One single thing that makes you think "knob"

[silverfoxcc]

zed
not wishng to be picky, but what would a small van driver have to do? Cut holes in the rear door?
as long as the wing mirrors are ok and he can see forward.......Unlike that tat audi chump a few posts backw

[zedx19]

A van doesn't have a rear view mirror, a car does. Struggling to understand why people are defending someone who just couldn't be arsed to switch on a wiper. Are you saying you don't use your rear view mirrors then? Surely if its there, its better to use it and be safe, rather then drive round with all your windows covered in snow expect for the windscreen?

[e21Mark]

Hugo a Gogo said:

how about chatting to your passenger whilst picking your nose, or smoking a faaag, or scratching your balls, etc etc

Really?

[Cliftonite]

zedx19 said:

A van doesn't have a rear view mirror, a car does. Struggling to understand why people are defending someone who just couldn't be arsed to switch on a wiper. Are you saying you don't use your rear view mirrors then? Surely if its there, its better to use it and be safe, rather then drive round with all your windows covered in snow expect for the windscreen?

Switching on the rear-screen heater would have helped, too!

[Hugo a Gogo]

e21Mark said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

how about chatting to your passenger whilst picking your nose, or smoking a faaag, or scratching your balls, etc etc

Really?

yes really, talking on the phone probably isn't ideal, but it's just the same as lots of other things that people do all day long

[Robb F]

zedx19 said:

A van doesn't have a rear view mirror, a car does. Struggling to understand why people are defending someone who just couldn't be arsed to switch on a wiper. Are you saying you don't use your rear view mirrors then? Surely if its there, its better to use it and be safe, rather then drive round with all your windows covered in snow expect for the windscreen?

I never clean the snow off the rear window. I don't need a rear view mirror, I have door mirrors. I've driven enough vans to know how to use them.

[Hugo a Gogo]

why not though?

I could drive with one eye closed, but I don't

[Robb F]

Because the increase in safety is not greater than the effort it takes to clear the snow off.

[Hugo a Gogo]

flicking a switch

[Robb F]

My drive to work is too short for the window heater to make any effect.

[Hugo a Gogo]

and the wiper?

mine would clear it in less than a minute

[Cliftonite]

Robb F said:

Because the increase in safety is not greater than the effort it takes to clear the snow off.

This statement is debatable.

[Robb F]

Not worth the risk of it potentially being frozen solid and breaking the motor, or at very least damaging the wiper rubber meaning it leaves highly annoying unwiped steaks everywhere.

Also avoid using the rear wiper like the plague as it just scrapes dirt along the glass.

[Hugo a Gogo]

Robb F said:

Not worth the risk of it potentially being frozen solid and breaking the motor, or at very least damaging the wiper rubber meaning it leaves highly annoying unwiped steaks everywhere.

Also avoid using the rear wiper like the plague as it just scrapes dirt along the glass.

they wouldn't be annoying if you didn't look at them anyway, and even if you broke it, you never use it!

it takes literally a couple of seconds to wipe a rear screen clear of snow and lift the wiper to see if it is frozen, presumably you are doing the front, sides and mirrors too anyway?

the snow on the car in question looks like a very light dusting of wet snow, the wiper would flick it away in a second

I've been driving vans, trucks and estate cars for years, I know how to observe using side mirrors

If I've got a central rear view, I'll use it, I don't know why anyone wouldn't

I've never had a scratched rear screen from a wiper, I don't think I've ever worn out a rear wiper either

[aizvara]

Hugo a Gogo said:

they wouldn't be annoying if you didn't look at them anyway, and even if you broke it, you never use it!

it takes literally a couple of seconds to wipe a rear screen clear of snow and lift the wiper to see if it is frozen, presumably you are doing the front, sides and mirrors too anyway?

the snow on the car in question looks like a very light dusting of wet snow, the wiper would flick it away in a second

I've been driving vans, trucks and estate cars for years, I know how to observe using side mirrors

If I've got a central rear view, I'll use it, I don't know why anyone wouldn't

I've never had a scratched rear screen from a wiper, I don't think I've ever worn out a rear wiper either

Clearing all windows can also help other motorists "see through" your car (either consciously or not) which can aid overall safety.

[Robb F]

Well I'm very pleased for you

[zedx19]

I'd like to nominate Robb F as a knob, for not clearing snow off his car prior to driving anywhere. From your comments, sounds like your the type that clears the windscreen and leaves the rest on headlights, tailights, side windows, roof, bonnet, rear windscreen. Well done.

[Robb F]

zedx19 said:

I'd like to nominate Robb F as a knob, for not clearing snow off his car prior to driving anywhere. From your comments, sounds like your the type that clears the windscreen and leaves the rest on headlights, tailights, side windows, roof, bonnet, rear windscreen. Well done.

[zedx19]

Robb F said:

[Triumph Man]

"stopped by police over a year ago and i had no driving licence, have not heard anything about it from them , i now want to get a licence , would the no licence come up when i do apply for one ?" [sic]

This, most definitely.