it is to avoid your bloody headlights blinding them NOT because they want to race!
Not sure about anybody else or if its just where my mirrors are but there a menace!
Nope, Range Rover headlights are level with my rear windscreen and they are a PITA
slightly OT but i can't stand middle lane hoggers.
What is it with them, most recently, going from preston to kendal up the m6 at 7am sunday morning, empty motorway, bar me and a ford ka sat in the
middle lane